{"id":15159,"date":"2016-03-02T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2016\/03\/02\/problems-with-posse-publishing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"problems-with-posse-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2016\/03\/02\/problems-with-posse-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with POSSE Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still trying to figure\u00a0out the best way to post content to the web.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Details follow. Warning: Technobabble ahead!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I publish on\u00a0this\u00a0blog, Twitter, Facebook — all that social stuff. And I’ve read some very good arguments for POSSE<\/a><\/strong>: Publish On\u00a0[your own]<\/em>\u00a0Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

(In short, the idea is\u00a0“Don’t\u00a0drop different\u00a0content all over social media\u00a0like Easter eggs; instead, invest that material\u00a0in your own site, then lead people there with social media links.”)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I know this bugs some folks who don’t like to see the same message appearing in multiple locations. I’m a bit like that: If there’s too much repetition, I’ll unsubscribe from all sources save one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you’re one of those people, I’m fine if you do that with me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Thing is, this site is my archive, and the content here belongs to me. And if I POSSE, then hame.land isn’t some tumbleweed town<\/a>, but the central\u00a0showcase of my efforts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The challenge is that I created my site in Serif’s WebPlus<\/a>. Yes, it has a\u00a0truly horrific interface — a dog’s breakfast, and that dog is named “Windows ME”. Seriously, look:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

But — big<\/em> ‘but’ — it lets me lay out my pages exactly<\/em> as I want them to look. Except the blog solution in\u00a0WebPlus is: let’s say “wanting”, so I put a WordPress blog on my server and basically cut a hole in the site so that WordPress blog\u00a0would show through.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s not ideal, but it works.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Again, except<\/em>: when WordPress POSSEs links across my various social media accounts, it links to the WordPress blog. So you’re not seeing the website frame around the blog, just the raw blog.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So I’ve got to figure out some way to keep it automated, but make sure that links go to my real site, not the stripped-down WordPress shell. If This Then That<\/a>, maybe?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still trying to figure\u00a0out the best way to post content to the web. Details follow. Warning: Technobabble ahead! I publish on\u00a0this\u00a0blog, Twitter, Facebook — all that social stuff. And I’ve read some very good arguments for POSSE: Publish On\u00a0[your own]\u00a0Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. (In short, the idea is\u00a0“Don’t\u00a0drop different\u00a0content all over social media\u00a0like Easter eggs; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}