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 complete and […]
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 their hosting […]
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 […]
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, or adding […]
In case you missed it last week, Steve Ivy and Chris Messina announced the DiSo Project as an incubator of sorts to develop distributed social applications. Initially, they will be focussing on plugins for existing publishing platforms like WordPress and Drupal. On the WordPress side, they are using wp-openid as a foundation to develop additional […]