I finally got tired of waiting for someone to develop an integration between WordPress and BlueSky so I built a plugin that publishes my WordPress posts to my BlueSky account and captures replies on BlueSky as comments on the WordPress post. The only remaining problem that keeps me from publishing my plugin in the WP Plugin directory is that I don’t have the bandwidth to maintain it.
Having developed and maintained WordPress plugins years ago I appreciate the importance of having someone maintain, patch, and extend plugins that are in active use. That being said, if there is a developer out there who would like maintain a plugin based on what I have done I would be happy to share my code so that more people have the ability to share their WordPress content easily to BlueSky. Alternatively, if anyone knows of a similar plugin that is being maintained I would be open to use such a plugin rather than try to maintain a duplicate myself.
Background
Over the last several years it has become increasingly apparent to me how important an open/decentralized social network is as a foundation for distributing information to the public. Because of that I was very excited when I first learned about the ActivityPub plugin that Matthias Pfefferle developed for WordPress which makes it possible for independent people to publish their own content out to the Fediverse. Considering that WordPress is also the backbone of many news organizations—especially smaller/local organizations—I loved how that simplified their nature to entry into that decentralized social ecosystem.
It was actually a little bit disappointing for me that soon after I got that working BlueSky began to take off as a network because it introduced another open protocol which didn’t have a plugin for integrating with WordPress and the openness of the Atmosphere was more theoretical than the openness of the Fediverse (especially at that time).
Publish the code to GitHub so anyone who wants to can fork it and maintain it.