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A while back I wrote a very simple plugin for WordPress that would automatically insert Dublin Core metadata into the header of my blog posts. I released it under a free license (as version 0.2) with the hope that someone more proficient in WordPress than I would come along and build on my work. And someone did!

WordPress does not have a built-in mechanism for automatically adding standardized metadata to pages. Today I wrote a plugin to add Dublin Core metadata to all posts and pages. It currently supports the following metadata:

• Site name as DC.publisher
• Site URL as DC.publisher.url
• Post title as DC.title
• Permalink as DC.identifier
• Date created as DC.date.created

Install it by downloading the latest version from the DC 4 WP page (version 0.2 at this time), unpacking the .zip archive, and dropping the .php file into your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins folder.

This is my first plugin, so any and all constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I'm proposing a new standard: JSON used to enrich regular web pages with scripting-ready metadata. No more theme-dependent HTML parsing -- just grab the needed data out of a namespaced global object. Read on for details.

Matt Cutts recently posted on the topic of canonicalizing URLs. He strongly recommends consistency in usage of www vs. non-www, / vs. /index.php, etc. (Roger Johansson has two-lines of .htaccess code that will solve the www issue.) I'd like to try a more client-side approach, just for the fun of it.