February 6, 2008 79 Comments

Question about OpenID

OpenID Falling into the category of “you’re smarter than me,” I have a question for those of you who know anything/much/lots about OpenID. As you can see in the illustration, I’ve chosen to use the WordPress.com installation of OpenID. I tied it to my WordPress.com account and have so far used it in only two places. I’m thinking that every time I offer up an OpenID, I’ll point to that one. So far so good, right? ( To get up to speed on OpenID, go here).

What happens if WordPress.com folds? What happens if they change their mind and start charging me, or I leave them for someone else, or whatever? By choosing WordPress.com (or Yahoo.com, or anyone.com) as my OpenID host/provider/whatever you call it, what happens to my ID should I choose to move it?

What do you know/think?

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  • http://www.momathome.com Judi Sohn

    I also use my blog as my OpenID URL tied to my WordPress.com account. If anything happens to WordPress.com, it’s easy to switch to another provider simply by changing 2 lines of code in my blog’s HTML. I’ve already done that once, as a matter of fact, since I started out with a different OpenID provider. I settled on WordPress.com as my OpenID provider since it’s a site I log into every day anyway, one less site to bookmark and one less username/password to remember.

  • http://www.momathome.com Judi Sohn

    I also use my blog as my OpenID URL tied to my WordPress.com account. If anything happens to WordPress.com, it’s easy to switch to another provider simply by changing 2 lines of code in my blog’s HTML. I’ve already done that once, as a matter of fact, since I started out with a different OpenID provider. I settled on WordPress.com as my OpenID provider since it’s a site I log into every day anyway, one less site to bookmark and one less username/password to remember.

  • http://www.momathome.com Judi Sohn

    I also use my blog as my OpenID URL tied to my WordPress.com account. If anything happens to WordPress.com, it’s easy to switch to another provider simply by changing 2 lines of code in my blog’s HTML. I’ve already done that once, as a matter of fact, since I started out with a different OpenID provider. I settled on WordPress.com as my OpenID provider since it’s a site I log into every day anyway, one less site to bookmark and one less username/password to remember.

  • http://johneckman.com John Eckman

    You should also enable OpenID for commenting – there is a WP-OpenID plugin, which I use, but I don’t know if you can run in on the hosted wordpress.com edition.

  • http://johneckman.com John Eckman

    You should also enable OpenID for commenting – there is a WP-OpenID plugin, which I use, but I don’t know if you can run in on the hosted wordpress.com edition.

  • http://johneckman.com John Eckman

    You should also enable OpenID for commenting – there is a WP-OpenID plugin, which I use, but I don’t know if you can run in on the hosted wordpress.com edition.

  • http://unusualthoughts.wordpress.com Chris

    I know I’m awfully late to this party, but this single sign-on concept is one I had been considering for some time, from a developer’s point of view, and I only recently came across openId.

    I like this question, and it occurs to me that it might be good for sites that accept open id to provide some means for associating an alternate open id with an account in case one disappears.

    I haven’t looked at all the specs for openid yet, so I apologize if my comment seems a bit uninformed.

  • http://unusualthoughts.wordpress.com Chris

    I know I’m awfully late to this party, but this single sign-on concept is one I had been considering for some time, from a developer’s point of view, and I only recently came across openId.

    I like this question, and it occurs to me that it might be good for sites that accept open id to provide some means for associating an alternate open id with an account in case one disappears.

    I haven’t looked at all the specs for openid yet, so I apologize if my comment seems a bit uninformed.

  • http://unusualthoughts.wordpress.com Chris

    I know I’m awfully late to this party, but this single sign-on concept is one I had been considering for some time, from a developer’s point of view, and I only recently came across openId.

    I like this question, and it occurs to me that it might be good for sites that accept open id to provide some means for associating an alternate open id with an account in case one disappears.

    I haven’t looked at all the specs for openid yet, so I apologize if my comment seems a bit uninformed.

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  • mariatamis99

    I failed to mention when I created this issue is that I tried to enter the OpenID's in the profile, but for some reason, they are not taking (being saved). That's why I asked if OpenID needs the .htaccess file to work properly.

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    OpenID allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords.

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