Description
Give your editorial board the page it deserves
The stock OJS “Editorial Team” page is a plain list of names. For a serious academic journal, that page is also a trust signal — readers, prospective authors, and indexing services check it to decide whether your journal is credible. Editorial Board Manager turns that page into a curated, photo-based showcase of your editors with full academic profile coverage, in minutes, without touching a template file.
What you get
- Six display templates. Sectioned Cards (default), Hierarchical, Compact, Magazine, Table and Atlas. Switch with one click — no theme edits, no developer required.
- Photo-based editor cards. Upload portraits through a dedicated admin panel with automatic size and format validation. Fallback to initials when no photo is provided.
- Eight academic profile platforms per editor: Email, ORCID, LinkedIn, Personal Website, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Scopus ID and Web of Science ResearcherID. Each renders as a clean, recognisable icon.
- Bilingual content out of the box. Every editor has Turkish and English fields for name, title, affiliation, specialty and biography. Add additional languages by enabling them in OJS — no plugin changes needed.
- Built-in categories. Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Section Editors, Advisory Board, Technical Editors, Language Editors, Former Editors, Guest Editors. Or create your own.
- Country flags and specialty tags. A glance is enough to read the geographic and disciplinary spread of your board.
- Drag-and-drop ordering. Reorder editors inside each category with a mouse. No more SQL juggling.
- CSV import. Onboard an existing board in bulk. A sample CSV is included.
- Schema.org structured data. Each editor is marked up as a
Personso Google Scholar and other indexers can read your editorial team correctly. - Sidebar integration. A Manage Editorial Board entry appears in the OJS admin sidebar (next to Submissions, Issues, Users) as soon as the plugin is enabled.
- No theme edits. The plugin overrides
/about/editorialTeamautomatically. It works with every OJS 3.3 and 3.5 theme — Default, Health Sciences, Manuscript, Bootstrap3, Immersion, our own Nivo theme, and any custom child theme.
Who is it for?
Editors of academic journals running OJS 3.3 or 3.5 who want a professional, modern editorial board page without commissioning a custom theme. Especially useful for journals applying for indexing (Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ) where reviewers expect a board page with full editor identification and ORCID coverage.
Technical requirements
- OJS 3.3.0.22 or newer — and OJS 3.5 (PHP 7.4 or 8.0+ supported)
- MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL — whichever your OJS already uses
- About 2 MB of disk space; the plugin creates its own database tables on first activation
- No external services, no API keys, no telemetry. Your editor data never leaves your server.
Pricing
One-time payment, lifetime updates for the major version, use on a single OJS installation (unlimited journals within that install).
Free for our customers. If you have purchased one of our premium OJS themes or an active OJS hosting package, this plugin is included at no extra cost — contact us with your order number and we’ll send the download link.
Support
Email support from the developer is included for the first 90 days. Installation help, configuration questions, bug reports — all handled within one business day. Source is shipped readable and unobfuscated; modify freely under the GPL v2 licence.
What’s in the download
editorialBoard-X.Y.Z.tar.gz— the plugin, ready to upload through OJS Plugin Manager- HTML user guide
- Sample CSV for bulk import
