<p>Add a rel=”me” link to the head of an author page, if the author has a website set in their profile.</p>
<h3>Author rel=me Link</h3>
<p>This plugin, when activated, will add a <code><link></code> to the <code><head></code> of an Author page with <code>rel="me"</code>, if that author has set a “Website” in their profile.</p>
<p>This can be useful for things like Mastodon URL verification.</p>
<h3>Example</h3>
<p>If an author has set their website to <code>https://www.example.com</code>, this plugin will add the following HTML to the <code><head></code> on their author page:</p>
<pre><code><link rel="me" href="https://social.example/@evelyn" />
</code></pre>
<p>To verify with Mastodon etc., the author would need to use the URL to their Author archive page, typically something like <code>https://www.your-site.example/author/evelyn</code>.</p>


Author rel=me Link

Add a rel="me" link to the head of an author page, if the author has a website set in their profile.

OpenDNA

<p>Provides a General Settings menu option to define a rel=\”me\” in metatags for the whole site and also individual contributors.</p>
<h4>Admin verification</h4>
<p>The plugin will add a field at the bottom of the <em>General Settings</em> page (Admin Dashboard > Settings>General Settings), labelled “Verify Mastodon URL”. The field should accept any valid mastodon user URL up to three sub-domains deep. i.e. https://mastodon.social/@user to https://my.mastodon.del.icio.us/@user The plugin does <em>not</em> accept Mastodon addresses (@user@domain.tld)</p>
<p>When a valid URL has been saved, a tag containing a rel=”me” link pointing to the Mastodon user profile will be added near the top of the site’s metadata (between  elements). If a link to the WordPress instance is added as one of that user’s profile metadata, the Mastodon instance will validate the ownership of the URL and add a green “verified” banner to the URL.</p>
<h4>Author verification</h4>
<p>If an Administrator enables the “Verify Authors’ profiles” option on the <em>General Settings</em> page (Admin Dashboard > Settings>General Settings), a field labelled “Mastodon URL” will be added to users’ profile pages (under “contact info”).</p>
<p>When a valid URL has been saved, a tag containing a rel=”me” link will be added to the metadata (between  elements) on the Author’s archive page <em>only</em>. If a link to the WordPress Author archive is added as one of that’s user’s profile metadata, the Mastodon instance will validate the ownership of the URL and add a green “verified” banner to the URL.</p>
<h4>Plugin Development</h4>
<p><em>Simple Mastodon Verification</em> development is managed on GitHub, with official releases published on WordPress.org. The GitHub repo can be found at https://github.com/mckinnon/simple-mastodon-verification.</p>


Simple Mastodon Verification

Provides a General Settings menu option to define a rel=\"me\" in metatags for the whole site and also individual contributors.

Author rel=me Link vs Simple Mastodon Verification