OpenID for Wordpress

Posted by Dr Nic on July 03, 2007

This blog - nay, this InterTubes HomePage - runs on Wordpress.

This website allows you to comment. Like a blog. Let’s call it a blog. That’s shorter than “website”.

To comment you’ve got to fill in your name and email and website every… single… time…

Well, I don’t have to, because I have an account.

So I completely forgot about everyone else’s plight. That is, until one young soldier Rodney Ramdas, ask a good question:

hey is there an openid enabled commenting thingy [for your blog]?

OpenId logo

So I found OpenId plugin for Wordpress.

Now you can create an account on my site using OpenID and never have to fill all that crap in again.

UPDATE: See comments below for how to use your blog domain name/url as your OpenID url. As it is this url that is appearing below people’s names, and that’s not what you want. That is, I can use drnicwilliams.com as my OpenID, even though it is actually http://drnicwilliams.myopenid.com/.

You can check that you’ve setup up your blog as your OpenID with this helper site.

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  1. rodney Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:13:06 UTC

    It works ! Pow pow.

  2. Dr Nic Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:17:26 UTC

    @rodney [via] - Cool; it shows the little icon. The url is your openid url. Perhaps if you setup the domain openid proxy thing and update your account it will show your domain url.

    Add something like the following into your <head>:

    <link rel="openid.server"   href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://drnicwilliams.myopenid.com/" />

    Then your blog url can be used as your open id url. Nifty.

  3. http://www.pinupgeek.com/ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:41:54 UTC

    Ok, so I’ve done that now as well. I feel so much better now. Thanks Nic !

  4. Stephan Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:47:53 UTC

    Sweet!

    And of course all DrNic. groupies from Holland should use http://www.mijnopenid.nl!

  5. Dr Nic Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:54:58 UTC

    @Stephan [via] - if you want to use your domain as your OpenId, see the instructions above, and then recreate your account here. Hopefully it passes through your name.

  6. pinupgeek Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:58:43 UTC

    @nic this wp plugin is pretty neat. Notice how I’m now not defacing your blog with my nasty url plastered all over it.

  7. Dr Nic Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:00:04 UTC

    @pinupgeek [via] - it was a blight indeed.

  8. Chris Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:44:09 UTC

    I couldn’t get my OpenID associated with my domain until I added

    <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location" content="http://chriswarren.myopenid.com/xrds" />

    to the header as well.

    Thanks for the tip, this is great.

  9. Chris Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:45:45 UTC

    is what I had to add.

    And apparently it didn’t work… What did I do wrong? I’ll try my OpenID URL this time.

  10. Geert Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:16:11 UTC

    Cool

  11. Justen Stepka Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:48:31 UTC

    If you would like to run your own corporate OpenID server — at Atlassian we recently put out an OpenID enabled version of Crowd.

  12. Dr Nic Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:06:31 UTC

    Here is a helpful WP plugin so you can use your blog url as an openid. It generates the correct head code for you.

    An example of the HTML to add to your head is on OpenID.com.

  13. Keith Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:14:51 UTC

    This is an excellent idea!

    Is there a list anywhere of all participating “OpenID” sites?

  14. MyOpenID and Wordpress at K’s Weblog Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:34:38 UTC

    [...] Add to that the fact that Dr. Nic Williams has recently blogged on his site about a plugin for Wordpress which will allow you to accept sign-ups from MyOpenID.com users without them having to go through all the steps to create an account for your site.  Great Find! [...]

  15. solver Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:44:31 UTC

    Test

  16. denise Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:11:39 UTC

    Dr Nic OpenID for Wordpress…

    I found this page interesting and linked to it from my blog….

  17. Dr Nic Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:53:39 UTC

    Ok, now I’ve added the OpenID login field into the comment section, so no needing to “login” - you just specify your OpenID url and comment and go. If I’d read the plugin instructions I would have seen this… doh!

    All I had to add to my comments.php theme was:

        <h4>OpenID</h4>

    <p>
      <label for="openid_url_comment_form">OpenID Identity<br />
        <input style="background: white url(http://drnicwilliams.com/wp-content/plugins/wpopenid/images/openid.gif)
              no-repeat; background-position: 0 50%; padding-left: 18px;"
      			 type="text" name="openid_url" id="openid_url_comment_form" size="28" tabindex="0"/>
      </label>
    </p>

    <h4>DIY details</h4>

    just before the login fields itself.

    For more details, read the plugin’s README.

  18. OpenID’d Comments — The Brain of Wade Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:01:16 UTC

    [...] OpenID is now supported as a valid login method for comments. OpenID is a verification system setup to allow users to have a form of authenticating that they are who they say they are. With Fraud, Phishing, and Spoofing so common on the Internet, whatever we can do to protect our digital ID’s, without trading freedom is a step in the right direction. OpenID is freeware, open-source, and distributed. It’s about user protection, not corporate profit. OpenID is enabled on comments; showing my support. Thanks to DrNic, via Tim Tags:identity securityBookmark to: [...]

  19. WadeM Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:03:49 UTC

    Thanks DrNic; added to http://blog.wi.id.au

  20. Psyonic Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:22:47 UTC

    I think I got this all working… very cool.

  21. http://silverrebel.livejournal.com/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:12:38 UTC

    Its work with livejournal.com?

  22. http://chanrohit.myopenid.com/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:05:05 UTC

    hi

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