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Announcement: Sunsetting Tagregator plugin on WordCamp.org websites

Posted by Dot Org Community on September 29, 2023 at 4:02 am
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WordCamp.org websites have had the Tagregator plugin available and enabled for ten years. The plugin allowed organisers to pull content from various social media networks onto their pages. Recently, many social media networks have introduced breaking changes in their APIs. Some have even made API access nearly impossible at our scale. At the same time, the WordCamp.org Meta team has not received many questions or feedback about how to use the tool, while it most probably hasn’t worked as expected for quite some time. That is why the WordCamp.org Meta team has decided to sunset the Tagregator plugin after the discussion on GitHub. Old sites with content that Tagregator has pulled from social media networks are unaffected since all the posts are cached in our database, and the plugin remains active on those sites. Currently, there are no alternative solutions for displaying social media posts that the WordCamp.org Meta team would support. Given how restricted social media platforms are nowadays, it is also unlikely that such would come later. If you have good viable suggestions, you can suggest one in the comments. Props @iandunn, @ryelle and @rmarks for helping with this effort. #meta-wordcamp, #official-websites, #tagregator, #wordcamp-sites, #wordcamp-org, #wordcamps…

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