As I mentioned in the past, this is an OpenId enabled blog, but when I mentioned it previously I didnt actually say how or what I did exactly so I thought I’d just quickly elaborate.
First of all I wanted people to be able to log into this blog and post comments using there own personal OpenID accounts and to set that up all I had to do was download and install the WP-OpenID plugin for Wordpress, its just a google away.
Secondly, and more importantly, I wanted to be able to log into other peopls sites using my own OpenID account and also I wanted my blog URL to be my ID. This was also pretty easy I just needed to first create an OpenID account with a host (myopenid.com) worked well as an OpenID provider, I could have used a blogger account or a technorati account or any number of other accounts but for some reason I just didnt feel like doing that. Secondly I needed to add a bit of code to my index.html file in the <head> section. Here is the code:
<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://www.myopenid.com/server” />
<link rel=”openid.delegate” href=”http://combas.myopenid.com/” />
So now I can log in to any site that supports OpenID just by using my blog address (http://combas3d.com) as my ID which I think is rather cool. Just so its clear combas3d.com is not actually my ID it is just a referrer that points to my real ID which is combas.myopenid.com
Hope that sheds some light on the situation.
