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supportI have installed this, but no rel=me can be found in my site’s source, nor using the tools at IndieWebify.me. I tried installing the two required plugins, and then IndieAuth plugin, but still nada. (I have made sure to fill in some of the user contact fields with silo usernames.) I did get links when I added the Rel=Me widget to a menu, but it didn’t respect the “Hidden Rel-Me Links” option. I can’t tell if this widget gives the core rel=me functionality and the option is broken, or if this is a secondary functionality and the main one doesn’t work at all. I have pored over all of the documentation within the plugin and on the wiki, and I cannot determine what actions are actually supposed to make rel=me show up. Frustrated. https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/
Let me have a look, I worked on this functionality and it worked in testing.
Thanks, David. Is there a private channel where I can give you website details?
I made some changes and uploaded Version 3.0.3 Advise if resolved.
The widget should now work. The hidden links will come back in a future version.
Updated to 3.03, but still no rel=me links. Wondering if it’s due to some quirk in my template. Tried toggling the “single individual” setting, too. Are rel=me supposed to appear on every page?
Is your blog a multi-author blog? And rel=me is only supposed to appear on the author page, if you have one, and the front page if you declare it a single author site. It shouldn’t appear on every page. On a single article page, there should be no rel=me.
Based on the questions, I am updating the settings and getting started pages to cover this.
It is a single-author blog in concept (but there are a few posts by other contributors). I have set that preference and configured the author. The site is http://gracenickel.ca/ . WordPress is in the root, but the blog configured in /journal/. Main author is /journal/author/grace-nickel/.
MichaelZed, this is actually very helpful in figuring out how to better explain the design. Did you configure grace-nickel’s user profile with social media or other accounts?
Yes, I set various social media accounts for Grace. For troubleshooting, I have now added the Rel=Me widget, with visibility set to display only on the Contact page .
So, it is displaying the links, but not adding the rel-me? It wouldn’t on a page… unless you specifically want that page to represent her, as opposed to the top level of the site. Specifying a special page for that is certainly a feature worth implementing. But rel-me isn’t supposed to be on every site page.
Understood. I do just want the rel=me links on the home page (preferably hidden). But the IndieWeb plugin isn’t automatically embedding them there, and my WordPress theme doesn’t have a widget area on the home page to allow me to add them myself.
I will restore and fix the hidden links function this weekend.
Thanks for looking into my difficulties, David. I still am not clear on one thing: does the IndieWeb plugin automatically add rel=me’s to the appropriate pages when it is activated, or do I have to drag the Rel=Me widget to a sidebar for them to appear?
You need the widget or the hidden links option, which is why I will reinstate it. I was going to work on figuring out what happened with it.
Try the latest update…it will add the hidden links if the widget isn’t active.
Still no update available?…
Version 3.0.4 should fix this, is it not showing as available?
I thought I pushed it. Will address tonight. Maybe I just pushed it to the Github repository.
Thanks, David.
I’ve updated to 3.0.4, and it seems to work great. I will try out the options and let you know if I find any problems. Thanks so much for troubleshooting this, David.
Let me have a look, I worked on this functionality and it worked in testing.
Thanks, David. Is there a private channel where I can give you website details?
I made some changes and uploaded Version 3.0.3 Advise if resolved.
The widget should now work. The hidden links will come back in a future version.
Updated to 3.03, but still no rel=me links. Wondering if it’s due to some quirk in my template. Tried toggling the “single individual” setting, too. Are rel=me supposed to appear on every page?
Is your blog a multi-author blog? And rel=me is only supposed to appear on the author page, if you have one, and the front page if you declare it a single author site. It shouldn’t appear on every page. On a single article page, there should be no rel=me.
Based on the questions, I am updating the settings and getting started pages to cover this.
It is a single-author blog in concept (but there are a few posts by other contributors). I have set that preference and configured the author. The site is http://gracenickel.ca/ . WordPress is in the root, but the blog configured in /journal/. Main author is /journal/author/grace-nickel/.
MichaelZed, this is actually very helpful in figuring out how to better explain the design. Did you configure grace-nickel’s user profile with social media or other accounts?
Yes, I set various social media accounts for Grace. For troubleshooting, I have now added the Rel=Me widget, with visibility set to display only on the Contact page .
So, it is displaying the links, but not adding the rel-me? It wouldn’t on a page… unless you specifically want that page to represent her, as opposed to the top level of the site. Specifying a special page for that is certainly a feature worth implementing. But rel-me isn’t supposed to be on every site page.
Understood. I do just want the rel=me links on the home page (preferably hidden). But the IndieWeb plugin isn’t automatically embedding them there, and my WordPress theme doesn’t have a widget area on the home page to allow me to add them myself.
I will restore and fix the hidden links function this weekend.
Thanks for looking into my difficulties, David. I still am not clear on one thing: does the IndieWeb plugin automatically add rel=me’s to the appropriate pages when it is activated, or do I have to drag the Rel=Me widget to a sidebar for them to appear?
You need the widget or the hidden links option, which is why I will reinstate it. I was going to work on figuring out what happened with it.
Try the latest update…it will add the hidden links if the widget isn’t active.
Still no update available?…
Version 3.0.4 should fix this, is it not showing as available?
I thought I pushed it. Will address tonight. Maybe I just pushed it to the Github repository.
Thanks, David.
I’ve updated to 3.0.4, and it seems to work great. I will try out the options and let you know if I find any problems. Thanks so much for troubleshooting this, David.