Trail Monitor

This plugin allows you to display the status of trails on your website. Any user can add a trail status (for review), while only editors and admin can add and update the trails and status names. The trails can have links to pages with more information about them. Both the shortcodes and widget are customizable. Widgets and shortcode can have different sets of trails and notes.

Features

• Widget
• Shortcode for showing:
• • Trails in a list format
• • Trails in a block format
• • Add trail status (with optional anti spam google recaptcha)
• Add images to trails for display in the shortcode
• Placeholder images for trails without images
• Add links to the trails
• Support for embedded youtube video in the comment field
• Set up statuses including their color
• Trail name and status can be the status color
• The order of both trails and statuses can be set
• Notes can be added at the end which can include embedded videos
• Separate notes for the shortcode and widget
• Initial set of trail conditions
• Admin that allows authors and higher users to update the current conditions
• Every Trail can show a list of the last X trail updates submitted by users
• Every Trail can show a list of links to a) weather forecasts b) forest fire smoke forecasts c) Avalanche forecasts

DISCLAIMER: Under no circumstances do we release this plugin with any warranty, implied or otherwise. We cannot be held responsible for any damage that might arise from the use of this plugin. Back up your WordPress database and files before installation.

License

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

External services

This plugin connects to a Google API to protect trail updates from spam attacks, it’s needed to provide anti-spam detection in the plugin.

It sends a unique key every time the widget is loaded.
This service is provided by “Google”: terms of use, privacy policy.
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq