I think it would be amazing if website visitors could add where they live (only name, city and skype username), so in case of a website where socializing offline is important, this feature would be very useful.

Thanks for listening!

thanks for your nice WP plugin.
Does your plugin offer an API (e.g. XML-RPC) to automatically retrieve Geo coordinates from a post?

Best
Makube

im wanting to show the map on my wordpress sidebar, has anyone got any ideas hows to insert or even get the coding do modify ?

Cheers for my help…

Great plugin, easy to use!

I have a situation, which you might have a quick answer:

How would I know whether the maps will be shown on a post through your plugin?
like:

$isThereAnyMap = $wpgeo->categoryMap();
if( no maps ) show different header;

I do not want to tamper any plugins on the site I am using, as it would break the whole thing when I am upgrading.

Thanks a lot!
Ferenc

< ?php wpgeo_map( $query ); ?>

Where $query can be any of the parameters you can use with the WordPress get_posts function.

now on the edit post page in WP the google map section hangs with the message “Loading Google map…” and a blank space where the map should be. Already-placed maps work fine and display correctly on the front end, it’s only in creating new posts that the map is inaccessible.

Again, VERY likely another problem on our end, just wondered if you had any tips.

Yes please. Adding multiple locations to a single post would be very useful for me.

Just to motivate you a little, I will donate as soon as i’ able to specify a category for a displayed map. You said this feature is comming since early 2009 and i’ve been waiting since then

Something like:

$wpgeo->categoryMap('cat=2');

would be perfect.

The link to the test page: http://www.test.kk4you.de/google-maps

-Tom

It looks like your WordPress install must have tight restrictions on creating new files as the plugin was not able to create a folder and move the default markers to the new location.

You need to create the following folder:

http://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/ar357-001-s10-pkelley/wp-content/uploads/wp-geo/markers/

…and copy all the images from this folder into it.

http://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/ar357-001-s10-pkelley/wp-content/plugins/wp-geo/img/markers

I’ll look at providing some better error catching so that if the folder is not created it will use the markers in the default location.

The reason it makes a copy is so that if replace the marker images with your own customised images, they will not be overwritten when you upgrade the plugin.

- Ben

I’ve been using it with my site, and now I’m getting my students in my “digital sketchbook” class to use it with their blog posts, geo-referencing places on campus (skidmore college).

The only problem I’ve come across in using it with skidmore’s somewhat inaccessible blog install is that the post maps (using [wp_geo_map]) don’t show any markers, they’re just centered on the location. I’m waiting to hear back from the IT people here at skidmore college, checking to see if they messed up the install, but wondered if you had any tips. here’s one of the posts:
http://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/ar357-001-s10-pkelley/

thanks again for a very useful addition to wordpress.
thanks again

I’m current building a way into the plugin to be able to set custom markers. The way the plugin is current structured it’s not easy so I am re-coding some bits. The idea is that you’ll be able to set a custom marker per post.

- Ben

This is such an awesome plugin you have here. I have a bit of PHP knowledge and am familiar with wordpress and most of its codex.However I was wondering how to do some modifications?

I want to make different markers for different posts. I was thinking of differentiating them via diff categories, eg CategoryA – markerA, etc. Or another way is via custom fields.

Which do you think is better and how should I go about it?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-geo/download/

If that doesn’t work, please let me know.