HAL
by Baptiste Blondelle 3.5 (4 reviews)

HAL

Easily retrieve publications associated with authors and other entities (structures, collections, research projects).

HAL ranks #8,517 among WordPress.org plugins with 600+ active installations, a 3.5/5 rating from 4 reviews, and was last updated Aug 13, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1
v2.8.0 Current Version v2.8.0
Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 13 Aug, 2026
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
Top 25% by installs Downloads +6.5% this week
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Rating
70%
Review 3.5 out of 5
3.5 (4 reviews)

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Reviews & Ratings

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

  1. HAL [hal] < 2.2

    CVE-2021-39345 · Fixed in v2.2

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Plugin Details

Version
2.8.0
Last Updated
Aug 13, 2026
Requires WP
5.0+
Tested Up To
7.1
PHP Version
N/A
Author
Baptiste Blondelle

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Rating
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Reviews
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to showcase academic publications linked to authors or research entities on their blog. It solves the problem of manually curating publication lists by fetching data directly from the HAL open archive.

  • Display publications by author
  • Display publications by structure
  • Display publications by collection
  • Display publications by research project
  • Fetches data from HAL website

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about HAL

You can contact the support team at the following email address: hal.support[at]ccsd.cnrs.fr.
Just create a page and put the shortcode [cv-hal] in your content. As simple as that.
You can add parameters to your shortcode, e.g. [cv-hal id=184 type=structId_i]. Supported identifiers: IdHAL (sequence of characters) = authIdHal_s Structure identifier (numeric) = structId_i Collection identifier (sequence of characters) = collCode_s ANR Project identifier (numeric) = anrProjectId_i European Project identifier (numeric) = europeanProjectId_i To retrieve contact information, add to the shortcode [cv-hal] the parameter contact taking the values yes and no, e.g. **[cv-hal contact=yes]. To display the number of documents, use the shortcode [nb-doc]. cURL You need to enable the php_curl extension. Navigate to Apache/bin directory, open the php.ini file and uncomment ;extension=php_curl.dll.

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