Announcing Support for OAuth2 and New Developer Resources
We love developers and the applications they build to help extend WordPress.com in new and meaningful ways. To continue providing support for developers who build applications that integrate with WordPress.com, we’re announcing support for OAuth 2, as well as a new developer portal, develop.wordpress.com.
Starting today WordPress.com supports a new method of authentication which makes it extremely easy for third party applications to connect with WordPress.com blogs. This new method uses an open protocol, OAuth2, to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard way. OAuth2 allows applications to access a WordPress.com blog without ever asking for personal details such as a password or username. Connections from applications can easily be managed within the dashboard and connections won’t break when a username or password is changed.
In addition to supporting the new authentication feature, we’re also launching develop.wordpress.com. If you’re interested in learning more about OAuth2 and other ways to integrate with WordPress.com, then this developer portal is for you.
Develop.wordpress.com contains some handy documents and resources about how you can develop using WordPress.com technologies. The site also houses a channel where you can contact us directly regarding issues such as OAuth2 authentication, client access, and embedding new media types on WordPress.com.
These documents are only the beginning - we’ll be adding more resources and tools over time as the developer ecosystem grows.
Memolane is one example of the many possibilities for integration of third party applications with WordPress.com. Memolane allows you to pull posts directly from your WordPress.com blog into a graphical time line with other elements of your online life. You can easily view, add to, and share this timeline online. As of today, you can also embed your personal Memolane on your WordPress.com blog using a new shortcode.
So, developers, what would you like to build with WordPress.com?
July 7th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Awsome update!!!
July 7th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I’m very glad to hear this! And I really wish people such as wordpress.com user try to support this development. And make this live forever.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
This is great, besides memolane, is there a list of other applications presently using this?
July 7th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Memolane is our launch partner for the new OAuth2 authentication — however we hope to launch more integrations very soon and increase developer interest with resources like the developer portal.
July 7th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Great work! I hope more fun and interactive apps come along the way soon
July 7th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Cool! And it is going better and better!
WordPress is the best decision 
July 7th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Neat!
July 7th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Thank you for the service WordPress!
July 7th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
No doubt about it, this will make a few people I know very happy. Thanks again, WP.com!
July 7th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
lol this place is beginning to get quite fun
July 7th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
wow… wordpress is the best. I love wordpress
July 7th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
thank you wordpress
July 7th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
yeeeahhh! WordPress.com rocks! Great update!!!
July 8th, 2011 at 12:17 am
This is a good news! Look like it will be more interesting to blog on WordPress.com as more extension and application will be support in this way.
I gonna take a try on this and see what kind of extension I could work on to make my blog better.
July 8th, 2011 at 12:21 am
Thanks for the support,WP.com for being better and better
July 8th, 2011 at 12:46 am
Cool, this is why WordPress still going strong!!!!
July 8th, 2011 at 1:19 am
“OAuth2 allows applications to access a WordPress.com blog without ever asking for personal details such as a password or username.”
I assume you mean “your” blog and not someone else’s.
July 8th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Correct – It’s whatever blog of yours that you grant the application access to.
July 8th, 2011 at 1:49 am
I’m looking forward to seeing what the developers come up with.
July 8th, 2011 at 1:50 am
This is fantastic. I look forward to see what kind of 3rd party apps spawn now. Thanks for making blogging such a joyful experience…
July 8th, 2011 at 2:34 am
Awesome!
July 8th, 2011 at 4:09 am
Nice.
July 8th, 2011 at 4:32 am
I appreciate wordpress and look forward to see what more great program you guys have to offer.
July 8th, 2011 at 4:56 am
Awsome Update, I was looking for long time. We can make more fun.Outh2.0 will make us happy. Thanks again wordpress.com
July 8th, 2011 at 6:02 am
Wow.. It is amazing when someday many applications plugged within WP.com. We users will enjoy choosing what applications we need. Go wp developers! Do the best for wp users..
July 8th, 2011 at 6:58 am
Since you ask, I’d like to be able to implement WordPress commenting on non-WordPress websites. At the moment I’m using Disqus and experimenting with facebook, but would love to be able to use your comments system. Thanks in anticipation…
July 8th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Thanks for showing the interest – Currently we offer http://intensedebate.com/ but this is not the same comment system running on WordPress.com.
July 8th, 2011 at 10:43 am
Really cool!
July 8th, 2011 at 10:57 am
Very nice
July 8th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Good work team WP. We love you!
July 9th, 2011 at 8:34 am
I must say, you must have planned WordPress to be extensible in such a way right from the beginning. Now I’m looking at Memolane next … Thanks.
July 10th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Thank you for the service WordPress!
July 10th, 2011 at 11:41 am
WordPress rocks!!!
July 11th, 2011 at 6:51 am
Awesome Update Thank you
July 12th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
That great but was it going to be downloadable or available for others using WordPress script on other server
July 14th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
The OAuth2 authentication is currently available on all WordPress.com blogs. We are investigating integration with self-hosted WordPress installations.
July 12th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Very Good!
July 12th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Better and better, thnx
wordpress.com is best
July 13th, 2011 at 5:55 am
Thank you
July 13th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Cool WordPress hehe
July 13th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Way to go wordpress, we appreciate this platform.
July 13th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Good idea!
July 14th, 2011 at 2:57 am
Awesome update. Thanks wordpress
July 14th, 2011 at 7:03 am
Thank you
July 14th, 2011 at 10:46 am
I just wonder why Google does not treat this post as a spam, having 3 links to the same domain .. develop.wordpress.com!!
Just kiddin.. Awesome tool, Justin..!
July 14th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
WordPress is the best. I love you~~~WordPress
July 14th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
this is great and it just gets better and better… im impressed!
July 15th, 2011 at 1:39 am
Thanks WordPress for this new feature and the new Facebook Like Box Widget!!! It’s AWESOME!!
July 20th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Your blogging services is exciting!