Commenting and authorizing with Google Friend Connect

More recently, Google has added plug- in support to its Google Friend Connect service . Three plugins are currently available:

• Commenting on WordPress Blogs
• Drupal Authorization
• Authorization in phpBB systems

Since I am the owner of a blog on the WordPress engine, I decided to try this plugin on myself. I will briefly describe the installation and operation of the plugin:

1. Download plugin
2. In the wp-content / plugins folder, we create a new one, with the name fc_plugin, and copy the files fc_plugin.php and server_code.php there
3. Signing up for Google Friend Connect
4. We recognize our “Site ID” (On the friend’s Google Friend Connect account management page, look at the page address, you are interested in the numbers after the “id” key. Or, when generating any gadget, the “site” key in its code)
5. Open the file fc_plugin.php and on line 43 replace "Site ID" with your
6. Activate the plugin through the admin panel of your WordPress blog

Now anyone can post comments on your blog using OpenID, Google, Yahoo! or AOL. Well, all this can be decorated with Google Friend Connect gadgets. Incredibly convenient!

PS I had to tweak the css styles and the gadget code a bit ( fc_plugin.php file ) so that it looked in accordance with my blog.

UPD: By entering the blog in this way, you automatically get access to the standard member profile. Authorization using standard blog tools has a higher priority.

UPD2: An unpleasant bug was discovered: when this plugin is turned on, users’ gravatars are turned off.