WP Geo Development

I’ve just released this WP Geo release while attending WordCamp UK.

This version now works just fine with WordPress 3.0 and supports custom post types that use the WordPress user interface – for example, using the Custom Post Type UI plugin – you can add support for custom post types on the WP Geo settings page. You can also add support for a specific post type using the add_post_type_support( <post-type>, ‘wpgeo’ ) function.

There are two new filters so that you have more control of customising marker icons – wpgeo_markers and wpgeo_marker_icon. This will allow you to easily override any marker image so you could potential show different marker images for different posts or categories.

There are also some addition template tags – see the change log below.

There are also many minor fixes and and support for Simplified Chinese language.

• Fix for tooltip not working in WordPress 3.0.
• Fix to allow maps to be shown on tag archive pages by Lee Willis.
• Fix for default_map_control setting not being saved correctly.
• Ensure default map location is populated, otherwise map does not display when editing a post in the admin.
• Don’t try to show maps in feeds.
• Make sure includes are only included once.
• Added support for custom post types in WordPress 3.0.
• Added wpgeo_title() and get_wpgeo_title() template tags.
• Added wpgeo_post_map() and get_wpgeo_post_map() template tags.
• Added wpgeo_check_version() and wpgeo_check_db_version() for checking WP Geo version.
• Added ‘wpgeo_markers‘ filter in preparation for being able to add new marker icons.
• Added ‘wpgeo_marker_icon‘ filter. Allows you to override a marker icon based on post data and context.
• Added Simplified Chinese language.
• Language files updated.

Download the latest version of  WP Geo from the WordPress plugin repository.

WP Geo now has a dedicated Twitter account.

If you’re only interested in getting updates about new posts, releases and beta versions of WP Geo, just follow @wpgeo.

If you are a developer, translator,  or want to test drive the development and beta versions of WP Geo, make sure you stay in the loop by signing up to the mailing list.

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You should sign up to this list if:

1. You are interested in testing out beta and development versions of WP Geo and providing feedback.
2. You develop a plugin that works with WP Geo and need to keep up-to-date with development.
3. You are interested in translating WP Geo – I’ll let you know via this list when there is new text to translate.

This group is NOT for:

1. General feature requests.
2. Issues/bugs relating to a current release WP Geo – development/beta discussion only please.
3. Help getting stuff to work.

In these instances please post in the forum.

A few people have been reporting that maps aren’t showing in the admin when editing a post or page.

This seems to happen when a default latitude and longitude aren’t set in the settings. If you’re experiencing this problem please try setting a default location.

This has been fixed in the development version – you’ll need to disable and re-enable the plugin for the fix to work. Please test the development version and post your feedback but please don’t use it on a live web site in case something breaks.

Full details of the changes can be found here.

Thank you for all your feedback about the bugs in 3.1.3

They should now be fixed and in addition 3.1.4 contains the follow fixes, changes and enhancements.

Improvements for users:

• Now uses new Google 3D map control.
• Adding text colour style to tooltip text in case default text colour is white.
• Prevent map from aligning marker centre on zoom. Added a link to centre manually instead.
• Added option to save post map centre point.
• Added wpgeo_map() and get_wpgeo_map() functions to display custom maps based on a WordPress query.
• Language files updated.

…and if you’re a developer:

• Moved a lot of JavaScript for the post edit page to external files.
• Code formatting clean-up, added code comments, files restructured.
• Added WPGeo_Marker class in preparation for better marker management.
• Added wpgeo_init action hook.
• Added wpgeo_the_content_map filter.
• Added wpgeo_edit_post_map_fields filter.
• Added wpgeo_point_title filter.
• Added wpgeo_show_post_map filter.