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[Atlantic]

It is very helpful, and thank you!

As you might have guessed, I'm not a coder; my expertise lies in networks.  I'm used to connecting these servers and getting them talking, but beyond knowing what port that's on, I don't have a good idea what's happening under the hood.

I'll look into that plug-in and see what happens.  I'm not a fan of WordPress's UI, but if it makes it that easy to install what I need (status updates and blog entries), then I might have to reconsider.

As an aside, I've installed GNU Social and can publish it through phpBB (ATOM feed); however, my forum users were not interested until I managed a single sign-on.  I'm pretty sure there is a way - actually, I know of that way, if I was not on a hosted server and had access to root - but was still in the process of researching that.

Even after installing WP, if that ends up being the solution here, I might want to keep GNU Social (or transition to Mastodon) and federate it.  Possibilities abound!

Thanks for visiting the forum, btw, and you're welcome to register an account whenever you'd like.