Micropub
Allows you to publish to your site using Micropub clients.
5(4 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Micropub is a WordPress publish plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 19K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.9+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Publish To Apple News.
5/54 reviews
200active installs
19K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Micropub is an open API standard that is used to create posts on your site using third-party clients. Web apps and native apps (e.g. iPhone, Android) can use Micropub to post short notes, photos, events or other posts to your own site, similar to a Twitter client posting to Twitter.com. Requires the IndieAuth plugin for authentication.
Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin, try a client such as Quill to create a new post on your site. It walks you through the steps and helps you troubleshoot if you run into any problems. A list of known Micropub clients are available here.
Supports the full Micropub spec.
As this allows the creation of posts without entering the WordPress admin, it is not subject to any Gutenberg compatibility concerns per se. Posts created will not have Gu…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9.9+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
| Dependencies | indieauth |
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Changelog
Project and support maintained on GitHub at indieweb/wordpress-micropub.
2.5.0
- Add namespaces and PSR-4 autoloader
- Refactor REST API to use WP_REST_Controller pattern
- Fix q=source to return valid MF2 JSON for all properties
- Fix REST response headers causing PHP warning
- Replace admin notice with Site Health test for HTTPS check
- Restructure test suit…
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