Screenshot of the plugin in use in a Gutenberg editor, featuring the Biography and Education sections excluded, the Employment section partially included, and the Works section fully included
This is a WordPress plugin for displaying public data from multiple ORCID records on pages, posts, and sites. It’s a successor to ORCID Data Block.
This plugin is developed and maintained by Mesh Research Lab.
This work is funded by the ORCID Global Participation Fund.
Features
- Provides a Gutenberg block in the WordPress block editor that allows users to
- specify which sections are shown from specified ORCID records
- specify which items are shown within sections
- Allows different ORCID records to be used in multiple blocks on the same post/page/site
- Allows the numbers of items within sections to be limited to a specified amount
- Info will remain automatically up-to-date with ORCID
- Accessible to those with disabilities
- All languages currently supported by ORCID will be supported (subject to translator availability)
- Arabic: 78%
- Chinese (Simplified): 78%
- Chinese (Traditional): 78%
- Czech: 78%
- French: 78%
- German: 78%
- Italian: 78%
- Japanese: 78%
- Korean: 78%
- Polish: 78%
- Portuguese: 74%
- Russian: 78%
- Spanish: 78%
- Turkish: 0%
Usage
- Make sure the plugin is activated on your WordPress installation.
- This can be done on the Plugins screen.
- In a Gutenberg block editor, add a new block.
- There are multiple ways to add blocks.
- Search “Linked Open Profiles” in the block browser and select it.
- With the new block selected, provide an ORCID iD in the ORCID iD text input.
- This text input can be found in the sidebar (also known as the inspector controls).
- An ORCID iD can be found on a user’s ORCID record page.
- Click the “Apply” button.
- Make customizations as you see fit.
- Customize which sections are shown.
- Customize which items within sections are shown.
- Save as a draft or publish.
Functionality
This WordPress plugin uses the third party public REST API on https://orcid.org to query publicly available information for any ORCID record hosted on https://orcid.org and display this on a WordPress page, post, or site. Only publicly available data is retrieved from ORCID. You may provide multiple, different ORCID iDs for use with multiple, different blocks of this plugin within a Gutenberg editor. Registration and authentication with ORCID are not necessary to do this. The only necessity is to provide a valid 16-digit ORCID iD.
Disclosure of Data Sent
- What: ORCID iDs users provide
- Where: https://orcid.org
- Why: to query the public data of an ORCID record users wish to use with this plugin
- Under What Circumstances:
- whenever a user provides an ORCID iD to a block instance of this plugin
- whenever a post, page, or site that includes a block instance of this plugin is loaded
User-provided ORCID iDs are sent to the public third party REST API on https://orcid.org. This plugin uses the REST API located at https://orcid.org/####-####-####-####. It is necessary to provide an ORCID iD to identify an ORCID record you wish to use when displaying ORCID record information on a WordPress post, page, or site.
Support
Send an email for general support: mesh@msu.edu
Submit tech issues on GitHub:
https://github.com/MESH-Research/linked-open-profiles/issues
Development
To contribute to the development of this plugin, visit the GitHub repository:
https://github.com/MESH-Research/linked-open-profiles
