Title: OpenID
Author: Matthias Pfefferle
Published: <strong>February 8, 2007</strong>
Last modified: June 12, 2022

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# openid

 By [Matthias Pfefferle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pfefferle/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/openid/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of March 7, 2024 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/de0c6acfe1c08e5e8ae1ece1d10b26ecaf96792310c1e4e24fc91969eb240c8e?
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### 󠀁[Works great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-4025/)󠁿

 [Svetlana0777](https://profiles.wordpress.org/svetlana0777/) May 30, 2017

The plugin works great and does help to login to livejournal with OpenID of my site.
Just remember to install additional plugin XRDS-Simple. OpenID won’t work without
it.

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/openid/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“OpenID” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this 
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Matthias Pfefferle ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pfefferle/)
 *   [ Will Norris ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/willnorris/)
 *   [ factoryjoe ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/factoryjoe/)

“OpenID” has been translated into 8 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/openid/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “OpenID” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/openid)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/openid/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/openid/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/openid/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/openid/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **3.6.1**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.0.12**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Albanian](https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/), [Chinese (China)](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/),
   [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/), [Danish](https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/),
   [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/),
   [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/),
   and [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/openid/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/openid)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid/advanced/)