Comments on: WordPress OpenID plugin: Now providing

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:38:38 +0000

My footer.php contains “< ?php do_action(‘wp_footer’, ”); ?>”; is that what I should hope to see?

Where’s the best place to get support for this?

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:05:49 +0000

check to make sure your theme is calling wp_footer()

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:20:41 +0000

Actually, I would prefer to overload my website field. So I’m assuming that the OpenID field is looking for a certain comment div/ID and that my theme’s field isn’t identified correctly? (I checked, and it does work on Kubrick.)

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:43:01 +0000

Commenters are only prompted to login via OpenID if the URL that they put in is a valid OpenID. If it’s not, then the comment is processed as usual. If you’d rather not overload the website field in this manner, you can manually add a separate OpenID input field to your comment form.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:18:06 +0000

I should also mention that I’m assuming any problems with the comment form are a consequence of my theme, but I just haven’t had the time to test anything yet.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:07:05 +0000

@Will: Thanks for both of your informative comments. Perhaps I have it set up wrong (I tried to "unforce" everything), but when someone who is not logged in tries to leave a comment, they are forced to go through OpenID verification. (Though, now that I'm testing on my test domain, I can't seem to reproduce it anymore. Thoughts?

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:19:49 +0000

@Dan: when delegating, the plugin allows you to advertise any OpenID extensions supported by your delegate OpenID, such as SREG, Attribute Exchange, PAPE, etc. Simply using the HTML meta tags does not allow for that. Additionally, the plugin lets you use WordPress as your provider, without delegating anywhere. While I would discourage that for most people, there are some who prefer it.

@Andrew: what do you mean about the plugin forcing OpenID verification? There are certain things you can force, such as using OpenID for new account registration, but those are all entirely optional.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:00:50 +0000

I’ve disabled the plugin for now until I can better test it. It seems to want to force OpenID verification, when what I want is to allow it as a choice.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:02:52 +0000

The OpenID plugin works as a general-purpose provider and manager, so you can not only sign in with your WordPress/OpenID but can also manage your authorizations. Maybe you’ve been able to do that already, but the updated plugin is definitely major (it did not have that functionality before).

By: Dan Hughes

Dan Hughes — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:09:39 +0000

Ya know, i do that already… required two lines of code… is it different than the openid code?