Ability to restrict editing others' bookmarks

[thefreefood]

At present, it is only possible to give a user the ability to manage all links or to manage no links. However, since each link has an owner, it should be possible to restrict editing or deleting of links to the link owner.

I have tried to create a plugin to do this, but no suitable hooks exist for things like limiting the list of bookmarks that display in the Link Manager and. Even if more granular bookmark-editing capability was not built into Wordpress, adding hooks to the link manager and the other link admin pages would allow for more sophisticated link management rules. Since the new bookmarks system is currently being rewritten, perhaps this can be added?

[markjaquith]

Hate the be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like the bookmarks rewrite is actually going the other direction: getting rid of the concept of link ownership.

​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2499#change_39

I'm going to leave this open so that you (or others) can make your case for keeping link ownership (if you definitely think it is worth keeping).

[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.

[ryan]

Right now ownership removal is not a done deal. We're considering removal because link ownership has caused a lot of confusion in the past. But there may be ways other than outright removal of ownership to clear the confusion. We can certainly do hooks, at least. I'll look into it.

[Nazgul]

No traction in over a year, so closing as wontfix.

Feel free to reopen if you have patches/suggestions/...