WordPress Plugin

The Nomads Connected Plugin for WordPress integrates your route and your blog.

Insert Google Maps displaying your route into your articles and pages! You just need to enter the start and end date, and your route appears automatically within your blog. It' even updated automatically if you change your Waypoints in Nomads Connected.

1.2.x

• Some additional settings on the options page:
  • Marker color.
  • Connect points that are not more than X days apart.
  • Line color and thickness.

1.1.x

• Additional settings on the options page:
  • Map type.
  • Map height.
• Different line color for past and future routes.

1.0.x

• First version.

Note: Any changes in the third digit of the version number are just bugfixes.

Requirements

• WordPress 2.8 or higher.
• PHP 5.2 or higher.
• cURL support enabled in your PHP installation. (This is standard on most webservers.)

Installation Steps

1. Download the lastest plugin version.
    
2. Copy the content of the ZIP file into the WordPress plugin directory ("wp-content/plugins" under your main installation directory).
    
3. Activate the plugin in WordPress under "Plugins/Installed".
    
4. Get a free Google API key.
    
5. Activate the API key in Nomads Connected (under "Settings/System Settings").
    
6. Enter both API keys in the options page of the plugin (in WordPress under "Settings/Nomads Connected").
    

How to put a map of your route on a post or page

Before you start, check if the plugin is configured properly: Log into your WordPress blog and go to "Settings/Nomads Connected". You should see two API keys on the options page, one for Google Maps and one for Nomads Connected.

Once everything is up and running, execute the following steps:

1. Enter your route in Nomads Connected.
    
2. When editing a post or page in WordPress you will see a new box called "Nomads Connected". (Please note that you can move this box with your mouse so you don't have to scroll down every time.)
    
3. Check the "Display Your Route" box.
    
4. Click into the "From Date" and "Through Date" fields to select which part of your route should be displayed on the map. You can enter basically everything here: past dates, future dates, large ranges like a whole round the world trip, start and end date of your last holiday or just one particular step of your trip. To make blogging about a certain step of your trip easier, you can click on any of your past waypoints to transfer the dates into the input fields.
    
5. And that's all.
    

What if your route changes?

The plugin gets data from Nomads Connected in real time, so any changes you make there will be instantly reflected in your blog. The only time you have to change anything on the WordPress side is when you change dates.