Wordpress BBAuth Plugin
| Thursday, October 5th, 2006 | --jr |
Hi,
So, you probably know that Yahoo!'s released a Brower Based Authentication service, and that it allows folks to log into... well... anything using their Y!Login id. You probably don't know that Y!BBAuth does all this without exposing the Y!ID to anyone. (We just tell you "Yeah, this guy? He's got a valid Y!Account. Honest. Here's a blockable ID for them." It's still up to you to determine that the person is OK or not.)
Betcha didn't know that there's already a Wordpress Plugin, as well as a bunch of others available already. And, yeah, I'm going to be working on getting it integrated in here. I'm hitting a few snags, but that's probably due to some customizations I've done.
I do kinda wish that there were ways to get other bits of information back, like the user avatar or their home city, state and country, but i'm guessing those should be released later.