Tuesday, 15th December 2009 at 12:15 am | 17 Comments »
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 seems to have fixed the issue so please download WP Geo 3.1.2…
The plugin just doesn’t seem to work at all on my site…
The manual tag does nothing
The sidebar widget does nothing
Selecting the wp_geo button while editing a post does place the tag, but that is all
However I do not see any errors in my logs, and looking at the headers that come by, google successfully authenticates my API key?!…
This post has the manual tag:
http://www.fampeeters.com/wordpress/?p=174&lang=en
And the widget is between the weather stamp and categories in the right panel!
Totally flabbergasted on this one… The first plugin ever to not work on my installation!
NM! Got it working! User-error (Did not put any data in the location fields, only in the search field! D’oh!)
Hello!
I found one strange thing that if I have existing articles and add a geo position the widget does not show it. It only shows articles and its position if newly created. Is this a bug or a feature. I’m using version 3.1.2
best regards
Frank
This plugin (Version 3.1.2) is working well on my site using WP 2.9.1 (first geotag plugin that did!) with one minor exception … the marker text is not showing up in either the post or the sidebar. I just get a white box attached to the marker when I mouse over it. Maybe user error but I have no idea where.
Can you post a link if this is available for me to view anywhere?
Also, what theme are you using as they may affect it.
Hi Ben,
Site is: http://trekabout.terrapania.net/
Using Station theme.
Cheers,
Steve
Steve, I think your theme is styling text to be white which the tooltip text is inheriting. You can fix this by editing the tooltip style in wp-geo/css/wp-geo.css
Add the bottom, add a color style to the tooltip:
#tooltip2 {
z-index: 1000;
position: absolute;
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
padding: 3px 5px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
max-width: 300px;
text-align: left;
display: none;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color:#000000;
}
It’s a good plugin, and OK with WP 2.9, but he’s in conflict with Lightbox2 ( this images are not with effect slide show). Thinks
Great plugin!
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
Hi Pat,
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
thanks, ben!
i passed your info on to the IT folks, i hope they can work on it soon.
Put those file paths on the server for you Pat; the images are now showing. Thanks for the information Ben.
-Tom
new problem, dang!!
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.
First thing to try, try disabling all other plugins and see if the problem persists – it may well be a conflict.
Hello Ben,
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
Hi,
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
It doesn’t current provide that but I’ll add it to a list of possible future enhancements. Sounds interesting…