WP Geo - WordPress Plugin

Please try out 3.1.3.beta

Ben — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:27 +0000

Please could you download and test WP Geo 3.1.3.beta A lot of the code has been restructured – the beginning of trying to make the plugin more extendable – so I would appreciate it if you could try it out and post any bugs (not feature requests) below. Some of the more notable changes include: Uses latest version [...]

WP Geo 3.1.2

Ben — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:15:40 +0000

Oops, sorry another quick release… Version 3.1.1 seemed to contain a weird bug that was triggered on activating the plugin, and slipped through the net when I was testing locally. For some reason the filename wp-geo/includes/template.php was causing an error – maybe clashing with something in WordPress, I haven’t figured out exactly what yet. Anyway, renaming that file [...]

WP Geo 3.1.1

Ben — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:11:02 +0000

A minor update to the WP Geo plugin. Updated Danish, French and German translations. Google Maps locale is set based on WordPress locale. Added template tags wpgeo_longitude() and wpgeo_latitude(). So what’s changed? The Google Map is now loaded in the same locale as WordPress. Thanks to Alain Messin (who also updated the French translation) for the code to do that. Also, [...]

WP Geo 3.1

Ben — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:44:48 +0000

This release of WP Geo contains a few often-requested features and a few bug fixes. Added custom marker title setting per post. Added settings for custom zoom and map type per post. Added widget zoom option. Added Default Map Location setting. Croatian language added. Bulgarian language added. Show warning if the marker images folder has not been created. Fix marker tooltip text to [...]

WP Geo 3.0.9.2

Ben — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:54:50 +0000

This release adds support for the Belorussian language thanks to Ilyuha. It also includes a Wordpress hook ‘wpgeomapjs_preoverlays’ which can be used to add extra javascript to a map via a plugin or your theme’s functions.php file. This hook enables you to add additional overlays to the map such as custom tiles – tutorial coming soon…

WP Geo 3.0.9.1

Ben — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:29:32 +0000

This update has a minor bug fix and adds support for Russian language. Fix for GUnload() and GBrowserIsCompatible() being called when not available/required. Russian language added – translation by Fat Cower.

Creating a mashup page with a Google map of all posts

Ben — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:31:19 +0000

Recently, someone left a comment on how to create a mashup page with a map of all your posts. It is something I know a lot of people ask how to do so I have written a ‘how to’ create a map of all posts template tutorial. 1. Create a Template Create a new template file in [...]

WP Geo 3.0.9

Ben — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:20:20 +0000

Some extra features… You can now add width and height parameters to the categoryMap() function and shortcodes, and the Danish language has been updated. Shortcode You can specify either a width or height parameter (or both). If you just enter a number, the width will be set in pixels. You can also specify a percentage as illustrated below: Category Map With [...]

WP Geo 3.0.8

Ben — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:15:03 +0000

WP Geo 3.0.8 is another minor update to the plugin. New features include: Load maps from GeoRSS or KML data Additional Geo Feed control Languages updated and Danish language added Loading maps from GeoRSS or KML data You can now display maps of a GeoRSS feed or KML file using a shortcode so if you want to display one of your Google [...]

WordPress 2.8 and WP Geo

Ben — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:40:29 +0000

WordPress 2.8 has recently been made available for download. The current version of WP Geo should be fully compatible with this version of WordPress – if you do experience any problems please post them below. Future development of the plugin will take advanced of the improved Javascript loading in WordPress 2.8 and the ability to use multiple [...]

WP Geo 3.0.7.1

Ben — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:28:25 +0000

A few extra fixes and features that didn’t quite make it into version 3.0.7: Firefox scrolling bug fixed. Added longitude and latitude shortcodes. Marker on maps in admin now update as you manually change longitude and latitude. Added setting to show maps on search result page.

WP Geo 3.0.7

Ben — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:16:40 +0000

Version 3.0.7 fixes a few bugs and introduces a few often-requested features: Added map button in rich text editor. Added setting to turn on/off polylines. Added setting to set colour of polylines. Added setting to override polylines in Widget. Widget map never zooms in more than default zoom setting. Added WP Geo news feed widget on admin dashboard. Admin panels re-implemented using [...]

WP Geo 3.0.6

Ben — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:29:17 +0000

Another minor WP Geo update: Marker Tooltip improved (can now but style via css) Spanish language added. The Marker Tooltip is now handled via jQuery and does not suffer from cropping at the edges of the map as with the previous version which was handled as a Google Map overlay. This also has the benefit that you can now [...]

WP Geo 3.0.5

Ben — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:33:03 +0000

This is a minor WP Geo update with a few extra features: Added way to escape shortcode CSS Max-width image fixed added. Italian language added. German language updated. It adds Italian language support and updated German language support. The shortcode ‘escape’ parameter allows you to write the shortcode as text instead of it displaying a map (although recently I discovered another plugin wpNSC which probably [...]

WP Geo 3.0.4

Ben — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:24:48 +0000

This minor update to WP Geo adds French language support.

Google Earth Browser Plugin for Macs

Ben — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:37:24 +0000

Finally… The Google Earth plugin is available to download for Macs…

WP Geo 3.0.3

Ben — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:54:23 +0000

Another minor WP Geo update with a few bug fixes: Added HTML Geo Tags (meta tags) on single post pages. Fixed issue when geo data was deleted in quick/bulk edit mode or when scheduled post when live. Fixed domain check to work with blogs in a subfolder of a domain. Now available to download from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

WordPress 2.7

Ben — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:25:57 +0000

WordPress 2.7 has been released! … so here’s a brief post just to let you know WP Geo is already compatible and ready to run on the new 2.7 version of WordPress. You’ll notice lots of little tweaks in the new version of WP and the sleek new user interface is much faster to use. To [...]

WP Geo 3.0.2

Ben — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:40:56 +0000

Another small update to which adds language support. Currently the only languages supported are English and German. If you would like to contribute and translate WP Geo into your language please get in touch. This release also includes many fixes including the following: Google maps not loading for widget in some circumstances. Maps break if post title contains apostrophe. Options are registered correctly [...]

WP Geo in your language?

Ben — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:55:50 +0000

With WP Geo you can display maps of anywhere in the world so it seems only right that WP Geo should support languages from anywhere in the world… Currently the plugin is only available in English although there is a German translation which should be available in the next release. If you would like to contribute by adding a translation file [...]