Earth Hour WordPress Plugin Release

by Dale Mugford ~ Mar 19 / 2009

We’ve released an Earth Hour plugin here at BraveNewCode, called the Earth Hour WordPress Plugin, and it’s available here.

What Does It Do?

The Earth Hour plugin will add a small fixed banner across the top of your site (we’re running it here on BraveNewCode) that provides a link to the Earth Hour website, counts all the sites using the plugin and participating in the event, and also provides a link for others to visit our site and learn about/download the plugin themselves for their own WordPress sites.

It will also automatically determine your timezone for Earth Hour, Saturday March 28th at 8:30pm local time, and ’switch off’ your website, instead showing a page showing your solidarity of support for the hour, and then ’switch on’ your site afterwards.

You can view screenshots on the earth hour plugin page, along with version details and the reasons behind our creating the plugin.

The plugin is free to all, released under the GPU General Public License.

One Comment

  1. Hey Guys –
    Put in the EarthHour plugin, wicked cool. It’s not displaying the banner though. Something with the selected theme, no doubt, but I won’t have time to figure it out. If you think you know why, let me know and I’ll attempt to correct the problem. Otherwise, I’m hoping it works tonight at 8:30 EDT.

    many thanks in advance, and great stuff you got here!
    - Neil

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