TruAnon Identity

A profile badge for people who are exactly who they say they are.

Members anchor their identity once — a voluntary, one-time act — and a badge showing their rank (Genuine, Reliable, Credible, Cautioned, Dangerous) and confidence score follows them across your site: beside their name on posts and comments, and on their profile alongside the details they’ve chosen to share.

Nothing is issued and nothing is judged. Rank reflects the depth and consistency of the public presence a member already has — the links and profiles others already know them by. Showing them is a benefit to anyone legitimate, and that same transparency is a risk to anyone who isn’t. Threat actors can’t manufacture years of real public history, so they move on to less trusted platforms. Your community improves without moderation, rules, or enforcement.

Members stay in control the entire time. A master switch shows or hides everything — off, they’re simply Unknown, indistinguishable from someone who never anchored. Separate switches govern personal info, contact details, and social profiles, and a private mode shows the badge and data with every link removed: meaningfully known, not findable. Revocation is a member’s right and takes effect immediately, everywhere.

Your site stores no personal information. The plugin keeps only derived display data — a rank, a score, a photo URL. Member details are fetched live each time they’re viewed and never written to your database. A breach exposes nothing that identifies anyone; a subpoena cannot compel what was never stored.

Where badges appear

• Beside member names on comments and post bylines — classic and block themes
• On the member’s profile (the author page): badge, title, and granted details
• Anywhere else via the [truanon] shortcode, the [truanon_card] profile card, or the TruAnon Badge block
• [truanon_settings] places the member panel on any front-end page for membership sites

What it costs your server

Nothing a visitor can feel. Badges render instantly from cached rank and score; no page ever waits on an API. Styling is self-contained — no Bootstrap, no icon fonts — and every color is a CSS custom property (--truanon-*) your theme can override.