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A long, long time ago, I tacked on some OpenID support to my blog by enabling the WPOpenID plugin (developed by Alan J Castonguay and Hans Granqvist) without testing it. After some gentle prodding from spl (who is probably the only visitor to my blog using OpenID :P), I have now finally had the chance to complete this project. OpenID support is now up and functional. Thanks Sean!

The plugin is designed to work with a standard wordpress installation, but kept failing for me because my site is restructured to live outside the conventional /wordpress directory structure. I had to update the permalinks translation at a few points within the plugin code, but it seems to be running fine now. I was able to test this by registering for a free OpenID account (with MyOpenID).

So what really is OpenID? It is essentially an easy-to-use form of online identity. Just like an email address, you can simply use a web address (or URL) that communicates your login information behind-the-scene to a blog or website that accepts OpenID, thus eliminating the need to create and maintain numerous user accounts for each of these sites. Click here to learn more about OpenID.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 1:39 pm and is filed under General.