Comments on: Wordpress OpenID Plugin

By: Alan J Castonguay

Alan J Castonguay — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:09:12 +0000

Jack: You have the openid references, but no openid2 or xrds document. This is what my blog’s header looks like, which works fine:

AFAIK, the JanRain library is dropping support for the OpenID-1 way of doing delegation. As much as I like simplicity, it seems XRDS is the way of the future.

By: Jack Mottram

Jack Mottram — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:57:16 +0000

Why is it that I can’t log in to my own site with wp-openid when I use that same site as my OpenID URL, specifically the root URL? It works fine elsewhere (see above!).

Specifically, I have OpenID set up for http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/ and http://submitresponse.co.uk - only the former will allow me to log in to my weblog, the latter returns “Could not discover an OpenID identity server endpoint at the url: http://submitresponse.co.uk“, even though the link rel stuff in the head is identical on both pages…

By: Jack Mottram

Jack Mottram — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:51:36 +0000

Just testing something (will explain in next comment!).

By: Alan J Castonguay

Alan J Castonguay — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:36:17 +0000

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

The Avatars are not delivered by OpenID, they’re from Gravatar! Highly independent, not specific to Wordpress at all (though an Automattic company).

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.