The Next Steps with wp-openid

I’m really excited about what’s been happening with the WordPress OpenID plugin the last couple of weeks. When it’s ready to ship, I’m sure I’ll do some really deep contemplative post about “how far we’ve come” or something like that. In the meantime however, I think I’ve got something that is mostly feature complete and more or less ready for some “alpha” level testing. There’s a lot that will be new in this release, which I’m going to try and cover in my next couple of posts. That should give people more manageable chunks to look at, test, and comment on. If you’ve got a test WordPress instance laying around and like playing with unreleased code, please dive right in.

Here Be Dragons!

Let me say first and foremost, don’t use this on a production blog. I always say that when I blog about unreleased code, but this time it’s much more important. There are major database changes in this version… changes which are non-trivial to reverse. There is a very good chance there will be more database changes before the final release, and there will not be an upgrade path from this development version (there will however be an upgrade path from the last stable version… 2.2.x).

What’s New

For now, I’m just going to have two follow-up posts talking about changes in the coming release. I’m sure I’ll overlook something and may have to add a third post, but for now we’re looking at:

Test it Out

The current plugin can be checked out from the DiSo subversion repository; grab the 3.0 branch . In addition, it requires a special branch of the XRDS-Simple plugin to provide all the XRDS publishing stuff. If you have a previous version of wp-openid installed, you must deactivate and reactivate the plugin for the database changes to be applied. Again, keep in mind that these will be somewhat substantial changes to the OpenID portions of the database, so don’t do this on your production blog just yet. Please direct any support questions to the DiSo Mailing List.

Comments and responses

Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:

Will, which version are you using here? It isn’t working with my OpenID server, which works with any other OpenID enabled website I visit (stackoveflow.com, simonwillison.net to mention a couple). I am using SimpleID (http://simpleid.sourceforge.net/)
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