Get OpenID-fied and discover a new Web
Today we’re announcing that BlogUpp! is sharing its stats with you, the easy way. And as promised, you don't need to have yet another web account with us in order to access it.
With those tons of web sites requiring you to register so that you can use their services, it's not an easy task to remember all the user IDs and passwords. But things can get simpler, and we at BlogUpp! are constantly looking to implement technologies to ease and improve your whole web experience. And here comes OpenID. With it you can login to thousands of websites with a single digital identity, represented by a simple URL, which can be your homepage or blog, or it can be provided to you by a web site you use.
We now support OpenID too, and it helps you access your BlogUpp! stats just by entering your blog address. It's that simple. Before you start, we need to make sure your blog is OpenID-enabled. Actually most blogs hosted on Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal and alike have been OpenID-enabled automatically. Just click Stats from BlogUpp! main page, enter the address of your blog which uses BlogUpp! widget, and that's it. When you see your BlogUpp! stats it means you've been authenticated through your blog provider and you are ready to go.
For the other cases, including WordPress blogs on custom domains, there are simple solutions as well. Firstly, get an OpenID from sites like Technorati, AOL, myOpenID or others, which might already have your OpenID identifier, without you even knowing it. Then through OpenID delegation you can easily transform your blog URL into an OpenID. It only requires the ability to add a small snippet of HTML code to your blog.
For example, in case of myOpenID issued identifiers, the code to be added into the
which says that your blog is owned by the owner of "
For an AOL OpenID, the code would look like:
More examples of OpenID code snippets will be posted in the comments of this article, and we welcome you to share the OpenID snippet that worked for your blog. For more information about OpenID, visit OpenIDExplained.com or OpenID.net.
Get OpenID-fied and enjoy the difference with your universal online card and signature! From now on, you can enter dozens of sites, including BlogUpp! advanced module, simply by providing your blog's URL. Moreover, while being authenticated through your blog's URL as an OpenID, and commenting in the blogosphere, your blog is linked back automatically, with minimum effort. Isn't that cool? We think it really is. Enjoy it, and your blogging!
With those tons of web sites requiring you to register so that you can use their services, it's not an easy task to remember all the user IDs and passwords. But things can get simpler, and we at BlogUpp! are constantly looking to implement technologies to ease and improve your whole web experience. And here comes OpenID. With it you can login to thousands of websites with a single digital identity, represented by a simple URL, which can be your homepage or blog, or it can be provided to you by a web site you use.We now support OpenID too, and it helps you access your BlogUpp! stats just by entering your blog address. It's that simple. Before you start, we need to make sure your blog is OpenID-enabled. Actually most blogs hosted on Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal and alike have been OpenID-enabled automatically. Just click Stats from BlogUpp! main page, enter the address of your blog which uses BlogUpp! widget, and that's it. When you see your BlogUpp! stats it means you've been authenticated through your blog provider and you are ready to go.
For the other cases, including WordPress blogs on custom domains, there are simple solutions as well. Firstly, get an OpenID from sites like Technorati, AOL, myOpenID or others, which might already have your OpenID identifier, without you even knowing it. Then through OpenID delegation you can easily transform your blog URL into an OpenID. It only requires the ability to add a small snippet of HTML code to your blog.
For example, in case of myOpenID issued identifiers, the code to be added into the
<head> of the blog would look like:<link rel="openid.server"
href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
<link rel="openid.delegate"
href="http://your_name.myopenid.com/" />,which says that your blog is owned by the owner of "
http://your_name.myopenid.com/" and "http://www.myopenid.com/server" may be used to verify the ownership of "http://your_name.myopenid.com/".For an AOL OpenID, the code would look like:
<link rel="openid.server"
href="https://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/openidServer" />
<link rel="openid.delegate"
href="http://openid.aol.com/screenname" />More examples of OpenID code snippets will be posted in the comments of this article, and we welcome you to share the OpenID snippet that worked for your blog. For more information about OpenID, visit OpenIDExplained.com or OpenID.net.
Get OpenID-fied and enjoy the difference with your universal online card and signature! From now on, you can enter dozens of sites, including BlogUpp! advanced module, simply by providing your blog's URL. Moreover, while being authenticated through your blog's URL as an OpenID, and commenting in the blogosphere, your blog is linked back automatically, with minimum effort. Isn't that cool? We think it really is. Enjoy it, and your blogging!
9 Comments:
The OpenID plugin you linked to, for WordPress, doesn't make my WordPress into an OpenID provider - which means I can't use it to log into BlogUpp!.
To do that seems to require some extra magic which I'm still in the process of investigating; it may involve something called phpMyID.
Anyway, just a tip for any other WordPress.org users out here.
Thanks Dobes for the tip.
Indeed, the WordPress plugin is no more functional, and it was removed from the post.
We've verified and confirm that WordPress blogs on custom domains can be configured for this purpose through OpenID delegation as well.
The bloggers being Yahoo! users can also use their Yahoo! account to access BlogUpp! stats.
Just visit http://openid.yahoo.com/, press "Get started", and look in the section "Your OpenID identifiers" for your OpenID URL, or choose one that's easier for you.
After that it's enough to add into the header of your blog the following code:
<link rel="openid2.provider"
href="https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth" >
<link rel="openid2.local_id"
href="https://me.yahoo.com/username" >
replacing username with yours, if it's in your OpenID identifier, or replace with the actual OpenID link.
And that's it.
great improvement indeed, congrats. I hope to see more features added soon. Tinh
That's good. I am using OpenId now.
Is there any way to do this without editing the head of the template? Not all bloggers have full access to their templates.
If a blog platform is not allowing modifying the header, it might be possible there is an option in the settings of the blog itself, to enable OpenID. As mentioned in the post, major blog platforms are already OpenID-enabled, and there needn't be changed anything.
Should further assistance be required, please contact us by email with the details of your blog.
Does anyone have a code for using a technorati ID?
For a Technorati OpenID delegation the following code should be used:
<link rel="openid.server"
href="http://technorati.com/openid/" />
<link rel="openid.delegate"
href="http://technorati.com/people/technorati/USERNAME/" />
As suggested on Technorati weblog, you must be logged into Technorati to be able to use it as an OpenID.
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