Tag Archives: Identity

WordPress.com supports OpenID

By Dougal | Published: March 6, 2007

The word just went out today that the WordPress.com blog hosting service now supports OpenID, ~~both~~ as a server ~~and a consumer~~. Supporting it as a server means that if you have a blog on WordPress.com, you can use your blog URL as an OpenID. ~~Supporting it as a consumer means that you can use any OpenID to login to your WordPress.com account (once you’ve associated your OpenIDs with your regular login)~~. [...]

Posted in Community, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged plugin, SingleSignOn, SSO, WordPress | 6 Comments

AOL and OpenID

By Dougal | Published: February 15, 2007

Here’s an addendum for my previous post about OpenID: AOL supports OpenID authentication for all(?) screennames. I’ve verified that this works with AIM usernames, even if you don’t have a “real” AOL account. [...]

Posted in OpenID | Also tagged AIM, AOL, Microsoft, SingleSignOn, SSO, Technorati, yahoo | 7 Comments

OpenID News

By Dougal | Published: February 13, 2007

Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. There seems to be a buglet in the functions that attempt to automagically add the OpenID login fields to the comment form. So I had to disable that option and manually edit my comment template file to insert the appropriate bits. I don’t like having to modify the theme files (it’s going to make it harder to upgrade when a new version of Sandbox comes out), but that was my best solution, short-term.

In other news, Microsoft is working on interoperability between OpenID and their CardSpace™ framework. [...]

Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged FOAF, hCard, Microsoft, PHP, plugin, Sandbox, SingleSignOn, SSO, Web, WordPress, yahoo | 4 Comments

Hopping on the OpenID Bandwagon

By Dougal | Published: January 19, 2007

I’ve added OpenID authentication here, thanks to the excellent WordPress OpenID Plugin from VerseLogic. If you already have an OpenID identity, you can now use it when commenting here, and your name will be flagged with an icon to signify that your identity was confirmed. If you don’t already have one, you can sign up with any of several OpenID providers. I use MyOpenId.com for mine.

If you want to read more about what OpenID is about, try starting with Simon Willison’s excellent post, How to turn your blog into an OpenID. [...]