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Code4Lib Journal WordPress Customizations

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Plugins: edits to represent a few changes to plugins
==Plugins==
 ===Anti-Spam/ Security===;[http://akismet.com/ AkimsetAkismet]:Filters out spamBaseline anti-link comments based on their contentspam.;[httphttps://recaptchawordpress.netorg/plugins/wordpress reCAPTCHAantispam-bee/ Antispam Bee]:Requires users After a number of experiments with anti-spam plugins, using this to copy augment Akismet seems to do a distorted word before they can commentpretty good job.;[https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/ Sucuri Security Plugin]:Scans for issues and sends updates when changes are made. This may be a bit overkill at times, but it also provides early detection of hacks.;[https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/ Really Simple SSL]:We have an SSL certificate through ibiblio. This plugin makes sure Wordpress uses HTTPS appropriately.
===Metadata===
;[http://www.wallandbinkley.com/quaedam/ COinS Quicktags Button]DOAJ Export:In the non-WYSIWYG editor, can be used Provides information about your posts formatted according to build a basic COinS tag. This has been abandoned in favor of the generator at http://generator.ocoinsDOAJ Article XML Schema.info/(J.Brinley)
;[http://www.lackoftalent.org/michael/blog/unapi-wordpress-plug-in/ unAPI Server]
:Provides information about articles. Useful for Zotero users. (M. Giarlo);[http://www.wallandbinkley.com/quaedam/ COinS Quicktags Button] - no longer installed; buggy:In the non-WYSIWYG editor, can be used to build a basic COinS tag. (P. Binkley):This was abandoned in favor of the generator at http://generator.ocoins.info/. However, the generator has now gone south and no longer seems to be supported.;[Google XML Sitemaps https://wordpress.org/plugins/www-xml-sitemap-generator-org/]:Generates search-engine friendly sitemaps.
===Presentation===
;[http://wordpresswww.org/extendviper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter/ SyntaxHighlighterEvolved]:Makes Post syntax-highlighted code pretty.
;C4LJ Custom the_author()
:Replaces the text returned by the_author() with the value of the "author" custom field. Necessary since articles are entered by their editors, but we want author information to appear on the articles and in the syndication feeds.
 
===User Feedback===
;[http://contactform7.com/ Contact Form 7]
:Email contact form plugin.
;[http://www.callum-macdonald.com/code/wp-mail-smtp/ WP-Mail-SMTP]
:Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail() and creates an options page to manage the settings.
===URLs===
;C4LJ Remove Parents
:A customization of http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-parents/. Prettifies category URLs so that issues appear at <code>http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue1</code> instead of <code>http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue1</code>.;[http://www(J.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart FeedBurner FeedSmith]:Redirects the main feed and the general comments feed to FeedBurnerBrinley)
===Workflow===
;[https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/ Classic Editor]:Restores option for classic editor functionality for anyone who finds it more usable than the new mobile-focused editor.;[https://github.com/code4lib/c4lj-issue-manager Issue Manager]:Enables one-click publishing of new issues, and prevents articles from being published until their associated issue is published. (J. Brinley);[http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revision-cleaner/ Revision Cleaner]:Auto clean your revisions that you don't needed any more.
;[http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/ Role Manager]
:Allows creation of custom roles and editing of roles' permissions. Used to create the Reviewer role, which can read Private articles, so that authors can see their articles before publication, and to prevent editors from publishing articles on accident.
;C4LJ Permissions
:Lets authors see pending posts. (J. Brinley)
;C4LJ Remove Parents
:Remove parent directories & "category" from category permalinks. (J. Brinley)
;Remove Special Word Characters
:Replaces special characters copied from MS Word with their entity equivalents. (J. Brinley)
==Upgrading==
 
These fixes were necessary for WP < 2.5, but should not be needed any longer.
 
===Save the &lt;div&gt;s===
Edit wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php, around line 25.
$valid_elements = '-strong/-b[*],-em/-i[*],-font[*],-ul[*],-ol[*],-li[*],*[*]';
==="Submit for Review"===
#Click "Unpublish" next to the category for the issue you want to keep unpublished.
#Any published articles with that category will revert to "Pending Review" status. Any new articles you attempt to publish will instead be set to "Pending Review".
 
==Google Code Repository==
The theme and plugins used by the Journal are available via [http://code.google.com/p/c4lj/ Google Code]. Some of the plugins are described on [http://xplus3.net/tag/plugins/ Jonathan Brinley's blog].
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