WordPress plugin · OJS

VYBE OJS Bridge — connect WordPress to OJS

Keep OJS for editorial work and let your WordPress website do the rest: take manuscript submissions on your site and deliver them to OJS automatically, let authors track progress, build galley PDFs, and show OJS issues as fast, citable WordPress pages.

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  • Version 2.3.0
  • Licence key + 12 months of updates
  • Installation & training available

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  • Licence key by email & client portal
  • Automatic updates in your dashboard
  • Email & WhatsApp support
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Overview

What VYBE OJS Bridge does for you

OJS is excellent for editors but awkward for authors and visitors: a separate login, a dated look and article pages that are hard to style. The OJS Bridge puts the author-facing side on your WordPress website while OJS stays the editorial system of record.

Authors submit on a form that matches your site — with ORCID, second-language titles and abstracts, references and files. Each submission is stored first and then delivered to OJS through its REST API by a queue that retries on its own, so a slow or offline OJS never loses a manuscript. Authors get a private tracking page that follows the status in OJS. Editors can build the galley PDF and Word file with your journal’s masthead and send it, the issue, page numbers and DOI to OJS in one run.

Ideal for

  • Journals that already run on OJS 3.3–3.5
  • Publishers with a WordPress main website
  • Tamil and bilingual journals
  • Editors who build galley PDFs by hand today

Key features

Everything in VYBE OJS Bridge

Submission form on your site

Authors repeater with ORCID, second-language title and abstract, references, files and a checklist. Labels in English and Tamil; pasted text with old Tamil fonts is converted to Unicode.

Reliable delivery to OJS

A resumable queue creates the submission, authors, metadata and files in OJS (3.4/3.5 REST API), retries with back-off and never creates duplicates. Failures alert the office.

Author tracking page

A private link shows progress and timeline, accepts revision uploads and withdrawal requests. Status, DOI and URL are read back from OJS.

Galley PDF & Word builder

Journal masthead, header and footer templates, history dates, “How to cite” and licence line, with embedded Tamil and English fonts — then sent to OJS.

Quick publish & final check

Set the issue, pages and DOI and publish or schedule in OJS. “Prepare in OJS only” and a final check (abstract length, keywords, ORCID and ISSN check digits, alt text) catch problems first.

OJS issues as WordPress pages

Section pages, citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver, RIS/BibTeX, related articles, JSON-LD, 8 shortcodes and widgets, and a block.

Details

What’s included & what you need

Included

  • Submission form [ojs_submit]
  • Delivery queue & submissions screen (filters, CSV, notes, retry, log)
  • Author tracking page [ojs_track]
  • Galley PDF & Word file builder
  • Quick publish, schedule & final check
  • Journal pages, citations, shortcodes & widgets
  • Editable emails, privacy export & erase

Who uses it

  • Authors — submit and track on your website
  • Editors & journal managers — in WordPress and OJS
  • Website visitors & indexers — read the article pages

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+ (mbstring, gd, zip)
  • OJS 3.3–3.5 (sending to OJS needs 3.4 or 3.5 with an API token)
  • LibreOffice on the server only for .doc/.odt files (optional)
  • Works without the Journal Platform

Pricing

Choose your licence

One website, up to five, or installed and configured for you by our team.

Single site

Price on request

One-time payment · 12 months of updates

A licence key for one website, with 12 months of updates and email support.

  • Licence key for 1 website
  • Automatic updates for 12 months
  • Installation guide & documentation
  • Email support
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Most popular

Up to 5 sites

Price on request

One-time payment · 12 months of updates

For publishers, groups and agencies running several journals or college websites.

  • Licence key for 5 websites
  • Automatic updates for 12 months
  • Priority email & WhatsApp support
  • Move the licence between sites anytime
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Installed & configured

Price on request

One-time payment · 12 months of updates

We install, configure and brand it on your website and train your team.

  • Everything in Single site
  • Installation & configuration
  • Your branding, pages & email settings
  • Staff training session
  • 6 months support & updates
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Tell us about your website and we will send the price and a free demo link within one working day. Prices exclude GST.

How licensing works

From order to automatic updates

01

Get your price

Tell us about your website; we send the price and a demo link.

02

Get your key

Your licence key and download link arrive by email and stay in your client portal.

03

Install & activate

Upload the plugin, paste the key — or let us install and configure it for you.

04

Automatic updates

New versions appear under Dashboard → Updates for the whole licence period.

FAQ

VYBE OJS Bridge FAQ

Yes. OJS remains the editorial system — reviewers, editors and decisions stay in OJS. The Bridge handles submission, tracking, galleys and the public article pages on WordPress.

OJS 3.3 to 3.5 for showing your journal; submissions are sent through the REST API of OJS 3.4 and 3.5. During setup we run a test submission on your own OJS, because some installs restrict API endpoints — the Bridge then falls back (for example, uploading the galley as a production file for you to attach).

Nothing is lost. The submission is saved in WordPress first and the queue keeps retrying (from 5 minutes up to 24 hours) and alerts you if it still fails.

It is off until you switch it on. “Prepare in OJS only” runs every step up to the DOI and stops before publishing, and the result is read back from OJS so you can check it.

Yes, from .docx directly. For .doc, .odt or .rtf files the server needs LibreOffice. Complex Word layouts such as text boxes or equations may need a manual touch-up.

The plugin keeps working on your site. Renew the licence to keep receiving new versions and support — we remind you before it ends.

Yes. Deactivate the site from your client portal and activate the key on the new one.

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