Running 5 blogs and traveling the past 3 years, I know the pain of continually updating the current location on a blog’s about page and sidebar. My location on my various about pages and and sidebars (or headers/footers) were often wrong. I got tired of editing text widgets and footer/header/sidebar PHP code.
Hence the reason we built the Oh Hey World WordPress plugin. We now have the easiest way to update your location on your WordPress.org blog. Here are a few example of travel bloggers using the WordPress plugin…
Dani Blanchette – GoingNomadic – currently in Medellin, Colombia
Val Dawson – ThisWaytoParadise – Currently in Sorong, Indonesia
Hyacinthe Raimbault – Hyacinthe’s Notebook – currently in Boston, MA
Want to try it?
- Sign in to the BETA and check in
- Click add new plugin and search for & add “Oh Hey World” (or upload
oh-hey-world.zip to the/wp-content/plugins/` directory). - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Grab your user name from your Oh Hey World profile. If the link to your profile is http://www.ohheyworld.com/drewmeyers/profile, your profile name is “drewmeyers”
- Insert the sidebar widget into your sidebar or use one of the two short codes to insert the text into your about page (or any other post or page).
- Update your location on Oh Hey World every time you change locations by checking-in on the BETA site at your current location.
Questions? Leave them in the comments.
Drew Meyers
Drew Meyers is the co-founder of Horizon & Oh Hey World. He worked for Zillow from September of 2005 to January of 2010 on the marketing team managing Zillow’s API program and various online partnerships. Founder of Geek Estate Blog, a multi-author blog focused on real estate technology for real estate professionals, and myKRO.org, a blog devoted to exploring the world of microfinance. As passionate as you get about travel.
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