On March 11 at 2:46pm JST a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake occurred near the northeastern coast of Japan, creating extremely destructive tsunami waves which hit Japan just minutes after the earthquake, and triggering evacuations and warnings across the Pacific Ocean. The earthquake and tsunami have caused extensive and severe damage in Northeastern Japan, leaving thousands of people confirmed dead, injured or missing, and millions more affected by lack of electricity, water and transportation.
If you have a working wordpress site now is the time that you can help with this effort with the Help Japan Red Cross Donation WordPress Plugin The plugin adds a banner to the top of your WordPress site that will take your visitors to the American Red Cross in order to donate money to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami. The WordPress Japan Redcross plugin adds 75px of padding to the body of your page and the images are served off of their CDN.
Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress for their websites so if we all play a role in this we can most definitely make the difference for those in Japan.
Japan Red Cross Donation WordPress PluginAn example of an image the plugin will show can be seen below, we are also using it on our site, view an example here:
