ALL THINGS WORDPRESS WITH GIS
Jul 14, 2015
ALL THINGS
WORDPRESS
WITH GIS
ABOUT
MICKEY & ALI
GOOGLE EARTH BLOG
WHERE
IT ALL
BEGAN
WORDPRESS
.COM vs .ORGLimited themes
No plugins
Limited tweaking
Paid plans
No Google Analytics
Jump to self-hosted
Simplicity
Ads
Choose a theme
Add blog posts
Allow comments
Publish static pages
Push RSS feeds
Widgets
1,700+ themes
23,000+ plug-ins
Jetpack
Third-party hosting
Software updates
Ads
POPULARITY
• A total of 60 million sites •
• 18.9% of the top 10 million websites •
• 409m visitors and 14.4b pageviews each month •
WHAT IS
ALL THE HYPE
ABOUT?
THE COMMUNITY
MOBILE RESPONSIVE
EASILY UPDATED
CONTENT
SEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMIZATION
THEMES VS PLUGINS
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FINDING THEMES
FINDING PLUGINS
OUR FAVORITE PLUGINS
GIS IN WORDPRESS
GIS IN WORDPRESS
GIS IN WORDPRESS
Allow special file uploads (KML/KMZ, etc)
In functions.php:
// Added to extend allowed files types in Media upload
add_filter('upload_mimes', 'custom_upload_mimes');
function custom_upload_mimes ( $existing_mimes=array() ) {
$existing_mimes['kml'] = 'application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml';
$existing_mimes['kmz'] = 'application/vnd.google-earth.kmz';
return $existing_mimes;
}
MapPress
Leaflet
Maps
Marker
MapBox
Embedding
Maps
WORDPRESS + GIS
QUESTIONS?
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Ali Green and Mickey Mellen