[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2532: Ability to restrict editing others' bookmarks

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#2532: Ability to restrict editing others' bookmarks
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       Id:  2532            |      Status:  new                     
Component:  Administration  |    Modified:  Sun Mar  5 19:56:41 2006
 Severity:  enhancement     |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  normal          |     Version:  2.0.1                   
    Owner:  anonymous       |    Reporter:  thefreefood             
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Comment (by thefreefood):

 Yes, I find it rather troublesome that the Wordpress core is moving in the
 direction of increased granularity with respect to pages, but is getting
 rid of the notion of link ownership entirely.

 What I'm trying to create is this: I want to set up a portal for bloggers
 affiliated with my college.  The idea is that anyone can register (I'm
 hacking the registration functions to ensure that they use a local email
 address).  Doing so allows them to add their links or links (which they
 should then be able to manage).  It also registers them for built-in
 forums using XDforum.  Then I use FeedWordpress to syndicate content from
 each of those blogs into a category.  This is great because it produces a
 single RSS feed that aggregates all of the recent activity in our little
 neck of the blogosphere.

 As I see it, this is pretty much impossible without link ownership.
 Moreover, link ownership is key to running larger multi-author sites.
 Wordpress has remained deficient in this regard.  Instead of eliminating
 the feature so it can't be used, why not add a few simple hooks to the
 Link Manager so that plugins can allow for advanced link editing controls.

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