Registered but Anonymous comments

Is there a way / set of plugins that could enable discussion where each commenter is ‘authenticated’ with the site (via openid/fb/twitter/etc) but the commenter can still use a anonymous/fake name? Basically we want to avoid people using other peoples email addresses and masquerading as them (in a university situation, its not difficult to work … Read more

WP-API and Basic Auth returning 403 on POST but not GET

I am using the latest, WP-API and the recommended Basic Auth, to test adding a post to WP from remote. I have Access Headers opened up on the WP side: header(“Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *”); header(“Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE”); header(“Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, Content-Type”); When I submit a Get request to: http://sandbox.ravennainteractive.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts the call easily authenticates and returns the … Read more

Outgoing proxy connection problem

I’m trying to set up WordPress on a server that requires a proxy connection to connect to the internet. Here’s what I put in wp-config.php: /* Configure HTTP Proxy Server */ define(‘WP_PROXY_HOST’, ‘xx.xx.xx.xx’); define(‘WP_PROXY_PORT’, ‘8080’); define(‘WP_PROXY_USERNAME’, ‘xxxxx’); define(‘WP_PROXY_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxx’); define(‘WP_PROXY_BYPASS_HOSTS’, ‘localhost’); (I replaced real IP, username and password with xxx here for privacy reasons) Unfortunately, … Read more

Can’t GET draft posts via REST API from headless frontend

I have a headless install of WordPress on v5.4.0. The frontend can’t GET any post that is in draft status, though when accessing the API url directly the data is returned without an issue. I’m assuming this is cookie/auth related. Note, I’m dynamically grabbing the nonce values from the backend, showing full strings here for … Read more