2026-07-31-Decision-Made---Back-to-Mastodon

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:35:17 +0800

I’ve been thinking about the social side of my site for a while. I don’t think I want the headache of webmentions again. It’s a cool technology, but it’s a fragile technology. Instead I’ve decided to go with a Mastodon account and syndicate the occasional post for discussion (if anyone actually wants to discuss anything is a different story altogether!)

Anyway, the syndicated url is placed at the top of the post.

Embedding Mastodon Toots into Hugo Posts with a Shortcode

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:07:29 +0800

I found a neat Hugo shortcode to embed Mastodon toots into a post. This is courtesy of Kevin Gimbel and can be found on his blog here.

The code itself can be found on his Github here.

Essentially it’s a case of creating a shortcode (I named mine mastodon.html)

{{ .Page.Scratch.Set "include_mastodon" true }}
{{ $width := .Get "width" | default "400" }}
{{ $height := .Get "height" | default "333"}}
{{ $status := .Get "status" | default "false" }}

{{ if eq ($status) "false" }}
{{ else }}
<iframe src= "{{ $status }}/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="{{ $width }}" height="{{ $height }}"></iframe>
{{ end }}

and then embedding this into the website’s footer.html

Mastodon on cshire.xyz

2026-07-31-Decision-Made---Back-to-Mastodon

Embedding Mastodon Toots into Hugo Posts with a Shortcode