How To Add Twitter, Facebook and OpenID Support To WordPress
Everton | Aug 22, 2009 | View Comments
I’ve just added the RPX WordPress Plugin to this site that allows readers to sign-in without having to enter a password by using their OpenID, Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Windows Live, Facebook login details or MySpace ID. Full features:
- Adds passwordless sign-in and commenting to your blog via OpenID, Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Windows Live, Facebook, and MySpace based authentication.
- Attach a third party sign-in provider to your existing Wordpress account.
- Create new accounts without registering and maintaining a password.
- Easy to configure with no template modifications required.
- Verified identity and provider icons for blog commenters.
Installing the plugin was very easy. All I had to do was:
- Install the plugin
- Get a RPX API Key – this was done within the WordPress dashboard
- Choose what ID providers I wanted to support – six can be added for free

- The Authentication icons are automatically added to the page
I’m very tempted to tick the option requiring all commenters to authenticate. One of the original reasons I moved to Wordpress from blogware was becuase blogware didn’t allow unregistered comments, and I thought it was unfair requiring all readers to register just to leave a comment (it was a full registration). However, just about everyone has a twitter, facebook etc account so I think this will be an acceptable move, and might also reduce comment spam.
Do you think this will be a safe move?
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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.
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