Mon Laboratoire Plugin

This WordPress plugin allows you to simply update the members, teams, themes, publications (from third party HAL or third party database Descartes Publi) of a laboratory’s web pages without any knowledge of web programming.

1. Upload \”MonLabo\” to the \”/wp-content/plugins/\” directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Configure Mon Laboratoire at page admin.php?page=MonLabo_config
4. Place shortcodes in your pages (shortcode list is given at page “wp-admin/admin.php?page=MonLabo”)

1. 

   Buit-in documentation

2. 

   Features configuration page

3. 

   Persons and structures edition page

4.8

Release Date – 15 July 2024

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • New tab “Privacy” in admin interface :
    • NEW : Add a privacy option to hide emails on website
  • New tab “pages” in admin interface :
    • EVOL : Move configuration of attachment page for the personal pages to this new tab “Pages”
    • EVOL : Can also define a parent page for pages of teams, thematics and units
    • NEW : Adapt warnings about unconfigured parent pages: Inline menu in creation page button and in advanced tools.
  • “Advanced tools” in admin interface :
    • EVOL : the part “Manage pages” is redesigned and more beautiful
    • NEW : new buttons for correct parent page of persons / teams / groups / units
  • MISC : Update to the last version of the logo of CNRS
• Reliability :
  • CODE: ready and tested for WordPress 6.6
  • JS/CODE : Modernize obsolete jQuery calls
  • CSS/CODE : Optimise code. Normaly do not change display.
  • CODE : Minify js and css (for test, not yet appliyed)
  • Internationalization :
    • BUG : Bad parent page for translated pages
    • BUG : Pages with no hidden title had a translated page with hidden title
    • BUG : Restore display of all pages that was masked by Polylang on some select menus (solution : add ‘&lang=all’ as pages parameters).
  • Import interface :
    • IMPROVE : Security, better check imported files.
    • BUG : Some special characters in fields were altered during an export then import operation
    • BUG : The algorithm for updating persons and teams via the import interface can potentialy confuse ids (bug never seen in real-life tests).
    • BUG : If an URL is given as an image of person imported, it was replaced by ‘DEFAULT’ instead of keeping URL.

4.7.2

Release Date – 27 March 2024

• BUG : For new installation option “Persons and teams” was not activated by default
• BUG : Syntax error on class_html.php for old version of PHP

4.7.1

Release Date – 25 March 2024

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • NEW option to configure database table prefix for the plugin :
    • In multisite installation, different sites can now share the same Mon-Laboratoire data.
    • Add the option to manualy change wordpress table prefix
  • NEW / IMPROVE admin advanced tools for persons and structures :
    • NEW : The user can export data to CSV file (persons, team_members, teams, thematics, units)
    • NEW : The user can import persons, teams and their relations from CSV files.
    • IMPROVE: Reorganize, makes it clearer and color buttons for admin advanced tools interface.
    • IMPROVE: Delete option “advanced tools for persons and structures”. The advanced tools are now always shown.
• Reliability :
  • CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.5 (test OK – nothing need to be changed)
  • BUG/IMPROVE: In page admin -> Page edit members -> table view : display all pages links and no URL error on external address.
  • CODE: Improve privacy and avoid tabnabbing phishing for external URL (add rel=”noopener noreferrer” after each target=”_blank”)
  • BUG: Documentation of shortcode [publications_list] was not inactivated when no publication server was selected in wp-admin/admin.php?page=MonLabo_config
  • CODE: Centralize use of dashicons
  • CODE: class Option can now adapt to any new option
  • CODE: Plugin can now run if php-mbstring librairy is not installed (in degraded mode for accentuated chars).
  • CODE: Plugin do not need php-curl librairy anymore

4.6

Release Date – 6 November 2023

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • IMPROVE admin interface for large numbers of staff :
    • Add a search field when selecting into large list (people, teams…)
    • Persons members can be driectly added from a team edit interface
  • Other IMPROVE of admin interface :
    • Better (and colored) submit buttons
    • Add an advanced tool to toggle to draft all alumni pages
    • generate WordPress pages (persons, teams…) with the block editor format (and no more “classic” editor format).
    • Open external links of admin interface in new windows (suggestion of user)
    • clear publication cache when publication configuration is updated
  • IMPROVE Help :
    • Add a link to a video presentation (in french) of functionalites.
    • Update URL of Aurehal
• Reliability :
  • IMPROVE : Signal an error if php curl plugin is missing.
  • BUG : Remove PHP warnings when “Persons and teams” configuration is uncheked
  • CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.4 (test OK – nothing need to be changed)
  • CODE : Test with PHP 7.2.33
  • CODE : Improve WordPress coding standards to new CS 3.0.0
  • CODE : Add an autoloader
  • CODE : replace ( isset(a) && !empty(a) ) by !empty(a)
• Prepare monlabo version 5.0 :
  • Rewrite all publications management step 1 : beta v1 shortcode [publications_list2]

4.5.2

Release Date – 14 August 2023

• CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.3 (test OK – nothing need to be changed)

4.5.1

Release Date – 5 june 2023

• CODE : Detect first configuration of plugin in order to a future installation task that will be proposed tu user.
• BUG : ERRORS with old versions of PHP (7.0.33)
• BUG : Impossible update of external URL of a person

4.4

Release Date – 16 March 2023

• IMPROVE : Add a much more visible button for emptying publications cache (add also a submenu to direct access this button)
• NEW : In tab “Advanced tool” :
  – Buttons for create missing pages of persons / teams / groups / units
  – Buttons for create missing translations of page of persons / teams / groups / units
  – Buttons for suppress invalid pages ID of persons / teams / groups / units
• BUG : The parent page of a translated page whas not the translated parent page of the page. Create this translated page if necessary.
• BUG : Uninstall was not functionnal (again). Retrofit V4.3.1
• CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.2 (remove use of obsolete function get_page_by_title)
  Minor or inconspicuous developments:
• EVOL : change URL hal.archives-ouvertes.fr to hal.science
• CODE : Set english as the default languages in code in order to prepare translation by external contributors
• CODE : Separate advanced features in specific files.

4.3.1

Release Date – 10 January 2023

• BUG : Uninstall was not functionnal (again).

4.3

Release Date – 26 October 2022

• NEW : Improve customization of texts and gendering for shortcodes :
  • Add inclusive french vocabulary (can be edited or suppressed with custom text config page)
  • Can customing texts about “supervised students” and “mentors”.
  • Beautify custom text config page and add embeded graphical help
• BUG : Supress \ (backslash) in excess while converting ‘ (apostrophe) into ’ (right single quotation mark) in person names.
• BUG/EVOL: Authorize empty unit code (UMR XXXX => ”)
• CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.1
  Minor or inconspicuous developments:
• EVOL : Add an official debugging option to shortcode [publications_list]

4.2

Release Date – 27 September 2022

• EVOL : Persons titles (ex : Pr. or Dr.) can be edited.
• IMPROVE : Add cache of HAL data in order to fasten rendering pages
• IMPROVE : In the configuration interface, clarify some legends of HAL fields
• CODE : Ready and tested for PHP 8.1
• BUG : HAL pages were empty when HAL server took more than 5s to generate
• BUG : Few text fields were not displayed in configuration menu
  Minor or inconspicuous developments:
• HELP : Simplify default help : do not display help on Descates Publi if this database is not activated.
• UNIT TEST BUG : Increase page number of default teams in order not to get it randomnly in unit test

4.1.1

Release Date – 29 August 2022

• BUG : Uninstall was not functionnal.

4.1

Release Date – 6 Jully 2022

• EVOL : Add support of plugin PolyLang-pro
• EVOL : Update HAL logo and Universite Paris Cité logo
• BUG : In some rare cases, bad symetry in json encoding of URL in field wp_pos_ids (can have no \ before each / in database).
• CODE : refactoring class Edit_Members.
• CODE : Reduce static analyse warnings (Class_Page, Class_shortcode)
• CODE : Reduce PHPMD warnings. Create class Shortcode_static, a static interface to all non static code of shorcodes.

4.0.1

Release Date – 24 May 2022

• BUG : Bad PolyLang translated links in some shortcodes (take into account current page language before get link of a translated page)

4.0

Release Date – 23 May 2022

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • IMPROVE : New config interface for managing pages of Persons, Teams, Thematics and Units
    • Add a radio-buttons-group Create/Choose/Edit/None for pages
    • Unification of interface for managing pages (same human friedly menus instead of sometime directly type IDs list)
    • ‘External URL’ is no more needed for Teams, Thematics and Units (fusion with this new functionality)
    • Create page if asked for Teams, Thematics and Units
    • Create multilingual pages if PolyLang activated
    • Signal pages attributed to other persons and structure
  • EVOL/IMPROVE : Translated pages with PolyLang are now well managed
    • translated pages are automatically used by the shortcodes
    • translated pages are displayed in config interface of person and structures
    • Create or delete translated page automatically
  • IMPORVE : add nice icons in admin menu
  • EVOL (minor) : Name of the config tabs URL are more expressive
  • EVOL : Persons picture is now managed more simply, i.e. separatly than featured image of the main page of person (drop also ‘alternate image’ field).
• Correct bugs :
  • BUG : in [members_chart] remove persons that are marked as not visible.
  • BUG : correct bad HTML in “custom texts” config page
• Improve reliability:
  • Ready and tested for WordPress 6.0
  • CODE : Deep refactoring : Simplify/reorganize a lot of class, properties and variables

3.6

Release Date – 25 January 2022

• Ready and tested for WordPress 5.9
• CODE: Strong refactor of code (access to Person and structures…) :
  • add classes Main_Struct, Persons_Group, Teams_Group
  • reducing warnings with static analizer PhpStan
  • better isolation between Person and structure models and controlers
  • reduce complexity of class AccessData (to be contunued)
• CODE (Minor) : clean CSS ways to prevent words to be cuted in panels

3.5.1

Release Date – 6 October 2021

• BUG : Remove debug print.

3.5

Release Date – 1 October 2021

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • BUG/EVOL : Better integration of Polylang, links are pointing on translated pages
  • NEW (admin interface): We can now add several mentors and students that are from outside the laboratory
  • NEW (admin interface): Mentors and students selection interfaces are hidden by default. Can be shown with a button.
• Improve reliability:
  • CODE: Deep refactoring in process (new classes…)
  • BUG: New line character was not kept in several text area
  • CODE: upgrade licence version from GPL-2.0-or-later to GPL-3.0-or-later

3.4

Release Date – 15 Jully 2021

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • EVOL: Improve [teams_list] – directors names are no more simple texts but links to their pages
  • CODE/EVOL : Transformation to uppercase of persons names is now done by CSS (thus can be reversed)
• Improve reliability:
  • CODE: ready and tested for WordPress 5.8
  • BUG: bad link to person that have multiple pages
  • BUG: Edition form of an alumni person do no more forget the state of alumni
  • BUG (minor): Correct bad alphabetic order in editing form (table view)
  • BUG (minor): Correct some bad display of default picture of persons in editing form
  • CODE: Correct hundreds of warnings given by static analizer PHPMD (PHAN static analyser is alredy used).

3.3

Release Date – 15 March 2021

• NEW : new language admin menu that permits:
  • force language in french or english
  • or, translate page in the language of user’s browser
  • or, be able to translate pages of persons, teams, units in two languages
  • or, use a translation plugin as Polylang
• NEW : accept either singular of plural form of parameters for most shortcodes.
  Parameters: year(s), categor(y/ies), team(s), unit(s), person(s), unit(s), group(s), thematic(s)
  Shortcodes: [members_list] [members_table] [members_chart] [former_members_list] [former_members_table] [former_members_chart] [teams_list] [publications_list]
• EVOL: Rename several shortcode with more explicit names (old names are still functionnal)
  • Rename [alumni_list] into [former_members_list]
  • Rename [alumni_table] into [former_members_table]
  • Rename [alumni_chart] into [former_members_chart]
    Minor or inconspicuous developments:
  • FIXES/CHANGES : display order of teams list for a person no more by team_id but alpabetically.
  • CODE : reduce complexity of several functions
  • CODE : Apply WordPress coding standards

3.2

Release Date – 25 February 2021

• Evolutions of functionalities :
  • FEAT: shortcode [publications_list] : Permit to chose the type of HAL publications to display => Add option hal_typepub
  • FEAT: shortcode [teams_list] : Add options ‘unit’ and ‘team’
  • EVOL: shortcode [teams_list] : Small rearange in design (badly arranged margins, limits and sizes. Limit logo of thematics in size).
  • EVOL: shortcode [team_panel] : Add links to thematics pages. Add logo and color block
• Correct bugs :
  • BUG: shortcode [teams_list] : Do not display groups if groups option is not enabled
  • BUG: shortcode [teams_list] : Cannot link internal team pages
  • BUG: Admin menu : New lines in “contact phone” of main structure was not taken into account
• Improve reliability :
  • Code ready and tested for WordPress 5.7
  • CODE: Correct hundreds of warnings given by static analizer Phan.
  • CODE: Declare type of most function parameters
  • CODE: Make code more independant with the use of namespace. Rename all class and their files.
  • CODE: Self document all code with PHPDOC
  • CODE: create a new class MonLabo_teams

3.1.3

Release Date – 27 January 2021

• Ready and tested for WordPress 5.6
• BUG : Repair broken link “Configuration” in extensions list
• BUG : On new installations, some default activated-options were not activated (at least MonLabo_uses_members_and_groups)
• BUG : Remove some warnings (function image_from_id_or_url())

3.1.2

Release Date – 21 December 2020

• BUG : On new installations, some default activated-options were not activated (at least MonLabo_uses_members_and_groups)

3.1.1

Release Date – 7 December 2020

• Ready and tested for WordPress 5.6
• BUG : Repair broken link “Configuration” in extensions list

3.1

Release Date – 19 October 2020

• Main evolutions of functionalities :
  • EVOL : A person can own several pages
  • EVOL : A person can own several emails (separated by coma)
  • EVOL : Add the option “person=” to shortcode [alumni_list] (as it already exists for [members_list])
• Main improvements or updates of interface:
  • DESIGN : Improve ergonomy of “Custom texts” config tab.
  • EVOL : Much easier configuration form for members WordPress address
  • EVOL : Correction of poor display of radio buttons in config interface.
• Main improvements about security and reliability:
  • CODE/BUG : Rewrite all code for chosing an image as a logo for Thematic, team or unit. Sometimes it was non functionnal.
  • CODE : Improve unit test coverage (6026 tests) and tested in WordPress multisite
• Minors :
  • EVOL : Allows user to customize text “Room” in team_panel.
  • DESIGN : Always displays “Custom texts” config tab. Lighten “Features” config tab.
  • EVOL : Add logo U-Paris. Suppress UPEC (non contributive since V2.0)
  • CODE : Detect obsolete database
  • CODE : Secure ajax code with a nonce to prevent unauthorized access
  • CODE : Secure all actions that accept POST with a nonce to prevent unauthorized access
  • BUG : Suppress php warnings that occur when creating new person, team, thematic or unit.
  • BUG : Suppress php warnings that occur when apparence fields in are empty in configuration interface.
  • BUG : Correct bad redirection of buttons for modifying teams, thematics or units in the admin tab “table view”
  • BUG : Bad alphabetic order of [members_list] with people that have accents in names. Order shoud be : E < É < F
  • BUG : Suppress warnings if database is empty
  • CODE : Correct few HTML warnings from W3C standards
  • BUG : Suppress a PHP warning in MonLabo_doc
  • BUG : In some server configuration, URL of default image for a person was wrong.

3.0.5

Release Date – 28 Jully 2020

• BUG : PHP error when activate multiple units mode and define no unit

3.0.4

Release Date – 27 Jully 2020

• BUG : Bad PHP warning of function error_MonLabo_perso_page_parent()

3.0.3

Release Date – 26 Jully 2020

• CODE: Convert text-domain and langage slug ‘MonLabo’ into ‘mon-laboratoire’ in order to be compatible with translate.wordpress.org
• BUG : Simplify some complex translation calls beause it was badly interpretated sometimes
• BUG: Solve potential errors of translations when blog language is different that page language (for instance if a translation plugin is installed).

3.0.2

Release Date – 18 Jully 2020

• BUG : Suppress warnings with PHP 7.4
• BUG : Sometimes “Room” was badly translated in shortcodes for members
• BUG : Sometimes language english was not taken into account : add en_GB translation
• BUG : WordPress official repository do not recognize that main language is french : add fr_FR translation

3.0.1

Release Date – 8 June 2020

• BUG : Suppress warnings in admin page

3.0

Release Date – 20 February 2020

• EVOL : The plugin is changing its name from “MonLabo” to “Mon Laboratoire”
• EVOL : The plugin is now in WordPress plugin repository
• EVOL : Remove backward compatibility for following obsolete shortcodes :
  • [members_list_automatic], [get_members_list]
  • [custom_publications_list], [publications_automatic]
  • [perso_panel_automatic]
  • [alumni]
• CODE : Suppress dead codes.

See changelog.txt for older, minor or inconspicuous changelog