Friendly Skies Bluesky Blocks for WordPress

Five blocks that put Bluesky posts, feeds, threads and profiles on your WordPress pages, rendered on your server and cached. The blocks need no Bluesky account, and put no Bluesky script on the page.

Get Friendly Skies
Friendly Skies blocks on a page: a profile card, a follow button with its follower count, a Bluesky post with a link card, a feed of posts with photos, and a thread with its replies indented.
The block inserter searched for "bluesky": WordPress's own Bluesky Embed block, and the five Friendly Skies blocks.

5 blocks, wherever a block goes

Bluesky Post, Feed, Thread, Profile Card and Follow Button are ordinary blocks. Search the inserter for "bluesky" and place them where you want them — in a post, a template part, a sidebar. Give a block a handle, or a post or thread URL, and it shows any public account, post or conversation. A thread keeps its replies indented, with a depth limit and a collapse threshold.
WordPress's own Bluesky embed beside a Friendly Skies Bluesky Post block: three third-party scripts on one page, none on the other.

Rendered on your server

WordPress can already embed a single Bluesky post, and it does that with an iframe loaded from Bluesky. Friendly Skies fetches from Bluesky on your server, caches the response, and sends your reader ordinary HTML, with no Bluesky script, iframe or tracking code. Images are the one thing a reader's browser loads from Bluesky itself: avatars, banners, photos and thumbnails are shown from Bluesky's own image addresses.
WordPress's Posts screen, with five posts imported from Bluesky by Friendly Skies Pro, one of them tagged from its hashtag.

Import from Bluesky, with Pro

Friendly Skies Pro connects your own Bluesky account with an app password, and imports your posts into WordPress on a schedule, from every 15 minutes to once a day, as posts or as posts of a custom post type Friendly Skies creates for them. Their hashtags can become tags or categories. Choose whether your replies and the posts you have reposted come in, or only posts with photos, video or a link card. Imported posts arrive as drafts unless you choose to publish them as they come in. Styled as a Bluesky embed, the default, an imported post stores its link and a title, and shows the post from Bluesky. In your theme's own style, its text and links are stored in your WordPress database, and its photos still load from Bluesky.
No account, nothing to connect

The blocks read Bluesky's public API, so they show any public account, post or thread without an account, an app password or a key. Import from Bluesky, in Pro, is the one feature that connects your own account.

Light, dark, or your own CSS

Every block comes in light, dark and system color schemes, and is styled with CSS custom properties your theme or your own CSS can override.

The whole Feed block, with Pro

The free Feed block shows one account's posts, in a List or Grid layout. Pro adds the Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list sources, and the Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker layouts.

Get Friendly Skies

Free puts Bluesky on your page. Pro brings your Bluesky posts into WordPress.

Pro

$79/year

Everything in Free, and the rest of the Feed block — three more sources and four more layouts — plus Import from Bluesky, which brings your posts into WordPress on a schedule.

  • Five blocks: Bluesky Post, Feed, Thread, Profile Card and Follow Button
  • Rendered on your server and cached, with no Bluesky script on the page
  • The blocks need no Bluesky account, app password or key
  • The Feed block: one account's posts, in a List or Grid layout
  • Threads with reply indentation, a depth limit and a collapse threshold
  • Profile Card in Full, Compact or Minimal styles
  • Light, dark and system color schemes
  • All six Feed layouts — adds Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker
  • All four Feed sources — adds Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list
  • Import from Bluesky — your posts become WordPress posts, or posts of a custom post type Friendly Skies creates for them
  • Imports on a schedule, from every 15 minutes to once a day
  • Import filters — replies, reposts, posts with media only
  • Imported posts styled as a Bluesky embed, or in your theme's own style
  • Dedicated support
Buy Plugin

Price for one site. Every release while your subscription is active, new major versions included — a lapse stops updates, never the plugin.

Pro Forever

$237/one time

Everything in Free, and the rest of the Feed block — three more sources and four more layouts — plus Import from Bluesky, which brings your posts into WordPress on a schedule.

  • Five blocks: Bluesky Post, Feed, Thread, Profile Card and Follow Button
  • Rendered on your server and cached, with no Bluesky script on the page
  • The blocks need no Bluesky account, app password or key
  • The Feed block: one account's posts, in a List or Grid layout
  • Threads with reply indentation, a depth limit and a collapse threshold
  • Profile Card in Full, Compact or Minimal styles
  • Light, dark and system color schemes
  • All six Feed layouts — adds Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker
  • All four Feed sources — adds Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list
  • Import from Bluesky — your posts become WordPress posts, or posts of a custom post type Friendly Skies creates for them
  • Imports on a schedule, from every 15 minutes to once a day
  • Import filters — replies, reposts, posts with media only
  • Imported posts styled as a Bluesky embed, or in your theme's own style
  • Dedicated support
  • Yours forever — one year of updates included
Buy Plugin

Price for one site. Updates for a year, up to the next paid version. After that, keep the build you own — renew updates for $69, or upgrade to a new paid version, when one ships, for $129.