yeah ! i am just done with the implementation of openid for my blog

first ,what is an openid ?

OpenID is a URL based identity system. An OpenID identity is simply a URL, and all the OpenID specification does is provide a way to securely prove that you own that URL.


Unlike most identity systems, OpenID is completely decentralized. The end-user may choose whichever server they are most comfortable with, and may even run their own if they choose.

how does it help ?

It helps a lot especially if you use a lot of websites and try and comment on many ,openid ensures you have to use just one login across all those servers provided they support openid .It facilitates easy account creation and more identity secure presence on the web as no one else can access your sever .

How to get started ?

First create an openid account ,most popular is myopenid.com,when u r done with that you should have somethin like username.openid.net

now add this to your blog just before the </head>
<link href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" rel="openid.server" />
<link href="http://yoururl.myopenid.com/" rel="openid.delegate" /> <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location" content="http://yoururl.myopenid.com/xrds" />

and you are done ,you can now use this identity to comment or login to any site that supports openid

some popular ones are drupal,wordpress and many others ,the list is growing fast as more and more accounts keep coming up for every person .

If you are in wordpress and want to use openid in ur blog then you need to grab this plugin

or to enable openid comments in your blog check this plugin

and now if you have openid, you could so easily login with that and minimal registration !!

and to see it coming up in your comments page ,add this snippet to your comments.php in your themes folder ,somewehere above the HTML comment form

<p>
<input type="text" name="openid_url" id="openid_url_comment_form" size="22" tabindex="0"/>
<label for="openid_url_comment_form"><small>OpenID Identity</small></label>
</p>

and you should be able to use both openid and anonymous comments

[tags]openid,wordpress[/tags]