{"id":3492,"date":"2011-12-07T18:31:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2011-12-07T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T10:31:23","slug":"follow-our-family-holiday-on-rainbowtoast-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/follow-our-family-holiday-on-rainbowtoast-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow our family holiday on RainbowToast.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did much more eating, shopping, cycling and gallery and museum hopping in France and Spain than library-related business.<\/p>\n

Our family travel blog, Rainbow Toast<\/h3>\n

We did manage to get our family travel blog up and running, so if you want to know more about our travels, please pop over to RainbowToast.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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At the moment we are feeding all our Flickr photos in to it.<\/p>\n

We will be writing a bit about our aim to do the entire trip with just carry-on luggage (four people, seven weeks, ten cities and five countries <\/a>), and travelling with kids.<\/p>\n

We have a calendar on the sidebar where you can see the activities that we did each day. Well, you could if we had filled in each headline with stories and links. We where were aiming to get content added before we told everyone about the site, but realised last night that the trip would be over if we waited until then. So – you can click on each day and see a list of what we did, but clicking through currently brings you most often to a post saying “more content soon”.<\/p>\n

Tech specs<\/h3>\n

It is, of course, WordPress hosted on our own server. I started with a Buddypress installation, thinking that we would run it like a social site with posts from each family member. It soon became obvious that at the end of the day the most we have time or energy to do is to upload our photos.<\/p>\n

Theme<\/h6>\n

My favourite theme, Suffusion<\/a>. I have applied the Suffusion BuddyPress Pack <\/a>so that it works for the BuddyPress installation.<\/p>\n

Plugins<\/h6>\n

TravelMap<\/a> . This lets us make a date-based map of our trip<\/a>, showing where we have been and where we are yet to travel. We could, if we wanted, to add links to each location, for example to the relevant Flickr set for each one.<\/p>\n

Awesome Flickr Gallery<\/a> This automatically displays all the items in a specified Flickr account or set. We can specify how many images, how many columns and rows and the size of each image. This generates a very small string that we can insert into a page or post. As we upload images to Flickr each night, the travel blog is updated with images on pages for:<\/p>\n