VadeMecum

Wordpress plugin which:

• adds post meta fields for longitude, latitude and address (nothing is validated!),
• prints meta tags with geo.position and geo.placename (which is post title) in page header,
• draws a map with post position at the on of post content using leaflet-map plugin which is required btw,
• prints a list of (by default) 5 nearest posts from your blog.

This can be used for various purposes, but my intention was to create a plugin that would allow for publishing tourism-related content.

The motivation for creating this plugin was the lack of an available solution that would satisfy me (most WordPress plugins are scam) because I needed this feature for the website of my photography project "Former Synagogues of Greater Poland" (synagogu.es - for now it's in Polish).

Configuration

On settings page you can configure how labels will be displayed. If you leave it empty - headers will not be displayed.

Editing post

Using Wordpress API

If you're using API to write your posts just use metadata fields like in this python example:

response = requests.post(
    f"{SITE_URL}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts",
    data={
        "title": "Title",
        "content": "Post content",
        "status": "publish",
        [...]
        "post_lat": 51.2800843,
        "post_long": 17,98522102794716,
        "post_address": "Address Example",
    },
    headers={},
)

Shortcodes

Draw a map with post location

[vademecum-map]

This is handled with leaflet-map, so this plugin must be installed and configured.

Example on synagogu.es:

Show list of nearest posts

[vademecum-nearest]
[
-nearest limit=10]

Example on synagogu.es - list shows nearest synagogues to the one which is currently displayed: