Provides a General Settings menu option to define a rel=」me」 in metatags for the whole site and also individual contributors.
Admin verification
The plugin will add a field at the bottom of the General Settings 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 not accept Mastodon addresses (@user@domain.tld)
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.
Author verification
If an Administrator enables the 「Verify Authors』 profiles」 option on the General Settings page (Admin Dashboard > Settings>General Settings), a field labelled 「Mastodon URL」 will be added to users』 profile pages (under 「contact info」).
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 only. 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.
Plugin Development
Simple Mastodon Verification 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.
