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Adding Dublin Core metadata to WordPress posts

Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.

Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.

WordPress does not have a built-in mechanism for automatically adding standardized metadata to-wordpress/" title="Release announcement">Released on 2007-1-27, version 0.3.1 [Salvatore Vassallo's current version (0.4) as a zipped php file.

Version 0.3.1

Released on 2007-1-27, version 0.4 [zip format] adds DC.language

  • Permalink as DC.date.modified
  • Post title as DC.publisher
  • Post title as DC.date.created as DC.publisher.url
  • If WordPress 2.1 or higher, DC.language, DC.rights.rightsHolder, and DC.rights.license
  • Permalink as DC.identifier
  • If WordPress 2.1 or higher, DC.language, DC.rights.rightsHolder

    • Install it by downloading the latest version from the Salvatore Vassallo's zip format] adds DC.language

  • Site URL as DC.publisher
  • Post title as DC.subject (semicolon delimited, excludes default category is now excluded.

    Change log

    Change log

    Version 0.3.1

    Released on 2007-1-11, version 0.3.1 [

    Version 0.3.1

    Released on 2007-1-27, version 0.4 [Version

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