State of Authentication - 2
It’s happening again—dormant for really a long while and then suddenly hyperactive. Anyway, there has been quite much happenings regarding authentication on my blog:
- OpenID: Fully working, but still no easy icons. Users still need to remember their OpenID URLs.
- Facebook Connect: Fully working, even coexists well with OpenID authentication. I somehow tried various versions of this plugin and seems like I stumbled upon one which can coexist well with the OpenID plugin. Probably most people can use this method.
- Active Directory (UWGB.EDU): Now, you can log in to my blog with your UWGB account and password. Just simply enter your email ID without @uwgb.edu as the user name and the password. This is thanks to the Active Directory authentication Wordpress plugin.
In the meantime, I tried RPX Wordpress plugin which provides nice icons for OpenID providers and other non-OpenID providers (like Facebook and MySpace) all together, but for some reason, it didn’t work well. I suspect some version problem and reported it to the author.
For now, I think this is it. So no more spam comments, I hope. I do hope, however, many comments from real visitors like you!
-H.