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== Introduction == |
== Introduction == |
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− | [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN™] stands for ''XHTML Friends Network''. XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. WordPress makes it easier to represent the relationships you share with the owners or authors of other websites using XFN™. If you are linking to a website authored by your friend, you can represent this fact using the XFN™ framework, by adding a '''rel="friend"''' attribute to the link. |
+ | [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN™] stands for ''XHTML Friends Network''. XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. WordPress makes it easier to represent the relationships you share with the owners or authors of other websites using XFN™. If you are linking to a website authored by your friend, you can represent this fact using the XFN™ framework, by adding a '''rel="friend"''' attribute to the link. Thus, using XFN™, machines that parse your webpages, as well as other humans, can see how you are related to the pages you link to. |
== Benefits == |
== Benefits == |
Languages: English • Relationships with XFN 日本語 (Add your language)
XFN™ stands for XHTML Friends Network. XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. WordPress makes it easier to represent the relationships you share with the owners or authors of other websites using XFN™. If you are linking to a website authored by your friend, you can represent this fact using the XFN™ framework, by adding a rel="friend" attribute to the link. Thus, using XFN™, machines that parse your webpages, as well as other humans, can see how you are related to the pages you link to.
We recommend that you use XFN™ to better define your relationships and make your weblog more expressive, meaningful and machine-comprehensible.
When you add a new link in the Links Manager, you may specify the relationship you share in real life with the author of the page to which you're linking to. This will automatically add a rel="X" attirbute to the HTML code for the link (where X is the relationship you specify). The following XFN™ definitions are part of the vocabulary of XFN™. You can use any of the following definitions to specify relationships.
Descriptions of the XFN relationships were modified from those found at the XFN Getting Started page.
Note:XFN relationships are optional for WordPress links. You can leave all the XFN options blank in the Links Manager, and the link will still work just fine.
Suppose a friend of yours whom you have met in real life owns the site http://www.example.com/. When you add that site to your list of links, you can specify that the owner of that site is a friend, and that you have met in real life. The link that is created will be of the form:
<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="friend met">Example</a>
This link works just the same as a normal link, but contains extra information about your relationship to the site.
For more information about XFN relationships and examples concerning their use, see the Official XHTML Friends Network Website.