I received a tweet the other day from the wonderful Andy Mabbett. It read;
http://opening-times.co.uk/ is very #hyperlocal oriented. They’re on Twitter: @opening_times / @willperrin @getgood (widget, @philipjohn ?)
So I toddled over to the Opening Times web site and had a gander, found some XML there and thought to myself,
Hmm that’ll only take five minutes.
It took twenty but I created a very simple widget for Wordpress that displays search results for an area you specify. Here’s a screenshot:
A screenshot of the opening times widget
You can download it now although be aware that it’s in beta so it might throw up errors occasionally. I already know that it doesn’t handle postcodes very well, so be careful with using them.
If you have any thoughts/suggestions/comments/criticisms, add a comment below!
Magic, thank you. And thank you for your kind words, too.
Brilliant, Philip and Andy. Great work.
Plugin installed and running on http://SR2Blog ‘neath your TWFY widget
Best,
Josh (@JoshHalliday)
Cool, great work. I’ve done a quick post on my blog. My site isn’t doing very well at serving requests, I need to optimising the geocoding as that seems to be the bottle neck.
http://blog.opening-times.co.uk/2009/12/wordpress-plugin.html