=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: ExtremeAmbient Community
Donate link: http://www.extremeambient.net
Tags: post, timestamp, certification
Requires at least: 2.0.0
Tested up to: 2.1
Stable tag: 0.1rv2

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== Description ==

PREVIOUS INFORMATION:

This plugin is based on the blosgtamp module for DRUPAL (http://www.drupal.org), created by Matt Fleming (http://www.mattfleming.com).

 

HOW IT WORKS?

Once a new content is published from Wordpress, the date of creation is quite easy to modify. In order to avoid this, Blogstamp plugin makes a request of timestamp (the number of seconds elapsed since the 0 hour of the 1st of January of 1970 GMT), certified by third parts, and adds a signature, which comprised of contents SHA-1 hash, returned timestamp and a digital signature. With this information is possible to validate and to guarantee that:

    * A content has been published in the indicated date.
    * A content has not been modified after it has been published.

We use the service offered by blogstamp (http://www.blogstamp.org), in whose Web you will find the way to ask for a signature or to validate it.

== Installation ==

REQUIREMENTS:

    * Wordpress 2.0
    * PHP with sockets support (What is a socket? More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket). If you do not know if your hosting has socket support for PHP, contact with your hosting supplier. But relax, most of the hosting providers have socket support for PHP.

 

PREVIOUS STEP TO THE INSTALLATION (RECOMMENDATION):

Before the plugin installation, please check that the pingbacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback) list is correctly updated. A non updated list could cause problems when the signature is requested. You can check if your pingbacks list is updated at http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services.

 

INSTALLATION:

1.- Extract the content of the compressed file blogstamp.zip or blogstamp.tar.bz2

2.- Upload the content of the "plugins" folder to the "plugins" folder of your Wordpress "wp-content/plugins/".

3.- Upload the template (template-blogstamp.php) you will find within the "themes/your_theme" folder to the folder of the theme used in your Wordpress "/wp-content/themes/your_theme/". "your_theme" is the folder of your active theme on Wordpress. In order to know the path to the active theme, please go to "Presentation" "Themes" and look for the next line: "All of this theme’s file are located in "wp-content/themes/XXX" where XXX will be your active theme.

4.- Get access to the administration dashboard of Wordpress "/wp-admin/".

5.- Now activate the Plugin. In "Plugins" look for "Blogstamp" and click on "Activate".

6.- Create a new page and apply the "Blogstamp" template. If you do not know how to make a new page and/or to apply a template to the page, go to the section CREATING A NEW PAGE.

CREATING A NEW PAGE:

In order to create a new page, go to "Write" - "Write Page". If you wish to get more informationd about the pages of Wordpress and/or it function, go to: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages.

Name that page as "Blogstamp", which is the default name to make the plugin run. You can also use another name, but in that case, you must change the plugin configuration, as in the CONFIGURE THE PLUGIN section is explained, and set the value of the "Page Name" field with the name of the page, without using capital letters.

 

CONFIGURE THE PLUGIN:

Default configuration of Blogstamp Plugin, is enough to work properly. But if you want to use the SSL protocol (some servers does not allow the use of this protocol through sockets) at the time of asking for a signature or you want to change the page in which will be loaded the verification form, is necessary to make changes in plugin. To do that, you must go to "Options" "Blogstamp" and change the value from the fields you want to change.

If you need to change the verification forms page presentation, you need to know the way in which your blogs shows the following parts: header (get_header ()), content (<div id= " content">… </div>), sidebar (get_sidebar()) and footer (get_footer()). Go to "Presentation" "Themes" and press on "Main Index Template". Once there, you must to look for the order of the following parts: "get_header ()", "get_sidebar ()", "<div id= " content">" and "get_footer ()" to establish the order in "template-blogstamp.php".

Once you know the order, edit locally the "template-blogstamp.php" file. You can edit it using a plain text editor (BEWARE OF THIS! Microsoft Word is NOT a plain text editor, so do not use it) such as the Notepad for Windows or the Gedit or Kate for Linux. Once the changes are made, upload it.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

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