A little place of calm

My plugin got approved, and it is available for download here: GeoURL WordPress plugin.

Apparently it has had 18 downloads already. Okay, one of them was me, just testing it zipped up correctly, but even so … have i helped 17 blogs to become GeoURL enabled?! :)

I wish there was a way to tell who has installed it … would be lovely to see it in action for other people!

In other news, Twitter has been so thrilled by the UK snow that the hashtag #uksnow has been at the top of the trending topics all afternoon! It's quite fun to watch twitterfall.com/#uksnow and see the tweets fly in from around the UK. People are giving marks out of ten for their area, and posting pictures of good snow scenes! :)

We don't get good snow very often in the UK, and we are predicted 15cm by the morning! That will require wellies to walk to work!! It's the heaviest snowfall in 6 years apparently, so you can understand why we're all so excited!

Whoops, it's another late night, but … i just wrote a WordPress plugin!

Every time i change my theme i hardcode in the meta tags for GeoURL to detect my location. GeoURL is then able to find other sites that are geographically nearby. It gives me a little button link to use, like this:

The way this works is very simple: just poking these meta tags into the header of my blog page:

<meta name="ICBM" content="51.0622, -1.3205" />
<meta name="DC.title" content="A little place of calm" />

Note, that is not *exactly* where i live – it is just somewhere random near the centre of Winchester!

I thought there must be an easier way than hardcoding the meta tags into the theme. I had a look but didn't find a plugin for it, so i made one myself! :) It allows you to easily add your location coordinates and ping the GeoURL server. Pretty simple, but i'll find it useful. It's already working on my own blog and once i get a subversion repository from WordPress, i'll upload it for sharing! :)