Publishing on the IndieWeb Level 2

1. Mark up your content with microformats2

Humans can already understand the things you post on your site. By adding a few short class names to your HTML, other people’s software can understand it and use it for things like reply contexts, cross-site comments, event RSVPs, and more.

Check your homepage h-card:

Success!

This representative h-card was found on your site:

Aaron Strick

URL

Email

Got a brief bio like a Twitter/Instagram bio? Add it to your own h-card as a note property! <p class="p-note">…</p>

Nickname

  • strickinato

Email address

  • mailto:aaronstrick@gmail.com

Unique identifier

  • https://aaronstrick.com

State/province/county

  • San Francisco, CA

Birth Date

  • 1989-08-16

See the full list of h-card properties.

Want to be able to use h-card data in your code? Check out the open-source implementations.

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