Academic Blogger's Toolkit

by dsifford

Description

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

Overview of the reference manager screen.
Overview of the manual reference insertion screen.
Citation tooltips.

Reviews

Great plugin which sorely needs to work again!

By psysss (psysid) on July 21, 2023

Hello,

This is the best and only WP plugin which makes writing research articles practical on WP. It's urgently needed to have an update that works. I wouldn't mind paying for a license. So please Derek, do consider an update asap!

Thanks!

Does not show insert reference bar

By MarthaLindeman on November 27, 2020

I have not edited references on my blog since before the block editor. Now I have uninstalled and reinstalled academic toolkit and am trying to use it with the block editor. The user interface shows the bar starting with Add Reference and ending with three dots, but the bar (a-d) for inserting references is not shown. I have not found any way to insert a reference. I have 1296 items in my list of uncited references and I can select the one I want to insert. I just cannot get it to insert into the block where my cursor is located. Thanks in advance for your help!

Rigid User Experience

By ddewett on March 12, 2020

I did not use this plugin, because I was dissuaded from its use by the author's comments on this (very good) exchange (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-you-want-what-it-does-super-but-only-then/). Why am I leaving this review? I want the author to know that for a segment of the population, his design choices leave some of us to find other solutions. I design scientific software for a living, and I would appreciate the comments that I will make here. I can't imagine having any citation application where the citations are not stored in a database. There is a lot to unpack on that post and I suggest others read it before they download this package. Also, it does contain this ironic gem: "The overall UX of this forum is horrendous." In short, the author's rigid design choices cause his userbase to segment (to what degree, I can't say). I would like to thank him for his forthright description in this referenced post. I would suggest that he make it a sticky or change it into a FAQ. It actually saved me a ton of time, because I almost installed the plugin. Before we finish, yes I gave it two stars. I started at three to be neutral; however, your attitude to your users seems combative (and that warrants the downgrade).

Fantastic

By Janos Farkas (jfarkas) on November 27, 2019

Far better than anything else I've tried. Astonishingly rich in features, yet simple UI. Well thought out and very well done. Thank you

disabled support for classic editor??

By vastsite on October 8, 2019

the classic editor plugin has 5+ Million Active Installations. There is no other plugin that has more installations. How can you possibly justify disabling support for it? Very bad decision.

Perfect But Need Activate On Classic Editor

By AliReza Chamanzar (alirezach) on July 11, 2019

Tnx Man, I Love it Please Add Option to Activate Footnote on Classic Editor

Incompatible with WP Classic

By jlev00 on June 19, 2019

Because all academics love changes such as Gutenberg.

So Much More than a "Footnotes" Plugin

By (coffee_ninja) on May 17, 2019

Hi! I'm currently building a site called "Potfacts.info." The goal of this site is to essentially be the "Snopes of Cannabis," providing well researched information about cannabis complete with citations. I went looking for a simple footnoting plugin. Everything I originally found was low quality and hadn't been updated in ages. And expecting them to work well with Guternberg was laughable. Then I stumbled on Academic Blogger's Toolkit. This plug-in is just terrific. It's exactly what I wanted. In fact, it's way more than I wanted. The fact that I can give it a URL or an ISBN and it essentially does the hard work of building a proper citation and bibliography section for my article is just incredible, and a massive time-saver.

The Best

By Zalium on April 23, 2019

Undoubtedly the best solution for adding journal references to articles. Simplifies the process tremendously, just add the DOI number and all the details are automatically populated. And no shortcodes involved. Lots of customization options, although would have liked to have the option to disable the bibliography list at the bottom of the post, can get cluttered very quickly with multiple references. Having the inline reference alone looks much better.

Works perfect with new Gutenberg editor

By pro99 on April 17, 2019

I was a beta user and since version 5.0.5 this plugin works perfectly. I love the fact that you enter a URL and it structures the complete reference from the URL metadata automatically, plus you can add any missing field. Keep up the great work.

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.