You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.
Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold?
OpenID is a new standard that hopes to alleviate some of the pain, and we’ve just made it available to everyone who has a WordPress.com blog. This means you can sign in to a growing number of sites using your existing WordPress.com account.
You can learn more about this feature in our OpenID FAQ. Your OpenID is simply the URL of your blog; try it out at Jyte, Ma.gnolia.com or Zooomr.
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Simon that’s flipping fantastic news. Been waiting a while for this to happen. Did you code it in python or PHP?
bsdguru, it’s coded in PHP like the rest of WP.com.
great, great, great.
even though there’s a lot of places i’d love to see using openid, it’s great to be able to use my wordpress url.
thanks a lot.
Great! but i use keepass to keep all my keys, also a good tool
\o/ YAY
Wow. That’s cool.
Thanks!
decent…
thanks.
Finally,
People who understand what a pain it is to remember a million, gazillion passwords.
Thank You!
Cool! So how is this different from using the same password for everything?
cool thanks!
Excellent! The maximum! 😉
thanks 🙂
Better and better. It´s a pleasure to be in this comunity. I´m happy to see how the way we build the Internet in the early times continue with your spirit and generosity.
thanks
js
Great – thanks guys
That’s just great! Thanks, guys! I find it really useful. WP keeps getting better and better. 😀
sweet
Okay this will definately make life a lot more easier. Three cheers for wordpress!!
uh oh… !
Perfect !!! please give as a list of the sites that we can sign in with wp acount…
Cool!
Nice. This is really cool. Thanks Simon!
😎
Great Idea! Innovative, and useful!
When will I be able to log in to WordPress with my existing openID? 😉
Stuart, since we don’t require login for most interactions, including leaving comments, the benefits aren’t as immediate. Depending on how this feature goes we’ll look at investing more time in OpenID in the future.
this one is really good:))
Awesome, thanks guys!
Of all the new features THIS is the best.
Way to go!
From Your Odd n Macbre
Anita M
great!
cool.. 🙂
“Cool! So how is this different from using the same password for everything?”
Great question! The main reason OpenID is better is that you don’t have to trust your password to lots of different sites. If you use the same password on lots of sites and one of them turns evil (or is hacked in to) you lose all of your accounts. The more places you use the same password, the more chances there are for it to be stolen.
With OpenID, only one site knows your password – so there’s only one site that you have to be worried about.
If you’re worried about keeping all of your eggs in one basket, you can always use more than one OpenID.
are there any plans to consider incorporating into WordPress.com an OpenID Consumer part to alleviate some of the pain for everyone from a growing number of sites so that they could leave comments signing in to WordPress.com using their existing external OpenID?
my guess, lack of idea of creating yet another account on yet another site just to leave a comment, would make them all (and their comments) really hot…
thank you.
Matt,
Surely for blog authors the benefits are quite big? I suppose if I use WordPress as my open ID then OK I do have access to my blog via openID, almost … but I already have an openID provided by someone else and the whole point of it is, you only need 1 🙂
Still it’s great to see another large site getting involved in openID.
Its a great idea for near future 😉
Thanks.
Yay! What a way to integrate services. Thank y’all.
Right on! My list continues to grow…reasons why I love WP!!! Thanks for yall’s hard work! Chicago WordPressers dig it!!
Wow, I just ranted about the proliferation of passwords recently at http://badapple.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/passwords-piss-me-off/#more-28
Thank goodness there’s a solution!
Genial!!! good news!!!
The one issue with OpenID is that you are always redirected to your OpenID provider to enter your password, and then redirected back to the site you are logging in to. Will there be improvements to the OpenID standard to allow the OpenID end-user to provide both the URI/login as well as the password on the site being logged into, without all of the redirection back and forth? If this could be done Securely, it would surely speed up adoption of the OpenID standard.
“Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold?”
Yeah, you said it!
What a great idea! Not only does this add convenience, but hopefully with WordPress.com on board, even more weblogs will be motivated to adopt this standard.
Nice. I don’t know if I’ll use it, but it sounds cool.
Thanks for all y’all are doing with WordPress!!!!
I’m happy this is now available.
I’ve been using Norton Password Manager. It remembers and types in passwords for me. Mine currently is handling passwords for over 100 sites.
great! so that i not needed to remember all my password! thank you all ..this awesome
So glad you did this!! I just love all your most recent changes!
Huzzah!
Wow, user freindliness to the core, great feature, two thumbs up.
perfect!
Gr8 News that….Now we can scour the WWW without having to signup all over again…..
P.S: Can we see Gravatar also make an appearance on WP?
good thx !! 😉
thats really really good …. one less password to remember 😀
Yep. I hate having to create a new account for ever site that I visit.
Thanks =)
This is great… but how can I find out which sites use OpenID?
Awesome! Was just reading about OpenID the other day. Nice to see it implemented on WordPress. 🙂
Simon,
What, if any, existant OpenID library was used to provide the server functionality? Or was it homegrown? Any plan to produce a Yadis document describing the resources?
Awesome!
I’m so glad I choose WordPress for my blog 🙂
I really don’t OpenID in concept. But at least there is some security with WPs implementation. Thanks guys, even though I won’t use it often.
Streamlined….
While I like the concept and the implementation of open ID, I got fed up waiting for it to be rolled out everywhere and use Roboform. I only need to remember one password. Which is great considering that I have over 80 passwords and user names!
Still good move, it might push the technology.
thats cool ..
Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Knew about OpenID only a month back and now my blog URL is my ID.Thanks WordPress!
That will make it much easier to use Ma.gnolia.com and sites like this.
Fantastic idea!
Another nice feature really.
Thanks!
I’m not ok with you saying you support OpenID. Supporting OpenID means I could sign in with any OpenID provider. If all the other service providers on the web did this, I would still end up with 3000 accounts to remember.
Please, support OpenID not only as a provider, I already have an OpenID account I would love to sign in using that.
more here:
Fantastico…. Great stuff guys. \m/
I am concerned about hackers.
Matt,
Following Stuart Grimshaw’s remark earlier, it is my opinion that you should support OpenID by providing integrated registration and log-in with OpenID , NOT by setting up your own OpenID server.
There are already enough OpenID providers.
An excellent and beneficial development. Thank you for having the best interests of end users in mind.
Brilliant! Though for the WordPress gang I guess it’s just another day at the office. Thanks, great development that will help a lot of folks who don’t want to hear about standards and technical issues and just want a simple solution to online ID issues.