teachPress

77 Quality Score

Active Installs

15/30

Around 2,000 active installs is modest but reasonable for a niche academic tool, indicating a small but established user base rather than broad mainstream adoption.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated within days of this assessment and tested against WordPress 6.9.4, the maintenance signal is excellent and suggests an actively maintained codebase.

User Rating

14/15

A 96 out of 100 score from 25 ratings is very strong, though the small sample size means the average may shift with more feedback.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened, with a 0.0% resolution rate, is technically perfect but also signals an inactive support forum where issues may go unreported rather than getting answered.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatibility scores maxed out, with a low minimum WordPress requirement of 3.9 and PHP 7.4, giving it one of the widest compatibility ranges in its category.

Scores higher than 53% of indexed plugins

About

Manage your publications with teachPress

Active Installs 2k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.8/5

Last Updated 2026-04-11 2:18pm GMT

Requires WordPress 3.9+

Tested Up To 6.9.7

Requires PHP 7.4+

Security History

9 known vulnerabilities, all patched

1 High 8 Medium

Most recent: January 6, 2026

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teachPress <= 9.0.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium

January 6, 2026 Patched in ["9.0.13"] CVE-2026-22483

teachPress <= 9.0.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

December 30, 2025 Patched in ["9.0.13"] CVE-2026-22353

teachPress <= 9.0.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection Medium

April 4, 2025 Patched in ["9.0.12"] CVE-2025-32149

teachPress <= 9.0.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Import Delete Medium

March 24, 2025 Patched in ["9.0.10"] CVE-2025-1320

teachPress <= 9.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection Medium

March 3, 2025 Patched in ["9.0.8"] CVE-2025-1321

teachPress <= 9.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via delete_database() Medium

November 28, 2023 Patched in ["9.0.6"] CVE-2023-49163

teachPress <= 9.0.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium

November 27, 2023 Patched in ["9.0.5"] CVE-2023-48755

teachPress <= 9.0.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via meta_field_id and cite_id Medium

June 22, 2023 Patched in ["9.0.3"] CVE-2023-36501

teachPress <= 8.1.8 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting High

January 17, 2023 Patched in ["8.1.9"] CVE-2023-22704

What It Does

teachPress is a WordPress plugin that lets you build and display a publication bibliography on your site, including support for BibTeX import so you can pull in citation data in bulk. It provides front-end shortcodes for listing publications and lets visitors browse your research output by year, type, or author. Think of it as a lightweight reference manager that lives entirely inside your WordPress dashboard.

Who It's For

This plugin fits academic researchers, university faculty, PhD students working on a dissertation site, and conference or journal editors who need a clean way to publish a citable list of works on WordPress. It is especially useful for sites that want a self-hosted bibliography without depending on an external service like Zotero. Departments that need a simple, low-overhead publications page will find it well matched.

Who Should Skip It

If you need live Zotero library syncing, real-time collaboration, or citation rendering in APA/MLA inside page content, this is not the right tool. Casual bloggers, businesses, or anyone running a non-academic site will get no value out of it.

The Bottom Line

teachPress is a focused, well-maintained bibliography manager that delivers exactly what academic users need without bloat or external dependencies. Its tiny user base and silent support forum are real weaknesses if you value a large community or active troubleshooting. For a researcher who already uses BibTeX and wants full control of their publication list inside WordPress, it is a solid pick with an overall quality score of 76.68 out of 100.

Related Plugins

Zotpress 77/100

Pick Zotpress instead if you want live syncing with a Zotero library and a larger ecosystem of citation styles, since the two plugins score almost identically and serve overlapping audiences.

Footnotes Made Easy 76/100

Choose Footnotes Made Easy instead if your main need is inserting footnote citations into post content rather than building a full bibliography page, since teachPress is purpose-built for publication listings.