About the Login
I’ve been working again on the site. Yeah, I just can’t keep my hands off it.
Anyhow, that aside, the main part that I’ve been working on currently is the login for this site. I have a few priorities when I’m working on it.
- It has to work with OpenID
- It has to be transparent (meaning you don’t notice it when it works)
- It needs to redirect you to the same page you logged in from
- It has to be user-friendly
- It has to keep you off the admin dashboard
- Preferably it’s not storing a lot of info here
The OpenID standard is perfect for this. So too is Gravatars since you link an avatar to an email address that is linked to an OpenID account. Works for me.
I don’t mind having user and login information here, but I don’t like it since it uses up space on my server, and it is REALLY redundant.
I’ve been playing with the options and I think I’m happy with it all now. There is only two things I’m not happy about, and both of them are solvable with editing the plugin for the login. I’d like the login screen to show your name (so I don’t get confused as to who I’m logged in as), and I’d like it to direct you back to the same page you requested the login from.
The problem is that I’m not a PHP programmer, and I have no clue what I’m doing.
So, if you can help me, I’d love it. I’m using WP-UserLogin with a plugin to support OpenID, so if any of you big, strong men out there want to help little ole’ me out….
ETA: I turned the things that I thought was wrong with the plugin to the creator, asking for some help. He very nicely changed the whole thing, added in functions so that the plugin did what I wanted, namely welcoming you back and returning you to the same page you logged in from. I’m so happy I could squee!
Love Always...
Mini-Biography: Joy is a transvestite who has been using her stories as a form of therapy. At this point she has no desire to undergo the full transition, but that might change some day. Read more about her story at My Story on this site. 
