TLDR, if you can’t get Mastodon post to automatically embed to your WordPress. Try using the embed button on your Mastodon post, then dropping it in a custom HTML block on your WordPress site (as described at the bottom of this post).
I’m loving Mastodon and have been posting a lot of art there recently. I was pleased to find how easy it was to embed one of my Mastodon posts to WordPress, like this one:
All I need to do is copy my Mastodon post’s url, then drop it in a new block on WP. It’s got an extra bit at the bottom of the embed, but it still looks pretty good. This extra bit goes away if I use Mastodon’s “embed” code on my site, instead of auto-embedding the url.
It worked easily for me, but I started hearing from other folks who weren’t able to get posts to embed, so I started digging around and found that posts from many other sites, don’t embed nicely. Like the the embed below this paragraph. When I tried adding that URL, WordPress sort of embedded it, but in a very wonky way.
Does anyone know why some Mastodon urls magically embed in WordPress, and others don’t?
How to properly embed a Mastodon post
If you are having trouble auto-embedding posts, you can use Mastodon’s embed HTML code. To do that, find a post you’d like to embed, click the “more” button (the three tiny dots), copy the embed code and open your WP post.
Then create a new block and make it a custom HTML block. You can do this quickly by typing “/html” in a new block and then choosing the block once you see it.
Drop in your HTML from Mastodon, then hit publish. It should look like this.
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