Have you ever wondered if it was possible to geotag your posts in WordPress in an easy way? So have I. And since there wasn’t anything easy available out there, I decided to write a plugin for that, using an industry standard:
Google Maps.
What does the plugin do?
- The plugin lets you geotag an entry on your blog, directly from a place you click on a Google Map in your posting screen or by entering an address into a search box. Your geotagged entries will have a link “see on map”.
- The plugin will make your Atom, RSS2 as well as RDF feeds GeoRSS compatible, which will allow you to load it into Google Maps (example here with my photblog feed) and loads of other cool stuff!
How can it be installed?
- Download the WordPress geotagging plugin here.
- Put the ‘geotagging’ folder into your ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder of your WordPress installation.
- Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin console.
Go to “Options” and “Geotagging”. There, enter your Google Maps API key (that is freely available here). - Change all other settings to suite your needs. Click “Save”.
- When you will be writing a new post, there will be a box available below called “Geotagging”. It’s now up to you to find the correct spot by browsing the map or entering the address.
The plugin is running on
my experimental WordPress blog, which contains some other plugins I am also writing, like the
Google Maps lightbox plugin that combined with geotagged posts will make your WordPress geotagging experience a lot more fun.
