BibCiter

I’ve created a plugin for WordPress so those using both applications together (WordPress and BibCiter) can easily cite in the former content at the later.

The plugin can add from one to three WordPress shortcodes so that embedding BibCiter citations in blog posts do not require but knowing the ID of a Work or an Author. The shortcodes are the following:

• BibCiter_Work embeds the “author (year) work”, the work being linked to its file on BibCiter
• BibCiter_Title just embeds the work’s title, linking it to its file on Bibciter
• BibCiter_Author embeds an author’s name, linking it to its file on Bibciter

To properly work, both BibCiter and WordPress must be installed under the same domain - though with simplest coding this can be easily changed.

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Here comes v1.1. The main change has been some little adaptations to be able to support a WordPress plugin and some issues about shifting towards charset UTF-8. I’m sorry about the latter because no doubt it will cause problems with some characters (especially for those using BibCiter with languages full of “special” characters). There’s some stuff on the Internet that can help in the transition. Patience will also play a good part.

Improvements in this v1.1 release:

• changed charset to utf-8. Might give some problems if updating
• transformed the database and files to support UTF-8 character coding
• improved the way styles are called (as a variable, not just printed along)
• made some minor changes to be able to work with a WordPress plugin
• created a WordPress plugin so that works and authors can be called from a blog post

I’m really proud to announce that, at last, v1.0 of BibCiter will see the light.

After two years and a half coding (!!!) and intensive use, I guess the creature is ready to have a life as a decent 1.0, no 0.anything, no betas.

This does not mean there is nothing to be improved, but let’s leave these improvements for v1.x or v2.0.

Improvements in this v1.0 release:

• way, way, way improved the way projects are cited, including huge improvement in bibliography citing styles management
• solved smallest issue with published works that are “references” (e.g. journals, reviews…) and have no publishing date/year
• slightly improved the exportation to BibTEX format
• improved accessibility
• improved comparison between two bibliographies
• added the possibility to “remember” the user logged in (setting a cookie up)
• in searches, if “not found” or results not satisfactory, possibility to directly add the query as a contact/work
• added the “title” attribute to authors when listed with links, showing the full name of the author instead of the “formal/citation” name

By the way, I dediced to remove the addition of sample data in the installation process, because I thought it just added noise and, sometimes, was a source of problems. I don’t think anybody’s gonna miss this ;)