It is the most mainstream of the plugins I’ve developed, but has only 30 active installations, which suggests location may not be important to that many people who have WordPress sites, or I haven’t made the plugin good enough. I’m working on the latter now. Anyone have any suggestions?
Working on Simple Location
For three years now, on and off, I’ve been working on a plugin for WordPress called Simple Location. You can see it on many of my posts(View All Location Posts here). It adds a location and optionally a map to posts on my site. It also will change the displayed time and timezone on those posts to match the location(this post is set for Manila, for example, instead of the default of New York).
Hi David, I would like to use this plugin. I like the idea. Does it work with the WordPress iOS app? Also, I visited this post on your site and do not see anything about where the post was authored. Am I missing it?
Colin, I haven’t used it with the iOS app, though I don’t know why it wouldn’t work with it.
As for Simple location, you can pick and choose which posts it appears on. I suspect that David did’t want to reveal the location of this particular post (though perhaps he should have for demonstration/self-dogfooding reasons), so there isn’t one. I’ve been using it on PESOS posts from Instagram and OwnYourCheckin, which both transfer geo-data, for quite a while now and really love how it works as well as the flexibility it has (for being so simple). The recent improvements are really fantastic too.
If you want some examples, take a look at some of the individual posts in the streams at http://boffosocko.com/category/social-stream/instagram/ or http://boffosocko.com/kind/checkin/.
Thank you Chris. I’ll give it a try. I’d love to have it on for some of my posts.
I’ve seen you’re working on Simple Location’s integration with Raam Dev’s Independent Publisher theme. I’ll definitely use it. I’d love to have locations attached to microblog, larger posts, and photos! Thanks for doing this!