Philip John » Opening Times http://philipjohn.journallocal.co.uk Best served chilled. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:15:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New hyperlocal WordPress plugin: OpeningTimes.co.uk http://philipjohn.journallocal.co.uk/2009/12/17/new-hyperlocal-wordpress-plugin-openingtimes-co-uk/ http://philipjohn.journallocal.co.uk/2009/12/17/new-hyperlocal-wordpress-plugin-openingtimes-co-uk/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:05:52 +0000 Philip John http://philipjohn.co.uk/?p=747 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

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!

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