330396 Wordpress RPXNow Customization

Looking for a skilled WP developer who can work fast, solve problems, and work independently. Quick Summary ---- We want to require our Wordpress users to authenticate to the site with their Facebook Connect or OpenID account but don't want to create user accounts on the back-end for various reasons. Rather, we just want users to authenticate via FB Connect or OpenID and that will allow them to post comments; they won't actually be registered as a user on the blog by "logging in" we kind of just want to lower the signal to noise ratio on comments by creating a gateway of authentication... How? ---- RPXNow ([login to view URL]) is a service which enables content providers to access a single API through which authentication for multiple identity providers can be used. We're looking to modify the RPX Now Wordpress plugin ([login to view URL] ) so that instead of creating a user on the Wordpress side upon successful authentication, a cookie is dropped which siginifies that the user is "logged in" to the blog. The cookie will also contain the name and email info that would be used to fill out the Wordpress comment form so that the form is prepopulated for logged in users. Deliverables ---- The deliverables for this project are 1) a customized version of the WP RPXNow plugin which instead of creating a users on the WP backend upon succesful authentication simply sets a cookie which signifies that the user is logged in, the cookie should also contain the name and email info that would be used to fill out the Wordpress comment form so that the form is prepopulated for logged in users 2) updated [login to view URL] and [login to view URL] which contains Javascript to check for the existence of the cookie and if it exists, displays the comment form for a user to comment and if the cookie does not exist, prompts a user to "Login" using their FB Connect or OpenID etc.