OpenID
You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.
Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold?
OpenID is a new standard that hopes to alleviate some of the pain, and we’ve just made it available to everyone who has a WordPress.com blog. This means you can sign in to a growing number of sites using your existing WordPress.com account.
You can learn more about this feature in our OpenID FAQ. Your OpenID is simply the URL of your blog; try it out at Jyte, Ma.gnolia.com or Zooomr.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Simon that’s flipping fantastic news. Been waiting a while for this to happen. Did you code it in python or PHP?
March 6th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
bsdguru, it’s coded in PHP like the rest of WP.com.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
great, great, great.
even though there’s a lot of places i’d love to see using openid, it’s great to be able to use my wordpress url.
thanks a lot.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Great! but i use keepass to keep all my keys, also a good tool
March 6th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
\o/ YAY
March 6th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Wow. That’s cool.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Thanks!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
decent…
thanks.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Finally,
People who understand what a pain it is to remember a million, gazillion passwords.
Thank You!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Cool! So how is this different from using the same password for everything?
March 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
cool thanks!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Excellent! The maximum!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
thanks
March 6th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Better and better. It´s a pleasure to be in this comunity. I´m happy to see how the way we build the Internet in the early times continue with your spirit and generosity.
thanks
js
March 6th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Great – thanks guys
March 6th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
That’s just great! Thanks, guys! I find it really useful. WP keeps getting better and better.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
sweet
March 6th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Okay this will definately make life a lot more easier. Three cheers for wordpress!!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
uh oh… !
March 6th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Perfect !!! please give as a list of the sites that we can sign in with wp acount…
March 6th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Cool!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Nice. This is really cool. Thanks Simon!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Great Idea! Innovative, and useful!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
When will I be able to log in to WordPress with my existing openID?
March 6th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Stuart, since we don’t require login for most interactions, including leaving comments, the benefits aren’t as immediate. Depending on how this feature goes we’ll look at investing more time in OpenID in the future.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
this one is really good:))
March 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Awesome, thanks guys!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Of all the new features THIS is the best.
Way to go!
From Your Odd n Macbre
Anita M
March 6th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
great!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
cool..
March 6th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
“Cool! So how is this different from using the same password for everything?”
Great question! The main reason OpenID is better is that you don’t have to trust your password to lots of different sites. If you use the same password on lots of sites and one of them turns evil (or is hacked in to) you lose all of your accounts. The more places you use the same password, the more chances there are for it to be stolen.
With OpenID, only one site knows your password – so there’s only one site that you have to be worried about.
If you’re worried about keeping all of your eggs in one basket, you can always use more than one OpenID.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
are there any plans to consider incorporating into WordPress.com an OpenID Consumer part to alleviate some of the pain for everyone from a growing number of sites so that they could leave comments signing in to WordPress.com using their existing external OpenID?
my guess, lack of idea of creating yet another account on yet another site just to leave a comment, would make them all (and their comments) really hot…
thank you.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Matt,
Surely for blog authors the benefits are quite big? I suppose if I use WordPress as my open ID then OK I do have access to my blog via openID, almost … but I already have an openID provided by someone else and the whole point of it is, you only need 1
Still it’s great to see another large site getting involved in openID.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Its a great idea for near future
Thanks.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Yay! What a way to integrate services. Thank y’all.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Right on! My list continues to grow…reasons why I love WP!!! Thanks for yall’s hard work! Chicago WordPressers dig it!!
March 6th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Wow, I just ranted about the proliferation of passwords recently at http://badapple.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/passwords-piss-me-off/#more-28
Thank goodness there’s a solution!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Genial!!! good news!!!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:20 am
The one issue with OpenID is that you are always redirected to your OpenID provider to enter your password, and then redirected back to the site you are logging in to. Will there be improvements to the OpenID standard to allow the OpenID end-user to provide both the URI/login as well as the password on the site being logged into, without all of the redirection back and forth? If this could be done Securely, it would surely speed up adoption of the OpenID standard.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:37 am
“Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold?”
Yeah, you said it!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:39 am
What a great idea! Not only does this add convenience, but hopefully with WordPress.com on board, even more weblogs will be motivated to adopt this standard.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Nice. I don’t know if I’ll use it, but it sounds cool.
Thanks for all y’all are doing with WordPress!!!!
March 7th, 2007 at 1:10 am
I’m happy this is now available.
I’ve been using Norton Password Manager. It remembers and types in passwords for me. Mine currently is handling passwords for over 100 sites.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:36 am
great! so that i not needed to remember all my password! thank you all ..this awesome
March 7th, 2007 at 1:49 am
So glad you did this!! I just love all your most recent changes!
March 7th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Huzzah!
March 7th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Wow, user freindliness to the core, great feature, two thumbs up.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:10 am
perfect!
March 7th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Gr8 News that….Now we can scour the WWW without having to signup all over again…..
P.S: Can we see Gravatar also make an appearance on WP?
March 7th, 2007 at 4:26 am
good thx !!
March 7th, 2007 at 4:32 am
thats really really good …. one less password to remember
March 7th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Yep. I hate having to create a new account for ever site that I visit.
Thanks =)
March 7th, 2007 at 4:43 am
This is great… but how can I find out which sites use OpenID?
March 7th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Awesome! Was just reading about OpenID the other day. Nice to see it implemented on WordPress.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Simon,
What, if any, existant OpenID library was used to provide the server functionality? Or was it homegrown? Any plan to produce a Yadis document describing the resources?
March 7th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Awesome!
I’m so glad I choose WordPress for my blog
March 7th, 2007 at 6:09 am
I really don’t OpenID in concept. But at least there is some security with WPs implementation. Thanks guys, even though I won’t use it often.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Streamlined….
March 7th, 2007 at 7:29 am
While I like the concept and the implementation of open ID, I got fed up waiting for it to be rolled out everywhere and use Roboform. I only need to remember one password. Which is great considering that I have over 80 passwords and user names!
Still good move, it might push the technology.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:44 am
thats cool ..
March 7th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Knew about OpenID only a month back and now my blog URL is my ID.Thanks WordPress!
March 7th, 2007 at 10:16 am
That will make it much easier to use Ma.gnolia.com and sites like this.
Fantastic idea!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Another nice feature really.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Thanks!
March 7th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I’m not ok with you saying you support OpenID. Supporting OpenID means I could sign in with any OpenID provider. If all the other service providers on the web did this, I would still end up with 3000 accounts to remember.
Please, support OpenID not only as a provider, I already have an OpenID account I would love to sign in using that.
more here:
http://webwebusability.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/wordpress-openid-not-really/
March 7th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Fantastico…. Great stuff guys. \m/
March 7th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I am concerned about hackers.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Matt,
Following Stuart Grimshaw’s remark earlier, it is my opinion that you should support OpenID by providing integrated registration and log-in with OpenID , NOT by setting up your own OpenID server.
There are already enough OpenID providers.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
An excellent and beneficial development. Thank you for having the best interests of end users in mind.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Brilliant! Though for the WordPress gang I guess it’s just another day at the office. Thanks, great development that will help a lot of folks who don’t want to hear about standards and technical issues and just want a simple solution to online ID issues.