Just came across an interesting post called Authentication in WordPress 2.8. It talks about the implementation of OAuth in WordPress and it’s impact on users and plugin authors. The great thing about OAuth is that it would let applications and other websites authenticate against your blog and withdraw information without needing your password. So, if you had a WordPress blog about travel insurance online, you could share the information on it with another website trying to repurpose that information.
Looks like WordPress will have some interesting changes. However, the last part of the post indicates that it won’t manage to make 2.8, partly because the OAuth libraries are in a state of flux and partly because of the impact it will have on the core.
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