Comments on: Wordpress OpenID Plugin

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:04:13 +0000

I just found out the answer.

By: Buddy Oliver

Buddy Oliver — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:03:26 +0000

Can you retrieve and use the avatars from a wordpress OpenID in a non-wordpress blog?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:39:37 +0000

I tried using this plugin and configured it to add my site as an OpenID, only to find that the configuration panel in the User menu doesn’t exist. I also get an error that says the OpenID at the server endpoint doens’t exist. I’m not really sure what went wrong. I submitted a bug report on th SourceForge site, but so far I’ve not seen any activity anywhere to provide help in troubleshooting this. I’d love to set this up – I think it’s a great idea – but so far everything I’ve tried ends up not working. Is there a minimum PHP or MySQL requirement to use this plugin?

By: http://gwynethllewelyn.net/

http://gwynethllewelyn.net/ — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:43:13 +0000

Wow, now that's was a fast reply. :) Thank you again!

Perhaps I might encourage you one day to take a look at Second Life, and the integration of OpenID with Second Life for people using their Second Life avatar names as a way to post comments on OpenID-enabled WordPress blogs...

By: Alan J Castonguay

Alan J Castonguay — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:19:48 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Gwyn! I wasn’t aware that $link might be zero length there; fixed. edit: should have been using strpos() anyway.

By: http://gwynethllewelyn.net/

http://gwynethllewelyn.net/ — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:02:05 +0000

Hello! After testing many different OpenID plugins for Wordpress, this seems to be the easiest I've found out so far, for the following reasons:

- It includes all required libraries (ie. JanRain's)
- It does not require any tinkering with existing PHP (ie. allowing better and easier switching of themes)
- It fall backs correctly to OpenID's "dumb mode". My previous experience with hosting providers who do not have either GMP or BCmath installed have been a true nightmare!
- Thus, it runs fine on Dreamhost (one of the hosting providers I use) without needing to recompile PHP or changing php.ini, etc. This is a true blessing! Sure, "dumb mode" is not fantastic, but it works... and that's all that counts for me!

Now I just need courage to upgrade and update my own primary blog... but at least the many others I use will over time be converted to your plugin :) Thank you very much!

A slight issue I've found. My current PHP 5.1.4 installation does not like line 160 of user-interface.php when $link is '' (it gives a PHP warning). I simply changed that line to check first if it's null or not. A very minor and slight change, which most people will never notice, unless they have some debugging on.

By: http://pagangeek.livejournal.com/

http://pagangeek.livejournal.com/ — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:28:24 +0000

This is a test comment – please ignore me :-)

By: http://ar2r.livejournal.com/

http://ar2r.livejournal.com/ — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:37:13 +0000

=) coowl

By: Alan J Castonguay

Alan J Castonguay — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:14:02 +0000

Laymen’s English, eh? =)

I have a blog, http://verselogic.net. With OpenID, I can use this as an Identifier to login to other websites, while maintaining control over my identity server.

This plugin is an openid consumer, one half of the system. It talks to an openid server somewhere (which actually controls the identity url) to assert whether I, the commentor, am actually http://verselogic.net. If so, it lets me leave a register or login to a wordpress account, and comment with that ID.

It functions similarly to Typekey or Passport. But it’s not federated identity: You never enter a password on ‘member sites’, and the consumer never knows anything about you other than an assertation of ownership over a url (or with the sreg extension, whatever other details you chose to provide).

By: httpbrentdax.livejournal.com

httpbrentdax.livejournal.com — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:13:11 +0000

To the previous commenter: it lets you log into WordPress by proving you\’re logged into another site, like LiveJournal. (They invented OpenID, although other people use it.) For example, I typed \”brentdax.livejournal.com\” into the OpenID box to make this post; the plugin checked that I was logged into LiveJournal as brentdax, and once it saw that I was, it created a WordPress account for me. I can now log into that account in the future by proving I\’m logged in on LiveJournal.

This looks pretty fantastic, Alan. However, the OpenID box on this page has black text on a nearly-black blackground–maybe it didn\’t get the style rule setting the background to white or something? I\’m using Firefox 1.5.