Alternate OpenID for WordPress WordPress Plugin »

OpenID.net can give scads more information about OpenID than any blurb listed here.

This plugin uses the SimpleOpenID class, written by Remy Sharp, to give your blog’s visitors a (hopefully) quick and easy way to use their OpenID credentials to login to your blog and enter comments. This plugin requires the server your WordPress blog lives on to have curl access (with support for SSL) built into the PHP version it is using.

Make certain the default role for new users is subscriber. Visitors that login to leave comments will be automatically added to your users list, so do not give them too much automatic access. You may also want to review your new-comments policy.

This plugin attempts to be as unobtrusive to your WordPress installation as possible. It does not add new tables to your WordPress database and it does not add new columns to existing WordPress database tables. It does add new users to the WordPress users table, using current (at the time of development) WordPress language to do so. This should give administrators, moderators, et cetera full control over new users’ identities and comments using the standard WordPress administration panels, instead of having to use other MySQL table editors to make any needed changes.

In the spirit of the keep-it-simple approach, this plugin is only set up to give login access on the comments page. Hopefully this adds to the idea that visitors are logging in to enter comments, not edit posts. Commenters log out using the usual WordPress method.

Administrators should note though, that the idea behind OpenID is slightly at odds with the approach taken by WordPress in allowing comments to be published and in allowing new users to register. OpenID users do not have to supply an email address in the profile they ‘give out’ to the world, they only have to give out the url for the site providing their authentication. Once a moderator allows comments for a user to be approved, WordPress seems to ignore the setting ‘Require name and email address’ and will publish comments from the OpenID subscriber even though they have not provided an email address in their profile. In addition, this lack of an email address may affect other plugins, especially those that you use to send emails to your subscribers!
Tags: authentication, login, comment, openid

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Gigya Socialize – Increase Registration and Engagement using Facebook Connect, Twitter and OpenID WordPress Plugin »

The Gigya Socialize plug-in aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and AOL, giving sites the ability to:

* Authenticate users via Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other OpenID providers
* Promote user activity on social networks by enabling users to invite friends to share content
* Increase site traffic by sending user status updates and newsfeed events to social networks

The plug-in is configurable; it requires little time and no programming knowledge to install (installations takes less than two minutes). The plug-in is scalable and secure, using a standard authentication techniques to prevent account spoofing and is fully scalable. The plug-in code is also GPL licensed.

Important Links:

* Installation tutorial and advanced configuration
* Our Demo site
* Technical support forum

Tags: admin, widget, start page, sidebar, blog, social network, social bookmark, plugin, sharing, social APIs, Facebook, registration, status update, myspace, tweet, newsfeed, authentication, twitter, myspaceid, FacebookConnect, OpenSocial, community, register, oauth, openid

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Simple OpenID plugin WordPress Plugin »

Simple OpenID plugin is a plugin for WordPress that enables visitors to use their OpenID if they want to post a comment instead of a registering yet another local WordPress account or typing their credentials over and again.

In the OpenID lingo: the plugin acts as a consumer and checks the user’s credentials which are stored on the OpenID provider he/she’s registered with.

What is OpenID? A blurb from the website (http://openid.net):

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

How does it work? Instead registering 10 accounts at 10 different websites, OpenID makes it possible to use only 1 account. This means you only have to remember one username/password combo.

OpenID is a flexibel protocol. Most of the crypto-authentication stuff is done behind the curtains. The only thing you have to do is type in your OpenID URI (i.e. your website or the URL pointing to your OpenID account), authenticate with your OpenID provider and everything else is taken care of.

This plugin relies heavily on the JanRain OpenID library for PHP.

Note: This software is still under heavy development and provided as is. Installation and usage at your own discretion!
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OpenID Provider for WordPress MU WordPress Plugin »

Once installed, OpenID 1.1 link tags will be added to the homepage of every hosted weblog. Users can then use their weblog as an OpenID; when they authenticate against third party sites using that URL, WordPress MU will ask them if they wish to share their identity with the site in question. If they say yes (or click “always”) they will be redirected back and logged in to that site.

The plugin also adds a new “OpenID” menu item to the Options tab in the WordPress admin application. This new page allows users to manually add and remove sites from their “always trust” list – although normally they will only modify that list indirectly by clicking the “always” button when they sign in to a site.

The plugin includes simple defence against phishing attacks. If a user tries to sign in with an OpenID but is not logged in to their WordPress MU account they will be told to navigate to the site manually or using a bookmark; presenting a log in form at that point would train users to enter their username and password at the instruction of untrusted sites.

In the above scenario, their attempted OpenID login is recorded in a cookie. When they next log in to the site (within a 5 minute window) they will be taken to the dashboard for the OpenID which they attempted to authenticate and will be presented with a link to continue that action.
Tags: openid, wordpressmu

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OpenID WordPress Plugin »

OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account. XRDS-Simple is required for the OpenID Provider and some features of the OpenID Consumer.

Developer documention, which includes all of the public methods and hooks for integrating with and extending the plugin, can be found here.
Tags: comments, login, authentication, openid

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