The GeekSouth website now understands OpenID, both for user logins and for leaving comments.  If you’ve got an OpenID (and odds are you do even if you don’t know it), you can now use that to either signup for an account here or add it to your current account so that you can login to the site using it.

What is an OpenID?

Existing Users

First, you need to login to the GeekSouth website using your current username & password.  Once logged in, you should see a section on the left-hand menu called Users which will have an optioned titled Your OpenIDs.

You can then add your OpenID.  

Note: This will set the website in your profile to your OpenID url as a security measure mandated by the plugin.

New Users

Head over to the Registration Page, and instead of entering a username & email insert your OpenID in the OpenID field.  Once you are authenticated with the OpenID provider you will be taken to the Wordpress Profile page so that you can fill in the rest of your information.

By default, new users to the site are not allowed to make blog posts.  If you’ve got something you’d like to post email geeksouth@gmail.com and let us know.

Your OpenID?

As I said, you most likely have an OpenID even if you do not realize it.  Following is a list of example OpenIDs:

• openid.aol.com/yourname
• yahoo.com
• google.com/accounts/o8/id
• yourname.wordpress.com
•  yourname.blogspot.com
• yourname.livejournal.com
• flickr.com
• yourname.vox.com

Help?

Email geeksouth@gmail.com if you run into anything odd.  We’ll try to get back to you as soon as we can.