Mentions
After Omnibear posts to your site using micropub, you’ll want the recipient to be notified. Webmentions are the recommended way to achieve this. This isn’t required to posting to your own site but allows other IndieWeb sites to display your response.
What are webmentions?
Webmentions are a way to inform another site that it was mentioned. It is defined by an open specification published by the W3C along with other emerging social web protocols. This typically happens behind-the-scenes and enables other sites to incorporate responses.
Sending webmentions manually
After you publish your post, you can manually send a webmention.
Some tools for doing this include
Sending webmentions automatically
To enable automatic webmention sending on your site, you need a tool to review your posts and send out mentions. Depending on which CMS you use, this can be as easy as installing a plugin, or it could take a little more technical expertise. Here are some common options:
Receiving Webmentions
For you to use Omnibear, you don’t need to accept webmentions on your site since your replies are sent to the receipient’s website. But if you would like to receive replies, you should also consider adding support to receive webmentions. You can use a site like webmention.io to accept webmentions for you by adding a link tag to your page.
If Omnibear shows a “W” badge when viewing your site, you already have a webmention receiver! If you would like to further test your webmention received, see the instructions on webmention.rocks.
Once you have a webmention receiver, you can choose how you would like to display webmentions. Typically, this involves parsing the contents for replies and displaying them as comments. But some people prefer to keep mentions private. If you are using webmention.io to receive mentions, you can use a tool like webmention.js to display them.