How to add a “written by a human” badge to your WordPress site

WordPress powers roughly 4 in 10 websites, which means most of the humans still writing on the open web are publishing through it. If you are one of them, a “written by a human” badge on your posts is the fastest way to separate your work from the generated feed around it. Here is the complete setup.

What you will end up with

A small verified-human badge on your posts — positioned above or below the content, your choice — that links to a public verification page. Readers who click it see the behavioral evidence behind the certificate: writing duration, sessions, revision count, and the composite score. No account required to verify.

Step 1: Certify the post in Humanums

The badge represents the writing process, so the process has to happen where it can be observed. Draft your post in the Humanums editor (or write in your usual tool through the Chrome extension once it clears review). When the draft is final, click Certify. You get a certificate code that looks like HM-7K2X-9M4N.

A note on workflow: certify the final text, then paste it into WordPress. The certificate is bound to a content hash, so the verification page always shows exactly what was certified, even though WordPress is where it gets published.

Step 2: Install the plugin

In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New and search for “Humanums”, or upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ manually. Activate it. The plugin is free, works with both the Classic Editor and Gutenberg, and caches verification lookups so it adds no meaningful load to your site.

Step 3: Paste the certificate code

Open the post you certified. In the editor sidebar you will find a Humanums Certificate meta box. Paste your certificate code and click Verify — the plugin checks the code against the Humanums API and confirms it is valid. Publish or update the post, and the badge appears automatically.

Step 4 (optional): Control where the badge shows

Under Settings → Humanums you can set the badge position (above or below content), size, theme, and whether the score is displayed. If you want the badge somewhere specific — mid-post, in a custom layout — drop the [humanums] shortcode exactly where you want it. There is also a sidebar widget if you would rather show a site-level badge in a widget area.

What readers see

The badge renders as a small, recognizable seal. Clicking it opens the verification page on humanums.com, which shows the certificate's behavioral statistics without exposing a word of your content — the page proves how the post was written, not what it says. That distinction matters: you can certify client work or paywalled content without leaking it.

Frequently hit snags

The badge doesn't appear. Check that the certificate code verified successfully in the meta box — an unverified code is not rendered. Then check the position setting; another plugin filtering the_content at a later priority can occasionally suppress appended output, in which case the shortcode placement is the reliable fallback.

You edited the post after certifying. Typo fixes are fine — the badge still links to the certificate for the version you certified. For substantive rewrites, re-certify the new version in the Humanums editor and swap the code. The verification page always tells the truth about which version it covers.

That is the whole loop: certify once, paste a code, and every post carries portable proof that a human wrote it. The plugin details live on the WordPress integration page.