Title: Some problems with microid plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Some problems with microid plugin

 *  [msmeritt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msmeritt/)
 * (@msmeritt)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-problems-with-microid-plugin/)
 * 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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-problems-with-microid-plugin/#post-796212)
 * I’m having also incorrect code calculation with my website [http://blog.discretia.org](http://blog.discretia.org)
   but e-mail and address in config page seem ok.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-problems-with-microid-plugin/#post-796213)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wnorris/)
 * (@wnorris)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-problems-with-microid-plugin/#post-796223)
 * [@msmeritt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](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](http://will.norris.name))
 *  Thread Starter [msmeritt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msmeritt/)
 * (@msmeritt)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-problems-with-microid-plugin/#post-796224)
 * 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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