Paflow

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<li>Use WordPress 3.1 – Older Versions will cause trouble</li>
</ul>
WP4Labs is a small Plugin, wich provides some functions to manange a lab or a scientific group. I designed it for the websites of two Biolabs. It’s far away from being my first WP-Plugin, but it’s the first one I want to publish. I tested it in four or five WP-installtions on dofferent servers, and it seems to all OK.
It provides the following parts: 
– An advanced User Profile, containing some fields for academic career dates 
– in connection with that a connection to the ariw.org-database of scientific institutions wordl wide, to make it easer finding a specific institution and it’s URL 
– the possibility to manage users in academic groups, such as Alumni, Post-Doc, P.I. and such (customizable) 
– a local-avatar function which maintains the possibility for users to use a Gravatar (maybe someday I should take this one out and make a own plugin out of it) 
– a post-type called ‘project’, to which you can connect users to (scientific) groups. Only users with P.I.-status (for being leader of the group) can add or remove users.
A nice backend integration is built, I also ship some example templates to learn, how to integrate the provided functions to your theme.
<h3>Usage</h3>
For your template, build the following templates: 
archive-biofoo_project.php – This gives an overview of the existing projects. 
single-biofoo_project.php – Watch a single project.
Also you can edit your author.php to display the additional information.
The plugin contains some useful functions building these templates: 
 = get_biofoo(); 
Throw a from get_userinfo (not get_users!) or such into it, to get the advanced profile information. 
Example:
ba_degree or $user->ma_degree) or $user->phd_degree) : ?>
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ba_degree) : ?>B.A.ba_degree; ?> 
ma_degree) : ?>M.A.ma_degree; ?> 
phd_degree) : ?>Ph.D.phd_degree; ?>
echo_project_members(, , )
Displays (or returns) alls members of a project:
 INT or STRING 
The Id of a post with type biofoo_project. Instead of a post_id you may use the string keyword ‘all’ to get all users of the blog.
 STRING 
Default: boxes. 
Knows the following styles: 
* ‘longlist’ -> All members below each other with avatar and academic information. 
* ‘boxes’ -> Boxes with 
* ‘text’ -> The names of all members in a line as clickable links. 
* ‘return’ -> Displays nothing but returns an array with the members of the project.
 BOOLEAN 
Default: true
If set to false, users, which are in passive user groups like alumni are not displayed.
the_boss() 
Displays the leading members (P.I.s) of a project.
function list_users_projects() 
Displays a list of projects, a user is member of.
<h3>Update Log</h3>
1.5 
* Renamed file and folder to wp4labs.

WP4Labs

Adds some lightweight features to manage scientific groups and users.

oberlincilc

The Class Blogs plugin is meant to simplify the process of blogging as a class. 
It accomplishes this by making it easier to find, organize and analyze the 
work created by your students. The functions available to you to make this 
happen are provided and categorized below.
Widgets
If you are running WordPress in multisite mode, these widgets are only available 
on the main blog. If you are unsure about what this means, you don’t need to 
worry about it. The available widgets allow you to display the following:
<ul>
<li>Recent student posts.</li>
<li>Recent student comments.</li>
<li>A tag cloud built from the tags used on your students’ posts.</li>
<li>YouTube videos embedded in your student’s posts.</li>
<li>An image randomly taken from your students’ posts.</li>
<li>Links to view posts by each of your students.</li>
</ul>
Teacher Admin Pages
The Class Blogs plugin adds pages that will be visible only to you whenever you 
log in to the administrative side of the blog. These pages allow you to perform 
the following actions:
<ul>
<li>View a table of all student posts, sorted by date.</li>
<li>View a table of all student comments, sorted by date.</li>
<li>View word counts for all student posts and comments, broken down by week.</li>
<li>Add links to all student blogs if running in multisite mode.</li>
<li>Optionally disable comments on all current and future posts.</li>
</ul>
Student Admin Pages
The Class Blogs plugin adds pages that will be visible to each student whenever 
they log in to create content. These pages allow students to do the following:
<ul>
<li>Create a pseudonym by changing their username and full name.</li>
<li>See how many words they have written for the current week.</li>
</ul>
Other
In addition to the above plugins, the Class Blogs plugin provides a few 
additional features that do the following:
<ul>
<li>Add a link to create a gravatar to the bottom of each user-activation email.</li>
<li>Set a student’s first and last name based on their email address.</li>
<li>Automatically approve all comments left by students on other students’ blogs.</li>
</ul>
Themes
This plugin also includes a theme that takes advantage of the above features 
to display information on your students’ posts in a clear, easy-to-navigate manner. 
Instead of showing posts sorted by date, the main page displays recent student 
posts grouped by student, with students having newer material appearing first.

Class Blogs

Makes it easy to use blogs in your teaching.

WP4Labs vs Class Blogs