As preparation for my family’s intended emigration to New Zealand in 2008, I thought it would be helpful (and, yes, fun!) to create a map of NZ schools, with some selection by decile. It became an intriguing exercise in juggling technologies. And it succeeded.

When I converted this site from Silverstripe into WordPress, it was an opportunity for me to make the schools database into my very first WordPress plugin. As always when grappling with new technologies, there was plenty of help on other web sites – of which a good proportion contradicted another good proportion. I expect it’s not coded up to top-notch WP standards, and I’m happy that it works well enough to be available to the world.