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Enable Mastodon Apps

Allow accessing your WordPress with Mastodon clients. Just enter your own blog URL as your instance.

By Alex Kirk·Friends·Free
3.8(5 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 1 week ago
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As of April 2026, Enable Mastodon Apps is a WordPress friends plugin with 600 active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 19K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: WP-DraftsForFriends.

3.8/55 reviews
600active installs
0%resolved
3 yearssince 2023

Overview

Despite Mastodon implying that you would use this plugin for engaging on Mastodon (when you have enabled it for that, see below), the plugin is useful when installed on a plain WordPress.

When you use a Mastodon app, you’ll enter your own blog URL to connect and log in to your blog in the following screens.

You’ll then see just the posts on your blog which can already be useful in a multi-author environment (e.g. private blogs). You can also use that Mastodon app to create simple posts with a message + attachment(s) which can be better suited for your usecase than using the Gutenberg-capable WordPress mobile app.

When used in combination with the ActivityPub (for being followed via Mastodon) and Friends (for following people on Mastodon or via RSS) plugins, the Enable Mastodon…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP7.4+ required

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Changelog

1.5.1

  • Add cleanup logic for reblog mapping posts (#290)
  • Add quote and quoted_update notification types (#287)
  • Prevent login redirect plugins from breaking OAuth flow (#289)
  • Add v2/filters and…
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Contributors

Alex KirkAlex KirkKonstantin ObenlandKonstantin ObenlandMatthias KittsteinerMatthias KittsteinerMatthias PfefferleMatthias PfefferleDrivingralleDrivingralle
Plugin Info
Version
1.5.1
Last Updated
Mar 26, 2026
WP Requires
5.0+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
600
Downloads
19K+
Added
Mar 28, 2023
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Tags

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Developer

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Alex Kirk
7 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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