iVolunteer is a free location-aware service that makes it easy for people to find volunteer opportunities and get involved in their communities.

The iVolunteer Plugin:

Displays local community volunteering opportunities in the blog sidebar.
Please see the Screenshots for examples.

Thanks to The HandsOn Network for providing the volunteer opportunity data.

For the latest news, please follow @iVolunteer on Twitter.

Change History

Rev 1.1.7 2009-Jun-14

Removed
tags from iVolunteer_sidebar() to remove preceeding bullet from list.
Fixed with the help of Andrew Hyde. Thanks for helping debug this on your Mac!

Rev 1.1.6 2009-Jun-13

Tested with WordPress 2.8.

Rev 1.1.5 2009-Jun-13

Display events in ascending order by date.

Rev 1.1.4 2009-Jun-09

Added one additional check for zero records returned. Displays “No opportunities found.”
Updated to force all descriptions to only capitalize first char of each word.

Rev 1.1.3 2009-Jun-09

Gracefully handle zero records returned from JSON api.

Rev 1.1.2 2009-Jun-08

Updated text on the options page.

Rev 1.1.1 2009-Jun-08

Updated to simplify sidebar.php installation for non-widgetized themes.

Rev 1.1.0 2009-Jun-06

Upon initial setup, default to 5 opportunities to be displayed.

Rev 1.0.9 2009-Jun-02

Replaced str_ireplace() with custom function to ensure PHP4 compatibility.

Rev 1.0.8 2009-Jun-01

Updated the readme.

Rev 1.0.7 2009-Jun-01

Added 2 screenshots: Local volunteer opportunities shown in the blog sidebar, The iVolunteer admin settings page.

Rev 1.0.6 2009-Jun-01

Added admin option to choose number of events to display in sidebar: 5, 10, or 15.

Rev 1.0.5 2009-Jun-01

Reformatted date, time, city/state/zip, and phone number for continuity.
If no response from server, timeout after 5 seconds and display “please try later”.

Rev 1.0.4 2009-May-29

Reformatted sidebar display.

Rev 1.0.3 2009-May-29

Added live datafeed.

Rev 1.0.2 2009-Feb-17

Localized to support multiple languages.

Rev 1.0.1 2009-Feb-16

Initial revision.

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