WebFinger
WebFinger for WordPress
3.7(3 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, WebFinger is a WordPress jrd plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Downloads are up 35% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: host-meta.
3.7/53 reviews
1.0K+active installs
0%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
WebFinger allows you to be discovered on the web using an identifier like [email protected] — similar to how email works, but for your online identity.
Why is this useful?
- Fediverse & Mastodon: WebFinger is essential for federation. It allows Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered platforms to find and follow your WordPress site.
- Decentralized Identity: People can look you up using your WordPress domain, making your site the canonical source for your online identity.
- Works with other plugins: This plugin provides the foundation that other plugins (like the ActivityPub plugin) build upon.
How it works:
When someone searches for @[email protected] on Mastodon or another federated service, their server asks your WordPress site: “Who is this person?” WebFinger answers that…
Ratings & Reviews
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Does as expected.
by Khürt Williams·2 years ago
I installed Webfinger and typed in the domain for my website into Mastodon instance photog.social. Mastodon immediately found ky ActivityPub endpoints.
No config easy way to add webfinger for your existing users
by ffpf·3 years ago
Adding this plugin adds handling for the WebFinger protocol for your existing users.
For example, when someone searches for you on Mastodon, your server will be queried for accounts using an endpoint that looks like this:
GET ${MASTODON_DOMAIN}/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:${MASTODON_USER}@${MASTODON_DOMAIN}So, if you have a WordPress blog with the URL blog.domain and that blog has a user (you can see users in the Users admin panel) named user1, then the webfinger URL for that user would be:
blog.domain/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected]This plugin implements handling for such requests for any user on the WordPress site without any additional configuration.
Didn’t work.
by sunriselane·3 years ago·1 reply
There’s no admin panel and the documentation isn’t clear about how to configure the plugin.
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 9This week: 73Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.0
83.0%
v3.2
17.0%
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Changelog
Project maintained on github at pfefferle/wordpress-webfinger.
4.0.1
- Fixed: Handle WP_Error objects in
filter_by_relto prevent errors when WebFinger lookup fails
4.0.0
- Added: Site Health integration to check your WebFinger setup status directly in WordPress
- Added: User profile settings to customize your WebFinger identifier
- Added:…
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