There’s a new version of the WP-OpenID plugin available. Version 3.0 includes some new features, but it is not compatible with WordPress plugins that intercept HTTP POST requests, including the following list. If you rely upon these plugins, then don’t try to install OpenID support.
This new OpenID plugin also requires some changes for sites that use the JanRain ID Selector. I posted some code on 30 April 2008 in a billso.com article called Updating WP-OpenID to support ID Selector.
The code updated the OpenID plugin to accommodate this ID Selector feature, which displays an attractive dropbox of OpenID providers in the main WordPress login box. This code won’t change the comment form at all.
Here’s the updated code, which is almost identical to my earlier work. Version 3 of the OpenID plugin shifted the login_form function to a new file, so upgrading the OpenID plugin will overwrite any previous changes that we made.
The code below should be placed inside function openid_wp_login_form() in the wp-login.php script, and should be uploaded to the OpenID plugin directory. The keyword “hex” should be replaced with the long hexadecimal string embedded in the ID Selector script that you must generate at idselector.com
