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1. monkinetic
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm interested in working with someone on a prototype of some additions to WordPress' blogroll, essentially to add another URI field for links. Rather than repeat myself in explaining, read about what I'm looking for here:

   http://redmonk.net/archives/2007/11/26/blogrolls-xfn-and-openid-uris/

   Cheers,

   --Steve

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Brainstorming...

   Since I hate the idea of shoehorning in a new table column (making updating WordPress even more of a chore), perhaps you could adopt Notes (the link_notes record) for this. Either manually by having the user add something like openid:http://example.com/openid.uri on its own line and the plugin parse this out, or by modifying the field on the Add Link sub-panel, rewriting it (PHP-wise, I mean) to your specs.

3. monkinetic
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   That's not a bad idea. I'll have to experiment a bit with it, esp since there is both a description field and notes field, re-using one should not step on too many toes.

4. Will Norris
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   yep... doesn't look like WP uses the notes field that I can tell.

5. monkinetic
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Now to figure out how to mix, xfn, hcard, and an openid url into one block of semantic html ;-)

6. monkinetic
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   @wnorris: While pursuing some thoughts about mapping blogroll entries to wordpress users, discovered that wordpress (at least in 2.3) has some functions for adding new meta data to users (update_usermeta, get_usermeta, delete_usermeta) and wondered if those might be used to store the actual openid URI for a user who has signed up via OpenID. Also worth a look: cimy-extra-fields.

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