Wordpress.com and OpenID

Every Wordpress.com blog is an OpenID Identifier! This is awesome news! Identity urls are the top-level blog urls, and look like http://username.wordpress.com/.

The WP.com Identify Provider interface is fairly sparse, with decent spoof-protection. As in, the landing pages are completely devoid of any links to Wordpress.com proper.

As expected, this is compatible with the WPOpenID plugin, letting self-hosted blogs consume Wordpress.com identity urls.

A few oddities

There is no Yadis XML document being produced, only the rel=”openid.server” html header. In addition to the top-level blog url, all posts and pages contain the following text:

<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://user.wordpress.com/?openidserver=1″ />

My dream is, of course, to drop this plugin entirely, and have all the Wordpress code (WP, WP.com, WPMU, BBPress) consume and produce OpenID identities. It’s going to take a lot of work, but this is an excellent step in the right direction.

About this entry

You’re currently reading “Wordpress.com and OpenID”, an entry on VerseLogic

Published:: 06.03.07 / 5pm

Category:: blogging, openid, wordpress

AboutMe

Alan J Castonguay is from Ontario, Canada. Interested in philosophy, animation, serial art, and mixing bleeding-edge technology with doing things the old fashioned way. Works in tech support, but dreams of going back to the theatre.

A resume is available for your perusal, should you be interested in bribing me to do work.

Paul 07.03.07 / 12pm

This is huge. Can’t wait for it to get into WP proper.

Jim 13.03.07 / 2pm

This definitely shows promise. I tried out the WP plugin, hit a major snag, and left a bug report on the SourceForge site. I’ve wanted to convert my site over to be OpenID compatible, but I keep hitting bumps in the road. It’s not exactly an easy service to implement, I’m discovering.

http-orbum.net-mark- 26.03.07 / 7pm

Thanks so much for creating that plugin, Alan. It’s wonderful.

크림 04.06.07 / 9pm

glory 05.06.07 / 1am

test