I imagine that this will require access to Google/Yahoo’s user db, highly impossible, so I’d say that an integration like this is highly unlikely as well…
A little off topic, but…
Is there a way to integrate wordpress.com accounts with wordpress.org blogs so that .com users don’t have to sign up again!
Just wondering…
original poster, i was wondering the same thing as i heard that google and yahoo have apis that let you do this. for example, you can log in with yahoo/google at zoho.com now.
does anyone have experience with this plugin?
http://gallery.yahoo.com/apps/2188
Google has an “Account Authentication API” and Yahoo! has something similar. Hope that helps.
I think the openID plugin can help on this.
I have written a small (not yet published) plugin to use Google App for authenticating users. I am not sure this would fully satisfy your needs, as it currently replaces the whole authentication, but it could definitely be made more flexible if needed.
I had just responded to another post with a small description of how this works (see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/135094?replies=5#post-774969), let me know if this could be useful and what your ideas/needs are. Probably it’s not much work to make it a bit more flexible (authenticating against Google or Google Apps accounts is no problem, I have no experience with Yahoo).
lindenaar – i’d like to test your plugin
I’d like to test this beta plugin too!
How can I get it?
i need mode like title post plugin
