Commenting and authoring with Google Friend Connect

More recently, Google has added plugin support to its Google Friend Connect service . Currently three plugins are available:

• Commenting on WordPress blogs
• Authorization in Drupal systems
• 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 the plugin
2. In the wp-content / plugins folder, create a new one named fc_plugin and copy the fc_plugin.php and server_code.php files there
3. Sign up for Google Friend Connect
4. We recognize our “Site ID” (Being on the 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, in its code the “site” key)
5. Open the file fc_plugin.php and on line 43 replace the “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 comfortable!

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

UPD: Logging on to the blog this way, you automatically get access to the standard member profile. Authorization through standard blog tools has a higher priority.
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UPD2: An unpleasant bug was discovered: when you turn on this plug-in, user gravatars are disabled.