I have enabled OpenID authentication for commenting on this site. With the OpenID 2.0 now official, the timing is just right. The plugin I am using is the WordPress WP-OpenID plugin. While the plugin actually works, the documentation is not complete and you might find yourself scratching your head first time you install it. Because after installing the plugin and activating it, unless the theme is a *very* common theme like Kubric etc, nothing happens ! No OpenID URL input box in the comment section.
That’s cause that HTML code has to be manually inserted. The plugin looks for a form field called openid_url (it is actually an OpenID spec recommendation) for auto-completion purposes. If the activation of plugin does not automatically insert this code in the comment section, then edit the comments.php template file and add this code:
<fieldset> <p> <label for="openid_url" class="com"><small>OpenID URL</small></label> <input class="comtext" type="text" name="openid_url" id="openid_url" /> </p> </fieldset>
That should be it. This site is now sufficiently OpenID-ified !
