Title: Using worldKit with WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Using worldKit with WordPress

 *  eloso
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-worldkit-with-wordpress/)
 * Mikel Maron’s [worldKit](http://www.brainoff.com/worldkit/) is a free and fully
   customizable Flash application that maps out your post locations by extracting
   your geourl data (assuming you’ve been entering them into your posts) and plots
   them on a super dope looking map (which you can also customize) with hover over
   text boxes which contain excerpts from your rss feed and link to your archived
   entry. You can see an example [here](http://www.el-oso.net/blog/wp-worldkit/index.php).
   Make sure to click on the links to the right to see how the same rss feed can
   be plotted on several different maps.
    Here’s how to do it:
    1.  [Download](http://brainoff.com/worldkit/worldkit.zip) worldKit
    2.  Unzip the folder where you want the map to reside. I chose “wp-root-directory/
        wp-worldkit.”
    3.  Open the file “config.xml” and change the `<dataurl>` from “rss.xml” to “[http://wp-root-directory/feed/rss2/&#8221](http://wp-root-directory/feed/rss2/&#8221);(
        NOTE: do not include quotation marks)
    4.  Save “config.xml” and upload the entire worldkit directory to your server
    5.  Open “wp-rss2.php” in your WordPress root directory
    6.  On line 30, in the rss declaration, add `xmlns:icbm="http://postneo.com/icbm/"`
        after `xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"`
    7.  Lines 30 – 32 should therefore look like:
    8.  >  `<rss version="2.0" 
        >  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
        > xmlns:icbm="http://postneo.com/icbm/">
    9.  Then, below, in the `<item>` section, underneath , put the following two lines
        of code:
    10. >  `<icbm:latitude><?php echo get_Lat(); ?></icbm:latitude>
        >  <icbm:longitude
        > ><?php echo get_Lon(); ?></icbm:longitude>
    11. Save “wp-rss2.php” and upload it to your server. That’s it.
    12. Check out the [worldKit website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-worldkit-with-wordpress/http://www.brainoff.com/worldkit/index.html?output_format=md)
        for more information about how to configure your map and the “index.html” file
        which displays the map. And please consider dropping Mikel some paypal change
        for making such a great application free. Also, looks like some [phat upgrades](http://www.brainoff.com/worldkit/historyfuture.html)
        are in store.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-worldkit-with-wordpress/#post-47868)
 * I played with this yesterday, and people I link to are now on a world map.
    The
   results are here: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/linkmap/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/linkmap/)
   It’s really really easy to do. 1. Download Worldkit. 2. Open ‘rss.xml’ 3. These
   are what you edit: `<item> <title>Welcome to WorldKit</title> <link>http://brainoff.
   com/worldkit</link> <description>If you see this, you have successfully installed
   worldKit on your webserver! </description> <icbm:latitude>0</icbm:latitude> <
   icbm:longitude>0</icbm:longitude> </item> 4. Make one of those for each of the
   people you want to link to. For instance, here’s Carthik’s entry on my list:  
   <item> <title>Blog.Carthik</title> <link>http://blog.carthik.net</link> <description
   >C A R T H I K . N E T</description> <icbm:latitude>28.596115</icbm:latitude>
   <icbm:longitude>-81.210102</icbm:longitude> </item> 5. You get their latitude/
   longitude by going to their site and ‘View Source’. If they have entered data,
   you’ll see something other than ‘0,0’. 6. Upload the lot. 7. Run it in the browser.
   Easy 🙂 My files, if you want to see them, are at: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/linkmap/config.xml](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/linkmap/config.xml)
   [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/linkmap/rss.xml](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/linkmap/rss.xml)
 *  [vohiyaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vohiyaar/)
 * (@vohiyaar)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-worldkit-with-wordpress/#post-47873)
 * Doesn’t the worldkit script extract the lat/long from each post?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-worldkit-with-wordpress/#post-47874)
 * Not as it stands, no.
    Worldkit simply runs through a file – which you have to
   supply – and displays the dots/locations. One way to supply it is through a manually
   created feed (xml file). This is the method I used above and at [http://www.mfr.f2s.com/worldpress/](http://www.mfr.f2s.com/worldpress/)
   The other way – which is demonstrated at World Geoblog ( [http://brainoff.com/geoblog/](http://brainoff.com/geoblog/))
   is by dynamically creating such a feed.This is done by writing the script to 
   query somewhere like weblogs.com for each time a blog updates, then query the
   blog for it’s geodata, and if it has it and the geodata is in the correct format,
   add that data to the feed. It was the “writing the script” bit that threw me 
   🙂
 *  [ayager](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ayager/)
 * (@ayager)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-worldkit-with-wordpress/#post-47886)
 * You could also edit the wp-locations.php file. This is already in the required
   format, but needs the xml tag names changed.

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