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1. _ck_
   Moderator

   Instead of xml-rpc pingbacks for 0.84 I'd love to see a more useful feature - OpenID support

   Apparently wordpress.com has had openid support since March:
   http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/06/openid/

   and here's a wordpress plugin to allow logins via openid, now we need to port it to bbpress...
   http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

   This would allow the quarter-million wordpress.com members and 120 million other openid participants to post on any bbpress forum with verified authentication.

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. HowToGeek
   Member

   This would be an excellent addition to bbPress. Hopefully somebody has lots of free time to work on this!

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. _ck_
   Moderator

   I wonder if I force all my bbpress logins through wordpress if I can just use that openid plugin there and it will work on bbpress...

   only one way to find out I guess...

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. _ck_
   Moderator

   I'm looking at how openid is done and I think I'll make the login even more simple for users - I'll let them choose from like the top five or ten providers in a dropdown, ie.
   1. aol
   2. livejournal
   3. wordpress
   4. ??
   5. ??
   and then tell then to enter their username on that service - that way they don't need to figure out it's username.website.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. _ck_
   Moderator

   Apparently there is a $5000 bounty for putting openid into a project? So the bbpress folks could claim that possibly and get some headlines:
   http://iwantmyopenid.org/

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. _ck_
   Moderator

   Too bad Google also has it's own API and doesn't do openid (yet?)
   But in theory bbpress could be made to use google identities... interesting....

   http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/Authentication.html

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. so1o
   Member

   If you integrate bbpress and wordpress.. you can use openID plugin for google on bbpress as you will be sharing the users from wordpress on bbpress..

   Posted 1 year ago #

8. sambauers
   Key Master

   There are some very specific requirements to claim one of those OpenID bounties. bbPress doesn't have enough users to qualify.

   Currently I can't imagine bbPress getting native OpenID support, so a plugin is your best bet.

   I'm happy to help with the plugin, I'm pretty familiar with bbPress' authentication routines.

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. Null
   Member

   A plugin would be best I think.

   Posted 1 year ago #

10. baptiste
    Member

    Did anyone find that you could piggyback onto the WordPress integration/authentication when using the OpenID plugin? It didn't work for me. I had the plugin activated on my WordPress site and was able to login and create users just fine, but bbPress didn't know about the credentials and wouldn't login.

    I need to get more familiar with how the integration is working - I thought it would work fine since it created a normal Wordpress user record. But it kept saying the userid was unknown... Will probably dig into it later. The WP plugin is great - the persona fill in stuff is very cool. Only quirk was my 'Display As' defaulted to the userid even though a name was included. But I digress.

    Posted 10 months ago #

11. _ck_
    Moderator

    I have now put together some basic code which successfully interacts with OpenID servers.

    Unlike other solutions it doesn't requires any other libraries or special languages/features on the server other than CURL support (with SSL) which is fairly common.

    Unfortunately during this time OpenID has upgraded to 2.0 and certain providers like Yahoo will only accept 2.0 queries and not 1.1 which is all the code can handle.

    But if there is any serious interest, I could get bbPress to accept openid from wordpress.com/livejournal/aol/etc. which continue to allow 1.1

    Posted 8 months ago #

12. a-bishop
    Member

    Why doesn't bbPress allow to login users already logged to WP? I can see them in the list of my forum users (a-bishop.com e.g.). But when I try to login, bb-login.php strips the dot and login name becomes "a-bishopcom".

    Posted 8 months ago #

13. benbeltran
    Member

    @ __ck__: I was planning on tackling this, since I just love OpenID. But it would be nice to also offer support for phpMyID (http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID/). That's what I use to make my own domain, my openID.

    Posted 8 months ago #

14. _ck_
    Moderator

    Except that if I was to allow OpenID on a site, I would only allow the top 10 largest hosts (aol, yahoo, livejournal, wordpress.com, etc) Having OpenID from any domain is a guaranteed way to open the door for spammers.

    Serving OpenID should be a seperate plugin from accepting it as a login - I'd imagine there's precious little shared code.

    Feel free to tackle it though, I'm getting exhausted working on so many plugins and can't imagine the horrors of maintaining them though all the upcoming core changes. I can't get OpenID 2.0 to work right, so if you can, go for it.

    Posted 8 months ago #

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