Archive for November, 2008

Another small update to which adds language support. Currently the only languages supported are English and German. If you would like to contribute and translate WP Geo into your language please get in touch.

This release also includes many fixes including the following:

• Google maps not loading for widget in some circumstances.
• Maps break if post title contains apostrophe.
• Options are registered correctly for future versions of WordPress.
• Maps now zoom correctly – not snapping to marker.
• Added domain check so maps will not show or cause an alert if accessed through a proxy server (like Google cache results).
• The max-width style has been removed as it fixes some themes (like PrimePress) but break the Google Map scale. If you need to implement this fix for your theme read our Theme Incompatibility Fixes.
• Fixed bug where map didn’t show if mapTypeControl set to nothing.

With WP Geo you can display maps of anywhere in the world so it seems only right that WP Geo should support languages from anywhere in the world…

Currently the plugin is only available in English although there is a German translation which should be available in the next release. If you would like to contribute by adding a translation file then you can find more information on the WP Geo languages page.

A few little tweaks to the recent WP Geo 3.0 release to add some things that weren’t quite ready…

• Markers on all maps now have tooltips.
• Markers on all maps now link to the relevant post or page.
• The “Show map scale” setting is now active.
• The “Show collapsible overview map” setting is now active.

Download the latest version of WP Geo from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Version 3.0 of WP Geo is a bit of a move on from the previous version with lots of minor tweaks and some new features.

Some of the most significant new features include:

• More settings
• Sidebar widget
• Custom markers
• GeoRSS points in feeds

There have also been many bug fixes including the suppression of the alert box that appears if you haven’t entered a Google API Key.

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A new web site.
A new version of WP Geo coming soon…

The WP Geo WordPress plugin seems to have being attracting a lot of traffic so I have moved all things WP Geo over to this new web site.

Hopefully it will act as a better platform for documentation and discussion to evolve and improve the plugin. One of the objectives will be to evolve WP Geo so that developers can build plugins that hook into the plugin to easily create other geo-related plugins.

I hope you find the site useful. If you have used WP Geo on your site, why not post your site on the featured blogs page?