Archive for November, 2009

28 Nov

More Google Apps as OpenID for Wordpress

After a long session going around in circles, I think I have cracked this particular nut!
Yes indeed – I now have been able to create accounts on a Wordpress site, hook those accounts up to use a GAFYD as OpenID to log in to Wordpress using the same credentials as the email hosted at Google [...]

12 Nov

VPN for Mac? A few quick links

Searching for VPN information for a SOHO environment was very difficult this afternoon for some reason.
Therefore I’m saving the links I’ve found here for future reference:

Enable VPN server in OS X for remote access via iPhone, Windows, and OS X clients
IPSecuritas “the most advanced, yet free IPSec client for Mac OS X”
Mac Remote Desktop is [...]

10 Nov

Testing plugin ‘WP Google Apps’

Of these plugins to Manage Wordpress users and Google apps, the most promising sounding is of course WP Google Apps – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-google-apps/.
That’s the one I tested first (WP Google Apps 1.0 on Wordpress 2.8.5), with no real success. The first issue is that the plugin is nested an extra folder deep, so the automatic install [...]

09 Nov

Managing Wordpress users and Google apps

On a quest to make my Scout group’s website as simple as possible to use, I’m searching for a way to enable a single-sign-on (SSO) capability. Why you ask? So that our adult leaders and lay helpers can access both the Google Apps backend and the website with the same credentials.
Searching the Wordpress plugin repository [...]