# Identity verification links

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/identity-verification-links/456>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** writefreely\
**Created:** [March 10, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/identity-verification-links/456 "2019-03-10T18:43:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vrsmd](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9c0ed/32.png) [@vrsmd](https://discuss.write.as/u/vrsmd)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/identity-verification-links/456/1 "2019-03-10T18:43:48Z")

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Greetings,

I have a similar request to arcandio’s in Sidebar Links / Navigation.

My goal is to allow mastodon to mark my profile links as ‘verified’. Mastodon does this by looking for a link back to your profile page with the ‘rel’ attribute set to ‘me’. To quote the documentation:

> Verification  
> You can **verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata**. For that, the linked website must contain a link back to your Mastodon profile. The link back **must** have a `rel="me"` attribute.

This could be accomplished in a variety of ways, here are a couple I’ve found.

- [markdown extension](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2017001/adding-a-class-attribute-to-a-hyperlink-in-markdown#3062435) (somewhat technical)
- [mastodon style profile links](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/usage/basics/#profile-metadata) in configuration with to place link box in predefined locations on blog (more point and clicky)

any other ideas?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![robjloranger](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/robjloranger/32/291_2.png) [@robjloranger](https://discuss.write.as/u/robjloranger)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/identity-verification-links/456/2 "2019-06-21T21:14:12Z")

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you could try the solution here: [Active link to other webpage in Pinned Post on landing page?](https://discuss.write.as/t/active-link-to-other-webpage-in-pinned-post-on-landing-page/367/4)

It would require something like this, as the description and title both appear to sanitize html so there is no way to add a hidden anchor element in either of those.

If you don’t want a link displayed, you could use the same solution but select the `blog-title` element and append a child link with some css for `display:none;`

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/identity-verification-links/456/3 "2022-01-20T19:50:28Z")

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This is now possible by adding the link to your blog description. More details in this thread:

> [@Mastodon rel=me help](https://discuss.write.as/t/mastodon-rel-me-help/1516/11):
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> Just a heads up to anyone interested: you can now verify your Mastodon account (or any other site) by adding a rel="me" link to your blog description. Here it is in action, on my Mastodon profile: [Screenshot from 2022-01-20 14-45-16] And it’ll be in the next major WriteFreely release: [Support Markdown and rel=me links in blog descriptions by thebaer · Pull Request #531 · writefreely/writefreely · GitHub](https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/531)