"Well-Known URIs" for WordPress!
As of April 2026, /well-known-uris/ is a WordPress discovery plugin with 70 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Taboola.
This plugin enables “Well-Known URIs” support for WordPress (RFC 5785: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785).
From the RFC:
It is increasingly common for Web-based protocols to require the
discovery of policy or other information about a host (“site-wide
metadata”) before making a request. For example, the Robots
Exclusion Protocol http://www.robotstxt.org/ specifies a way for
automated processes to obtain permission to access resources;
likewise, the Platform for Privacy Preferences
tells user-agents how to discover privacy policy beforehand.While there are several ways to access per-resource metadata (e.g.,
HTTP headers, WebDAV’s PROPFIND [RFC4918]), the perceived overhead
(either in terms of client-perceived latency and/or deployment
dif…
| WordPress | 3.5.1+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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