OpenID delegation: using a blog URL as OpenID

I was recently trying to sort out OpenID delegation for a blog. I wanted to leave comments on someone else’s Live Journal blog using an OpenID that pointed to my blog’s URL.

Sam Ruby’s article, OpenID for non-SuperUsers has everything one needs to know about OpenID.

For my purposes, all I needed to do was get an OpenID (which can be obtained here) and add the following to the header.php file for the WordPress blog that I wanted to use as my OpenID URL:

<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://www.myopenid.com/server” />
<link rel=”openid.delegate” href=”http://my-openid-account-name.myopenid.com/” />

(The my-openid-account-name string needs to be replaced with an actual OpenID account name.)