Title: Glycerine Plugin for WordPress
Author: systemik
Published: <strong>September 24, 2025</strong>
Last modified: September 15, 2026

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used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Glycerine Plugin for WordPress

 By [systemik](https://profiles.wordpress.org/systemik/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/glycerine.1.0.4.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/glycerine/#installation)
 * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/glycerine/#developers)

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## Description

Glycerine Plugin for WordPress brings IIIF image collections, and the annotations
on them, into WordPress pages and posts.

The plugin is the WordPress presentation layer for the [Glycerine IIIF platform](https://glycerine.io/),
built by Systemik Solutions. Collections are hosted, described and annotated in 
[Glycerine Workbench](https://glycerine.io/sign-in/), which covers IIIF image hosting,
manifest generation, collaborative annotation and publishing. The plugin displays
what you publish there, through four blocks: image sets and collections open in 
an embedded Glycerine Viewer, and annotation tables and annotation cutouts are rendered
as HTML within your page.

### Configuration

 * Go to **Settings > Glycerine**.
 * Enter your Glycerine Server API key.
 * Choose your Glycerine Server (Australia or International).

### Blocks

This plugin provides the following blocks:

 1. **Glycerine Table**
 2.  * Embed a paginated table of annotations from Glycerine Workbench with search 
       filters.
 3. **Glycerine Image Set**
 4.  * Embed a Glycerine Image Set using the Glycerine Viewer.
 5. **Glycerine Annotation Cutouts**
 6.  * Embed an image annotation cutout from Glycerine Workbench.
 7. **Glycerine Collection**
 8.  * Embed a Glycerine Collection using the Glycerine Viewer.

### License

This plugin is free software, licensed under the GPLv2.

Glycerine Plugin for WordPress is one module of the Glycerine IIIF platform, and
the other modules are licensed separately. Glycerine Viewer is open source under
the MIT licence. Glycerine Workbench, Glycerine Server and Glycerine Editor are 
proprietary: they are not open source, and their source is not publicly released.
The licence for each module is published at [https://glycerine.io/modules/](https://glycerine.io/modules/).

### External Services

This plugin requires access to external services to function. Specifically, it connects
to the **Glycerine Server API** to retrieve and display image sets, annotations,
and related publication data.

### What services are used and why

 * **ARDC Nectar Server (Australia)** – `https://iaw-server.ardc-hdcl-sia-iaw.cloud.
   edu.au/api`
 * **Glycerine.io (International)** – `https://app.glycerine.io/api`

These services provide the underlying IIIF (International Image Interoperability
Framework) data and annotation sets needed for the plugin to render images, text
annotations, and collections inside WordPress.

### What data is sent and when

 * When the plugin is configured, it will send the **API key** (entered by the administrator)
   along with **requests for images, image sets, annotations, and publication metadata**.
 * These requests occur when a user loads a page or block containing a Glycerine
   viewer or annotation table.
 * No personally identifiable information about site visitors is transmitted.

### Terms of Service and Privacy Policies

 * [Glycerine IIIF Platform Terms of Use](https://glycerine.io/legal/acceptable-use-policy/)
 * [Glycerine IIIF Platform Privacy Policy](https://glycerine.io/legal/privacy-policy/)

### Notes

 * If you are based in Australia, you may prefer to use the ARDC Nectar Server server.
 * If you are outside Australia, the Glycerine.io international server is recommended.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 4 blocks.

 *   Glycerine Table
 *   Glycerine Image Set
 *   Glycerine Annotation Cutouts
 *   Glycerine Collection

## Installation

 1. Upload the `glycerine` plugin directory to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to **Settings > Glycerine** to configure your API key and Glycerine Server URL.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Glycerine Plugin for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ systemik ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/systemik/)
 *   [ mufengniu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mufengniu/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/glycerine/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/glycerine/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/glycerine/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/glycerine/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.4**
 *  Last updated **3 weeks ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.11**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/glycerine/)
 * Tags
 * [annotation](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/annotation/)[iiif](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/iiif/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/glycerine/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ systemik ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/systemik/)
 *   [ mufengniu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mufengniu/)

## Support

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