OpenlyLocal WordPress plugin looks cool
by Matt on Nov 10, 2009 in Content
Over in the UK, Philip John has just announced a new OpenlyLocal WordPress plugin that looks very cool. (Hope he doesn’t mind me grabbing the screenshot from his blog post!)
You tell the plugin which is your local UK council and it grabs data from the (also very cool) OpenlyLocal web site and turns it into a widget that shows upcoming council meetings.
Of course, this is only for UK-based local bloggers. If you’re not a UK blogger and you’re on WordPress, you can use the existing RSS widget to do something similar … but only if your local government web site offers an RSS feed of upcoming meetings. In my experience, many don’t.
(BTW, we could use something like OpenlyLocal over here in the US. Does anything like it exist?)
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“Hope he doesn’t mind me grabbing the screenshot from his blog post!”
Of course not!
That little widget is really only a test to make sure the part of the plugin that talks to OpenlyLocal is working. It’ll be one of many widgets and other features that will be included.
For example, you could write a post on a local councillor (not sure what your equivalent would be) and the plugin will automatically add a bunch of information about that councillor to the post (such as contact details).
Glad to find your blog, I’ll be keeping an eye on it!
Thx so much, Philip – thx for stopping by. Keep me posted on anything new going on over in the UK. Would love to have some more contacts re: the hyperlocal scene there. Hope all is well.