teachPress

Specially designed for websites run by professors, research groups, boards, student groups or even educational institutes.

The plugin comes with a very advanced admin interface for advanced customization and management.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• New:
• Partial Slovenian translation added
• Fade out status messages of the document manager after some seconds
• Changed:
• Better course select list for the document manager
• Bugfix:
• Fixed a bug in the handling of volume/number formatting in a publication meta row under certain conditions
• Capability checks added for course actions (editing and deleting)
• Fixed an "order by" bug in get_tp_options()
• Prevent loading of frontent scripts/styles in the document manager tab of the tinyMCE plugin
• Author filter doesn't consider the user parameter

What is new in version 5.0.8:

• Fixed an old installer bug, which adds the wrong template for related content.

What is new in version 5.0.7:

• Fixed an old installer bug, which adds the wrong template for related content.

What is new in version 5.0.0:

• New:
• A real author filter for publications added
• Autocomplete for authors/editors added
• Meta data system for courses, students and publications added
• Assessment management for courses added
• Simple capability management for courses added
• Simple document management for courses added
• Direct export of .bib files for selected publications added (via "Show as BibTeX entry")
• Option for converting utf-8 chars into BibTeX compatible ASCII strings
• Direct creation of related content based on drafts added
• Direct creation of sub courses added
• Page menu for enrollments added
• DOI field for publications added
• Shortcode [tpcourseinfo]
• Shortcode [tpcoursedocs]
• [tpenrollments]: New parameter "date_format" added
• [tpcloud]: New parameter "show_tags_as" added
• tinyMCE 4 plugin for inserting shortcodes and documents
• Send notification to a student if his registration is moved from the waitinglist to the course by automatic fill up
• Editable time limit for exports and uploads added (constant TEACHPRESS_TIME_LIMIT)
• Changed:
• Rewritten core API
• Rewritten Shortcode [tpcloud]
• Rewritten Shortcode [tpenrollments]
• [tpcloud, tplist]: Pagination is enabled by default, the parameter entries_per_page is set to 50 (before: 30)
• UI modifications for better integration in WordPress 3.9+
• Using HTML5s "required" attribute for required fields in registration forms
• Using parameters instead of variables for the definition of database table names
• Visible names for some publication types changed
• Using field type "search" for search fields
• Increased varchar limit for some field in table teachpress_pub (author,editor --> 3000 chars; institution, organization --> 500 chars)
• The parameters TP_COURSE_SYSTEM and TP_PUBLICATION_SYSTEM were renamed to TEACHPRESS_COURSE_MODULE and TEACHPRESS_PUBLICATION_MODULE
• The plugin requires at least WordPress 3.9 instead of 3.3
• Bugfix:
• Fixed the handling of curly-brackets for the definition of surnames in author/editor names
• Replace double spaces in author/editor names
• BibTeX import: Better identification for the date of publishing
• teachPress books widget works again

What is new in version 4.3.8:

• Bugfix:
• Prevent adding of -tags within publication meta rows in XML and RTF files.
• Usage of editor names instead of author names in feeds and RTF files.
• Re-enabled XLS export for enrollments.

What is new in version 4.3.4:

• New:
• Support for WordPress 3.9
• Bugfix:
• Fixed a problem in settings menu with a wrong return to the correct tab
• Fixed the closing of the mass edit menu for publications
• Fixed some style issues in context with the new WordPress UI design

What is new in version 4.3.3:

• New:
• [tpcloud, tplist]: New headline option (headline = 4: sort by type and year) added.

What is new in version 4.2.1:

• New:
• [tpcloud], [tplist], [tpsearch]: Style option "std_num" added
• [tpcloud], [tplist]: Style option "std_num_desc" added
• Changed:
• Auto wordwrap for abstracts disabled

What is new in version 4.1.1:

• Bugfix:
• Fixed an improper presentation of meta information in some cases if the publication type is presentation
• [tpenrollments]: Prevent execution of tp_add_signup() and tp_delete_signup_student() if there was no course selected
• Fixed embedding of scripts and images for SSL-Sessions

What is new in version 4.1.0:

• New:
• Optional pagination added.
• New parameters "pagination" and "entries_per_page" added.
• New headline option added (sort by year and type).
• Publication type "periodical" added.
• Field "issuetitle" added for publications with the type "periodical".
• Bugfix:
• Changing of the "order" parameter has not worked.
• Fixed a bug which prevents adding of publications.

What is new in version 4.0.3:

• New:
• Parameter "key" added
• Bugfix:
• Sub courses were displayed in a wrong way
• Fixed the handling of "In:" strings for publication meta rows

What is new in version 4.0.2:

• Bugfix:
• Try to fix a problem with invisible publications.
• Fixed a problem with a possible division through in add_publication.php.

What is new in version 3.1.5:

• Changed:
• Update for Slovak translation
• Update all .po language files

What is new in version 3.1.2:

• New parameter "term" for selecting the term you want to show.

What is new in version 3.1.1:

• Bugfixes:
• Missing statement for full courses in the enrollment system
• The URL field of teachpress_pub table was not changed from varchar to text

What is new in version 3.1.0:

• New:
• [tplist, tpcloud]: New parameter "exclude" for excluding publications from the lists
• [tplist, tpcloud]: New parameter "link_style"
• [tplist, tpcloud]: Abstracts will be displayed directly in publication lists
• [tplist]: Abstracts and BibTeX entries will be displayed
• [tplist]: Expand type parameter for more than one publication type
• Sending emails as a separate copy to the email author (optional)
• Adding more than one website/file to a publication
• Some small UI improvements
• Slovak translation added
• Changed:
• URL field for publications changed from varchar to text
• Using INNODB as default database engine
• Using transactions for subscribing/unsubscribing users
• Names of some CSS style classes in publication lists
• Bugfix:
• BibTeX import ignores date field
• BibTeX export could not display edition field
• Colspan was not set in publication tables
• Highlighting of the saved date in datepicker doesn't work
• Students were not correctly deleted
• Fixed a bug in displaying publications: year was not displayed for booklets
• Fixed a bug which prevent an installation under WordPress Multisite
• Fixed a bug which prevent adding of publications
• Killed:
• Log system, teachpress_log table

What is new in version 3.0.0:

• New:
• New option for hiding the headline
• New option for displaying a simple text under the headline
• New option for listing publications after type, year (Set headline=2 for this)
• New parameter "headline" is available
• Tags (Keywords) will be displayed in BibTeX entries
• E-Mail notifications for users if they are signed up for a course or for a waitinglist of a course
• Writing E-Mails directly from the admin menu
• File export for publications added: .txt(BibTeX) and .rtf format
• Datepicker translations for Spanisch and Italian added
• Plural forms for the publication types added
• Changed:
• Use add_help_tab instead an own help tab on teachpress admin screens
• Use the integrated jQuery library from WordPress (i.e. datepicker) instead of an own
• Use the style of button-primary / button-secondary from WP instead of an own copy
• Line breaks in course comments will be displayed
• "id"-parameter renamed to "user"
• Hide invisible child courses
• If there is no URL given for a publication, teachPress tests if there is an related page instead
• Bugfix:
• Using of undefined constants
• Using of undefined variables
• Publication title was not displayed in BibTeX strings
• Deprecated call of load_plugin_textdomain
• Installation of the tables teachpress_relation, teachpress_signup failed
• Unable to reset the publication type filter

What is new in version 2.3.3:

• New: WordPress Media Importer is now usable for the URL field of a publication.
• Changed: The parameters.php isn't longer required.
• Bugfix: Fixed some CSS bugs in conjunction with WordPress 3.2.

What is new in version 2.2.0:

• New: If you want it, you can now use custom post types instead of pages for the related page links.
• Info: WordPress 2.8 is not longer supported.

What is new in version 2.1.1:

• New: Strict Subscribing.
• New: Improved Admin menu.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.3 or higher