Category Archives: identity
WordPress OpenID v3.3
I’ve finally gone ahead and released version 3.3 of the WordPress OpenID plugin. This release includes three major sets of changes. First, it drops support for older versions of WordPress… the minimum required version is now 2.8. Trying to maintain backwards compatibility requires a non-trivial amount of effort, and I’d rather spend [...]
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A New Kind of OpenID Proxy
After writing last weeks post on directed identity, I really got to thinking on the topic a little more. One of the things that has always bothered me about the prospect of sites requiring the use of directed identity, is that it means I can no longer use my self-hosted OpenID to login. [...]
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Best Practices with Directed Identity
Given the current discussion happening right now around federal website cookie policies, and the good response I got from my last post, I wanted to continue talking about directed identity a little bit. In this post, I want to talk about how directed identity has actually been implemented in projects I’ve been involved with, [...]
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Directed Identity vs Identifier Select
I initially started writing this post a couple months ago in response to the common misuse of the term “directed identity” I was seeing in the OpenID community. After reading Dirk Balfanz’s guest post “Users vs. Identity Providers in OpenID” on Eran Hammer-Lahav’s blog, I decided it was important to get this posted. [...]
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OpenID and WordPress Core
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