Monthly Archives: November 2007

improving OpenID support

By Will Norris | Published: November 12, 2007
Sam Alexander of MyVidoop emailed me last week to say that they’d be rolling out some new features in regards to OpenID support. Sure enough, you can see on the OpenID Support table that they’ve added support for xrds-header, yadis-html, and most importantly, content-type. Additionally, IDtail, a Korean OpenID provider, added support for [...]

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wp-openid 2.0 released

By Will Norris | Published: November 9, 2007
I’m sure people are tired of me talking about how soon this will be released, so I promise I’ll shut up now. I’ve just tagged version 2.0 of wp-openid, a WordPress plugin which allows you to use OpenID for authenticating users and commenters. There are a number of really cool features we just [...]

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final push for wp-openid 2.0

By Will Norris | Published: November 8, 2007
This morning I committed the one remaining update I was really holding off for in releasing wp-openid 2.0. Previously, the plugin set a comment type of openid for OpenID comments, and then used some clever trickery to expose the expected value of comment to the rest of WordPress. Well, almost the rest of [...]

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New WordPress plugin - FullFeed

By Will Norris | Published: November 7, 2007
Update - thirteen minutes after I posted this, Carsten pointed out there is another plugin that does this exact same thing (and is in fact named the same!). Go check out cavemonkey’s plugin. I noticed an interesting phenomenon this last week — Mint recorded a 400% increase in page hits on Tuesday, the day after [...]

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try { reuse; } catch (Ex) { reinvent; }

By Will Norris | Published: November 5, 2007
Earlier today, I wrote about the limitations of hCard primarily in regards to private data. After talking with Chris briefly and then reading Tantek’s thoughts on the topic, it clicked with me. I wouldn’t normally make two posts so close together about such similar topics, but I realize now these really are two [...]

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