Evan Sims

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July 31st, 2008
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Brightkite Location v1.0 Beta Released

Decided to release my Brightkite Location plugin for Wordpress tonight in beta form. The plugin, which you may have noticed on my homepage, aggregates your Brightkite data, showing your location and your latest note or photo. It even builds a sexy little static Google Map for you, and will refresh your information every 10 minutes.

I haven’t had an opportunity to test this on many environments, but it should work on Apache under Windows or Linux under most circumstances. Has very few system requirements (PHP5 and fsockopen support.)

Give it a download and let me know if you encounter any bugs. Thanks!

Update Beta 2 is now available with a fix for Dreamhost users and new customization options.

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edwinv 4 months ago 1 point
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Great job with the plugin Evan! My initial suggestion which is probably already on your to do list is having some kind of dashboard or control panel where you can change settings like image size of the map and detail of the location. I was able to change the image size to fit with my sidebar with no issue but would love to be able to add the specific name of the place that I'm at along with the address.

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Evan Sims 4 months ago 1 point
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Thanks for the suggestions, Edwin!

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Nikki Lamagna 4 months ago 1 point
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Evan - I absolutely love this plugin! You've done such a superb job - it's very easy. Thanks so much for releasing this.

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