host-meta for WordPress!
As of April 2026, host-meta is a WordPress jrd plugin with 80 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 8.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.5+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Top alternative: WebFinger.
This plugin provides a host-meta – file for WordPress (RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6415).
From the RFC:
Web-based protocols often require the discovery of host policy or metadata, where host is not a single resource but the entity controlling the collection of resources identified by URIs with a common host as defined. While these protocols have a wide range of metadata needs, they often define metadata that is concise, has simple syntax requirements, and can benefit from storing its metadata in a common location used by other related protocols.
Because there is no URI or a resource available to describe a host, many of the methods used for associating per-resource metadata (such as HTTP headers) are not available. This often leads to the overloading of the root HTTP resou…
| WordPress | 3.0.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
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