DΛVID V3.0.6 (Twitter)Have you followed some of the recent discussion around rel="alternate" to get around the issue of proper use of microformats in WordPress core and/or themes? This could really accelerate the uptake for a great many.
— Chris Aldrich (@ChrisAldrich) August 11, 2018I haven’t, got a link?
— curtismchale (@curtismchale) August 11, 2018Seconded. Working on theming this weekend.
— DΛVID V3.0.6 (@DavidWolfpaw) August 11, 2018
15:27 aaronpk: “my post permalinks now have a rel=alternate link to an mf2 and jf2 JSON version of the post”
And continued over the next several hours and days primarily with participation of aaronpk, GWG, and pfefferle among a few others.
David Shanske (GWG) and I discussed an overview of it in the most recent episode of An IndieWeb Podcast. The conversation about rel=”alternate” begins at the 11:00 minute mark.
Somewhere there’s a note that GWG has already built a big chunk of code into the Webmention/Semantic Linkbacks plugin that implements a large chunk of the work already. There’s also some work done in https://github.com/indieweb/wordpress-mf2-feed as well.
To understand the background a little bit better, here is where the whole discussion started: github.com/indieweb/wordp…
GWG has not explicitly build in a chunk of code into the Webmention/Semantic-Linkbacks plugins, the charming part of rel-alternate is, that it works nearly the same way, as the current implementations are working… it simply saves us the parsing part.