Some problems with microid plugin

  • msmeritt

    (@msmeritt)


    17 years, 11 months ago

    I’m having some issues with the WordPress MicroID Plugin by Will Norris after having had similar issues with the related plugin by Richard K. Miller. Currently I have only the Will Norris plugin activated on three sites: 1) potluck.com, 2) potluckcreativearts.com, 3) marksmeritt.com

    Inconsistency: microid appears on the home page sites 2 & 3 but not on site 1.

    Incorrect code placement: In all instances I can find on both home pages and individual posts, the microid is being placed in div tags outside the HEAD tags. claimid will only verify pages when the microid is placed in META tags within the HEAD tags.

    Incorrect code calculation: The page http://marksmeritt.com/misc/ has a microid calculated, but it is not the same as the one that claimid calculates to look for and so it doesn’t verify the page.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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  • 767902

    17 years, 10 months ago

    I’m having also incorrect code calculation with my website http://blog.discretia.org but e-mail and address in config page seem ok.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years, 10 months ago

    I don’t use a plugin, however:

    a) MicroID is not only used for web pages that you can claim with claimID, it is also used to tie identifiers together. For example, on my site, I put a microid in the class of every comment where people leave email and website info. This is to identify them as the author of the comment. The microid meta tag in the head is only used to identify the owner of the page.

    b) While I don’t know how the plugin calculates it, this calculates the correct microID for my comments:

    // microid
$c_email=get_comment_author_email();
$c_url=get_comment_author_url();
if (!empty($c_email) && !empty($c_url)) {
$microid = 'microid-mailto+http:sha1:' . sha1(sha1('mailto:'.$c_email).sha1($c_url));
}

    Will Norris

    (@wnorris)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    @msmeritt – your third site wasn’t working b/c it looks like you have a page on your front page instead of your latests posts. This has now been fixed in version 1.1.

    The microids inside your posts are correctly placed inside the div tags. MicroID is a spec for claiming an arbitrary amount of data… it may be claiming the entire page (such as having it in the <head/>), a single post (as you’re seeing) or a single blog comment. ClaimID is a service for claiming sites, so it requires the microid be placed in the head. This will only work on the home page of your blog and (new in version 1.1) on your author page (ie. http://www.example.com/author/admin).

    I’m not sure about the incorrect calculations. I’d be interested to hear what specific values you’re using… feel free to contact me directly (http://will.norris.name)

    Thread Starter msmeritt

    (@msmeritt)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    Will and others, thanks for replying here. I thought it useful to provide some response here for posterity, for others who may want to use and better understand MicroID, ClaimID and this plugin.

    I certainly do understand now — and I didn’t earlier — that MicroID is properly implemented inside those div tags and that they serve purposes beyond ClaimID. So that certainly helps illuminate things here.

    I personally would love a plugin that put the proper ClaimID verification coding into all of a site’s pages, not just home and author pages, and not just other MicroID usage. Whether that’s consistent with your intentions/purposes for your plugin, that’s certainly for you to decide, and I wouldn’t hold it against you if you chose not to build it in, I’d just keep looking elsewhere for broader ClaimID verification functionality.

    In the meantime, I should mention that, even after upgrading to your new version 1.1, I’m still experiencing all the same issues and don’t see the verifiability that you mentioned 1.1 should have:

    Sites that use static Pages as the home page do have the same MicroID calculated as ClaimID, but not in the head/meta tags, so unverifiable by ClaimID though you say it should verify.

    Sites that show latest posts on the home page have no MicroID at all for the page itself, only for each of the individual latest posts within. So can’t compare ClaimID calculation, and also certainly unverifiable by ClaimID though you say it should verify.

    I know now that the plugin isn’t currently intended to provide ClaimID verification beyond home and author pages. Re: calculation, though, while I see a match between plugin and ClaimID for single posts, I continue to see mismatches between plugin and ClaimID for non-home static pages. As you requested, I’ll contact you directly about that as an FYI.

    Thanks for your help!

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