teachPress

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39 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 11 listed. 28 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

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Crossed into this band 6.4 years ago; the previous band took 4.2 years to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ maladd

   7mo ago

   I love the ease with which one can import from pubmed and bibtex. The plug-in author did an excellent job on really the hardest parts of maintaining publications.The only two thing that would make it absolutely perfect is if authors could be listed by lastname, first initial, AND if the link on the publication title was tied to to the doi link instead of dropping down for another link to click. I’ve tried link_style=”display”, which if I am reading correctly should resolve the link issue, but I see no change.There are other style things that aren’t my thing, but I can style them out by overriding the css.

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2. ★★★★★ Jenni

   1.6y ago

   A fantastic solution for displaying academic publication. Still got some small fixes but that is evolutionary. Thank you to the teachPress guy.

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3. ★★★★★ joeran

   3.1y ago

   Excellent add-on, I was looking for this for a long time. Thank you very much!

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4. ★★★★★ Paul Trafford

   4.4y ago

   I am using teachPress just for publications and have found it offers flexible display and filter options, encouraging me to augment my records with more metadata. I manage references in Zotero and export in BibTex (or Beter BibTex) and there’s generally good compatibility, though my (Mac) install of Zotero generates an empty first line that has to be deleted before being read by teachPress or else no items get created. Given that this issue was raised previously by @tfriedri (Can’t import bibtex), I’d like to echo the request for the plugin to ignore any initial blank lines before reading data. Also, the manipulation of the display of publications is handled by PHP, which works fine in normal operation, but this causes issues when creating static snapshots (e.g, when using wget, it generates many additional pages). Ideally, I’d like to see (the option of using) JavaScript instead, as with bib-publication-list on GitHub. Is this possible? Thank you. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Paul Trafford.

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5. ★★★★★ Ishko

   4.7y ago

   Teachpress plugin is a must-have for BibTex publication management with WordPress. Bulk import works well even with thousands of documents, template system customization works perfectly, the plugin is very stable and reliable. The best tool we found for this purpose (the only?). We haven’t tested the Courses Management as we didn’t need this part of the plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ wildimmunity

   4.9y ago

   I had been adding each of my publications to WordPress individually and battling other plugins for formatting and Altmetrics. This teachpress plugin does it all so easily. I exported my publications to Bibtex format, upload the Bibtex, and imported into teachpress. Then just have to add the shortcode to show all the publications. This makes is really easy to stay up-to-date. One request is to have the option to show the Altmetric as medium bar (instead of donut) and have it show up automatically without the need to click the Altmetric link.

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7. ★★★★★ rowhouse

   5.5y ago

   What a wonderful tool. Breezy documentation and excellent display. Still tinkering with the settings, but this is a win. Thanks so much!

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8. ★★★★★ Erlend Magnus Viggen

   6.5y ago

   I am using TeachPress on my personal academic web page to show a list of my publications, and it works great for this purpose. Giving it five stars is, for me, a no-brainer. This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Erlend Magnus Viggen.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 9.0.13 New: [tpcloud, tplist, tpsearch]: New parameter “show_abstract” (#277) New: [tpcloud, tplist, tpsearch]: New parameter “show_altmetric_type” Available badge types: donut, medium-donut, large-donut, bar, medium-bar, large 9.0.13
2. — Version 9.0.12 Bugfix: Fix an authenticated (Contributor) SQL Injection issue 9.0.12
3. — Version 9.0.11 Bugfix: Change used gettext functions 9.0.11
4. — Version 9.0.10 Bugfix: Fixes another CSRF vulnerability in tp import dialog (CVE-2025-1320) (Thanks to Krzysztof Zając for reporting) 9.0.10
5. — Version 9.0.9 Bugfix: Fix space handling in bibtex keys within publication exists check (#267) Bugfix: Unknown column ‘r.name’ in ‘where clause’ error in function TP:Authors::get_authors() (#262) 9.0.9
6. — Version 9.0.8 Bugfix: Fix an authenticated (Contributor) SQL Injection issue (CVE-2025-1321 ) (Thanks to Krzysztof Zając for reporting) 9.0.8

All 9 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (9.0.13). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 4.3 teachPress <= 9.0.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2026-01-06 CVE-2026-22483 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 9.0.12 Patched in 9.0.13
2. Patched Medium · 6.4 teachPress <= 9.0.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-12-30 CVE-2026-22353 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 9.0.12 Patched in 9.0.13
3. Patched Medium · 6.5 teachPress <= 9.0.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection ↗
   2025-04-04 CVE-2025-32149 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects <= 9.0.11 Patched in 9.0.12
4. Patched Medium · 4.3 teachPress <= 9.0.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Import Delete ↗
   2025-03-24 CVE-2025-1320 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 9.0.9 Patched in 9.0.10
5. Patched Medium · 6.5 teachPress <= 9.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection ↗
   2025-03-03 CVE-2025-1321 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects <= 9.0.7 Patched in 9.0.8
6. Patched Medium · 4.3 teachPress <= 9.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via delete_database() ↗
   2023-11-28 CVE-2023-49163 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 9.0.5 Patched in 9.0.6
7. Patched Medium · 5.3 teachPress <= 9.0.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2023-11-27 CVE-2023-48755 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 9.0.4 Patched in 9.0.5
8. Patched Medium · 6.1 teachPress <= 9.0.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via meta_field_id and cite_id ↗
   2023-06-22 CVE-2023-36501 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects < 9.0.3 Patched in 9.0.3
9. Patched High · 7.2 teachPress <= 8.1.8 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-01-17 CVE-2023-22704 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 8.1.8 Patched in 8.1.9

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2020-06-19 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1539 days in tier
2. 2016-04-02 900+ → 1K+ up after 302 days in tier
3. 2015-06-05 800+ → 900+ up

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teachPress: 2K+ active installs, 4.8★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/teachpress