Comments on: wordpress.com Migration Hang-up: OpenID Delegation

By: Richard Hornbaker

Richard Hornbaker — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:22:28 +0000

Still struggling a bit. It seems Blogger will return 1-2 false failures before it works; I was giving up too fast. Turns out it does work with the custom domain, though I’m seeing some wierdness and I’m curious how it works for you.

The nickname that posts at Blogger is always “hornbaker”, not the Full Name or nickname I spec in the WP “Trust This Site?” screen during authentication. Also, the nickname hyperlink points to my WP URL, not the custom domain URL I provided for the login.

Is this what you see when posting there? From other testing I’ve done with a myOpenID account, it seems like WP is feeding this bad info to Blogger.

And do you know of any OpenID test “consumer” servers to try this against with better debug info?

By: Richard Hornbaker

Richard Hornbaker — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:13:29 +0000

Interesting, thanks. I’m not able to use my own URL richard.hornbaker.org to login via OpenID – only my hornbaker.wordpress.com URL. It sounds like you are able to do this, which is a good sign.
Certainly, it’d be nice to be able to spec a 3rd-party OpenID Provider, but my biggest interest is ensuring the back-links point to my domain name, not WordPress. Sounds like that should be possible, and perhaps I’m doing something wrong during OpenID login…

By: bburcham

bburcham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:57:08 +0000

Kind of Richard (see the update at the end of my original post). wordpress.com does act in the OpenID “provider” role for my custom domain (memerocket.com) without any need to delegate to another provider.

By: Richard Hornbaker

Richard Hornbaker — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:37:09 +0000

Bill, I saw your post in the forum – did you ever solve this problem? It seems like such a simple setting to offer (and frankly, WP should delegate to your wordpress.com URL automatically when you setup a custom domain, but they don’t seem to).