What is WordPress Steem?

For those who own a WordPress website, you can now easily publish your WordPress post to the Steem blockchain!

Features

• Able to manually publish your WordPress post
• Able to automatically publish your WordPress post if it is set to scheduled
• Automatic Markdown formatting of your WordPress post to Steem post (Strips off redundant WordPress format tags)
• Able to set Rewards options such as "Power Up", "Default", or "Decline Payout"
• Able to update a Steem post when you update a WordPress post (It will be limited to 7 days as to the consensus for able to edit a Steem post)

Implementation

I know this would require Posting Key permission so that the account used can post to the Steem blockchain. So here are the possible implementation of this. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to comment them below.

• Option #1: Storing the posting key as encrypted to where the plugin is installed. So it will be stored on the local WordPress via "wp_options" then storing the private key on to the API server (Steemful).
• Option #2: Storing the posting key as encrypted to the server (Steemful) where it acts as service provider to do actions such as posting to Steem blockchain then give the user a Steemful API key to place them via their WordPress website.

I know that there are pros and cons. I'm still weighing out possible scenarios and I'm inclining to whatever is suitable and realistic for the users as well without giving out their privacy.

Implementation - Option #1

I know that WordPress has some vulnerabilities in the past and it has been targeted by a lot of malicious people. I was thinking of encrypting the Posting key and storing the private key via Steemful API. So every request will always call the Steemful API to fetch the private key so that it will be usable for the Steem blockchain API.

The WordPress server will do the actual work for posting it to the Steem blockchain using available endpoints.

WordPress

• Stores encrypted posting key
• Stores the public key

Steemful

• Stores the private key

Implementation - Option #2

Steemful - This is the current project I'm building that is a tool for the Steem blockchain. I was thinking of storing the encrypted key and private key on this server. The user will have a Steemful API key then storing that via their WordPress servers. So the WordPress will request to the Steemful API server and the API server will do the work for posting to the Steem blockchain.

WordPress

• Stores the API key

Steemful

• Stores encrypted posting key
• Stores the private key

The Steemful server will do the actual work for posting it to the Steem blockchain using available endpoints. If ever, if there would be a compromise to the API keys, we can easily monitor and disable all access to the specified API key that has been compromised.

Progress

I'm current building a prototype plugin and I will be rolling a test these coming days. Also, I'm building a stable server (Steemful) that will help aid as a data server to fetch data on Steem blockchain. I'll keep you guys posted with it!

Just keep steeming!
ReCrypto