Conversations about a blog post often happen somewhere else. Someone shares a link, replies on their own site or reacts to a post on social media. I wanted to bring some of that activity back here.

This implementation was directly inspired by Matt Hobbs's article, Implementing Webmentions on this blog , published on Nooshu .

I liked its simple presentation: links to mentions and replies, followed by small groups of avatars for likes and reposts. So I added a similar section to this blog, using the typography, colors and buttons from Chulapa .

How it works

A Webmention is a notification that one page links to another. If you write about one of my posts on your own site, you can send its URL so the link can appear below the original article.

This blog already advertised a Webmention.io endpoint. The missing piece was displaying the mentions it had collected.…