[buddypress-dev] Push the Envelope

[Justin Ball]

I am an OpenID advocate.  I would love for my users to be able to
login to any of the systems using a single sign on.  However, having
said that OpenID is still a hard concept for every day users to grok.
I used it in a couple of my applications and watched as my users tried
to login with their username instead of their OpenID url.  Using a url
as a username is still a tough concept to understand.  We might be
able to overcome this problem if Wordpress MU could be an OpenID
provider.  Then you could let users login with just a username and
assume the domain part is the domain in use on the website.  Users
that already have an OpenID would be savy enough to login with their
existing account.  One nice trick would be to integrate various
applications - Wordpress, Joomla, Media Wiki, etc - so that you if you
sign into one via OpenID or other method you are logged into all of
them.  It can become tedious and confusing to a user to have to keep
logging in all the time.

Justin

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Christopher Johnson Gieseke
<christopher at portallanguageservices.com> wrote:
> Open ID is great if it can truly be integrated with each system. Does open
>  Id let ad admin or post writer log in to Wordpress? I thought that the
>  OpenID plugin was just for comments plus we'd need it for BBpress.
>
>  As far as the wiki conversation goes. We need a way to link between posts
>  without plugins since plugins break.
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: buddypress-dev-bounces at lists.automattic.com
>  [mailto:buddypress-dev-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Andy
>  Peatling
>  Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:02 AM
>  To: buddypress-dev at lists.automattic.com
>  Subject: Re: [buddypress-dev] Push the Envelope
>
>  On 14-Apr-08, at 9:37 PM, Jason Spencer wrote:
>  >
>  > I have a question. I am in contact with a developer out of Italy who
>  > has developed a single one way sign on script for joomla to
>  > wordpress mu that works fantastic out of the box. This would be a
>  > killer integration opportunity for everyone involved.
>  >
>  > I am also developing a web site with wordpress mu right now and
>  > would be willing to open up my project to a few of you to kick
>  > around and test out your scripts on my alpha web site or on another
>  > version of this alpha web site to experiment with. In other words, I
>  > have a shared hosting account with a static IP and i am willing to
>  > let you guys develop on it in the spirit of open source to test out
>  > our applications and to see what we can do to further bond the two
>  > platforms closer together. I would only do this with someone who was
>  > actually on the buddy press team because of the security risks.  I
>  > hope that I haven't committed heresy but a buddy press wordpress mu
>  > integration would seriously blow out the stupid 3rd party outsourced
>  > white label applications and give more freedom to people that wanted
>  > to grow their own targeted social networking communities because
>  > joomla has several scripts for video and audio sharing.
>
>  Hi Jason. Thanks for letting us know about this. Although direct
>  integration between Joomla and Wordpress MU would be great, I would
>  personally prefer to take an open approach. By using standards like
>  OpenID we can allow multiple applications to be accessed by using a
>  single login identity. That way we don't have to write custom code to
>  support the wide array of applications people use in their day-to-day
>  lives. What are people's opinions on this?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Andy
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > Jason Spencer
>  >
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>  > Jason Spencer
>  > Co-Founder
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