OpenID Now Functional
Monday, December 24th, 2007A 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.








