• I installed PDb because it seemed flexible enough to use as a plugin to our website (https://rchs.org.uk/), for the purpose of storing data about the photographs in our extensive historical archive. Setting up the custom fields was straightforward (e.g. location, date taken, photographer), but I’ve hit a problem regarding access to it.
    In addition to public access and administrator access, we also need Editor Access, where an accredited member can propose edits to individual records of his choosing, and Reviewer Access where someone senior can approve what has been proposed before the database is updated.
    This seems to imply having a means to record details of members names, their email addresses, and their level of permitted access. There won’t be many of them, maybe ten – fifteen editors and five reviewers.
    I can’t think of a way to do this, but then I’m not a WordPress expert. So is it possible at all, or is there another plugin that will better serve the purpose?

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  • Plugin Author Roland Barker

    (@xnau)

    Setting up an editor access is relatively easy, but the plugin does not provide a way to hold edits for review…any edits made to a record are immediately applied. There are no backups made of the record, so if the edits are not approved there isn’t any way to restore the previous state of the record.

    With the help of a WP developer, this kind of capability could be created, but the plugin does not support it as it is.

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