Want to use WordPress to manage your class, publish research, or collaborate on a conference presentation? ScholarPress develops a variety of WordPress plugins for academic and educational uses.

It was created by Jeremy Boggs & Dave Lester, Jeremy is the Creative Lead at the Center for History and New Media, and a PhD student in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University while Dave Lester is a web developer and purveyor of Facebook applications at the Center for History for New Media where he helps program Omeka, a collection publishing system for museums and scholars.

As of the time of this post ScholarPress has released two plugins:

Courseware
Courseware enables you to manage a class with a WordPress blog, including a schedule, bibliography, assignments, and other course information.

WPBook
WPBook works with the Facebook Development platform to create a Facebook Application (addable by users within the site) using a WordPress blog.

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