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AstroJournal

Wordpress plugin for keeping an astronomical observation journal.

by David Gallinat · github.com/davegallinat/astrojournal · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/davegallinat/astrojournal/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

Astronomy Journal for Wordpress

A plugin for keeping an astronomy observation journal.

Features

AstroJournal will keep track of:

  • Equipment
  • Locations
  • Observation date / time
  • Observing conditions logging
  • Object types
  • Constellations

Options:

  • Show on Frontpage
  • Show via shortcode
  • Include in Recent widget
  • Include in archives

Installation

  1. Download, unzip, add astrojournal folder to Wordpress plugins folder
  2. Activate under Plugins

Note

AstroJournal should automagically refresh the permalinks, but if you get a 404 message when trying to display your AstroJournal posts you can refresh them manually by going to Settings->Permalinks and just clicking save. If that doesn't work please post an issue on GitHub.

Environment

Tested on:

  • Wordpress 4.7.2
  • PHP 5.4
  • MySQL 5.5

Utilizes

jQuery and jQueryUI

jQuery-Timepicker-Addon

Required files are already included, links are here for reference.

History

?/?/17 - v1.1

  • add shortcode
  • add options page
  • automagically flush/rewrite permalinks

3/04/17 - Release 1.0

  • OOP design
  • Metadata improvements
  • added jQuery picker

2/24/17 - First release 0.9

  • Basic funtionality