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.
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March 7th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Nice, but it’d be even better if I could log in with an OpenID account. I already have one at MyOpenID; I’d love to be able to merge it with my WP.com one.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
It works with Imageshack,LiveJournal and Technorati too.That’s good news.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Thanks. Another reason to love WP!
March 7th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
QUÉ BIEN… SEGUIMOS AVANZANDO ¡¡¡
ESTA ES UNA HERRAMIENTA EXCELENTE¡¡¡
GRACIAS
March 7th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
cool but I just have the same password on everything so it doesn’t really matter to me lol!!
March 7th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I’m all for my brain not having to store any extra info. now if I could only remember my blog’s URL… thanks…
March 8th, 2007 at 5:17 am
its wonderful
March 8th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Why do people have to keep a lot of passwords? I only have three passwords…and these worked for me.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:41 am
I just had to thank you guys. I can’t even find words to describe how amazing you guys are.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:01 am
coooool
thnx
March 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Always helpful. Thanks!
March 8th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
That’s really cool. I know you’re going to provide this option eventually, but now is very good.
March 8th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
No longer do I need to teach each of my 5,000 grandkids, before they reach the age of 4 and before they ever reach for a keyboard, to pick a very strange and unique name. A name which they can use as a unique login ID wherever they surf!
My future great grandkids thank you too — I’m a bad teacher;)
March 8th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Thanks, it’s great.
March 8th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
this is so cool! i love that i dont have to remember dozens of passwords!
March 8th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
finally !
March 9th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Much rather have my I.D. in the hands of WordPress than in the hands of Microsoft.
I haven’t had a passport since I got rid of totally sucky MSN email. I couldn’t log in half the time anyway, and they invented the darn thing!
March 9th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Really nice feature … hope OpenID will do good.
March 10th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Thanks to Matt,Simon & the WordPress team.
User friendly and innovative application.
Cheers
March 10th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
OMG YAY. no more irritating “prove you are human” antispam-ness whenever i comment on livejournal. THANKYOO.THANKYOO.THANKYOO.
March 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Excellent news. Another OpenID for me to choose from. Must choose which to stick with soon or I’ll be suffering multiple personality disorder.
March 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
fantastic news ………..jus love it…………!!!!!!!!!!! thanks
March 11th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Sweeeet!
March 12th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Yay. Always a headache for me! Thanks!
March 12th, 2007 at 7:30 am
OpenID Trumps SAML and Liberty Alliance
I feel bad for the folks who have put all of their effort into the SAML and Libery Alliance specifications. After years of efforts there is little to show for the protocol beyond expensive vendors who rendered the specification useless.
The only possib…
March 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
i am so new to this wow!
March 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
At least WordPress would do its utmost to prevent any funny business, I believe; there’s some out there. In checking out one OpenID option yesterday, I believe that I happened upon a game promotion exploit.
From a list of OpenID options I navigated to mylid.net. It seemed easy enough to try it out, so I came up with a name for the URL and a password, and submitted an email address. Later, out of curiosity, I clicked on the Get My Yadis File link, not even knowing what such a file is. A download occurred; it was entitled my name from the mylid.net URL for my account. When I opened the download, a game, 4 IN A ROW (from FREEVERSE), opened. I’ve trashed it. Anyone doubting that the download occurs can go to mylid.net, come up the registration data, click on the link, and find out.
March 12th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Nice, but I have to say I’m starting to be confused about all the places I can have an OpenID…
March 12th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Having just started my blog and two others I would welcome this change. Thanks wordpress. I was actually referred to you guys by one of the founders of Myspace.com. He uses you guys for his blogs.
http://www.theburkettcollection.wordpress.com
March 13th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
thanks again.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Some response to OpenID criticism.. FYI to those more technically inclined.
http://vishk.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/openid-some-solutions-for-the-issues/
March 14th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
nice idea
March 15th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Great!
March 15th, 2007 at 6:53 am
nice, tanks.
March 15th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
its a wonderfull simon, thanks..
March 17th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Here follows another tip for keeping track of passwords, taking into account that you have a good firewall and no trojan horses sneaking around. If you are an Outlook user and still not figured out what to use your “Notes” application for, how about using it to keep track of “dozens of usernames and passwords”. Then again, OpenID is probably your safest choice.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
that’s great, however it would be nicer if we could log into wordpress.com from our own openid, since you disabled the SSL
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
IMHO Diego Ferreyra is 100% right with his statement.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:52 am
This is wonderful!
March 26th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
You can also use your openid now to sign in to Netscape.com’s news portal.
It is great to see that wordpress is offering openids. There are only a handful of providers out there including AOL (already have one if you have an AOL SN) and MyOpenId. Great job WordPress Team!
March 26th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
http://tech.netscape.com/story/2007/03/26/wordpresscom-to-provide-openids/
March 26th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
To be fair and not leave a misimpression, the gaming promotion exploit in Get My Yadis File at mylid.net/ was soon removed; it was merely another case of opportunists encroaching, I figure.
OpenID enthusiasm is way out ahead of OpenID functionality. I’ve experimented with three OpenIDs, one of them from wordpress.com, and my log in success rate is not high. Others are having similar experiences. Perhaps it’s best that attempting users not invest too much trust and effort into OpenID until some of the technical issues are resolved.
planet.openid.net/ has some interesting posts, although much of what is said is over my head.
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 am
Livejournal at last. Reaaaally keeewwwll! Thanks!
April 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
awsome! thanks!
April 5th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
thanks…….
April 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
i like this
April 11th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Whats the WordPress Bounty? Are we on the top as everytime?
http://iwantmyopenid.org/bounty
Thanks!
April 11th, 2007 at 10:08 am
This is wonderful ! keep it up !
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Nice!