Ticket #3613 (closed enhancement: wontfix)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Should support OpenID authenticated commenting / accounts

Reported by: RuddO Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: Administration Version: 2.1
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

It'd be nice if WP could authenticate commenters/people using OpenID as their authentication source. We already have the URL field, we could just auto-create the account for the user, or perhaps just use the information and remember to say that the user was authenticated.

But what would really be killer is if WP could itself serve as an OpenID authentication service, so blog admins could type its blog URL and have WP negotiate the auth details with client services. Naturally this would require that the admin interface let the admin select which user would be authenticated (cos not all of us use the Admin account for posting, ya know) -- perhaps via a dropdown?

Change History

01/19/07 06:39:03 changed by Viper007Bond

  • version set to 2.1.

-1 to making it core. Best left to a plugin IMO, of which there already is one. ;)

01/24/07 22:55:33 changed by RuddO

Why not on core? Other blogging platforms already incorporate this in core, and asking the user to set up an authentication system is already cumbersome.

01/25/07 21:50:25 changed by Znuff

The plugin is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wpopenid/. It's mantained by Alan J Castonguay and Hans Granqvist. Works with all versions I tried (2.1 SVN and now current SVN).

03/07/07 18:18:15 changed by foolswisdom

  • summary changed from OpenID support to Should support OpenID authenticated commenting / accounts.

03/27/07 16:57:26 changed by foolswisdom

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.
  • milestone deleted.

Closing as WONTFIX for now. Multiple plugins exist for this functionality. You have also combined the two issues of consuming and serving.