Enables WebFinger (
RFC 7033) support for WordPress.
About WebFinger:
WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other entities on the Internet that are identified by a URI using standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods over a secure transport. A WebFinger resource returns a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object describing the entity that is queried. The JSON object is referred to as the JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD).
(quote from the
RFC)
Follow the normal instructions for
installing WordPress plugins.
Automatic Plugin Installation
To add a WordPress Plugin using the
built-in plugin installer:
- Go to Plugins > Add New.
- Type "
webfinger
" into the Search Plugins box.
- Find the WordPress Plugin you wish to install.
- Click Details for more information about the Plugin and instructions you may wish to print or save to help setup the Plugin.
- Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.
- The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
- If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.
Manual Plugin Installation
There are a few cases when manually installing a WordPress Plugin is appropriate.
- If you wish to control the placement and the process of installing a WordPress Plugin.
- If your server does not permit automatic installation of a WordPress Plugin.
- If you want to try the latest development version.
Installation of a WordPress Plugin manually requires FTP familiarity and the awareness that you may put your site at risk if you install a WordPress Plugin incompatible with the current version or from an unreliable source.
Backup your site completely before proceeding.
To install a WordPress Plugin manually:
- Download your WordPress Plugin to your desktop.
- Download from the WordPress directory
- Download from GitHub
- If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
- With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the
wp-content/plugins
folder in your WordPress directory online.
- Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded Plugin in the list.
- Click Activate to activate it.
Project maintained on github at
pfefferle/wordpress-webfinger.
3.2.7
- Added: better output escaping
- Fixed: stricter queries
3.2.6
3.2.5
3.2.4
3.2.3
- fixed
acct
scheme for discovery
3.2.2
- fixed typo (thanks @ivucica)
- use
acct
as default scheme
3.2.1
- make
acct
protocol optional
3.2.0
3.1.6
- added
user_nicename
as resource
- fixed WordPress coding standard issues
3.1.5
3.1.4
3.1.3
- add support for the 'aim', 'ymsgr' and 'acct' protocol
3.1.2
- fixed the legacy code
- added feeds
3.1.1
- fixed 'get_user_by_various' function
3.1.0
- Added WebFinger legacy plugin, because the legacy version is still very popular and used by for example OStatus (Mastodon, Status.NET and GNU Social)
- Added Webfinger for posts support
3.0.3
- composer support
- compatibility updates
3.0.2
get_avatar_url
instead of custom code
- some small code improvements
- nicer PHP-docs
3.0.1
- updated version informations
- support the WordPress Coding Standard
3.0.0
- added correct error-responses
- remove legacy support for XRD and host-meta (props to Will Norris)
2.0.1
2.0.0
- complete refactoring
- removed simple-web-discovery
- more filters and actions
- works without /.well-known/ plugin
1.4.0
- small fixes
- added "webfinger" as well-known uri
1.3.1
- added "rel"-filter (work in progress)
- added more aliases
1.3
- added host-meta resource feature (see latest spec)
1.2
- added 404 http error if user doesn't exist
- added jrd discovery for host-meta
1.1
1.0.1
1.0
- basic simple-seb-discovery
- json support
- some small improvements
0.9.1
0.9
- OStatus improvements
- Better uri handling
- Identifier overview (more to come)
- Added filters
- Added functions to get a users webfingers
0.7
- Added do_action param (for future OStatus plugin)
- Author-Url as Webfinger-Identifier
0.5