WP Publications Archive

This great plugin is no longer supported by the original developer. Is anyone here interested in taking over?

genevaeagles,

This plugin actually still functions – the only thing is, you have to rename the folder. Change from:

wp-publications-archive_1.1

to

wp-publications-archive

If you’re getting the “WordPress cannot load wp-publications-archive.upload.php” error.

The plugin will then create a directory in your uploads dir called publications – chmod this to 777.

I’ve been playing around with it for about 20 minutes and it mostly seems to work – some javascript has failed, but that is about it.

Let me know how this works out for you and thanks for bringing this plugin to light for me!

-Mike

Note: There also seems to be a problem with the file titled wp_up_face.php. This is the file that the plugin links to to display each upload. I have been able to circumvent this (at least on the “Front Office” view) by comenting out the code at line 673 and adding the following above it:

$result->mfUrl = str_replace( ABSPATH, get_bloginfo('url') . '/', $result->fileName );
$result->mfFileName = explode( '/', $result->mfUrl );
$result->mfFileName = array_reverse( $result->mfFileName, FALSE );
$result->mfFileName[0] = urlencode( $result->mfFileName[0] );
$result->mfUrlEncoded = implode( '/', array_reverse( $result->mfFileName ) );
print  'href="' . $result->mfUrlEncoded . '"';

This may not work on a windows host.

Hope this helps,
-Mike

mfields,
thx for your reply.

I know it’s working almost fine but as the developer told he stopped to support, I’m a bit worried for future WP version.

But I do actually have a little problem – could you maybe help?

What I found out is that when I download the file from inside the Dashboard, it redirects
to the following link:
https://mysitename/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php?action=open&file=2

and the download works.
But when I try to set up a page, it uses the following link:
https://mysitename/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php?action=open&file=2

and the download is not working.

I’ll guess that this is my only problem with the plugin.

on line 673 in the plugin’s wp_up_face.php file you will find the following code:

echo " href='".$this->url."/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php...

Change the part that says:

$this->url

to

get_bloginfo('url')

This should work – I always install wordpress in root directory so I am not 100% certain, but a call to get_bloginfo('url') should return https://yourdomain/wordpress.

I agree that this plugin needs some serious maintenance. I might take it up as that I’ve been on an off creating something much like it. (more off than on in the past 9 months!). How does one go about that? Just pick it up and re-release it? Never done such a thing – I know the GPL is cool and all – but can I just grab something like this and make it my own while giving credit back to the original author?

Let me know if this works,
-Mike

BTW: how did you get openfile.php to work?

I’ll sure try this and let you know how it worked.

I think it would be great if someone is taking over – such a great plugin. Would be a shame to lose it.

I did put the link to the plugin “home” in my first post. You should go and check it out – maybe contact the guy and tell him you’re interested in taking over.

For you’re question about the openfile.php – I just uploaded the plugin files to my directory and that’s about it. Although I’m in informatics, I don’t’ count programming to my strengths – I’m a network security and DB guy ?? So, sorry but I can’t really help you. Experimenting with my blog myself a lot.

And remember there’s no shame for taking over somethings work in this case – losing the plugin would be worst!

Thx,
Nick

I couldn’t resist to try it out – even it’s close to midnight here. You pointed me to the right place. It actually doesn’t matter whether you use $this->url or get_bloginfo(‘url’) both work. Just need to put /wordpress/… before the /wp-content/..

You rock! Thx a bunch!

Nick,
Glad you hear you got it fixed up! This is the function that I should have posted above: get_bloginfo('wpurl'). I am not accustomed to wordpress being installed in a subdirectory, so I have never used this function – I will in the future though:)