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WP PlugIndex currently records Researcher Profiles for ORCID version 1.1.1 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.9.
Overview
About this plugin
0 to automatically fetch and locally cache academic researcher profiles — including their publications, employment history and education — and expose them anywhere on your site via simple shortcodes.
No authentication token is required for publicly visible ORCID records.
How it works
You register one or more researchers by ORCID iD in the admin panel.
The plugin fetches their profile from the ORCID Public API and stores everything in custom database tables.
WordPress Cron automatically refreshes the data on a configurable schedule.
Shortcodes read from the local database — zero live API calls on page load.
Shortcodes
[rporcid_works orcid_id="0000-0002-1825-0097"] — list all works for a researcher
[rporcid_works orcid_id="0000-0002-1825-0097" type="journal-article" limit="10"] — filtered works
Works grouped by year with a client-side type filter (no page reload)
Template override support — copy views to yourtheme/researcher-profiles-for-orcid/
BEM CSS classes for easy styling
Developer action/filter hooks
Full i18n support — ships with es_ES and es_MX translations
Clean uninstall — drops all custom tables and options
External Services
0 ) to retrieve researcher profile data. Requests are made only when an admin triggers a manual sync or when WordPress Cron fires an automatic sync — never on front-end page load.
By using this plugin you agree to the ORCID Public Data File Terms of Use and the ORCID Terms of Service.
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Privacy
This plugin does not collect, store or transmit any personal data about your website visitors. It only stores publicly available researcher profile data retrieved from ORCID (name, biography, works, employment, education) in your own database.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
academic
bibliography
orcid
publications
researcher
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 6.9
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.9.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity11 Aug 20262mo ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
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