WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain? en Thu, 23 May 2013 19:27:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 hornbaker on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-370846 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:15:16 +0000 hornbaker 370846@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I seem to be running into a lot of dead ends on this, and it seems like OpenID is a good idea that hasn't gotten full adoption. I'm going to keep working at it, and I'll maintain this article as things progress: http://richard.hornbaker.org/2009/08/14/openid/

]]> hornbaker on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-370132 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:09:51 +0000 hornbaker 370132@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I left a message for Support; meanwhile, a bit of progress on my own.
First part, I'm a bit of a bonehead - blogger.com was choking on my http://richard.hornbaker.com URL because I'd left off the http:// prefix - they're technically correct, of course, but that's lame.

For some reason, blogger.com is persistent about using my WP account name for the nickname, and the WP URL for the backlink. (I really want it to use my custom domain.) I'm not sure if that's because of something WP is passing, or if I haven't fully erased all traces of my prior attempts (trusted sites, cookies, etc.). Any ideas on this are welcome.

]]> thesacredpath on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-370018 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:32:08 +0000 thesacredpath 370018@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @hornbaker, contact staff as I suggested. If there is a way, then only they know what that is. At the very least, your contacting them should get them to put it on their feature request list.

]]> hornbaker on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-370015 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:26:41 +0000 hornbaker 370015@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's really unfortunate.

Really, this should be a standard feature of custom domains, even if it's not configurable (i.e., only points to the yourname.wordpress.com URL). And perhaps offer it as an upgrade for both types of URLs. In both cases, it would seem so easy to implement.

For the sake of search engines, it appears the correct term is OpenID delegation, not redirection.

]]> raincoaster on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-369804 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:56:10 +0000 raincoaster 369804@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have never had any success with this. I just continue to use the old URL. It's annoying.

]]> thesacredpath on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-369802 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:55:03 +0000 thesacredpath 369802@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We cannot edit the underlying theme or wordpress files. Contact staff directly at http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ .

]]> hornbaker on "Redirecting OpenID with a Custom Domain?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/redirecting-openid-with-a-custom-domain#post-369770 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:29 +0000 hornbaker 369770@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How to setup OpenID with WP so I can use it with my custom domain http://richard.hornbaker.org (hosted at WP), not its WP URL http://hornbaker.wordpress.com?

(I know the WP URL will redirect to mine, but the goal here is for backlinks to point to me, not WP, in case I should ever <gasp> move my blog elsewhere, like self-hosted.) Oddly, I've found the question asked a few times here, but the topics all get closed before a solution is posted. E.g.: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/openid-redirection-how-to

It appears I need to add a couple "OpenID redirection" tags to the HTML <head> section, and this is easily done with self-hosted WordPress.org - how is it done with WordPress.com hosting?

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