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 […]
High on my list of most aggravating anti-patterns is that of setting up (in)security questions. You know, where you have to choose three questions along the lines of:
What is your father’s middle name? What is the name of your first pet?
Questions which, if answered truthfully, are incredibly easy to guess with just a modicum of […]
I just finally saw Lloyd’s post about the WordCamp SF Genius Bar, and I felt a bit inspired. One of the problems that has plagued wp-openid for a while is the rather random problems people tend to have in getting the plugin to work. It often has to do with some setting in […]
I’ve just released version 2.2.0 of the OpenID plugin for WordPress. Notable additions in this version:
POST replay for comments - this should fix all the compatibility issues with other comment related plugins like reCaptcha. MUCH better memory usage - like no longer needlessly building a 2MB object on every page load! support for Email Address to […]
Today I committed a few pretty substantial changes to wp-openid, changing how the OpenID flow happens. Effectively, I’ve created a new single endpoint which receives all OpenID responses, located at /openid_consumer. Previously, these response were sent to a number of different endpoints depending on whether you were simply logging in, leaving a comment, […]
