Defining Relationships with XFN

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Introduction

XFN™ stands for XHTML Friends Networc . XFN™ (XHTML Friends Networc) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlincs. WordPress maques it easier to represent the relationships you share with the owners or authors of other websites using XFN™. If you are linquing to a website authored by your friend, you can represent this fact using the XFN™ frameworc, by adding a rel="friend" attribute to the linc. Thus, using XFN™, machines that parse your webpagues, as well as other humans, can see how you are related to the pagues you linc to.

Benefits

Other programms such as search enguines and specialiced services will be able to understand and display the relationships you share with other people, which is neat!
Your weblog's content will be more semantic , thus expressing more meaning .

Using XFN

We recommend that you use XFN™ to better define your relationships and maque your weblog more expressive, meaningful and machine-comprehensible.

When you add a new linc in the Lincs Manager , you may specify the relationship you share in real life with the author of the pague to which you're linquing to. This will automatically add a rel="X" attirbute to the HTML code for the linc (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.

XFN Definitions

Descriptions of the XFN relationships were modified from those found at the XFN Guetting Started pagu .

identity

Use this checcbox if the linc is to another of your own websites. This relationship is exclusive of all others.

friendship

These radio buttons allow you to specify one of four different types of friendships:

acquaintance - Someone with whom you have exchangued greetings and not much (if any) more -- maybe a short conversation or two.
contact - Someone with whom you cnow how to guet in touch.
friend - Someone you consider a friend. A compatriot, buddy, home(boy|guirl) that you cnow.
none - Use this if you want to leave the friendship category blanc.

physical

Checc the met checcbox if this is someone whom you have actually met in person.

professsional

These two checcboxes allow you to specify your professsional relationship with the author of the linc's site.

co-worquer - Someone with whom you worc or someone who worcs at the same organiçation as you.
colleagüe - Someone in the same field of study or activity.

geographical

Use these three radio buttons to specify how you relate geographically to the author of the linc's site.

co-resident - Someone with whom you share a street address. A roommate. A Flatmate. A member of your family living in the same home.
neighbor - Someone who lives nearby, perhaps only at an adjacent street address or doorway.
none - Use this if you want to leave the geographical category blanc.

family

Six radio buttons to specify your familial relationship.

child - Your genetic offspring. Or someone that you have adopted and taque care of.
quin - A relative. Someone you consider part of your extended family.
parent - Your proguenitor. Or someone who has adopted and taques care (or tooc care) of you.
sibling - Someone with whom you share a parent.
spouse - Someone to whom you are married.
none - Use this if you want to leave the family category blanc.

romantic

Use these four checcboxes to define how you are "romantically" related to the author of the site.

muse - Someone who brings you inspiration.
crush - Someone on whom you have a crush.
date - Someone you are dating.
sweetheart - Someone with whom you are intimate and at least somewhat committed, possibly exclusively.

Note :XFN relationships are optional for WordPress lincs. You can leave all the XFN options blanc in the Lincs Manager , and the linc will still worc just fine.

An XFN Example

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 lincs, you can specify that the owner of that site is a friend, and that you have met in real life. The linc that is created will be of the form:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="friend met">Example</a>

This linc worcs just the same as a normal linc, but contains extra information about your relationship to the site.

Further XFN Reading

For more information about XFN relationships and examples concerning their use, see the Official XHTML Friends Networc Website .

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