Blog now OpenID enabled

Alex June 15th, 2009

I’ve finally got around to allowing you to post a comment using an OpenID, by installing one of the Wordpress OpenID plugins.

I had tried to do this over a year ago, but couldn’t quite get it working correctly. I had a number of problems before, notably that my hosting server only ran PHP4, whereas (at the time) most OpenID plugins seemed designed for PHP5, or a specific version of PHP4 that I wasn’t running. The other main factor was that most of the OpenID plugins at the time were very early (beta or earlier) versions, so may have been a little buggy still, whereas the plugin I installed today was very easy to get set up and running.

Anyone using a verified OpenID to post a comment on this site will find that their name and email is not required, plus your comments skip moderation.

Please let me know if you find any problems in using your OpenID on this site.

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2 Responses to “Blog now OpenID enabled”

  1. alexlittle.net/
    on 15 Jun 2009 at 11:52 am

    Just testing that it really works!

  2. molson1.myopenid.com/
    on 15 Jun 2009 at 10:48 pm

    Hi Alex,

    Glad to see you have OpenID enabled this blog. JanRain has a free Wordpress plugin that allows WP blogs and sites to add third party authentication through RPX (http://rpxnow.com). So instead of prompting for an OpenID URL, users can click to easily sign in with a preferred identity provider, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, MySpace, AOL, Windows Live ID or Twitter.

    The plugin is available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rpx.

    Hope you take a look, and again, it’s great to see your blog OpenID-enabled.

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