Metaverse ID 0.14.2 released!

While tinkering away this morning with an upgrade to my WordPress plugin MV-ID, I thought I’d sneak in a new feature: shortcode support! What this means is that in addition to sidebar widgets, you can now embed the profiles inside blog posts like so: [mv-id mv=’agni SL’ id=’83b3987f-9520-4275-8efe-3ac13dd3f635′]. The plugin supports displaying individual profiles as [...]

Metaverse ID plugin released to public

Currently at version 0.5 (yay incremental improvements!), I’ve decided to push the code to the public SVN server over at google code. I’ve also created a wiki page describing Metaverse ID, that’ll I’ll be keeping up to date with the supported Metaverses etc. Please file any bugs you discover in the plugin on the Google [...]

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer: Using the BotBouncer API

In my previous post, I showed how a one-line modification would allow you to route OpenID logins through BotBouncer to help protect your WordPress blog from bot-spam. There was one problem with the one-liner method though, it’d route logins through BotBouncer every time a user tried to login to your WordPress blog with their OpenID- [...]

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer

If you’re not familiar with them…. WPopenid is a plugin for WordPress to allow OpenID logins, and BotBouncer is a CAPTCHA service for OpenIDs. The Mod openid-registration.php, line 257 $this->start_login( $_POST['openid_url'], ‘http://botbouncer.com/captcha/queryuser?return_to=’ . urlencode(get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/’ . $redirect_to) . ‘&openid=’ . $_POST['openid_url'] );