Paflow

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<li>Use WordPress 3.1 – Older Versions will cause trouble</li>
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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.

zuotian

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Enhanced Bibliplug creates a central repository for researchers to organize and display their academic work either individually or in a collaborative environment. This plugin is designed to synchronize with Zotero accounts.
Key features include:
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<li>database schema for storing bibliographical references.</li>
<li>administration pages to manage the references.</li>
<li>short code for easy retrieval of references based on author, year, and publication type.</li>
<li>the ability to connect and synchronize with Zotero accounts.</li>
<li>a custom Author page template to display user’s academic title, affiliation, bio, and CV content such as publications and presentations.</li>
<li>short code for listing all users of the site.</li>
<li>the ability to group and retrieve references based on custom categories and tags.</li>
</ol>
Companion plugin:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-publication/" rel="ugc">Enhanced Publication</a>
<h4>Reference short codes</h4>
References can be displayed on any post/page using short code bibliplug.
<pre><code>[bibliplug id=2] displays a single reference.
[bibliplug last_name='Smith'] displays references by author/editor last name.
[bibliplug first_name='John'] displays references by author/editor first name.
[bibliplug type='book'] displays all books.
[bibliplug category='chapter7'] displays all references under category chapter7.
[bibliplug tag='biology'] displays all references with tag biology.
[bibliplug year='2008'] displays all references published in 2008.
[bibliplug format='full'] displays references with abstracts. Default is 'normal'.
[bibliplug keywords='biology, genome'] displays references with any given keywords.
[bibliplug order_by='last_name, year-, title'] displays references first ordered by first author's last name, then by publish
</code></pre>
year in descending order, then by title. You can also sort by first_name (first author’s first name), date (publication date), 
and type (publication type). By default, text fields are sorted alphabatically from A-Z, dates are sorted from oldest to newest, 
and numbers are sorted from small to big. To invert the sorting order of a field, add “-” at the end of the field name to indicate 
that the field should be sorted in descending order.
Note:
You can mix-match any arguments except:
<ul>
<li>If id is used, other arguments are ignored.</li>
<li>If category is used, tag is ignored.</li>
</ul>
Other than types shown in the drop down box when editing a reference, there are two super types you can use.
<ul>
<li>Publication => any type that’s not presentation or conference paper.</li>
<li>Presentation => presentation and conference paper.</li>
</ul>
All references are shown in Chicago Style Author-Date System.
<h4>Author profile short codes</h4>
Author list can be displayed on any post/page using short code bibliplug_authors.
<pre><code>[bibliplug_authors id=2] display a single user by its user id.
[bibliplug_authors format='profile'] displays all users with user info and bio.
[bibliplug_authors format='list'] displays all users with user info.
[bibliplug_authors format='mini'] displays all users with profile pictures.
</code></pre>
Note: 
You can use id and format in the same short code instance.
<h4>Included packages</h4>
<a href="https://github.com/clioweb/phpZotero" title="phpZotero" rel="nofollow ugc">phpZotero</a> version 0.2 by Jeremy Boggs, Sean Takats.

Enhanced BibliPlug

Collaborative bibliography management for authors in WordPress.

WP4Labs vs Enhanced BibliPlug