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.

philliplord

This plugin displays who, what and when information about a blog and its 
posts; it provides widgets which readers can see, as well as a computational 
representation that allows computers to extract the same information. This 
provides greater clarity on who posts are written by, and how they should be 
cited. Readers can download the citation as a BibTeX file. Another widget 
provides deep links through to Web Archives, allowing readers to check old 
versions of posts.
It is part of the Knowledgeblog project (http://knowledgeblog.org), which is 
developing plugins to improve WordPress as a tool for academic publishing, 
either for individual authors, or for conferences and workshops publishing 
proceedings to the web. As well as this file, additional documentation is 
available at 
<a href="http://process.knowledgeblog.org/category/kblog-metadata" rel="nofollow ugc">process</a>.
It is often useful to embed bibliographic metadata, describing the author(s), 
title and publication date into a web page. There are a variety of different 
ways of doing this, described in a variety of different specifications and/or 
standards. These vary widely in their formality, uptake and age, as well as 
clarity with which the specification is written.
The practical upshot of this is that automatic capture of metadata which 
enables tools such as Greycite (http://greycite.knowledgeblog.org) and various 
bibliographic software to work is a somewhat ad hoc affair. Sometimes it 
works, sometimes it does not. Rather than requiring users to add a separate 
plugin for each of these specifications, kblog-metadata takes the approach of 
adding metadata in as many formats as possible, in the hope that, for any 
tool, at least one will work.
Kblog Metadata enhances the ability of WordPress to expose and edit 
bibliographic metadata of academic posts. It consists of a number of 
pieces of functionality
<ul>
<li>kblog-headers — adds invisible metadata</li>
<li>kblog-authors — allows multiple authors, without requring WordPress accounts</li>
<li>kblog-table-of-contents — displays all posts in a variety of formats. </li>
<li>kblog-title — set container titles (“blogname”) per post or using a custom taxonomy.</li>
<li>kblog-boilerplate — displays citation information as widget or in post 
content</li>
<li>kblog-download — downloaded bib or other formats for posts</li>
<li>kblog-archive — widget to display web archives</li>
</ul>
We will include new formats or specifications where possible, so long as they 
are not too computationally intensive. Please send email to the <a href="mailto:knowledgeblog@googlegroups.com" rel="nofollow ugc">mailing 
list</a> if you are interested in a new format.
<h3>Kblog Headers</h3>
There are many tools to which academics may want to advertise their work. We 
currently support three independent standards which are:
<ol>
<li>COinS (http://ocoins.info).</li>
<li>Meta tags as suggested by Google Scholar.</li>
<li>Open Graph Protocol (http://ogp.me) </li>
</ol>
These will be automatically added to add pages and posts on installation of 
the plugin. The metadata is taken either from the user profile, the WordPress 
metadata, or from Kblog Author metadata.
<h3>Kblog Table of Contents</h3>
The table of contents functionality comes in two forms: one designed for 
embedding in an existing page, and one for computational consumption. To add a 
table of contents to a page add a “shortcode” to your post contents.
[kblogtoc]
Additionally, it is also possible to retrieve a simple HTML or plain text 
representation of the table of contents from (http://blogurl/?kblog-toc=txt) 
or (http://blogurl/?kblog-toc=html). Author information comes from 
Kblog Author.
You can specify the default category for the table of contents from the 
Settings Menu, or accept the default which is to show them all.
<h3>Kblog Authors</h3>
Academic writing is more often multi-author than not, yet this is poorly 
supported within WordPress. While there are existing co-author plugins these 
often require assigning multiple user accounts, one per author, even though 
many authors will never login to WordPress. Within Kblog Authors you can add 
“display authors”, totally independently from WordPress accounts. They will 
appear on Kblog Table of Contents and in metadata generated by Kblog Headers.
Authors can be added either on the “Edit Post” page of WordPress, or through 
the use of an [author] shortcode within the document content. Authors 
specified within the post content take precedence.
<h3>Kblog Title</h3>
Authors may wish to alter the apparent title of their blog for a post or a 
group of posts. For example, I may wish to publish a paper that I have written 
for a conference on my own blog, but wish the metadata to refer to the 
conference. Alternatively, as with 
<a href="http://bio-ontologies.knowledgeblog.org" rel="nofollow ugc">bio-ontologies</a> I may wish to host 
multiple meetings on a single website (one per year, for instance), and have 
the year, or meeting number, appear in the metadata. Kblog Title allows both 
of these uses, by allowing the user to set the container name (“blogname”) 
either for an individual post, or using an Event tag.
<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
kblog-metadata includes the HumanNameParser from Jason Priem 
(http://jasonpriem.org/human-name-parse/) which is licensed under the MIT 
License.
<h3>Copyright</h3>
This plugin is copyright Phillip Lord, Newcastle University and is licensed 
under GPLv2.

Kblog Metadata

Displays bibliographic metadata both for humans and computers.

WP4Labs vs Kblog Metadata