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 [...]
I was hacking on the Wordpress OpenID plugin today, looking for the problem that PHP4 users have been having with it. It seems that when a wordpress plugin hook is made like this
add_action( ‘hookname’, array( $this, ‘functionname’ ) );
the object referred to by $this is copied, rather than referenced. Thus, internal object state [...]
It’s been a busy week. I didn’t expect the wordpress openid plugin to get mentioned in WeblogToolsCollection and thus syndicated into the Planet Wordpress feed of the WP Dashboard. My server saw an extra ~1600 hits in 4 days from that. I’m not too sure that people are reading the information though, or just clicking [...]
I’ve been working on an OpenID plugin for Wordpress.
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. The wpopenid plugin lets visitors to a Wordpress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID. It streamlines the wordpress user registration loop, and aims to do it seamlessly in the context of the [...]
I’m using Wordpress to power this site, as should be fairly obvious. However, I really like using separate sub-domain names instead of path components for various sections of a site. Aka, instead of verselogic.net/blog, I use blog.verselogic.net. However, I also wanted the top level wordpress-driven front page, and all static pages, to be located below [...]
Update (2006-10-09): This has been supplanted by the WPOpenID plugin.
Threw together a quick’n’dirty plugin for Wordpress this afternoon, now accepting arbitrary local account creation for OpenID identities. Anyone with an LJ or other OpenID server should be able to login and comment on this post.
Update: As requested, you can download the wordpress openid plugin source. [...]