Title: adding an alias
Last modified: September 30, 2023

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# adding an alias

 *  [Frank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakenstein/)
 * (@freakenstein)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-alias/)
 * The WordPress plugin ActivityPub has got a great version 1. Now it is time for
   some publisher to move their [@something](https://wordpress.org/support/users/something/)
   @something mastodon account to their ActivityPub powered blog/fediverse.
   Described
   by Mastodon moving followers [https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/)(
   not al support moving) you should add your old handle as alias to your new account.
   I’ve tried a couple of snippets to add an alias to the webfinger .wellknow, but
   haven’t had any result.Although it is probably not that hard, but I am missing
   something.How do you add an alias?

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 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-alias/#post-17089975)
 * Hey 👋
 * All the settings have to be done in the profile JSON of ActivityPub, this has
   nothing to do with WebFinger at all.
 * But moving completely to WordPress is still tricky, because you can not follow
   others atm.

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