Scott Kveton

I did the Beer and Blog tonight on how to OpenID enable your blog. Thanks to Justin Kistner for inviting me and thanks to everybody for showing up to hear me talk about OpenID (again and again and again) … ha!

The gist of tonight was to show folks how easy it is to OpenID enable their blogs. With most folks using Wordpress these days, I did a basic install of Wordpress 2.5 RC1 with the wpopenid plugin that Will Norris has built. From a couple of zip files to a full-fledged blog its about 5 minutes total work if you know what you’re doing.

If you want to use your own domain as an OpenID, check out Sam Ruby’s post about OpenID delegation to learn more. (Note: see here if you want to do delegation with myVidoop – yes, shameless plug).

Now, some folks don’t necessarily want to use Wordpress. No problem, there are plenty of other OpenID enabled blog platforms and content management systems. Here are a few more (feel free to leave comments if I missed anything):

• Moveable Type 4.0 – This is a great alternative to Wordpress and Six Apart has really started to put some extra work into making this a great platform for your blog.
• Drupal – Drupal is one of the premier content management systems out there and starting with Drupal 6.0, OpenID (both consumer and producer) is built-in by default. This is a CMS that has really started to mature into a fantastic piece of software with an amazing community.
• MediaWiki – MediaWiki is the defacto leader in wiki applications out there. With the OpenID extension you can make it even easier to create and manage your own wiki with ease.
• Joomla – Another CMS, Joomla with its OpenID extension allows full-integration.
• dotnetnuke – As hard as it is for some folks to believe, people actually build some cool applications on .NET. One of those (and that has native OpenID support), is dotnetnuke which is a content management system for Windows.
• Roll your own – You might want to roll your own applications. If so, check out OpenID Enabled which is a great resource for specific OpenID libraries.

These are just a few of the many applications, frameworks and libraries that are available for OpenID-ifying your sites. Now, Go forth and implement OpenID today!