Webmention

Version 1.0.7

March 7, 2026

Fixed a database error caused by oversized name values from senders that populate the h-entry name property with UI chrome and article excerpts due to the mf2 implied name algorithm.

March 5, 2026

Fixed Bridgy source URL type and site detection to match path segments only, preventing false positives where e.g. app.bsky.feed.post in Bluesky URLs would incorrectly match as a mention type.

March 4, 2026

Added alt text support for author photos. (#9)
Added loading="lazy" to the webmention Twig template.
Improved reliability: unresolvable URLs (local/test TLDs, localhost, IP addresses) are now detected via DNS lookup and handled gracefully without blocking the queue.
Improved performance: avatar images are no longer loaded twice, and Guzzle connection/request timeouts are now configured to better handle slow responses.
Improved URL matching by normalizing URLs for comparison.
Fixed multiple bugs in webmention parsing and avatar handling, including null checks for representative h-card property access, graceful handling of missing published dates, avatar filename collision prevention (by hashing the full URL), and correct Bridgy type detection.
Fixed form submission check to use URL parameter.

May 16, 2025

Added support for eager-loading webmentions
Added new element.getTotalWebmentions() and getTotalWebmentionsByType() methods, which support eager-loading as well.

May 12, 2025

Improved performance by automatically eager-loading avatars the first time getAvatar() is called. (#13)
Added the “Host” condition rule type. (#12)
“Source” and “Target” condition rules no longer have “has a value” or “is empty” operators. (#12)
authorName values now use the h-card’s nickname property as a fallback. (#10)
Fixed a bug where webmention validation wasn’t catching ConnectException errors.
Fixed a bug where jobs for webmentions whithout a valid backlink to the target got stuck in the queue.
Fixed a bug where Bluesky source URLs from Brid.gy weren’t always being stored in their entirety.

March 21, 2025

Fixed a bug where getting the the avatar photo from the parsed representative h-card would fail because the URL was the value inside of an array instead of being a string. Now the plugin supports both cases.

March 15, 2025

Added avatarId, host, and properties as optional table attributes
Fixed Bluesky (via Bridgy) avatars: if an avatar image has no extension, the extension is now determined by the respective MIME type

March 9, 2025

Added Craft 5 compatibility.
Added the “Avatar Location” setting.
Avatar assets are now accessible via webmention.avatar.
Webmentions now store which element they are associated with.
Added the ability to update webmentions from the control panel.
Added the resave/webmentions CLI command.
Added the webmention/example-template CLI command.
Added the webmention/update CLI command.
Added the webmention/update-avatars CLI command.
Added the getWebmentions() and getWebmentionsByType() element behaviors
Added support for the Bridgy site types mastodon, bluesky, github, and reddit.
Added a new icon based on Paul Robert Lloyd’s IndieWeb icon designs
Fixed the regex that scans for URLs in entries so that it now correctly handles Markdown links
Lots of smaller bugfixes and improvements

April 2, 2017

Changed the retrieval method for links within an entry to fix a bug where a very long article with many links would lead to a PHP execution timeout
Minor bugfixes and improvements

January 6, 2017

June 7, 2016

Webmentions are now stored as Craft elements (ElementType: Webmention_webmention)
Improved backend functionality: Webmentions are displayed under the tab Webmentions and can be deleted
The plugin now sets the type property of an incoming Webmention correctly, based on the Microformats properties u-like-of, u-like, u-repost-of, and u-repost.

June 3, 2016