IIS Authentication plugin for the Wordpress PHP blogging engine

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This weekend, I was working on an MSDN magazine article and happened to install PHP’s Wordpress blog app on IIS7. Of course, I used the latest FastCGI bits available in the box in in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3, and the latest Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.3 build from www.php.net. Long story short, I ended up writing a Wordpress plugin that allows Wordpress to use IIS authentication methods, including forms authentication.

Read more about installing Wordpress on IIS7, the Wordpress extensibility model, and get the IIS Authentication plugin for Wordpress here: https://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-Wordpress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx.