Scott Kveton

Tack up another 1 million OpenID enabled users on our march to 100 million users. WordPress.com today announced support for OpenID. Word on the street is that Simon Willison helped make this happen for the folks at Automattic. This, of course, answers something Jyte users have been asking for for awhile:

Unfortunately, you cannot login to WordPress (at least from what I can tell) with an external OpenID. This means that WordPress.com is just a provider of OpenID’s and not a consumer of OpenID’s. So I can’t use my MyOpenID or my LiveJournal OpenID post comments on WordPress.com blogs. Hopefully support for that will be coming soon.

Congrats to Matt and the rest of the WordPress team on this. Now we’ll really start to see some interesting applications appear for OpenID now that more and more blogging sites are supporting the technology.

I was really excited today to see the release of a new Wordpress OpenID Plugin. This is a brand new plugin and I got it working with just a little tweaking for my specific install here.

Props to Alan and Hans for getting this sucker ready to go!! Come one, come all OpenID users!! :-)

Now, if we can just get this into Wordpress core we could get a cool $5000 for Wordpress.org from the OpenID Bounty Program!