FloraPress – Your Garden on WordPress

Description

Now you can easily manage plant and garden information on your WordPress blog. This plugin brings your plant profiles, plots of land and planting plans together enabling you to track key dates for sowing and harvesting, planting conditions, your garden environment and more. A range of shortcodes enables you to add plant and plot information to other blog pages – ideal if you use WordPress to keep a garden journal. Suitable for both flower and vegetable gardens.

= The three core modules are
* Plant Profiles – A library for information on plants such as how to grow them, what space they need, when to sow and harvest them etc. Most of this information would typically be available on the back of a seed packet.
* Plot Profiles – Areas of land for growing. You can define as many ‘Plots’ as they wish – for example: a front garden; a back garden; and a vegetable garden.
* Planting Profiles – All the plants that are to be grown in a specific Plot. Multiple Planting Plans can be added to cover, for example, different years. Planting plans will enable you to organise your plants within zones or ‘Beds’ within the plot. Each Bed contains ‘Sowings’ (which can be one or many) of the same plant. This enables you to list what is growing in the bed over a specific time period.

FloraPress Features

  • Plant Profiles (limited to 10 for the free version)
  • Plot profiles – add unlimited profiles of the areas where you grow plants
  • Planting plants – add unlimited planting plants – profile your existing garden, plan future planting
  • Front end pages to share information with others
  • Shortcodes to enable you to add plant profiles, plot profiles and planting plan information whereever you want on your blog (e.g. add plant profiles to post to create a garden journal )

Upgrade to FlorPress Premium for additional features

  • Add more than 10 plant profiles
  • Premium version will add fields to track the results from plant sowings – e.g. how many seeds germinated and grew to term, what the weight of the harvest was, what the monetary value of a harvest was.
  • Premium version will include a basic pop-up ‘Warning’ when the plants environmental requirements don’t match those of the plot the User is intending to grow it in.

Screenshots

  • Front End Plant Profile Overview Tab – Record Plant Information
  • Front End Plant Profile Overview Tab
  • Back End Plant Profile Management Page
  • Back End Plant Profile Shortcode
  • Front End Plot Profile – Record You Planting Conditions
  • Front End Planting Plan – Plan and Record What is Planted Where and When

Installation

Automatically Install From WordPress Dashboard

  1. Login to your the admin panel
  2. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New
  3. Search FloraPress
  4. Click install and activate respectively.

Manual Install From WordPress Dashboard

If your server is not connected to the Internet, then you can use this method:

  1. Download the plugin by clicking on the blue ‘Download’ button above. A ZIP file will be downloaded.
  2. Login to your site’s admin panel and navigate to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload.
  3. Click ‘Choose File’, select the plugin file and click install.

Install Using FTP

If you are unable to use any of the methods due to internet connectivity and file permission issues, then you can use this method:

  1. Download the plugin by clicking on the blue ‘Download’ button above. A ZIP file will be downloaded.
  2. Unzip the file.
  3. Launch your favorite FTP client. Such as FileZilla, FireFTP, CyberDuck etc. If you are a more advanced user, then you can use SSH too.
  4. Upload the folder to wp-content/plugins/
  5. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
  6. Navigate to Plugins -> Installed
  7. Activate the plugin.

FAQ

Does FloraPress support WordPress multisite installation?

Yes.

How many plants can I add to the free version?

10

Can I Have This or That Feature?

Yes – we love to receive ideas and suggestions and can also undertake bespoke projects here

How does x work? Where is the documentation?

Comprehensive documentation can be found here

Reviews

May 7, 2022
FloraPress is a promising plugin. As a garden enthusiast, I was looking for a good plugin for gardeners, vegetable growers. I’ve just install it and trying to figure my way to it. It was a pleasant surprise that creators have included so many info fields about plants, plots and beds. What I would like to see included is a shortcode for listing all plants, all plots, all beds. Thank you!
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Contributors & Developers

“FloraPress – Your Garden on WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

= 1.0.8- 31 October 2023=
* Freemius SDK verion 2.6.0

1.0.7 28 February2022

  • security Fix

1.0.6 01 October 2021

  • Update SDK version 2.4.2

1.0.5 26 November 2020

  • Update SDK version 2.4.1

1.0.4 19 October 2020

  • Bug Fix

1.0.3 29 July 2020

  • Update SDK version 2.4.0.1

1.0.2 29 May 2020

  • Bug fix

1.0.1 1 May 2020

  • Adds additional Planting Plan Fields

1.0 25 April 2020

  • Launch