Website Software

From OpenID Wiki

This page is a resource for website owners or webmasters who are considering adding support for OpenID. Many sites are built using third-party software packages. The table below tells you the level of support in some of these packages.

Contents 1 Content Management Systems 2 Web Application Frameworks 3 Wikis 4 Blogging 5 Forums / Bulletin Boards 6 SaaS Products 7 Related Pages

Content Management Systems

Package	Native support	Extension / Plugin	Comments
Drupal	Yes, in Drupal 6.0	OpenID module
ImpressCMS	Yes	No	Planned for ImpressCMS 1.1
Joomla	No	Possibly
Plone	Yes, in Plone 3 ?	?
SPIP	No	OpenID plugin
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware	Yes, in TikiWiki 1.10 (now in Beta)	Not needed thanks to native support
XOOPS	No	No	Planned for XOOPS 3.0
ikiwiki	Yes	Yes

Web Application Frameworks

Package	Native support	Extension / Plugin	Comments
dotnetnuke	Yes, in 4.6.0	No

Wikis

Package	Native support	Extension / Plugin	Comments
MediaWiki	No	OpenID Extension

Blogging

Package	Native support	Extension / Plugin	Comments
WordPress	No	OpenID Plugin

Forums / Bulletin Boards

Package	Native support	Extension / Plugin	Comments
phpBB	No	phpbb-openid	Known security issue as of 2007-10-02
SMF	No	None known	Mooted for a future release

SaaS Products

• RPX - JanRain has a SaaS product which lets a website accept OpenID's with very little engineering. No libraries to install, no database schema to change, you don't have to become an OpenID expert. The basic product is Free, enterprise versions are described at www.janrain.com/products/rpx.

Related Pages

• A WishList of sites & packages for which people would like OpenID support

• The OpenIDDirectory lists some software