I’ve just launched a new free WordPress plugin called MicroPosts. It came out of a simple need I had for this website.
I wanted an easy way to share short updates and quick thoughts on my WordPress blog. The kind of posts that don’t need to be full articles but still deserve a place of their own. Things like instant reactions to breaking news, thoughts about trends, or just small ideas that I wanted to publish right away.
I am a big fan, well used to be, of X (Twitter was a way better name/brand) and I use it daily for this kind of micro-blogging. It works well, but it is starting to feel less and less like my space.
Every time, I tried to look something up on Twitter without logging in, I hit that wall – the one that now stops anyone from searching or browsing posts unless they have an account. That “temporary emergency measure” that was supposed to stop AI scraping seems to have quietly become permanent. I hate (strong word, I know) that wall.
This, along with the other stuff the new owner was doing to/on/with the platform – like feeding his Grok AI fresh training data from content you and I generate – really got me thinking.
I was sharing all these thoughts, reactions, and ideas on a platform that didn’t belong to me. Twitter (and other social networks) rely entirely on the content that people like us create, but the real benefits i.e. the traffic, the data, and the attention, all flow back to them, not to us.
So I decided, I needed to be able to do this on my own site.
What does the MicroPosts plugin do?
MicroPosts is a small plugin that adds a new content type to WordPress called “Micro Posts”. It’s for short, fast updates (like you would on Twitter) that you can publish just like regular blog posts, but without needing to write a full article.
It’s perfect if you want to respond quickly to something happening in the world or just keep your site fresh between longer posts. And because it all lives on your own domain, you control it. No login walls, no disappearing reach, and no algorithms deciding who sees it.
Want to see it working?
If you want to see MicroPosts in action, just check out the Micro Posts section in my site’s navigation. That’s where I’ve been publishing my shorter updates.
You can also download the plugin for free right now on the official WordPress Plugin Directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/microposts
Why does it matters?
I think we have all given away a bit too much of our online presence to platforms that don’t really belong to us. The early web was about publishing on your own site and building your own corner of the internet. MicroPosts is my small attempt to bring that back – a way to share short, fast-moving thoughts while keeping them part of your own story and your own website. Great for anyone who just doesn’t have the time to always publish detailed/long blog articles.
I hope you like it.
First dropped: | Last modified: January 18, 2026