OpenID Plugin and WordPress 2.8

Ever since using the nightly versions of WordPress, I got used to doing regular updates and not checking if all plugins work fine afterward.

Therefore only today I discovered that leaving comments on this blog has been impossible for a while already. Turns out that changes in the WordPress core have made the OpenID plugin unaware of the comment author’s name and e-mail.

Haven’t found a solution yet.

The Solution

Open comments.php within the OpenID plugin folder and move the name & email input verification from line 73:

// duplicate name and email check from wp-comments-post.php
openid_require_name_email();

right after line 68, like this:

// just ignore the error... it just means the user entered a normal URL.
if (array_key_exists('openid_identifier', $_POST)) {
	openid_repost_comment_anonymously($_SESSION['openid_comment_post']);
	// duplicate name and email check from wp-comments-post.php
	openid_require_name_email();
}

Why this works

We need to check name and e-mail input only if the URL is not an OpenID.