Allow accessing your WordPress with Mastodon clients. Just enter your own blog URL as your instance.
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.
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…
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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