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<div>I am hoping to garner some ideas from what other Universities are doing for the sign-up process for new users on their wordpress instances. </div>
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<div>In the past we have been using the Shibboleth plugin to authenticate new users: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shibboleth/</div>
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<div>Signups are disabled on the site. All users have to use the campus ID to log in the first time. Since they use shibboleth there is no need for a signup. After they log in the first time then can go to the signup page (new sites are allowed for existing
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<div>Well, for us apparently 3.2 has broken the plugin, at least on our instance. I have contacted the developers but not sure if/when they are going to update. </div>
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<div>When they authenticate and go back to the site it just goes blank. I have tried troubleshooting. Current users can still log in. But new users go to a blank screen. Debugging gives this error: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times; "><b>Catchable
fatal error</b>: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in <b>/home/html/web-dev.unc.edu/html/wp-includes/formatting.php</b> on line <b>2829</b></span></div>
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<div>I have googled and tried lots of solutions, but nothing is working so far, so I am looking to see if anyone out there has any ideas on a fix (or an updated shibboleth plugin they are using) or other workflow ideas? I am also just curious what others are
using for signing up new users on their campus. </div>
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<div>Thanks for any advice, tips you can offer. </div>
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<div>~Jeff VanDrimmelen</div>
<div>UNC-CH</div>
<div>http://web.unc.edu Admin</div>
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