Tag Archives: openid

rebuild wp-openid tables

A number of people have reported problems with wp-openid in which the tables are not being built properly. This is often manifested as an error message along the lines of…

[You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near […]

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improving OpenID support

Sam Alexander of MyVidoop emailed me last week to say that they’d be rolling out some new features in regards to OpenID support. Sure enough, you can see on the OpenID Support table that they’ve added support for xrds-header, yadis-html, and most importantly, content-type. Additionally, IDtail, a Korean OpenID provider, added support for […]

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wp-openid 2.0 released

I’m sure people are tired of me talking about how soon this will be released, so I promise I’ll shut up now. I’ve just tagged version 2.0 of wp-openid, a WordPress plugin which allows you to use OpenID for authenticating users and commenters. There are a number of really cool features we just […]

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final push for wp-openid 2.0

This morning I committed the one remaining update I was really holding off for in releasing wp-openid 2.0. Previously, the plugin set a comment type of openid for OpenID comments, and then used some clever trickery to expose the expected value of comment to the rest of WordPress. Well, almost the rest of […]

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try { reuse; } catch (Ex) { reinvent; }

Earlier today, I wrote about the limitations of hCard primarily in regards to private data. After talking with Chris briefly and then reading Tantek’s thoughts on the topic, it clicked with me. I wouldn’t normally make two posts so close together about such similar topics, but I realize now these really are two […]

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