Third Party
Some people choose to contribute to Micro.blog by bringing to bear their skills with web and native technologies to create software and software-related resources for anybody to use. Listed below are the variety of options built specifically for Micro.blog
Apps
- Gluon
- by Vincent Ritter (on Micro.blog: @vincent)
- available on iOS, Android
- status: Active
- also on Micro.blog: @gluon
- Humboldt
- by Maurice Parker (on Micro.blog: @vincode)
- available on iOS, Mac OS, GitHub
- status: Active
- Icro
- by Martin Hartl (on Micro.blog: @hartlco)
- available on iOS, Mac OS
- status: Active
- also on Micro.blog: @icro
- Mimi Uploader
- by Sam Grover (on Micro.blog: @samgrover)
- available on iOS
- status: Active
- Micro.blog OS X
- by Matthew Roach (on Micro.blog: @matthew)
- available on Mac OS
- status: Unknown
- speck
- by Ricco Førgaard (on Micro.blog: @ricco
- available on the command line via Homebrew or Go
- status: Unknown
- TodayPoster
- Dialog
- by Mike Haynes (on Micro.blog: @robothive)
- available on Android, GitLab
- status: Inactive
- also on Micro.blog: @dialog
- Pico
- by Belle B. Cooper (on Micro.blog: @belle)
- available on Android via side-loading
- status: Inactive
Extensions
- Micro.threads
- Made by Amit Gawande, this tool lets you search through recommended conversations based on tagmoji and your own timeline.
- Amit is on Micro.blog: @amit
- Micro Memories
- Made by Jonathan LaCour, this piece of code can turn a page on your Micro.blog hosted site into an On This Day archive.
- Microgram
- Made by Jonathan LaCour, this piece of code can turn a page on your Micro.blog hosted site into a grid of your posted photos. It uses the first photo from your posts.
- Jonathan is on Micro.blog: @cleverdevil
- NOTE: This feature was later built into Micro.blog itself
- 🆕 Micromarks
- Made by Robb Knight, this web app will give you an alternative design for Bookmarks.
- Robb is on Micro.blog: @rknightuk
- Post to Micro.blog
- Made by Colin Devroe, this bookmarklet will make it easier to share the current page to your blog. Includes auto-filling text selections.
- Colin is on Micro.blog: @cdevroe
Resources
- Automatic Backup Of A Micro.blog Site
- Made by Frank McPherson, this guide will walk you through how to automate backups of your Hosted site.
- Frank is on Micro.blog: @frankm
- Discover
- Made by Jason Burk, this page is the original directory of tagmoji and hosts a broad collection of information and links.
- Jason is on Micro.blog: @Burk
- 🆕 Track external link clicks with Plausible
- Made by Jatan Mehta, this guide will show you how to track clicks made on external links with Plausible Analytics.
- Jatan is on Micro.blog: @uncertainquark
- Images From Blot
- Made by Amit Gawande, this guide shows you how to get your Blot-posted images to display on the timeline.
- mastomigrate.sh
- Made by Rasmus Sten, this script transfers your Mastodon follows to Micro.blog.
- Rasmus is on Micro.blog: @pajp
- Micro.blog Import Script
- Made by Kahlil Lechelt, this script transfers posts from your Hugo blog over to Micro.blog, including Markdown with Frontmatter.
- Kahlil is on Micro.blog: @ka
- micro.meetup
- Made by Jason Burk, this page is both an introduction to, and log of physical meetups by people from the community.
- Micro.wiki
- Made by Eli Mellen and Smokey Ardisson, this site is a collection of resources from within Micro.blog and across various blogs.
- Eli is on Micro.blog: @eli
- Smokey is on Micro.blog: @smokey
- Micro Blog Resources
- Made by John Philpin, this curated collection of links exposes various aspects of Micro.blog.
- John is on Micro.blog: @JohnPhilpin
- Micro guides
- Made by Roel Willems, this is a collection of short guides for helping the community in a variety of ways.
- Roel is on Micro.blog: @roelwillems
- Musicians On Micro.blog
- Made by Jacob Gorban, this is a site dedicated to the members of Micro.blog who are both musicians and willing to be discoverable via the directory within.
- Jacob is on Micro.blog: @jacob
- Screencasts Tutorial
- Made by Rosemary Orchard, this free 45-minute video covers all of Micro.blog as of May 2020.
- Rosemary is on Micro.blog: @rosemaryorchard
- Weekly Recaps:
- (INACTIVE) This Week on Micro.blog, by Smokey Ardisson.
- (INACTIVE) Digest, by Amit Gawande.
- (INACTIVE) 🗓️ ♥︎, by John Johnston.
- John is on Micro.blog: @johnjohnston
For themes
- CSS tweaks to Hello
- Made by Ricky de Laveaga, this guide includes improvements to dark mode.
- Ricky is on Micro.blog: @ricky
- Guides by Chet Collins:
- How to customise Micro.blog
- Made by Miraz Jordan, this is a site dedicated to editing the various aspects of Micro.blog themes.
- You can follow the account: @custom
- Miraz is on Micro.blog: @Miraz
Plug-ins
For Hosted blogs. To add plug-ins:
- Open Graph Cards - add meta tags to create previews for links to your posts.
- Made by James Griffin
- James is on Micro.blog: @thatguygriff
- Made by Jason Becker:
- Bookshop - get affiliate links and widgets from Bookshop.
- GLightbox - use a shortcode to make your images available for zooming, including gallery options.
- Bigfoot - make better-looking and friendlier footnotes.
- Jason is on Micro.blog: @jsonbecker
- Made by Ian Mason:
- Navigation List - create a navigation page for all pages and categories.
- Typewriter dark mode - dark mode for the Typewriter theme.
- Ian is on Micro.blog: @thedimpause
- Plausible Analytics - add Plausible Analytics to your blog.
- Made by Lukas Rosenstock
- Lukas is on Micro.blog: @lukas
- Tufte theme - a theme for hosted blogs, inspired by the typographic style of Edward Tufte.
- Made by Pete Moore
- Pete is on Micro.blog: @pimoore
Updated: 2nd May
