Webmention

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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.

”… an @ mention that works across websites; so that you don't feel immovable from Twitter or Fb.” — Rony Ngala

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

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 had 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

Chris Aldrich with boffosocko.com

Chris Aldrich using the Wordpress Webmention Plugin in conjunction with Semantic Linkbacks (thanks Ryan Barrett, Matthias Pfefferle, and David Shanske) as of 2014-07-05
- Receives homepage webmentions, but redirects them to a /mention page
- Has a manual form for inputting webmentions for those without outgoing webmentions enabled on their own site yet.
- As of 2017-10-06 using facepiles for likes, mentions, reposts, bookmarks, etc. courtesy of Semantic Linkbacks plugin. These are displayed at the bottom of the comment section below native comments and webmention replies.

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

Amit Gawande with amitgawande.com

Amit Gawande receives webmentions using Webmention.io and displays them as comments on Musings. Et Al. since 2018-01-28

Publishing Software

Some open source publishing software with core support for webmentions and is ready for typical users:

Known

Known personal publishing software sends webmentions and accepts webmention comments (including webmention updates) and likes

Perch

Perch began beta testing webmentions on 2017-07-16
Perch adds support for sorting webmentions on 2017-07-26. See facepile

Plugins exist for some open source publishing software and CMSs:

WordPress

WordPress has a plugin to enable webmention functionality.

Drupal

Drupal 8 has a the indieweb plugin or viniculum plugin which supports webmentions

Craft

Craft CMS has a webmention client

Nucleus CMS

Nucleus is an open source CMS that has a webmention plugin

Django

Django (Pre-alpha)

Others

Some other open source publishing software supports webmentions:

FrancisCMS personal publishing software similarly sends and receives
WWWTech personal publishing software similarly sends and receives
phorkie sends and accepts webmentions to notify remote instances about forks

Some additional publishing software, portions of which are open source, supports webmentions:

p3k sends webmentions for all posts and accepts webmention comments on events, notes, replies, RSVPs
Taproot
Falcon sends webmentions for all links in posts (except maybe articles - untested)

Services

Some services one can use to receive or send webmentions. Alphabetical.

Bridgy

Main article: 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.

Jekmention

Jekmentions was a service that receives webmentions and stores them in a git repository.

Lazymention

Lazymention is an open source service you can run on a Node.js server to send Webmentions from static sites. Its general purpose is to add dynamic building-block features to otherwise static websites.

mention-tech

Main article: mention-tech

mention-tech is a service that can receive webmentions on behalf of anyone via both webmention directly, and a web form on its home page.

stapibas

stapibas is a self-hosted service to send and receive webmentions for websites and blogs.

It can be used to send out webmentions and pingbacks for new posts on static sites.

Telegraph

Telegraph is an open source project and hosted service for sending webmentions and pingbacks. You can use it to send mentions to all links on a page, or send a webmention with specific source and target.

webmention.herokuapp.com

Main article: webmention.herokuapp.com

webmention.herokuapp.com is an open-source project and hosted service for receiving webmentions for registered sites and allowing those to be displayed through javascript.

webmention.io

Main article: webmention.io

webmention.io is an open-source project and hosted service for receiving webmentions and pingbacks on behalf of your indieweb site.

Tools

Tools you can install to send webmentions

Firefox Addon

Resources

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

Articles

Blog posts and articles about webmention (newest first)

2018-05-09 Sebastiaan Andeweg: De magie van Webmentions (archived) (Nederlands)
2017-12-29 AJ Jordan: Announcing lazymention: elegant outbound Webmention for static sites
2017-07-27 Nicolas Hoizey: So long Disqus, hello Webmention (archived)
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!
2013-09-15 Jeremy Keith: Parsing webmentions (archived)

Extensions

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

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