Will Norris

one quick and dirty option would be to add the following to your new <input /> field…

style=”background: #FFF;”

it’s having trouble authenticating the openid message. This is typically done using an association, which would be stored in the database. Just in case some of the assertion entries got corrupted, click on “rebuild the tables” at the bottom of the options page for wp-openid, then try again.

I’ve updated the php-openid library and released v2.1.6. I tried using https://www.richardsilverstein.com/ on my site, and discovery worked fine. of course I couldn’t authenticate, but it at least discovered the openid server alright and sent me over to MyOpenID.

I’ve updated the php-openid library and released v2.1.6. I tried using perkypants.org on my site, and discovery worked fine. of course I couldn’t authenticate, but it at least discovered the openid server alright.

just for kicks… try leaving a comment at willnorris.com to ensure it works there

yahoo should work with wp-openid v2.1.6

The plugin used to do this… automatically create accounts when someone commented. This was turned off starting in version 2.0. You can read more about why at https://willnorris.com/2007/10/wp-openid-intelligent-defaults

Since then, some use-cases have come up that suggest this may be worth adding back in… we just haven’t really talked through all the ramifications.

wp-openid also sets the commenters email based on the data available (via sreg, or the comment form) so gravatar plugins *should* work. I know the built-in gravatar functionality in wordpress 2.5 works just fine.

nope.. not much you can do. find a new host? 8mb hasn’t been a realistic max for complex web applications for a long time.

this should be fixed in wp-openid 2.1.5, just released.

yes, I’ve run into this with other plugins (reCaptcha to be precise). Unfortunately there isn’t a really easy way to fix the problem in the short-term. Most of these plugins are looking directly to the $_POST array for the data they are expecting, which I can’t exactly forge. What I can do, and will probably look into this, is to capture the data, and then re-POST it after the OpenID dance. It should work in theory for most things (I don’t think it will work for reCaptcha) but I’d have to play with it a bit.

hmm… sounds like when I upgraded the OpenID library it introduced a PHP5 dependency. I was not aware of that, so I’ll see if that was deliberate or not.

what version of PHP are you running?

actually that’s exactly what I tried doing… I was going to add in some code that checked if the recaptcha plugin was present and if so, then store the data in the session until after OpenID authentication. But even that isn’t possible because recaptcha is specifically looking for the data in the POST array. I’m afraid there is no easy hack to make it work… it’s gonna require a real solution, but I do have some ideas. ??

looks like you have another copy of the OpenID library in your include path somewhere.