@PaulJacobson, I am glad you are enjoying the return to micro.blog. …Funny that is how I find most of your posts.
Glad you are trying to add the IndieWeb plugins to your site….They probably won’t work due to a lack of proper micoformats2 in your theme.
We have been unsuccessful in getting the properties into the html of themes through the mf2 plug-in. You may want to try https://wordpress.org/plugins/mf2-feed/ instead.
While this doesn’t rely on native microformats and uses rel=”alternate” to point to a copy with properly parsed data (side files are icky) it does allow for greater theme compatibility.
microformats2, semantic linkbacks, and webmentions in core…now there is our dream.