Solving technology problems, one at a time
After using Windows Platform Installer to install WordPress you may get the error shown below: HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error File monitoring is enabled for a file which could not be found (note
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The SimpleLDAP plugin by Cliff Griffin is exactly what I needed for a proof-of-concept WordPress site I’m working on, but it hasn’t been officially updated in a while and was not entirely compatible with WordPress v.3.5.
I’ve updated the plugin to eliminate the errors I was getting, and it now works fine on my site, but it could probably use some TLC from someone more experienced with working with WordPress.
The original version of the plugin I used as a basis is v1.4.0.5.1, available at http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-ldap-login/.
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I work in a small learning management department in a large Health System. One of the “forever” problems we’d like to solve, is how to get out of the way of our many clinical subject matter experts and make it EASY for them to put trackable learning content online by themselves. Why is this still a problem in this age of online applications? Simply put: cost, learning curve and trackability.
Licensing costs in a decentralized environment
Software license costs are a big issue in a distributed authoring environment, particularly for departments that watch every penny. There are hundreds of potential authors out there, mostly in departments that do not prioritize the purchase of elearning software. Licenses for the big elearning software packages (Articulate, Storyline, Lectora, etc.) are not inexpensive, even with academic discounts and whatever site-licenses may exist.
I’ve been experimenting with LDAP and Cosign login plugins for WordPress. Most of them are out of date and are more or less incompatible with WordPress v.3.5. Usually the first error that comes up is
Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0!
All this means is that instead of using the numerical role identifier argument in a function that adds a menu or submenu, the required capability should be used instead.
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