March 15, 2024

WP Abstracts Plugin

Manage conferences, abstracts submission, authors, reviews, attachments, email notifications and more.

Manage abstracts submissions on your site. Manage everything from events, abstracts, authors, reviews, attachments, email notifications and more.
Authors submit abstracts and upload papers from the front-end while site administrators manage submissions and assigns reviewers from the admin panel.

View view demo or get more information at wpabstracts.com

For advance features including the option to assign unlimited reviewers, automated email alerts, email templates, reports, custom titles and headings, PDF and CSV exports and more get the pro version

Current Language Support (more coming)
– Spanish (Argentina, es_AR)
– Spanish (Chile, es_CL)
– Spanish (Spain, es_ES)
– Greek (Greece, el)
– Turkish (tr_TR)
– Persian (Iran, fa_IR)
– German (Germany, de_DE)
– Portuguese (Brazil, pt_BR)
– French (France, fr_FR)
– Dutch (Netherlands, nl_NL)

Installation

Upload wpabstracts to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Create your event on the events tab and take note of the event ID for the next step
Place [wpabstracts event_id=ID] shortcode in a page to show the user dashboard

Screenshots

Abstracts Tab
Assign Reviewers Tab
Multi Reviews Tab
Reports Tab
Reviews Tab
Settings Tab
Users Tab
Summary Tab

FAQ

Q. When I added [wpabstracts event_id=ID] shortcode to a front-end page, the layout did not fit the page.

A. Ensure to select the full-width template for the page using [wpabstracts event_id=ID] (no side columns).

Q. After installing the plugin and add [wpabstracts event_id=ID] to the front-end, I’m still unable to submit abstracts.

A. You must create an event (e.g. EPA Conference 2023) with topics. Check your event and ensure you add at least one topic.

Q. I see a login page but no way for users to register.

A. Enable the “Anyone can register” option from WordPress Settings, General tab to enable and display the register link.

Q. When I click the ‘New Abstract’ menu I’m redirected to the home page.

A. Enable the ‘Post name’ or ‘Custom Structure’ option as your Permalinks. Go to WordPress Settings->Permalinks to make this change.

Changelog

2.6.5 – 03/14/2024

Security – Implement WordPress best practices for unsafe SQL calls using wpdb->prepare()
Compatibility testing up to WP 6.4.3

2.6.4 – 03/10/2024

Security – Resolved insufficient input sanitization on events settings and reset password page.
Compatibility testing up to WP 6.4.3

2.6.3 – 07/27/2023

Security – Resolved insufficient input sanitization on events settings page.
Compatibility testing up to WP 6.2.2

2.6.2 – 06/11/2023

Fix – Resolved issue with status change notifications emails
Security – Resolved insufficient input sanitization on reset password page.
Compatibility testing up to WP 6.2.2

2.6.1 – 02/04/2023

Fix – Resolved issue deleting Abstracts from the author dashbaord
Fix – Intermittent jQuery console error
Compatibility testing up to WP 6.1.1

2.6.0 – 01/07/2023

Feature – Added email log tab to show all emails sent by the plugin
Feature – Added ability to customize info included in PDF exports
Feature – Added shortcode and admin settings to display accepted submissions publicly
Fix – Event specific dashboard now correctly filters by specified event identifier
Improvement – Allow authors to edit submission across multiple statuses
Improvement – Added author and presenter shortcode to email templates
Improvement – Updated missing language translations
Compatibility testing up to WP 6.1.1

2.5.1 – 04/14/2021

Fix – Fixed error where submission status on dashboard did not match status in admin
Compatibility testing with WP 5.7

2.5.0 – 03/18/2021

Version sync with upcoming WP Abstracts Pro
Compatibility testing with WP 5.7

2.4.0 – 08/09/2020

Feature – Added automated email notifications for submisison, revision and status change.
Fix – Missing DB table and function error on dashboard
Fix – Fixed PHP 7+ warning when updating settings
Improvement – Updated PDF generator (mPDF) to v8.0.x (Requires PHP >=5.6)
Improvement – Improved navigation, move attachments under Abstracts etc
Compatibility testing with WP 5.4.2 (and php 7.4.2)

2.3.2 – 05/10/2020

Fix – Fixed PHP warning when updating settings
Compatibility testing with WP 5.4.1

2.3.1 – 05/08/2020

Fix – Corrected error when changing submission status
Compatibility testing with WP 5.4.1

2.3.0 – 03/12/2020

Feature – Added the ability to archive events
Feature – Added more filters to abstracts admin screen
Feature – Added ability to add unlimted status
Feature – Added the ability to set a default status for new submissions
Feature – Added read-only mode for submissions when not editable
Feature – Added ability to ignore user activation at login (when users are registered outside WP Abstracts)
Feature – Added ability to make attachments required or optional
Feature – Added the ability to limit the amount of submissions per user
Improvement – Moved Abstract settings to nested tab and added ability to customize abstract admin columns
Improvement – Unlocked more Abstract settings
Improvement – Added option to set Abstract column display in admin
Improvement – Added check for GD library before using allowing Captcha
Improvement – Added email validation on author and presenter emails
Compatibility testing with WP 5.3.2

2.0.1 – 03/25/2019

Fixed – Correct issue with WordPress admin bar not showing when enabled

2.0.0 – 03/20/2019

Feature – Added customizable user registration using form builder
Feature – Enable or disable forced redirection to author dashboard after login
Feature – Added ability to export submission as PDF
Feature – Added the ability to add multiple presenters
Feature – Implemented shortcode for registration form. Use [wpabstracts_register] show the registration form
Feature – Implemented shortcode for login form. Use [wpabstracts_login] show the login form
Feature – Added ability to bulk download selected attachments
Improvement – Improved and included FAQs under help tab
Improvement – Added Dutch (Netherlands) translation (Thanks to Bas van den Oever)
Improvement – Added Spanish (Chile) translation (Thanks to Cristian Nova Castillo)
Improvement – Added Spanish (Argentina) translation (Thanks to Veronica Gomez)
Compatibility testing with WP 5.1

1.6.5 – 07/03/2018

Fixed issue with submission forms validation (events, abstracts and reviews) when other inputs are present on the page.
Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.6

1.6.4 – 04/24/2018

Fixed typo on events shortcode quick copy
Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.5

1.6.3 – 04/08/2018

Added shortcode to event table with quick copy
Fixed topics displaying incorrectly
Fixed pagination when abstracts filters are used
Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.5

1.6.2 – 03/05/2018

Added submission deadline check to Abstract submission page
Fixed issue affecting word counter
Fixed issue that concatenated topics after upgrading to PRO
Fixed issue affecting downloading certain file types
Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.4

1.6.1 – 12/30/2017

Added validation and error messaging for attachment uploads
Improvement – added ability for users to remove and add new attachments while editing abstracts
Fixed issue that affected uploading large attachments
Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.1

1.6.0 – 12/14/2017

Added preference filter to abstract list
Added ability to create and export a zip of all attachments
Added search option for attachment list
Added abstract Id to attachment list
Added option to enable or disable registration from settings tab
Improvement – Facelift the login form and added Lost Password link
Added German translation (Thanks to Wolfgang Saus)
Added Brazilian translation (Thanks to Gabriel Vieira)
Removed – Removed the Summary tab
Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.1

1.5.4 – 04/26/2017

Added language support for Spanish – Thanks to Verónica Gómez

1.5.3 – 10/11/2016

Fixed DB tables character set and collation mismatch

1.5.2 – 06/08/2016

Added persistent paging when changing abstracts status
Added language support for Persian – Thanks to Sedmostafa Shafiee
Added language support for Turkish – Thanks to Riza Ogras
Fixed pagination issue on abstracts list table

1.5.1 – 05/25/2016

Fixed issue with shortcode that caused wpabstract content to appear above page title
Compatibility testing with WP 4.5.2

1.5.0 – 05/08/2016

Added status filter and search to abstracts list
Added ability to change status on abstracts list
Added optional keywords field to submission page and setting option
Added optional terms & conditions to submission page and setting option
Added the ability to delete abstracts from dashboard
Added submission deadline on events
Added newly designed admin area
Added ability to change admin themes
Fixed Show/Hide admin bar setting – now affects only logged in users.
Fixed word count on submission page
Minor admin styling changes.
Compatibility testing with WP 4.5

1.4.0 – 05/08/2016

Added newly designed author submission form
Added author instructions to Settings and author submission form
Added affiliation to Author information
Added search field on Abstracts tab
Added help guidance on Settings Tab
Added ability to turn off attachments
Added preference to set maximum attachments
Added delete bulk action on attachments tab
Added reports and emails tab (Pro Version only)
Minor admin styling changes.
Compatibility testing with WP 4.3.1

1.3.0 – 05/14/2014

Added language support for Greek – Thanks to Stergatou Eleni
Added check if auto registration is allowed
Added get_option(‘date_format’) . ‘ ‘ . get_option(‘time_format’) for abstracts display in admin pages
Add flick as jquery ui css theme
Fixed PHP short tags
Fixed debug notices
Compatibility testing with WP 3.9.1

1.2.0 – 01/23/2014

Added front-end dashboard for Authors to edit submitted abstracts
Added option to specify topics on events
Added support for WP List Tables class – Bulk Actions
Fixed possible jQuery conflict
FIxed bug when downloading attachments
Modified JS scripts to load on plugin page only (reduces conflicts)
Improved performance issues – less DB queries
Compatibility testing with WP 3.8 and popular WP themes.
Minor admin styling changes.

1.1.0 – 10/29/2013

Added option co-authors
Fixed upload issue for approved file extensions
Fixed missing html tags in abstract description
Minor fix in styling

1.0 – 09/13/2013

Initial Release