Omaha Digital Communications Group

As expected, the upgrade went off without a hitch!

I’ve also installed a couple of plug-ins to Wordpress which may add some neat functionality. One of them is a house keeping measure, to help block spam comments, which thankfully we don’t have a problem with.

The other is for OpenID authentication. For those of you already using OpenID, you can log-in to our website using an OpenID provider of your choice. This will give you the ability to comment on posts and pages without needing to create a username and password specific to this site.

For those of you not using OpenID, allow me to offer a general overview of what it is. OpenID was created with the idea that you’ve already got an account at another website, perhaps LiveJournal, for example. To use another site, it seems silly to have a log-in for every site. Instead, why not have LiveJournal vouch for your identity? That’s essentially how it works. Continuing with our example with LiveJournal, if I wanted to use OmahaDigital.org with OpenID from LiveJournal, I would log-in to OmahaDigital.org with an address to my page at LiveJournal, for example sampleuser.livejournal.com and hit the log-in button. My browser will then go to LiveJournal and ask me to log-in there, using my LiveJournal username and password. Once authenticated, LiveJournal vouches for me with OmahaDigital.org, and says, “Hey, this K0SKW character is the real deal, let them comment!” and I’d then be presented with the comment box.

It sounds complicated, but once you’ve done it, it makes sense.

More site-work to come in coming days, have a few things in mind I want to play with first!