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Top of my head I would imagine that you would potentially need write access to the LDAP server if you plan on having a two way conversation between LDAP and WP. It sounds like the network guy at the school district would not, and most likely should not, allow that.

I would search for a plugin that integrates access and entitlements with external systems such as LDAP or even app servers. This could be failrly complicated.

A more simple solutions would be to host the WP blog externally and add the links from the school website to the blog. That way you would have control over the blog content as well as user registration.

The comments say the cache is disabled by default but that is not the case. They ship it enabled. You can change the settings and return the file permissions and everything should be ok.

You should delete everything in the cache directory after you disable the cache (backup if you are worried but it doesn’t appear to affect anything adversely).

You can tell right away as WP shouldn’t write anything to the directory if the cache is disabled.

I have also found that I can re-enable the cache once the contents have been deleted and things work fine for a while but I can’t see any advantage of using the cache in its current state.

The cache needs to be reworked so that it only caches client side requests. It should not cache admin functions such as editing and categories. – Trip

Yeah, Strangely 2.0 was working for me but just stopped all of a sudden. I am going to file a bug report on this. Good luck – Trip

There is a manual fix that I picked up from Tom Rafferty’s IT site:

https://www.tomrafteryit.net/wordpress-podcasts-not-showing-up-fixed/

The solution –

• In the Write Post screen in WordPress, go to the Advanced section
• There, go to the bottom section labeled “Add a new custom field to this post
• Where it says, Key, type enclosure
• Where it says, Value, enter the URL of the MP3 you wish to podcast
• Click Add Custom Field

For subsequent Podcasts, choose Enclosure from the Key dropdown in the Advanced posting mode and add the URL of the mp3 as before.

Trip

This is true, I have been trying to get this to work for 3 days now through this forum without any luck. Podcasting is completely broken in 2.0, getting it to work is random at best. I tried turning off the cache, even rebuilding the whole instalation because god forbid you change a post after getting the enclosure to work as the rss will not update the change on the post if it includes a new mp3.

It seems that WordPress is not a reliable podcasting mechanism which is unfortunate as I have a few people who would like to use it for that.

Trip – https://www.soundtrip.com/

This is a bug in the WordPress Cache. Disable the cache and they will show up as expected. Also, you need to clear the cache before you re-enable it otherwise the categories will revert to the old behavior.

For the life of me I can not figure out why the WP 2.0 Cache applies to the admin tools as well.

– Trip

I have tried just about everything to get the RSS enclosure to work with my podcasts to no luck on WP 2.0.

Does anybody have an suggestions? There are no entries in the meta table for my podcasts so I am stuck at this point. Very bad for a site that features Podcasts.

I think it might have something to do with the extra formatting the backend does on the post.

The site is xhtml compliant.

The code is entered into the editor as follows:

<a href="https://www.soundtrip.com/podcasts/SoundTrip_1-08-2006_192.mp3"><img src="./images/podcast-mini2.gif" align="middle" alt="Today's SoundCast" class="podcastImg"/></a> Today's show features the following artists:

This is on one line, no breaks or anything as the editor would put a </br> in the code in that case.

The site is https://www.soundtrip.com/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks – Trip

I get the feeling that the enclosure mechanism for podcasts doesn’t work at all in 2.0. What a nightmare. I just created a new installation from scratch and it does not pick up my mp3’s as podcasts. I did not have this issue on 1.5. It looks like this is horribly broken in 2.0.

Disable the WordPress cache and give it a try. (See the wp-settings.php file, search for disable and comment it out per the comment in the file). – Trip

I found the bug submission page. I will file a report and report the issue. This problem manifested itself in such a manner that it wouldn’t even let me rename the default Uncategorized category.

I fixed this problem by disabling the WordPress cache. This however presents a problem for me. I do not give file level access to users whom I host. As a webhost and blogger this presents a major deal.

I helped another user out with WP 2.0 cache problems related to the editor. I would suggest shipping WP 2.0 with the cache disabled by default.

How does one actually submit a bug report? – Trip

Hi,

This is great information. Hope all goes well from here on out.

Trip

You have a great blog by the way. – Trip

Bummer. The only other thing I can think of is to cahnge your defult editor to the opposite of what it is in WP 2.0. This is in the Options/Writing section of the admin console.

I haven’t been using the new Rich editor because I like to get htmly (new word!!) so i cahnged back to the “old style” editor right away. Something has to give here.

Good luck. Let me know if you figure it out.

Trip

Perhaps it has to do with the wordpress cache. I am not sure if you have access to this area but it can be cleared by removing everything under wp-content/cache from what I am told. I have never done this myself but this is what someone suggested to me when my 2.0 wasn’t allowing me to delete categories. (I imagine the best way to do this would be to rename the cache folder to cache.old and create a new one, that way if something goes terribly wrong you could restore it.)

The cache is disk based so this could have something to do with the OS of your server. Worth a try. I have noticed disk write slowdowns on NFS partitions with heavy traffic before – Trip