Eric Mann

I’m hesitant to recommend editing plugin files because your changes will be lost in an update. That’s why there are filters provided everywhere, and that’s why every element is loaded using a loop function (similar to how posts are loaded in the loop) so you can build your own shortcode rather than use the default one.

My first recommendation is to build your own shortcode. Use the one that ships with the plugin as an example and just build it to output whatever markup you feel is appropriate.

Take a look at the shortcode_handler() function in /lib/class.wp-publication-archive.php to see how I’m setting things up. It’s fairly straight-forward … each publication is just iterated through in a list and all of its properties are output to the screen.

If you need to change the positioning of any element, I recommend doing so with custom CSS that you place separately in your theme.

Not at the moment. But I can look into something like that for a future version.

Yes, it’s possible. You just need to redefine the CSS.

In your theme’s stylesheet, add the following:

#banner-block .banner-container {
    border: none;
}

This will remove the border.

I read that it was going to be developed for future versions but that was 2 years ago so wasn’t sure if its been done.

No, it hasn’t been done yet because I haven’t had time.

I’ll take a look.

The security issue was patched, the repository is merely hiccuping on the updated date.

If you look at the right sidebar you see the last updated date claims to be back in 2010. But if you take a look instead at the actual revision log, you’ll see that the latest version (2.0.7) was updated in March of 2012.

Not in this version, but that will be a feature of version 2.5, which is due out later this month.

There’s nothing in the plugin setting the color of your links. The link color is 100% defined by your active theme. If you want to change just the widget’s link color, then add the following to your theme’s stylesheet:

.widget_core_contributions a {
    color: green;
    text-decoration: underline;
}