Category Archives: identity

Consolidating domains

For a while now, I’ve had two different personal websites. I have my personal blog at willnorris.com, which you’re reading now. And I also have my “identity site” at will.norris.name, which includes my hcard, activity stream, contact list, and a list of my profiles on various websites. I’ve also used this identity site […]

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WordPress OpenID v3.0

I’m happy to announce that version 3.0 of the WordPress OpenID plugin is now available. As previously mentioned, there are a lot of new features in this release:

OpenID Provider - Specific user roles can be given the capability of using the built-in OpenID provider, turning their author posts URL into a valid OpenID which […]

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Providing and Delegating OpenIDs

The [next major release][] of wp-openid includes a built-in OpenID provider and delegation engine. This will certainly be the most exciting feature of this release for most people, so let me explain a bit how it works. Each authorized user on the WordPress blog will have an OpenID at the author posts URL […]

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wp-openid - faster, stronger, better

One of the primary focuses for this next major release of wp-openid is stability. While most people have had great success with the plugin, there are a fair number that seem to have all kinds of strange problems, ranging from conflicts with other plugins, data corruption, library issues, etc. In order to reach […]

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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 […]

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