Event Bridge for ActivityPub: Upcoming 1.0 Release

The 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin Event Bridge for ActivityPub is scheduled for early January 2025.

Features based on evaluation results

Over the past year, the development plan for the 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin, Event Bridge for ActivityPub, has evolved significantly. After extensive testing and an evaluation process with real users, we’ve finalized the feature set for this upcoming release as follows:

• Basic support for 10 widely-used WordPress event plugins.
• Compatibility with multiple event plugins simultaneously, as we found that switching between plugins is common and maintaining archives is essential.
• Event Aggregation from the Fediverse: follow other ActivityPub profiles to get and display their events. Will only be available with select event plugin integrations.
• Map WordPress event categories to federated event categories, ensuring consistency across platforms.
• Customizable event summaries for platforms like Mastodon that don’t natively support events in ActivityPub.
• Send reminders (via Announce or custom Note) to followers at a configurable time before the event starts.
• A streamlined admin dashboard that includes health checks and feedback to guide users to easily resolve faulty configurations.

Security and accessibility review

A security and accessibility review is currently taking place, and we will also be adapting the results of this.