Kanok’s Balcony

I’m disable the Akismet antispam plug in for 24 hours in order to see how much spam will get to my blog in one day…

Let’s guess.

Now with new PHP v5.x and WP-OpenID 2.1.2, I can officially announce that my blog is now fully support OpenID.

To recap the OpenID the definition is…

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID takes advantage of already existing internet technology (URI, HTTP, SSL, Diffie-Hellman) and realizes that people are already creating identities for themselves whether it be at their blog, photostream, profile page, etc. With OpenID you can easily transform one of these existing URIs into an account which can be used at sites which support OpenID logins.

Sound too technical!!!  Let’s try this..

OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet

With one OpenID you can login to all your favorite websites and forget about online paperwork!

Sound easier?

Two places I usually recommend to get the OpenID for yourself and read more about it are..

http://www.claimid.com/

http://pip.verisignlabs.com/

Now I’ve added OpenID to my blog. OpenID is a new concept of one login on multiple website similar to Windows Live ID or Google Account. One good thing that different from others is this is the open standard which anyone can use and implement to their website.

Now my blog reader can use their own OpenID to register and login. Thanks to WP-OpenID WordPress plugin.

More on OpenID can be found at their project web here. The recommend site to get an OpenID is from VeriSign here and it free.

Now let’s see who will the first who login using OpenID

ref:

http://openid.net/

http://pip.verisignlabs.com/

Ha ha. The Photo page breaks again after I upgrade the plug-in to the new version. This one use database to keep cache instead of files. May take sometime before I have time to look at it. Anyway, all of my photo still there at my Flickr page

One thing I like about WordPress is plugin support.  This allow almost infinite variety of custom plugin.  Now I have almost 10 running in my blog both on user side and admin side.  The newest one is the Post Rating that give user ability to rate the post.  The other one is Simple Tags that manage the posting tags.  Even though WordPress has built-in tag functionality, this is more manageable.

Now I have full feature tag management online, wish the WLW that I use to write the post has the same ability too.  I wonder are these plugins load my web server a lot?  May be I need to install another plugin to monitor it.. 

After upgrading to WP 2.3, Flickr page seems to have lots of problems. Or may be it already has got problem before the upgrade but I didn’t notice. Any way, now weather page has to wait and all effort is on fixing photo page. Sorry

My photo page is up and running.  Mostly by a WP plug-in.  Now look for weather page.   But it has to wait a bit.  This weekend is quite busy.

GoDaddy fixed the problem..  Feel good for the weekend.  One more step closer to the big switch.

Next step, I need something about image and photo.  May be a plugin to link to my Flickr page.  Let’s see what Wordpress can do.