Tag Archives: wordpress

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. As […]

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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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WordPress MU in a development environment

By Will Norris | Published: September 18, 2008

Most of the development I do for my job is within WordPress, so I have quite a few WordPress instances running on my local workstation. I’ve been using the same custom Apache setup for three years, and have been developing on WordPress for almost as long, so I’ve been a bit bewildered with the amount […]

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Providing and Delegating OpenIDs

By Will Norris | Published: September 16, 2008

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 (ie. http://example.com/author/admin). […]

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wp-openid - faster, stronger, better

By Will Norris | Published: September 16, 2008

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 the level […]

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