Automattic / Automattic/wordpress-activitypub
Feature Request: Custom display name & avatar for the profile blog
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 579
- Forks
- 92
- Avg merge
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Description
### What
Hi! Currently, the ActivityPub blog profile gets its display name (the public name of the federated account as seen in the Fediverse) from the Site title. It would be great to have a specific field for that. Same applies for the site icon / avatar.
Thanks!
### Why
The site title may not always match the desired name for the federated account feed, i.e. "Lorem ipsum - Travel Agency" vs "Free city guides" or "Jane Doe · Photographer in New York" vs. "NY images by JD". Sometimes the blog content needs its own name or brand & icon.
### How
Just like the description field works: by default it uses the site tagline but accepts a custom description.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by locating the profile blog settings and the existing handling for the site tagline and icon, then trace how those values reach the ActivityPub profile; done means custom display name and avatar fields work while preserving the current site title and icon defaults.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100