This is going to be one of the most beneficial add-on projects for Steem.  I would love to see it succeed.  

I would like to contribute in some way.  Like Xeroc, I am concerned that a pretty significant amount of development resources is needed to make this happen.  IMHO, a witness's pay may not be sufficient and steemed has a good suggestion of getting a separate funding/donation from third parties.

Smart idea! You have my support

How about Jekyll plugin?

https://jekyllrb.com/

I strongly support this proposal. I have written an article why it is crucial for Steem to have something like a "Like button" and comments integration and after I've seen this I mentioned your proposal in the comments there. 

[Steem is a cool idea: Here's how it could become really big!](https://steemit.com/steemit/@coinphilosopher/steem-is-a-cool-idea-here-s-how-it-could-become-really-big)
So thumbs up and please continue with your good work when conditions are there!

Thank you for this clearly written proposal, NextGenCrypto.  I see immense value in a WordPress plugin.  You have my support!

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Wow this is very insightful.

I was thinking an embed code into a squarespace site would be awesome too. Any info about APIs or embed codes on Steem?

This caused me think that having Steem featured as an app supported by Zapier would also be a great boost for Steem.

Would Love to see a Wordpress plugin.

Great to see so much interest and thank you to those of you who have reached out.  If you'd like to support this initiative, please vote for my STEEM witness:  **vote_for_witness _youraccount_ nextgencrypto true true**  

Thank you for your support.

This is now possible, thanks to the available API endpoints for Steem blockchain. I have created a WordPress plugin that lets you publish your WordPress posts to the Steem blockchain! :)

https://steemit.com/steemdev/@recrypto/wordpress-steem-1-0-1

Thanks to available Steem API endpoints this is now possible. I've created a WordPress plugin that lets you publish your WordPress posts on the Steem Blockchain.

You can check it out at:
https://steemit.com/steemdev/@recrypto/wordpress-steem-1-0-1

Can you create or allocate an account specifically for this RFP so that it may be funded by donations from third parties? I plan to pledge donations to these types of initiatives as a way to recruit beta testers for Steem-related softare.

Would love to see this come to fruition.  Do we know what the ETA is for a publicly available API?

I love the proposal and would be happy to help with the work once there is a public api available. In the mean time, I created a quick plugin to let people showcase their steemit.com posts on their wordpress blogs. You can check it out here: https://steemit.com/wordpress/@tony.jennings/show-your-steemit-posts-on-your-wordpress-site

I don't mean to discourage the OP, but it is quite involved to integrate STEEM posting into Wordpress. The reasons for
this is that you would need to either require a running `cli_wallet` (where unpractical) or construct **and** sign the
serialized transactions in PHP. I don't know how well ECDSA is implemented in PHP and whether you can easily serialize
transactions, but at least the implementation in python (python-steem is based on python-graphenelib) probably took me a
couple weeks to get it running.

Anyway, [this code](https://github.com/xeroc/python-steemlib/blob/master/steembase/test/test_transactions.py#L11-L38)
shows you how the it's done in python.

If there is a PHP dev willing to develop this, I can offer my help.