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indieauth

IndieAuth

IndieAuth is a way to allow users to use their own domain to sign into other websites and services.

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.96
Fatal Error on Setting –> General Page on WP-Admin

Fatal Error on Setting –> General Page on WP-Admin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Fatal Error on Setting –> General Page on WP-Admin Hello Community, On WP-admin, Setting –> General Page, I get below error message on IndieAuth Setting and save button is missing.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
Your have entered a valid Domain, but you have no account on this blog.

Your have entered a valid Domain, but you have no account on this blog.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
The message offers no help link and the plugin doesn’t have any settings.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
Error 403 when using indieauth login

Error 403 when using indieauth login: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error 403 when using indieauth login Hi!
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Conflict with Adobe Lightroom WordPress Plugin

Conflict with Adobe Lightroom WordPress Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Conflict with Adobe Lightroom WordPress Plugin Whenever the IndieAuth plugin is enabled I get an error exporting images from Adobe Lightroom to my WordPress blog.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Failed authorisation, but headers are

Failed authorisation, but headers are: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Failed authorisation, but headers are I get this message in the plug-in setting page: Authorization has Failed The authorization header was not returned on this test, which means that your server may be stripping the Authorization header.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Error Implenting

Error Implenting: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error Implenting WHen I try to log into indieauth.com I get “There was an SSL error connecting to https://<website>” ; When I try to log into Quill, I get “error_fetching_url There was an error fetching the profile URL when checking for redirects.” WHat am I missing here to get this working?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Access token false?

Access token false?: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I’ve got the indieauth plugin installed, and it seems to work, but when I try to do something on my site with a remote tool it fails with “unauthorized.” Looking at the initial response I see: { “access_token”: false, “token_type”: “Bearer”, “scope”: “create update media”, “me”: “ https://philipbrewer.net/” ; } I’m guessing that “false” where the token ought
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
What is “IndieAuth Applications”?

What is “IndieAuth Applications”?: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I noticed a blank field labelled “IndieAuth Applications” in the WordPress “Attachment details”.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Minor bug

Minor bug: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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Minor bug Guys I get this notice in the debug log, its easy enough to fix so when you do an update maybe add it to the fixes.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Authorization header was not returned

Authorization header was not returned: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Authorization header was not returned Running WordPress and I see the following error for the IndieAuth plugin: “The authorization header was not returned on this test, which means that your server may be stripping the Authorization header.” I’ve tried both of the recommended solutions but the error persists.

Competitor Context

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IndieWeb praise owner · intel 62.9 · weakness 46.1
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11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check indieweb publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Collected Signals

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complaint What is “IndieAuth Applications”? support · 2025-04-01T12:33:17+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

What is “IndieAuth Applications”?: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I noticed a blank field labelled “IndieAuth Applications” in the WordPress “Attachment details”.
support setup form content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Fatal Error on Setting –> General Page on WP-Admin support · 2025-02-05T03:05:31+00:00 · high severity · indieweb

Fatal Error on Setting –> General Page on WP-Admin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fatal Error on Setting –> General Page on WP-Admin Hello Community, On WP-admin, Setting –> General Page, I get below error message on IndieAuth Setting and save button is missing.
bugs compatibility missing feature reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
mixed Minor bug support · 2020-11-02T15:36:14+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Minor bug: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Minor bug Guys I get this notice in the debug log, its easy enough to fix so when you do an update maybe add it to the fixes.
bugs missing feature easy quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
question anyway to handle registration? support · 2020-07-15T04:05:41+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

anyway to handle registration?: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: anyway to handle registration? I have this working in terwsm of logging an existing user with a url on via indieauth. But what about a potential new user? Does this plugin handle regsitering a new user in any way? i cant seem to find anything like that in the code… The spec talks about parsing a hcard but I don´t think this is a secure way of creating a new
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Failed authorisation, but headers are support · 2020-04-22T01:27:23+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Failed authorisation, but headers are: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Failed authorisation, but headers are I get this message in the plug-in setting page: Authorization has Failed The authorization header was not returned on this test, which means that your server may be stripping the Authorization header.
bugs missing feature support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise It works as expected (5 stars) review · 2019-08-10T13:40:03+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

It works as expected: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: It works as expected What can be better than registering and logging into a website with nothing except my website URL?
reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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praise Easy to setup (5 stars) review · 2019-08-03T03:45:05+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Easy to setup: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Easy to setup Works perfectly!
setup easy reliable quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Authorization header was not returned support · 2019-06-29T00:10:45+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Authorization header was not returned: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Authorization header was not returned Running WordPress and I see the following error for the IndieAuth plugin: “The authorization header was not returned on this test, which means that your server may be stripping the Authorization header.” I’ve tried both of the recommended solutions but the error persists.
bugs login content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Error Implenting support · 2019-06-17T23:11:10+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Error Implenting: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error Implenting WHen I try to log into indieauth.com I get “There was an SSL error connecting to https://<website>” ; When I try to log into Quill, I get “error_fetching_url There was an error fetching the profile URL when checking for redirects.” WHat am I missing here to get this working?
bugs missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Error 403 when using indieauth login support · 2018-12-25T23:53:54+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Error 403 when using indieauth login: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error 403 when using indieauth login Hi!
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Access token false? support · 2018-09-23T15:31:04+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Access token false?: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve got the indieauth plugin installed, and it seems to work, but when I try to do something on my site with a remote tool it fails with “unauthorized.” Looking at the initial response I see: { “access_token”: false, “token_type”: “Bearer”, “scope”: “create update media”, “me”: “ https://philipbrewer.net/” ; } I’m guessing that “false” where the token ought
bugs support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Conflict with Adobe Lightroom WordPress Plugin support · 2018-02-25T16:51:17+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Conflict with Adobe Lightroom WordPress Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Conflict with Adobe Lightroom WordPress Plugin Whenever the IndieAuth plugin is enabled I get an error exporting images from Adobe Lightroom to my WordPress blog.
bugs compatibility support migration content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Simple easier method for logging into my WordPress install (5 stars) review · 2017-01-26T07:44:59+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Simple easier method for logging into my WordPress install: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple easier method for logging into my WordPress install I love the fact that I can use my own domain name to login to WordPress.
setup easy value quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Your have entered a valid Domain, but you have no account on this blog. support · 2017-01-12T11:15:15+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Your have entered a valid Domain, but you have no account on this blog.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The message offers no help link and the plugin doesn’t have any settings.
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Wonderful (5 stars) review · 2013-12-06T14:22:10+00:00 · medium severity · indieweb

Wonderful: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Wonderful Love it!
quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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