Tag Archives: openid

The Open Stack (in PHP)

By Will Norris | Published: March 19, 2009
A couple of months or so ago, I made a conscious shift in my focus with the DiSo Project. Instead of continuing to concentrate on some of the higher level deliverables like WordPress plugins, I decided it was time to step back and evaluate where the development community (specifically the PHP development community) is [...]

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Authentication in WordPress 2.8

By Will Norris | Published: March 10, 2009
Use Case I’ve spent a lot of time working with the WordPress authentication system. I took over the OpenID plugin for WordPress two years ago, and was hired by Vidoop last May to work on the DiSo Project full time. Last summer, Matt Mullenweg invited me to talk at WordCamp SF 2008 about OAuth. [...]

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Challenges in changing my OpenID

By Will Norris | Published: December 19, 2008
I recently decided to combine two personal websites I had (this one, willnorris.com, and will.norris.name) so that I had a single web presence. I chose to use willnorris.com as my canonical URL, but this presented two problems: I have been listing will.norris.name as my homepage in my various social networks profiles and on blog comments. [...]

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DiSo - One Year Later

By Will Norris | Published: December 18, 2008
I’m not sure that anyone mentioned it really, but a couple of weeks ago was the one year anniversary of the DiSo Project. In that time, Chris and I were both hired by Vidoop to work on DiSo full-time, and Steve was picked up by Six Apart. We’ve also seen the entire discussion [...]

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WordPress OpenID v3.0

By Will Norris | Published: October 1, 2008
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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