This plugin integrates ORCID identifiers into a content management system, allowing researchers and academic sites to showcase verified author credentials. It targets universities, journals, and scholarly blogs that need to enhance content credibility by linking to official researcher profiles.

• Real-time API validation: Checks ORCID IDs against the public API as they are entered, preventing errors and ensuring only valid identifiers are displayed.
• Flexible display options: Shows ORCIDs on posts, pages, and comments, with customizable positions like top or bottom of content for seamless integration.
• Comment auto-approval: Automatically approves comments from users with verified ORCIDs, reducing moderation workload and encouraging academic engagement.
• Theme developer tools: Provides shortcodes and template functions for custom placement, making it easy to adapt to different site designs without coding from scratch.
• User profile integration: Adds an ORCID field to user profiles, validated upon entry, so authors can consistently display their identifiers across all their content.