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

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