Ben Balter

@moose29 I believe this thread is related to your problem and contains a link to a development version that may fix the problem.

WP Document Revisions should do exactly what you’ve described in both threads with very little configuration.

I can’t speak to the error you are having, but I know I’ve used that generator with several projects, and have not had any trouble. There may be some other plugins that have graphic interfaces to do the same, but I have not used them so I cannot reccomend one.

As for permissions, take a look at either the Members plugin or Role Scoper, both of which should allow you to lock down permissions to certain post types, categories, etc.

/Documents should work if pretty permalinks is enabled (and your theme displays posts on index.php), otherwise ?post_type = documents should do the same.

I hope the above prove helpful, otherwise, I am glad to connect on a more formal basis if this is something you are interested in pursuing.

Also, if you’d like, you’re welcome to give the development version a try which should resolve the issue.

Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the trouble.

Look for a update notice with a fix for this soon.

So even on that one, for example, you’ll notice there’s a document_shortcode_atts filter right below that that you can hook into prior to the shotcode being processed.

Either way, rewrote the way the shortcode handles arguments. The link to the dev version above should now work with author_name.

Specifically the shortcode should now accept: author, author_name, cat, category__and, category_name, day, hour, meta_compare, meta_key, meta_value, meta_value_num, minute, monthnum, name, numberposts, order, orderby, p, post_parent, post_status, second, tag, tag_id, {tax}, w, and year.

In theory, you shouldn’t have to update the plugin files at all. Most if not all of what the plugin does is hooking into the existing WordPress Plugin API, and then a handful of functions I’ve actually created additional API endpoints (for example, the action document_edit fires when WP loads the edit document screen).

I’d make each bit of functionality a separate, stand-alone plugin. The custom taxonomies can come from the custom taxonomy generator, and just set the post type to document. I’ve done that on a handful of sites.

If you properly add the custom taxonomies, you can add the custom columns using admin columns or just google and there’s some good tutorials out there for how to do it manually.