This blog now allows readers to post comments if they authenticate via OpenID.
As described earlier, I tried the OpenID plugin for WordPress, but that plugin required a PHP extension not supported by my web hosting provider.
I subsequently found the WordPress RPX plugin that supports OpenID. RPX is an outsourced authentication service run by a company called JanRain. The WordPress RPX plugin calls the RPX servers, which in turn do the OpenID handshaking with one’s OpenID provider.
Conveniently, RPX also supports authentication via one’s Facebook login. In all cases, the user’s password is sent only to the identity provider (Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc) and is never shared with the RPX servers or my own site.
Okay I’ll bite — I’m posting this using my Facebook credentials. Which is cool but what happens if RPX goes out of business?
Nice work Brian. … @Rex .. if RPX goes out of business, there’s 20 other companies to take its place.
I’m a test from Blogger. It’s Rex’s birthday. He should buy himself a haircut. Embrace baldness my friend.
surely, i have other better things to do than post things
Testing 123
It works! thanks.