Tag Archives: wp-openid

OpenID and WordPress Core

By Will Norris | Published: September 29, 2009

This was actually a comment I left on my last post about the v3.3 release of the OpenID plugin. It is a topic that comes up relatively often, and one in which most people are surprised when they hear my stance on it. It’s worthy of a separate discussion for those that are interested, so […]

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WordPress OpenID v3.3

By Will Norris | Published: September 28, 2009

I’ve finally gone ahead and released version 3.3 of the WordPress OpenID plugin. This release includes three major sets of changes. First, it drops support for older versions of WordPress… the minimum required version is now 2.8. Trying to maintain backwards compatibility requires a non-trivial amount of effort, and I’d rather spend that time working […]

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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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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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