First public release of bib2html, a plugin for Wordpress
July 4th, 2006
bib2html is my first Wordpress plugin. It was written to satisfy my need for publishing the list of my publications directly from the bibtex text file into wordpress. I wanted to avoid the maintance of many different representations of the same information (e.g., bibtex format, html format), that’s why this plugin.
There is another plugin for wordpress that deals with bibtex files, nevertheless this requires an intermediate insertion of bibliography data into a relational database and I wanted to avoid this step for easy of maintenance.
Bib2html v.0.3 is the first public release and its approach is inspired to the dokuwiki bibtex plugin. The default formatting into html is in IEEE style.
Excellent idea – could be just what I need.
However, although I believe I’ve followed your instructions, it doesn’t seem to work: http://game-research.com/2/?page_id=98
I’m running 2.0.2… Maybe I need to upgrade. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Sorry, there was a mistake in the instructions. The bib file has file= has a prefix. Check again this page and thanks for posting.
Thanks, that did the trick! (although you forgot to change the first example on the instruction page).
It’s really a very good plugin.
Now, I have no idea if you plan to develop it further, but what I really need for my site is for users (regular, not-logged-in) to be able to add entries to the bib file.
(We did that for the old version of our site: http://game-research.com/add_a_reference.asp – although that was always quite crude and non-flexible).
Just an idea!
Thanks again.
I’ll take a note. This feature would require a relevant effort unless I find something that can be integrated smoothly. During my search for related software products, I found a tool that I suggest you to evaluate: SimpleBibTex.
Altough this is not for wordpress, it offers the editing capabilities that you require. It is nice at a first glance, nevertheless it seems not anymore developed.
Cheers, Sergio
The Plugin seem to work fine except an failure message you can see on this page: http://jlspace.net/wordpress/bib2html-test/
But there is one thing I couldnt find out. How to accsess a specific entry due the bibtexkey ?
I cannot access the page anymore. Can you set it back?
For the second question, I understand that you are referring to the capability of extracting individual entries from a bibtex file, e.g.:
[bibtex file=mybiblio.bib key=doc1]
This feature is not included. You can only filter by document type and not by its bibtex key. This feature can be easily implemented and will try to do it in the next days.
Have you added the filter by key feature? If not, could you point me the file which I need to edit to achieve the objective? Thank you
I have not yet made this change. I will make during next week.
Thank you.
It is highly appreciated.
I’ve just released version 0.4 with selection by bibtex key support. You can download and test it.