WP Geo Development

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.

Well, after fixing the few issues that people reported in the beta, I went ahead and released 3.1.3…

…and it seems loads of you have been having problems. If you’re having problems please post a link below so I can see what’s happening.

In the meantime if you are having problems, I suggest you re-install 3.1.2 until I can figure out what’s going on. I have also flipped the download at WordPress.org back to version 3.1.2.

Sorry for any inconvenience. If any of you out there would like to help with the development of WP Geo or test future release please let me know.

I have also set up a demo site running the latest development version (currently 3.1.3) so please let me know if you spot any issues there.

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 of Google Maps API (including the new controller).
• Added a filter ‘wpeo_point_title’ to override the marker tooltip for posts.
• Added wpgeo_map() function to display custom maps based on a WordPress query.