The Standardverse expands skyward!

Readers, writers, publishers of the Atmosphere — exciting news! Several things, actually — from @bsky.app , @standard.site , @wordpress.org and @leaflet.pub .

Let's start with the splashiest and save the leafiest for last.

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Bluesky + Standard Site

Bluesky just shipped a new integration for standard.site !

Any standard.site post or publication shared on Bluesky now gets an awesome preview card — like a link card plus some special sauce like author, publication name, and a button with theme colors.

example: release radar '26: may 1st - 20th

This is huge, and great news for publishers! On the surface, it makes longform posts and publications you share look nicer and more distinctive on the timeline.

Below the surface, this enables a bunch of cool things in the future, like making longform posts searchable on Bluesky, showing other shares / backlinks for a given blog post, and more.

It's just a first step, and the Bluesky team has further plans! One possibility would be more interactive elements like standard.site subscribes / recommends directly from posts. We'd also love to see exploration around discovery surfaces and notifications.

More from Bluesky:

Here are some examples of what publication links look like. For pubs on a leaflet.pub subdomain you'll see 'Subscribe with Leaflet':

examples: leaf litter , Winters Delirium

For standard.site pubs on a custom domain, whether published via Leaflet, Pckt, Offprint, Sequoia, or some other way, the button text is the more generic 'View Publication':

examples: How Streamplace Works , Cosmik Labs

This is because we don't yet have an easy way from the link itself to tell what platform it's on. But something we could add!

Thanks to the @bsky.app team and our other @standard.site core maintainers @brookie.blog and @aka.dad for making this happen.

We all care deeply about making great experiences for readers and useful tools for publishers. We all benefit when readers and writers have better ways to find each other and meaningfully engage with longform content on the atmosphere!

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WordPress + Standard Site

We're also excited to see @wordpress.org ship the official 1.0 of their new ATmosphere plugin for standard.site publishing!

This has been in development for a while, and they wrote up a great post on how this fits alongside their Fediverse work, and how it's different from simpler social cross-posting mechanisms:

ATmosphere 1.0.0 — Liftoff

This post isn’t about the ActivityPub plugin. ATmosphere is a separate plugin from the same small team, for the other half of the open social web: the AT Protocol, the open network behind Blu…

It's a great sign to see major platforms taking atmospheric publishing seriously. As more and more people publish with atproto and standard.site , and we collectively build more tools and infra, we can build better and better product experiences for readers and publishers…let's keep that momentum going!

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Standard Site improvements

The @standard.site core team — @leaflet.pub , @pckt.blog , and @offprint.app — made a few changes that make more things possible for publishers:

new 'Recommend' lexicon — readers can recommend posts, a lightweight signal useful for discovery tools and aggregators (we're excited to see more folks try stuff here!)

'labels' property in Publication and Document lexicons — makes self-labeling use cases possible

'links' array in Document lexicon — this will let us build better product experiences relating standard.site posts to each other, i.e. things like mentions and backlinks

'contributors' array in the Document lexicon — making it possible for posts to list multiple authors / contributors, each with a did, role, and displayName

new optional 'createdAt' property for the Subscription lexicon

More detail here on the docs site:

Share any feedback to @standard.site on Bluesky or Tangled .

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New Standard Site post block in Leaflet

Finally, we shipped something for Leaflet too!

And not just a whole new landing page , though…check that out :)

Leaflet now has a standard.site post block, for nicely linking to your own posts, or anyone else's!

Super simple to use, just paste a link to any standard.site post in the Leaflet editor and hit "embed".

Once added the embed block has a few size options: small, medium, large — here's the same post, three ways:

This complements our existing inline @-mentions for standard.site pubs ( Field Notes ) and posts ( Welcome to Field Notes ). And gives you more flexible ways to do things like reference a post you're replying to, or link your own related posts.

With the new links array in standard.site (see above) this also makes possible some cool future things like showing any mentions / backlinks across standard.site posts, on Leaflet as well as on Bluesky!

We hope all the above serves as evidence for the claim: standard.site is here, it's real, and you should be building for it! Or, at the very least, publishing with Leaflet or one of the growing list of other compatible platforms.