Webmention

Webmention is a web standard for mentions and conversations across the web, a powerful building block that is used for a growing federated network of comments, likes, reposts, and other rich interactions across the decentralized social web.

When you link to a website, you can send it a Webmention to notify it. If it supports Webmentions, then that website may display your post as a comment, like, or other response, and presto, you’re having a conversation from one site to another!

Want to implement Webmention or learn more about its technical details? See:

• Webmention-developer

Contents 1 IndieWeb Examples 1.1 Aaron Parecki with p3k 1.2 Barnaby Walters with Taproot 1.3 Jeremy Keith with adactio.com 1.4 Barry Frost with barryfrost.com 1.5 Kartik Prabhu with kartikprabhu.com 1.6 Jeena with jeena.net 1.7 Stuart Langridge with Pelican additions 1.8 Sebastiaan Andeweg on seblog.nl 1.9 Daniel Goldsmith with Hugo 1.10 Publishing Software 1.11 Services 1.11.1 Bridgy 1.12 Tools 1.12.1 Firefox Addon 2 Resources 3 Articles 4 Extensions 5 See Also

IndieWeb Examples

Indie Web sites that have implemented webmentions and display them nicely!

• See and add to Webmention developer: IndieWeb Examples for a more thorough time ordered list of sites supporting Webmentions with development details.

Aaron Parecki with p3k

• Aaron Parecki using p3k on aaronparecki.com as of 2013-05-26. Details:
  • Posts have an input form for pasting in your comment URL to conveniently send a manual webmention (as of 2013-10-12)

Barnaby Walters with Taproot

• Barnaby using Taproot on waterpigs.co.uk as of 2013-06-11.

Jeremy Keith with adactio.com

• Jeremy Keith on adactio.com as of 2013-09-15. Details:
  • Blog posts have an input form for pasting in your comment URL to conveniently send a manual webmention

Barry Frost with barryfrost.com

• Barry Frost on barryfrost.com as of 2013-09-15[1][2]. Details:
  • Posts have a hyperlink in footer "How to comment on this post" to instructions detailing posting an h-entry with h-card and how to send a webmention.

Kartik Prabhu with kartikprabhu.com

• Kartik Prabhu on kartikprabhu.com as of 2013-12-03.
  • Articles have an input form for sending a manual webmention inspired by adactio.com. The form prompt links to the webmention endpoint.
  • Webmentions are saved as responses and appear below the article classified according to response type.

Jeena with jeena.net

• Jeena Paradies using a home grown Rails app on https://jeena.net as of 2013-12-06. Details:
  • Has a manual form
  • Homepage receives webmentions and notifies him per email

Stuart Langridge with Pelican additions

• Stuart Langridge sending and receiving webmentions on kryogenix.org as of 2014-11-29.

Sebastiaan Andeweg on seblog.nl

• Sebastiaan Andeweg
  • Received webmentions are displayed as comments

Daniel Goldsmith with Hugo

• Daniel Goldsmith receiving webmentions on View from Ascraeus since 2017-01-25

Publishing Software

Some open source publishing software supports webmentions and is ready for typical users:

• Known personal publishing software sends webmentions and accepts webmention comments (including webmention updates), and likes
• Perch is currently beta testing webmentions
• ...

Plugins exist for some open source publishing software:

• WordPress/Plugins
• Drupal
• Elgg
• Nucleus CMS
• Craft CMS webmention client
• Kirby
• ProcessWire
• Django (Pre-alpha)
• …

Services

Services you can use with Webmention to send copies of your posts to social meda sites (silos), and receive silo-specific interactions as Webmentions on your site!

Bridgy

brid.gy is a service that sends webmentions for comments/replies, likes, and reposts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram posts. It uses original post discovery to find target links for the webmentions. GitHub repo here.

Bridgy Publish also supports webmention as a mechanism to trigger POSSEing to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Tools

Tools you can install to send webmentions

Firefox Addon

• https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/webmention/

Resources

• FAQ: Please read this before filing an issue or adding to brainstorming

Articles

Blog posts and articles about webmention (newest first)

• 2017-07-16 Drew McLellan (from Perch): Implementing Webmentions (archived)
• 2017-07-15 Michael McCallister: What the New Webmention and Annotation W3C Standards Mean for WordPress (archived)
• 2016-04-02 Jon Penland on WPMU DEV blog: Trackbacks vs Pingbacks vs Webmentions for WordPress
• 2016-03-18 James Richman on WPTavern: Is W3C Replicating the WordPress Pingback System?

  • Webmentions look and feel like human comments

• 2016-03-11 Jeena Paradies Initiating conversations on the IndieWeb; our UX is still quite bad
• 2016-02-18 The Register: Remember WordPress' Pingbacks? The W3C wants us to use them across the whole web

  • Lurking behind that unassuming name lies something that might eventually offer users a way of ditching not just Facebook and Twitter but also those other massive corporations straddling the web.

• 2015-04-20 Aaron Parecki Results from 6 Months of Expiring Webmention Endpoints
• 2014-12-21 David Shanske One of the building blocks of Indiewebcamp is the webmention
• 2014-11-29 Stuart Langridge Enabling Webmentions - inventor of Pingback enables webmentions on his blog!

Extensions

• Vouch - anti-spam extension
• Salmention - send webmentions to pages you mention when you get mentioned yourself
• Private Webmention - webmention for private posts

See Also

• comments - a key use case for webmention, and post interactions in general
• notification
• indieweb messaging - another user case for webmention
• Wikipedia - Webmention
• Webmention-developer
• an @ mention that works across websites; so that you don't feel immovable from Twitter or Fb. https://twitter.com/rngala/status/852354426983591937
• Linked Data Notifications
• Checkmention