Using Sharing Club for intiatives like a “Library of Things”

Hey Manu,

Thanks a lot for your great work and effort. We are an initiative from Germany that wants to use “Sharing Club” for our noncommercial “Library of things” (also called “Leihladen”), so people can see if objects are lended or not. Because Sharing Club seems to be more intertwined with BuddyPress, which we do not use, we would just need some changes, so we can use it:

Highly needed:
* If you open up the /shared_item/ url or page, you can see the objects, but not their status (like “available”). You only see the status, when you’re logged in. Also the lending end date would be really nice to take a look at.

Maybe we could work around following, but it would be really ugly:
* Objects and lendings don’t need a WordPress user. A string for lender and owner identification would be enough.

Optional:
* It would be great to shut off the review feature.
* The /shared_item/ page is styled differently logged in, than without.

I know, that’s a lot to ask, so maybe we could work on that together? Because I am more used to Git, maybe the plugin code could be hosted on some platform like gitlab or github. More people could easily get involved.

Thanks a lot for your work.

Bye,
socialquantum