This wordpress plugin lets you display a widget like component with data about the corona virus.
Some options you can choose are as following:
- Total cases
- Today’s cases
- Total deaths
- Today’s deaths
- Recovered
- Active cases
- Critical
- Cases per one million
You choose what data you want to display in the settings page. On top of that you also have the option to fully customize the widgets.
To display the widget you need to use the [coronavirus] shortcode, this will display the global data.
There is also an optional country attribute which you can use to display data about a specific country.
Append the country attribute like this [coronavirus country=”name_of_the_country”]. Usually the full name of the country with spaces where needed is required.
A very select set of countries has been abbreviated to:
- United States Of America = USA
- United Kingdom = UK
- South Korea = S. Korea
The coronavirus pugin relies on the API by NovelCOVID for all it’s data.
The API its Github page: https://github.com/novelcovid/api
The API its privacy policy: https://github.com/NovelCOVID/API/blob/master/privacy.md
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.