My recent rebuilding of bulltown required a fair amount of troubleshooting related to webmentions.

After spending hours researching, changing, and testing over and over again, I discovered a tool made by Aaron Parecki - you know, the guy behind Webmention.io and Telegraph - a key player in the IndieWeb community.

The tool saved me hours and gave me a fresh start on optimizing webmentions on bulltown as well as two other webthings. If you code your own website and use webmentions, you might find it useful too:

PHP Microformats Parser

Thanks Aaron!