Will Norris

the downloadable version of WordPress (from www.ads-software.com) does not include OpenID support out of the box. Blogs hosted on wordpress.com *do* support OpenID. As the other commenter mentioned, you’ll either need to install the OpenID plugin, or make changes to your theme.

I’ve been unable to reproduce this on the US version of IE6 or IE7. Can either of you confirm that it is indeed limited to the swedish version of IE? Also, oledole: can you provide the exact changes you made to login.php. An actual file diff would be ideal. Alternately, could you just point me to your site where you have this modified version of the plugin running, so I can look at the HTML output you have there? thanks.

Aiker: read back over your comment and finally understood the problem you were describing. You’re absolutely right, the plugin will have problems if there is a folder named ‘openid’ in the same directory as wordpress.

I would strongly suggest moving wordpress out of your site’s root directory and into a separate “wordpress” directory. You can then setup “WordPress Address” and “Blog Address” options to make this change invisible. You can see this kind of setup on my site… My website is at willnorris.com, but I have wordpress in a separate directory.

Once you’ve moved your wordpress directory, your other ‘openid’ directory won’t be conflicting with the plugin anymore. This also really cleans up your site root, making things a bit more organized.

I’m not entirely sure what the problem is… the plugin should be filling out the URL. Could you explain again exactly what you’re doing? And what version of the OpenID plugin are you using?

yeah, totally a typo. that function should be “openid_status”. I’ve updated it in trunk and it will be fixed in the next release. thanks.

well, there is of course the OpenID plugin. the plugin does not currently let you specify a whitelist of providers you want to accept, although that is planned as an eventual feature.

can you take a look at your PHP and/or Apache log and see what is being printed there? I’m not sure where those files are on 1and1.

yes, that is problem in the OpenID library the plugin is using. Should it be fixed at some point? absolutely… I’ll make sure that it does. But it shouldn’t be a show-stopper, since it is only a PHP warning, not an error. Are you seeing these messages in your PHP log, or on your site itself. If it’s on your site, then you probably want to do something like:

ini_set('display_errors', false);

in your wp-config.php.

try with v3.2.1 of the OpenID plugin and let me know if you still have the same problem. Also try the steps listed at:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/214785?replies=26#post-989446

yes, it is related to the Contact Form II plugin. I believe that plugin is hooking into the ‘admin_head’ action where they should be using ‘admin_menu’. I’ve dealt with that one before.

see my post at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/214785?replies=26#post-989446

so, the real problem is not with the plugin, it’s with WordPress. is_front_page() relies on an option named ‘show_on_front’ that is not always set. I’ve updated the plugin to set this option if it is empty, so that is_front_page() will work as it should. This will be in the next release.

If you want to fix it in the short term….

1. make sure you have at least one post and one page on your blog. They can be empty, it doesn’t matter, but you must have one of each.
2. Go to the “Reading” settings page
3. Make sure “Front page display” is set to whatever you want (your latest posts, or a static page)
4. Click “Save Changes”, even if you didn’t actually change anything
5. Everything should work now, and you can remove any posts or pages you added in the first step

Aiker: so this actually should work as is… I’ve tested it with all kinds of different permalink structures. What do you have set on your permalink settings page in WordPress? What web server is your website running on? (Apache, Lighttpd, Microsoft IIS, other)

If you don’t mind, what is your website URL so I can look at it myself?

subscribers should be able to see the OpenID page. Do you have any other plugins that may be modifying anything with user capabilities?

I don’t have easy access to a Windows machine, so won’t be able to fix this myself in the immediate future. If either of you figure it out, though, I’d be apply to apply whatever changes are necessary.