Every few years, someone reinvents FOAF. The idea behind Friend-Of-A-Friend is that You can say "I, Alice, know and trust Bob". Bob can say "I know and trust Alice. I also know and trust Carl." That social graph can be navigated to help understand trust relationships.  Sometimes this is done with complex cryptography and involves key-signing ceremonies. Other times it involves byzantine XML RDF.…

Terence Eden

human.json is a lightweight protocol for asserting authorship and vouching for other humans on the web, similar in spirit to FOAF but using simple JSON. A step-by-step guide shows how to implement it in WordPress by adding a custom rewrite rule and template redirect in PHP, serving the human.json file dynamically with proper CORS headers. An extended version deduplicates and sorts the vouch list, and uses the file modification date as the vouch timestamp.

Adding human.json to WordPress