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The plugin has been updated to work with WordPress 4.3, however, no further updates will be made. Data used by the plugin is no longer provided by the FCO, so old information is used which may be out of date.

Designed for sites offering advice or assistance to British Nationals abroad. It uses official UK Foreign Office data to provide you and your visitors with address, contact details, visiting hours etc plus a map for any British Foreign Mission worldwide.
\nIt provides more information than the embassy finder tool on the UK Foreign Office web-site i.e. it includes a map to find the embassy/consul and sometimes an email address.

Designed to blend in with your site, with options for changing alignment, width, colors (text, button etc) and button label text.

You can try it out on this WordPress Travel Blog.

The widget has been tested under WordPress 3.3.1 / PHP 5 but should be compatible with WP 2.8 onwards.
\n– for more info and to check for known issues see my Embassy Travel Widget page.

Your comments (via the above blog) would be appreciated.

License

This program is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

In particular please note the following:

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

\n","installation":"

Requirement: 2.8 up (tested on 3.3.2 and PHP 5 against numerous themes)

The easyest way is direct from your WP Dashboard like any other widget:

1.Plugins -> Add New -> do a search for travel to find it -> click “install now”

2.Activate the plugin.

3.From the Dashboard ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Widgets’ menu. Drag the widget to the “widget area” you want it to appear in.

Whilst in this “widget area” you will see a faint dropdown arrow next any widgets that you have installed – this lets you customise them.
\nThe travel widget uses your default color scheme, but if you wish you can customise colors, width and button text, and optionally display a link for an external page with other useful Travel Tools.
\n Screenshots of an example customised widget, and how to set it can be seen here:travelchimps.com/widgets/uk-embassy-widget.php

Alternatively:

\n
Download the plugin direct from the Plugin Page at WordPress.org
\n
\n
Upload the WHOLE ZIP file (contains ‘wp-ukembassy.php’, 3 screenshot jpegs, and readme.txt) to your WordPress plugins directory ( normally /wp-content/plugins/ ).
\n
\n
Activate and configure as in 2 to 4 above.
\n

\n","faq":"\n

How do I raise issues or contact you

Post a comment on my Travel Blog(I will be posting about it there shortly). I welcome any feedback about the widget, and whether positive or critical I want comments to be visible.

\n\n","changelog":"

0.8.2

updated for upcoming WordPress 4.3; no more updates will be made. Data used by the plugin is no longer provided by the FCO, so old information is used which may be out of date.

0.8.0

19 March 2012: Initial release.

\n","screenshots":"

$\""Standard"$
\"Standard\" and custom example: screenshot-1.jpg.
$\"Top$
Top of embassy page identifying 4 results for \"France\": screenshot-2.jpg.
$\"Details$
Details displayed for one of the 4 results: screenshot-3.jpg

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British Foreign Office data includes information on safety and security, terrorism, local laws and customs, entry requirements, health and other aspects of travel for countries across the globe.

You can display the data in two ways:

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Via a button which pulls through the data via ajax
\n
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Loads the data directly while loading the page
\n

Directions

1) Install the plugin

2) Create a custom meta tag called ‘geo_country’ to any post, adding the country you want information for. A full list of countries is available from the BFO website.

3) There are two shortcodes you can use:
\n[fo-advice] – gets info as the page loads (displayed in an accordion type box)

[fo-advice-button] creates a button which when clicked, will retrieve and display the data via ajax.

Demos

Info loading as the page loads

Button and ajax loading

Suggestions

Create a text widget with a title called ‘BFO Advice’
\nDrop the shortcode in the text area.

Drop the code below into your widgets area of your code. It will only display a widget if the meta tag ‘geo_country’ is detected.

<?php\n/* look for a meta field called geo_country specific to the post displayed and if it's there, display a widget*/\n$themeta = get_post_meta($pageID);\nif (array_key_exists(\"geo_country\",$themeta))\n{\nutopia_get_foreign_office();\n};\nfunction utopia_get_foreign_office(){\necho '<div class=\"widget-container\">';\necho '<h3 class=\"widget-title\">Foreign Office Advice</h3>';\necho do_shortcode('');\necho '</div>';\n};\n?>\n

The way the information is formatted into elements is near the bottom of index.php (line 207 onwards). You can add a title by unremarking line 208. We’ve deliberately left the code with lots of space and relatively easy to understand so you can reformat how you see fit.

Beware! The elements and their classes / IDs are tied in to the accordion. For the accordion reference and options see www.snyderplace.com

Donate

You can always donate as a way of saying thanks!

Additional Info

Thanks to www.snyderplace.com for the JQuery Accordion.

\n","installation":"

Upload plugin-name.php to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Create a custom meta tag in any post called ‘geo_country’. Include the country as the meta tag value.
Use the shortcode [fo-advice] or [fo-advice-button]

\n","changelog":"

1.0

Initial release

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