Comments on: OpenID Usage Overview

By: i like ellipses… » Death and destruction from OpenID

i like ellipses… » Death and destruction from OpenID — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:37:41 +0000

[…] to your OpenID provider and not some man-in-the-middle masquerading as your provider. However, as I’ve shown before, VeriSign PiP doesn’t allow referring websites to redirect to the VeriSign site in order to […]

By: mike

mike — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:56:31 +0000

Scott,
You can use OpenID for commenters to login with if you install and locally run WordPress on your own server. However, I think this only presents OpenID as another login option along with the traditional name/email option. Look at http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/ for an example.

So spammers can still use the name/email option. However, even if you somehow did only allow OpenID, I don’t see why spammers couldn’t just run their own OpenID server that wouldn’t require them to login and would make the sploging that much easier.

By: Scott Wright

Scott Wright — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:09:09 +0000

I am getting very interested in the possibilities for OpenID. I have a feeling it could help solve a problem I have currently with my blog. On a daily basis, I now get over 100 Splog comments (Spam for Blogs) that are mostly quite long and vulgar.

I think if I had an OpenID plugin for Wordpress (if that’s what it takes), I might be able to reduce the amount of Splog I get, without forcing people with valid comments to have to register as users on my blog.

I found this post when doing a Technorati search for OpenID and Wordpress.

So, if anyone knows where I can find the instructions for integrating OpenID into a Wordpress blog, I’d be grateful. And if I find a way somewhere else, I’ll try to remember to come back here and post it.

By: Rupert Schiessl

Rupert Schiessl — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:55:50 +0000

I am using Ziki as my OpenID provider.
Ziki also offers a powerful people search engine, a 20K members professional and private network and free registration of your name within Google, Yahoo! and MSN to make you appear amongst the commercial ads of these search engines and their content networks.