JKL Unit ConverterWordPress Plugin

I’m an American expat in South Korea so I find I’m constantly wanting to convert

between various units of measurement for different things. My family talks to me

over Skype in Fahrenheit; recipes online call for 8 ounces of something; and I always

wondered what various korean house sizes and floor plans (pyoung) actually were in

square meters or square feet.

Well now, I’ve created just the plugin to take care of all of those kinds of

conversions. It currently includes functions for 14 different conversion formulas

(like length, weight, temperature, speed, etc), but there are plans for about 20

more! (For a full list of conversion formulas and units, see the plugin NOTES

section below.)

This plugin was inspired by Google’s Unit Converter and includes the majority of

the units listed on their website

(including some extra silly ones I’ve found and a handful of korea specific units

of measurement).

requires wordpress 3.5 and PHP 5.4 or later.

Special Features

• Provides varying levels of complexity for conversion lists (basic – 6 types,
  

  default – 14 types)

• Provides a default list of the most common units for each list, but also a checkbox
  

  to enable ALL unit types (including some obscure ones from ancient history and fiction)

• Lists values are dynamically controlled with JavaScript so that as soon as you
  

  change list types, the units of measurement are immediately switched (without page
  

  refresh)

Notes

• Multiple widgets are allowed at once (on the same Post/Page)
• multiple shortcodes (on the same Post/Page) are disabled – multiple shortcodes
  

  will display only one form

• On Posts/Pages with a shortcode, the widget will be disabled

Planned Upcoming Features

• AJAX form submission to prevent page reload
• An Advanced List of conversion formulas – 32 types
• More conversion units supported
• Possibly allow users to select whether or not to display multiple forms in shortcodes
  

  and/or widgets

Translations

• English (EN) – default
• Korean (KO) – upcoming

If you want to help translate the plugin into your language, please have a look

at the .pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a [gettext]

editor.

If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one,

you can send your [gettext .po or .mo file] to me so that I can bundle it in the

plugin.

Contact Me

If you have questions about, problems with, or suggestions for improving this

plugin, please let me know at the WordPress.org support forums

Want updates about my other WordPress plugins, themes, or tutorials? Follow me

@jekkilekki

Support

Click here to visit the forum for this plugin

Acknowledgements

This plugin uses:

• A similar list of units as those on the Google website

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms

of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation; either

version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY

WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this

program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth

Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Automatic installation

1. Log into your WordPress admin
2. Go to Plugins -> Add New
3. Search for JKL Unit Converter
4. Click Install Now
5. Activate the Plugin

Manual installation

1. Download the Plugin
2. Extract the contents of the .ZIP file
3. Upload the contents of the jkl-unit-converter directory to your /wp-content/plugins
   folder of your WordPress installation
4. Activate the Plugin from the Plugins page

Documentation

Full documentation of the Plugin and its uses can (currently) be found at its
GitHub page