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If anything, you should upgrade just for security purposes.

This seems very promising for any who need this functionality. I’ll have to check it out next week.

Thanks for the work. 🙂

Maybe try a different code highlighting plugin? It may be that Highlight Source Pro doesn’t property handle the decrement operator.

Do you use a plugin to display code? If not, doing so might resolve this issue. Check the plugin database, there are quite a few. WP-Syntax comes to mind.

Well, something like post_agent. Except that doesn’t seem to exist. On the comment side of things, WordPress stores the user agent that was used when the comment was published (obviously, since you and I have been working with this).

Buuuuuut, I can’t find anything similar for a post. Obviously we can grab the user agent of a user, but I just figured if we had a comment_agent we’d have a post_agent or something similar.

Otherwise I’m stuck needing to write a function(s) that detects an author’s user_agent at the time of post publish and stores that information in connection with the post, right?

P.S. – Started looking at your plugin code. It’s really a pretty interesting concept, though some of it is way over my head yet. Still picking through it, though. 🙂

Finally getting a chance to pick this back up. Hey t31os (or anyone else reading)…

So we can grab the user agent a comment was made from with $comment->comment_agent.

BUT, I don’t see anything similar for a post. Am I missing it?

The short answer is yes, it can do it. WordPress is malleable enough to do almost anything.

The long answer is yes, BUT you won’t get anywhere near your goal with out-of-the-box functionality. You’d need a sizeable set of plugins and code modification.

Without giving it much thought, here’s some brainstorming on ideas:

Each user upload would be attached to a post, post could have short description of the upload. Post could use categories, tags, and custom fields, all of which are searchable either natively, with existing or custom plugins.

Utilize WP’s built-in roles and a/some capability management plugins to have tiered user groups. Simple contributor could be free account with only viewing and commenting priveleges. Author-level user could be by paid membership, have their own author page (via WordPress built-in author template functionality). Could be given upload priveleges (no idea how you’d restrict this, I’ve not worked with user uploads before).

Since each upload is attached to a post, could use GD Star Rating plugin as your content review mechanism, wherein users could rate the upload via the plugin rating function and site management could provide a review of the content via the plugin’s review function.

I don’t know how/if you’d need to set up custom search functions to search through tags/categories/custom fields/etc.

Blog and space for advertising already taken care of by WP native functionality and a well-chosen theme or coded custom theme with ad space.

I don’t know how all of that would work, but those are the ideas that were swimming in my head. Always a fun exercise. 🙂

I’m not sure what you mean by “automating” it, but you can check out a few things:

WordPress MU – This is what WordPress.com is built on, and you can set up your own self-hosted installation. Be aware, installation and setup are not as…beginner friendly…as regular WordPress.org.

Blogs.mu – This is a managed multiblog solution built on WordPress MU. I wrote up a short review of the free and paid features. Keep in mind the review is from the perspective of someone who runs a WordPress site, so while someone who’s never used WordPress might be wowed by Blogs.mu, I was relatively underwhelmed with the free features, and would feel held back by the restrictions even on the paid features. But it could be just what you need.