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Advanced document management - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Creating an Intranet Website
Advanced document management
- [Instructor] A common use for intranets is document sharing and management. This can be anything from hosting commonly used documents, like letterheads and employee handbooks in a common location, to sharing specific purpose documents like sales leads forms, boilerplate contracts, HR and legal documents, et cetera. The WordPress media library allows for uploading of documents, but the functionality in the media library is often too limited for effective document management. If you want features like version control and revision history, persistent URLs, and automatic document directory, you need to use a plugin. On the Landon site, I've used two plugins to allow robust document management. The first one is WP Document Revisions. I use this for handling documents themselves. The second one is Custom Post Type UI, and I use it to add custom taxonomies to these documents. Let's see how all this works. On the back…