How to implement a customizable free OpenID authentication?

OpenID is a standard commonly used nowadays. I am trying to implement OpenID on my blog, but I have many difficulties. I tried OpenID plugin but it seems to be incompatible with Wordpress 3.0. I tried also Janrain plugin but the free version is too limited. I would like to integrate the login screen into my blog theme style. Do you have any suggestions how to proceed? Any other plugins? Or any PHP library that can be adapted to an …
Category: Web

How can I secure a WordPress blog using OpenID from a single provider?

We're about to launch an internal blog for the company I work at. Much of the blog will be available to the public, but certain posts will be for employees only. Our intranet/extranet has an OpenID endpoint which we would like to use to secure the private blog posts. There are many benefits to this – not least that people won't have to sign in with yet another username and password. Additionally, when someone new to the blog signs in …
Category: Web

Private WordPress blog, requires user registration approval, and allowing users to login with OpenID

I have the following scenario: I have a private blog, running WordPress (self-hosted, not wordpress.com hosted), and I am using the My Private Site Plugin to allow only logged-in users to see the site. I want to approve all users prior to their gaining access to the blog, so I'm using the New User Approve plugin to leave new user registrations in a Pending state. According to this documentation: Until a user is approved, the user will not be able …
Category: Web

Google Apps login in wordpress

I manage a google apps domain with plenty of users; I would like to join Google apps with a Wordpress based intranet app we're creating. Which level of integration could I expect to achieve? Our hope is to create users in wordpress using their google apps email and let them login using their google apps password, so that they don't need to remember two different passwords. How would you suggest we should implement this?
Category: Web

Is there a social members only login plugin for WordPress?

I'm totally new at WordPress and I'm setting up a site where I want members-only pages. But I also want my members to be able to login with there social network logins (Facebook, Twitter, OpenId, etc). If possible, I would also want to allow non-members to comment on public posts, but not view (and so not comment on) members-only posts. Is such a thing possible with WordPress and/or a certain (combination of) plugin(s)?
Category: Web

OpenID for WordPress 3.x?

Possible Duplicate: How to implement a customizable free OpenID authentication? Is there any WordPress plugin that provides OpenID authentication for comments that works in WordPress 3.0? The OpenID plugin appears to be broken in WP 3.0 and no longer in active development (10 months since last update).
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