How to add a Mastodon account to the FS Poster Plugin

Think of a Mastodon server as a mini social network or a forum. Usually, a server is organized around a specific interest, topic, or industry. Once you've joined a server, you can follow, reply to, and engage with anyone on Mastodon, no matter what server they're on.

You can either sign up for any server you want or create your own Mastodon social network, it's open-source.

There are many popular Mastodon social networks. Go to the link to check out those social networks: https://joinmastodon.org/servers

Click the Create Account button to sign up for a server.

After that, you need to create your developer app and give the app read and write permissions to share your blog posts on this social network using FS Poster.

To do that, go to the Server Settings, Application menu: {server}/settings/applications

We are signing up for Mastodon.social server as an example and all the others are basically the same.

After creating your account, go to https://mastodon.social/settings/applications and create an App.

Fill in the required information, check the read and write permissions, and click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to create the App.

You can copy the Redirect URL in the FS Poster plugin => App tab => Mastodon menu.

After submitting the App, you will be provided with App Credentials. Copy the client key and client secret.

Then add the App to the plugin by going to the FS Poster plugin => App tab => Mastodon menu. It must include the Mastodon server https://server.com URL, as well as the client key and client secret. In our example, it is https://mastodon.social

Make sure you do not include / at the end of the server URL.

Go to the Accounts tab and add your accounts.

Check the “Use a custom App”, select your App from the select box, click the "GET ACCESS" button, and authorize your Mastodon account.

 Activate your accounts to share posts.