Academic Blogger's Toolkit

October 24, 2019

Academic Blogger's Toolkit Plugin

A plugin extending the functionality of Wordpress for academic blogging.

FULLY SUPPORTS THE NEW BLOCK EDITOR!

Academic Blogger’s toolkit is an open source WordPress plugin providing an all-in-one solution for effective academic blogging.

This README page is not kept up to date!

For a constaintly updated, exhaustively detailed, introduction to this plugin and all its features, please visit the plugin’s GitHub Repository.

To dive right into the documentation, check out the Academic Blogger’s Toolkit Wiki!

Features

  • Insert formatted references on the fly using PMID, DOI (CrossRef, DataCite, & mEDRA), URL, or ISBN.
  • Manually insert formatted references from over 15 types of references.
  • Import a full bibliography from your favorite reference manager using an exported .ris file.
  • Automatically format references for every citation style on planet earth.
  • Fully interactive reference list which lives beside the post editor.
  • Insert and manager footnotes in the editor automatically.
  • Inline citations display full formatted references on the frontend when hovered with the mouse (or when tapped on mobile). No more scrolling down and losing your focus!

Contributing

If you’re a developer and would like to contribute, you can do so via this plugin’s GitHub Repository.

Screenshots

  1. Overview of the reference manager screen.

    Overview of the reference manager screen.

  2. Overview of the manual reference insertion screen.

    Overview of the manual reference insertion screen.

  3. Citation tooltips.

    Citation tooltips.

Changelog

5.2.2

Patches

  • Bump minimum required WordPress version to 5.3.

Note: If you updated to 5.2.1 already yesterday and are affected by the bug introduced, either install the gutenberg plugin temporarily until WordPress 5.3 is released, OR roll back to version 5.2.0.

See the previous changelogs here.

Details

  • Version: 5.2.2
  • Active installations: 500
  • WordPress Version: 5.3
  • Tested up to: 5.3.18
  • PHP Version: 7.0

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