Friday, 5th August 2011 at 7:09 am | 22 Comments »
NOTE: You may need to re-add your widgets after upgrading to 3.2.5!
If your site uses the map widget, the 3.2.5 upgrade will remove it due to changes to the code. You just need to go to Appearance > Widgets in the WP admin and re-add the widget.
If you don’t use widgets you don’t need to do anything, just dismiss the message.
- Widgets updated to use Widget API – you can now add multiple widgets.
- Added recent locations widget.
- Added ‘wpgeo_base_country_code’ filter so you can default admin post map search to a base country.
- Added option to show maps in taxonomy archives.
- Fixed admin map not showing after publish if “Save map centre point for this post” checked but no marker added.
- Fixed some deprecated functions and undeclared variables.
- Fixed feeds – incorrect database table references.
- Fixed dashboard – uses SimplePie.
- Prevent post been saved when pressing enter in WP Geo post fields.
- Check that co-ordinates have been set in get_wpgeo_post_map().
Auto-upgrade within your WordPress admin or download it here…
Hi!
I love WP Geo for it simplicity. It’s great you’ve found the time to rewrite the widgets to use the Widgets API, but I’m having bad luck with the recent locations widget. It’s not showing up. Could this be because I use only custom post types and not regular posts? If so, could it be fixed?
Thanks for the great plugin, it saved my bacon.
Davey.
Quite probably it is because you’re using custom post types. I’ll see if that’s easily fixable.
Please try out this development version. It adds custom post type checkboxes to the widget based on your WP Geo settings.
It works! Thank you very much! I appreciate it.
Cool, you can use that version for now, it will be in the next release.
Hello
Thank you very much for this add-on. Very truly welcomed.
Explanation points marked on the map next to photo is even better.
I’d love to be able to apply a custom maptype styling (see Google), or even a simple styling wizard (see here), or some way for the plugin to import JSON generated by the google wizard above.
Great plugin.
Denis
Denis,
When I eventually manage to move WP Geo over to using the latest version of Google Maps API then that should be be possible. I’ve added an issue for it here.
Thanks & appreciation – have voted for the issue.
Hi, it seems the widget only works if the current page already has a map on the page. So because only some of my posts have geo information, sometimes there are no posts visible with a map, and the widget dissappears.
Are you using the Contextual map widget (which should work like that) or the Recent Locations widget?
Hi, I’m running into the same issue as Daniel on my site. I’m using the recent locations widget and the map doesn’t show unless there is another map in a post on the page. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1 and the WPGeo3.2.5.
On the other pages the Recent locations widget works excellent and I can’t wait to have it running on the main page. Thanks so much for all your work on this plugin!
I looked in the source code and it looks like the difference is that the main page is missing the // —– WP Geo Marker Icons —– javascrip instructions. Without those the map won’t show. Not sure how to update those in the editor. Thanks!
Is this occurring just on your home page or on other pages?
The widget displays correctly on posts and pages, even when there is not another map. Just not on the homepage.
Is your home page showing the most recent posts (the default WordPress setup) or is it a static home page (set in WP admin > Settings > Reading)?
I’m showing the latest posts. It’s a travel blog.
Must the home page be static in order for it to work?
Daniel,
Are you using the Contextual Map Widget or the Recent Locations Widget?
The contextual map widget only shows locations for posts on the current page and will disappear if there aren;t any.
The recent locations widget should always show the most recent locations
- Ben
Hi Ben
Thanks for creating such a useful plugin, however I cannot seem to get it to work. I am running the latest version of your plugin, wp 3.2.1, have my api key set but when i try to assign a location to a post in my wordpress admin, the map isn’t loading on the page and i am getting a page error in my notifications bar.
also, when navigating around my site it is asking me for an api key. but i already have this set in your settings page.
hope you can help
Henry
And can you confirm the API key is for the exact domain of your site?
Are you running WordPress as a MultiSite setup?
Yes, exact domain.
Not using multi site.
Thanks
Henry