by Eric Mann 3.6 (5 reviews)

WP Publication Archive

Name: WP Publication Archive
Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Author: Eric Mann

Allows users to upload, manage, search, and download publications, documents, and similar content (PDF, Power-Point, etc.).

WP Publication Archive ranks #9,933 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #1,050 of 6,299 in the Media category, a 3.6/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Jul 25, 2013. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.6 (Current: 7.1)

v3.0.1 Current Version v3.0.1

Updated 13 years ago Last Update on 25 Jul, 2013

Refreshed 14 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#1,050 of 6,299 in Media Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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#9,933

-29 this week

Active Installs

400+

-7.8%

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Downloads

38.3K

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Rating

72%

Review 3.6 out of 5

3.6 (5 reviews)

Next Milestone 500

Total Progress 33%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Sep 5, 2025 UNPATCHED

WP Publication Archive [wp-publication-archive] <= 3.0.1 (unfixed + closed)

CVE-2025-58826 · No fix released
Jan 23, 2011

WP Publication Archive [wp-publication-archive] < 2.0.2 (closed)

Fixed in v2.0.2

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.0.1
Last Updated: Jul 25, 2013
Requires WP: 3.5+
Tested Up To: 3.6
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Eric Mann

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.6
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who need to publish downloadable files like PDFs, Word documents, or PowerPoint presentations. It solves the problem of managing such content separately from standard posts and pages by adding a custom content type with tagging and categorization.

Upload publications and documents
Search downloadable content
Download publications
Custom content type
Tag and categorize content
Custom post type admin interface
Stores files in uploads directory

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Publication Archive

Option 1: Use the built-in media uploader on the "Add Publication" screen. Option 2: Upload a file to your server via FTP (or to a remote host like AWS) and place the full URL (including the http://) in the Publication field on the Edit Publication page.

You can display a list of publications either by includeing the [wp-publication-archive] shortcode on a post/page or by placing in your theme template files. WordPress will render your publication list automatically.

Yes! Simply add showas="dropdown" as a parameter within the regular shortcode, and the plugin will use a dropdown template rather than a list template. For example: [wp-publication-archive showas="dropdown" /]

Yes! Just include categories="cat1,cat2" in your shortcode where "cat1" and "cat2" are the names of the categories you want to display.

Yes! Just include author="author-name" in your shortcode where "author-name" is the slug of the author you want to display.

By default, the plug-in contains icons for several common file types. The icons include: Standard document files Spreadsheet formats (i.e. Excel, Open Office Calc) Video Image Audio Adobe PDF Zip All other file types will feature a generic "file" icon.

There could be any of a hundred causes for this. Most likely, your files are just too large to be handled by your server. By default, both file opens and downloads are streamed to your server. This means the plugin will attempt to open the file (whether it's remote or locally-hosted) and will stream the contents of the file to the browser. This has the advantage of never exposing the raw download URL to the user.* Unfortunately, it means your server has to download the file first before it can pass it along to the user. For smaller files, this isn't an issue. But for much larger files, connections can time out. If you are serving large files, you can force the file open URL to forward connections rather than stream them. This means requests to your file open URL (i.e. http://site.com/publication/title/wppa_open) will receive a 303 "See Other" redirect pointing them to the original resource. It's less work for your server, but the end user will see the original URL. Just add add_filter( 'wppa_mask_url', '__return_false' ); to your functions.php file to turn off URL masking and use the redirect method instead. When you add this filter, the file download URL will behave the exact same way - redirecting requests to the original resource rather than streaming the file to the browser. Unfortunately, this leaves the exact behavior of the link up to the browser - some will attempt to download the file, some will open it instead. A future version of the plugin will allow you to have password-protected downloads. Hiding the raw URL of a file is important for this feature to work.

Thumbnail support is extended through the plugin, but not actually implemented in any templates. You can upload a custom thumbnail for each Publication, and the URL will be stored in the Publication's meta field in the database under the wpa-upload_image key. You can get the raw thumbnail URL by requesting it directly with get_post_meta(). Alternatively, the WP_Publication_Archive_Item class contains some useful helper methods for printing the thumbnail URL wrapped in proper HTML tags. You can use code similar to the following: <?php $pub = get_post( $publication_id ); $pub = new WP_Publication_Archive_Item( $pub->ID, $pub->post_title, $pub->post_date ); // Return the Publication thumbnail for use elsewhere $thumb = $pub->get_the_thumbnail(); // Echo/print the thumbnail to the browser $pub->the_thumbnail(); These helper methods will generate HTML tags similar to: <div class="publication_thumbnail"> <img src="http://site.com/thumbnail.png" /> </div> Also, the actual thumbnail URL printed will be passed through a filter. You can intercept this and do whatever you need to with the URL (add query arguments, switch http/https protocols, etc). add_filter( 'wpa-upload_image', 'your_custom_function', 10, 2 ); The filter passes two arguments, the raw URL for the thumbnail and the ID of the publication.

The open behavior is 100% dependent on your browser. In some cases (i.e. PDFs) the file will open in the browser using a built-in viewer. In other cases (i.e. Zips) there is no in-browser viewer for that file type, so the browser will download the file instead. The plugin makes every attempt possible to return the correct MIME type for each file so that the browser know what to do with it. But in some cases (i.e. Zips or unknown file types), the plugin will return a type of application/octet-stream which the browser sees as a generic file and just downloads to a generic, often extensonless, filename. If you're coming up against a situation like this, I recommend you use the Download link instead.