“MyLocation” - Wordpress plugin

Posted 26 February, 2009 in Uncategorized

The MyLocation Wordpress plugin is a plugin designed to display your current location on your blogs sidebar. Written, primarily, with travel blogs in mind the user can type in their current location in the plugins options menu and it will be displayed, underneath a rotating globe, on their site. For certain locations the country flag will be displayed alongside the location name, these locations are:

England
Ireland
Scotland
Taiwan
United Kingdom
Wales

Here is a screenshot of the plugin being used with the users location entered as “Taiwan”:

MyLocation Wordpress plugin Screenshot

When I get chance or if anyone asks then I will update the plugin with Flags for more countries.

Installation instructions:

1. Download the plugin: MyLocation.zip and extract it to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.

2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

3. Modify your theme. Add the following code into the place on your sidebar where you want to show your location:

<?php if (function_exists(’MyLocation’)){ MyLocation(); } ?>

Please note:

This an alpha release (26-02-2009), feel free to report any issues you encounter.

Update:

(12-03-2009) MyLocation version 1.1 released.
Modifications include:

• Fixing a bug that affected switchinng between the visual and html editors in the wordpress admin panel.
• Correcting an error with the image URL absolute paths.
• An addition to the menu options to allow the user to select between displaying, or not displaying, the plugin title “My Location” above the globe.

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