Needs more Standard Data.

First I think this plugin is an awesome idea… Second, it could afford some improvements.

Drupal as a module which does something simular – providing a list of countries – for other modules to access… So, it seems to be an efficient way to work as a developer…

I think the plugin could be improved by doing three things:

1. Adding more data on install. Absent from the standard data is the UN regions http://www.commondatahub.com/country_source.jsp
2. There is also no documentation saying which list of countries is being used. Is it ISO 3166 and if so current as of what data? – there are also social lists like this one on github which could be used… http://github.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes/blob/master/all/all.csv
3. It would be nice, cool, useful in some cases, to have multiple names for countries, like per language as can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_names_in_various_languages
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I am not sure why this was implemented as a CPT. (I am not saying that is it a bad way to do it – I just don’t know.) It seems to me that if people are going to use countries that they are going to want to associate them with another CPT… This I think is the role of a taxonomy. But then if the countries are a taxonomy and we have all this other data about the country then the taxonomy needs custom fields for each term… And if I understand things then that dynamic starts to look awkward – in a WordPress kind of way.

The challenge for me in WP using this plugin has been that I need the countries to work as a taxonomy. So, I found http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/cpt-onomies/ to work with the custom post types and “taxonomize” the CPT. The problem is that it is a hog… that is when I do it this way then it takes some time for my processor to find the correct countries. (If this is not a best practice way of working, someone tell me and show me the light… ) I am also using ACF and using the above set-up with that…. I just wish I could have a Chosen interface rather than the ACF one….

the only next thing I could wish for would be a plugin like this which allowed for the use of ISO 639-3 language codes, kinda like this one did…