This plugin allows organizations with PlaceSpeak Connect apps on placespeak.com to use geoverification tools in their WordPress installation.

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<p><a href="https://www.placespeak.com/connect/about/" rel="nofollow ugc">PlaceSpeak Connect</a> is a geographic digital identity authentication application programming interface, or GeoID API. It allows third party applications and websites to verify the location of its users. PlaceSpeak Connect tests a user’s address or location against a predetermined area of interest, producing geographically relevant results.</p>
<p>This plugin allows organizations to use PlaceSpeak connect in conjunction with the WordPress commenting system to geo-verify commenters, without the need to write any code.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Your domain must use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTPS</a> in order for the plugin to work. Communication with the PlaceSpeak server happens according to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth" rel="nofollow ugc">OAuth2</a> authorization protocol, and OAuth2 requires that network communication happen over encrypted HTTPS (which is just a good idea anyway).</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Admin can add apps using app key, app secret, and a standard redirect_uri</li>
<li>“Connect With PlaceSpeak” button available as shortcode or as part of a commenting form</li>
<li>Commenters that authorize PlaceSpeak will also have verification information, names, and region labels relative to app saved as meta information with comment</li>
<li>Allows admin to store user information in <code>WP_USERS</code> table or custom <code>placespeak_user</code> table</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Creating a PlaceSpeak Connect app and connecting it to WordPress</h4>
<p>To use PlaceSpeak Connect to verify your WordPress commenters, you must first create one or more new API “apps” within PlaceSpeak, and update the WordPress plugin to be aware of them.</p>
<ol>
<li>If you don’t have one, create a new (free) user account on PlaceSpeak.com.</li>
<li>If you don’t have one, create a new (free) organization account on PlaceSpeak.com. (Currently this requires clicking on the <em>Start a Consultation</em> link and following through to the organization creation step.</li>
<li>In your organizational dashboard, click on the <em>PlaceSpeak Connect</em> tab, and create a new API client instance (better documentation for this step to come).</li>
<li>In your WordPress admin interface, go to <em>Settings</em> > <em>PlaceSpeak</em></li>
<li>Copy the <em>Redirect URL</em> from the top of the page. Back in PlaceSpeak, paste the URL into the <em>Redirect URI</em> field in the settings page for your new API app, and press save.</li>
<li>Copy and paste the app key and app secret from PlaceSpeak into the <em>Add New PlaceSpeak App</em> form in WordPress. Also give the app a name (presumably the same one you used when creating it in PlaceSpeak).</li>
</ol>
<p>Note that you can choose to have PlaceSpeak verification information added directly onto the normal WordPress users table, or you can set the plugin to save that information is a separate table.</p>
<h4>Using PlaceSpeak connect to verify commenters</h4>
<ol>
<li>Create a new page or post. Ensure commenting is turned on.</li>
<li>From the <em>Select PlaceSpeak App</em> dropdown in the editor, choose the app you just added.</li>
<li>Save your post and view it. There should now be an optional button for verifying PlaceSpeak users who submit a comment.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Using PlaceSpeak connect to verify form submissions</h4>
<p>In addition to the standard PlaceSpeak commenting function, WP-PlaceSpeak-Connect can work with form plugins. Currently this has only been tested with Contact Form 7.</p>
<p>The usage with forms is the same as for regular post comments.</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/" rel="ugc">Contact Form 7</a> plugin.</li>
<li>Create a new page or post.</li>
<li>From the <em>Select PlaceSpeak App</em> dropdown in the editor, choose the app you just added.</li>
<li>Save your post and view it. There should now be a button for verifying PlaceSpeak users who fill out the form.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Future features under consideration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Single Sign On with PlaceSpeak account into WordPress</li>
<li>Automatic listing of all available PlaceSpeak Connect API apps for your organization (instead of entering them manually).</li>
</ul>


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