Add rel-me to profile links

[pfefferle]

Add ​https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (XFN) to "Website URL", "GitHub URL" and " Find me on:" Links.

With this it is possible to easier use the WordPress Profile page with several IndieWeb (​https://indieweb.org) services and to verify the Profile on Mastodon: ​https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

[dshanske]

I heartily concur.

[mbootsman]

Happy to see this coming to show that WordPress is embracing not only Mastodon, but even more Indieweb services.

[Otto42]

Related: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6682#comment:1

TL;DR: The "find me on" links are generated by javascript, at present. Thus, mastodon is unable to see them. Changing this is more complicated than simply adding rel=me to them.

[pfefferle]

Thanks for the info, but maybe we can start with the GitHub and Website URL?

I would love to submit a diff, if you can point me to the correct place in the SVN.

[pfefferle]

Oh, I just saw that the "Website URL" is a redirect URL, so that is also a bit tricky :(

[KZeni]

It was great to see GitHub's profile links apply rel="me" which then added Mastodon support a while back, and I've been hoping something similar would happen with the WordPress.org profile links to help confirm the connection between the various profiles.

It's a bit of a bummer to see this has been kicking around for almost half a year now, and the fact that there has been more time of inactivity since this was last mentioned than there was activity when this was originally being discussed (when it would still be a great thing to implement.)

I do understand the items brought up by https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6682#comment:1 pointing out how these links are from Gravatar and Gravatar uses JSON for supplying those details so it's currently just being displayed these using JavaScript rather than what would actually be needed for this (such as parsing/caching of this Gravatar JSON data server-side to then be output directly on the page [rather than relying on JavaScript that's likely overlooked by anything checking for rel="me" links] or having it where those are fields within the WP.org profile that don't rely on Gravatar to provide those links.)

I'm thinking that keeping the Gravatar setup & making those links be pulled (from Gravatar), parsed, cached, and output server-side is the better option, but let me know if I'm forgetting any other possible approaches for this.

[dd32]

Add ​https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (XFN) to ... "GitHub URL"

It's now present on the GitHub link. The others as noted, are not really easily doable.

[mbootsman]

/me singing: "Nobody said it was easy.."

On a serious note, can we start thinking about how we can solve this, maybe pulling out the JS code and making it more flexible that way? In the future other services might use the "rel=me" microformat and I think it would be good if our .org profile pages are ready to support that.

Replying to dd32:

Add ​https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (XFN) to ... "GitHub URL"

It's now present on the GitHub link. The others as noted, are not really easily doable.

[dd32]

Replying to mbootsman:

On a serious note, can we start thinking about how we can solve this

In all honesty, I don't think this is going to be fixed in any way that actually is useful.

We could work with the Gravatar folk to add a JS callback, or we can probably add a JS callback that watches for elements added into that Div, and attach the rel to it at that point.. BUT this has almost zero benefit, as any client is not going to be rendering Javascript IMHO.

We're not going to sync all Gravatar data for WordPress.org profiles over to profiles.wordpress.org, there's just too many user accounts to make that worthwhile.

I forgot that we even have this functionality honestly, as it's blocked in my browser.

If I was to add the rel=me via JS, it'd probably satisfy most people, and they'd never notice it isn't actually useful...