I have finally managed to get WordPress to update the version number. This problem was due to not updating the version number in the PHP file as well as the readme.txt.
Version 1.3 fixes a problem with thydzikGoogleMap not displaying correctly when a WordPress blog isn’t located in the domain folder.
I have seen a few users, using thydzikGoogleMap to display a single point or no points at all, thydzikGoogleMap isn’t really for this as it is not worth creating an XML file just for the single point. Plus I believe you can now simply embed a Google map with some simple code.
However, if you want full customization; including lines, numbered points, HTML in a point’s detail, then thydzikGoogleMap is exactly for you.
Comments and suggestions very welcome.
Download thydzikGoogleMap v1.3
Tags: thydzikGoogleMap, thydzikGoogleMap v1.3, update, XML
Hi. thanks for good plugin.
I’m really happy with thydzikGoogleMap. :)
I have one suggestion.
the scirpts included in “thydzikGoogleMapHeader()” makes slow down my blog.
I think, It because of my selft-hosting server didn’t get rapid respond from google.
Can you remove this header scipt when there are no thydzikGoogleMap tag in the contents?
When I tested with no add_action(‘wp_head’, …) and put header script just before $temp3 in thydzikFindGoogleMap(). It looks fine, except multiple thydzikGoogleMap tag in $contents.
Hi suapapa
Thanks for the feedback.
It would make sense to not include the header if no maps are to be displayed; however, I am not sure how feasible it is to remove the header script. I believe this is due to the header always running first, before the posts, so you could never actually determine if the post contents contains a map first.
Adding the header into the post might be an option, however, as you mentioned the header will be repeated for multiple maps. Perhaps, there is a way to determine if the header is already displayed in a post. I will look into it.
Thanks,
Travis
thydzik,
Great plugin! Thanks.
I did a little hack of the code to set the initial zoom level of the map. I just added the zoom level number on this line:
map.setCenter(bounds.getCenter(), 10);
However, I wanted to use multiple maps in my blog and some of them would require a different zoom level. Do you know of any quick fixes? Perhaps, setting the zoom level with a parameter in the xml file?
Would love to be able to set the initial zoom for each map.
Thanks, again.
Hi Newcomb
Thanks for the feedback.
Generally, I found that zooming so that all the points were visible was okay. A zoom feature would be nice, and perhaps I shall add it as a parameter.
Travis
Okay…. if you have sort of way to set a variable initial zoom level, it would make it perfect for what I need it to do.
Do you know of any other plugins out there that would do that?
Thanks, again.
Newcomb,
I don’t know of any other plugins that use XML data, there maybe others that don’t use XML data and have zoom.
Travis
I like this plugin quite a bit, but have a question – is there any way to specify a zoom level and a map type in the XML file? I’d like to have it zoom out a bit by default and show the hybrid view (Satellite + map) on one of my maps. The default zoom, at this location, is close enough in that it doesn’t show any of the surrounding roads, and the map view puts the point inside a big green blob (county park property), whereas on the satellite/hybrid view, it’s obvious that the icon is directly on top of the building.
If this isn’t possible, might I request it for 1.4? :)
Erik,
I will keep that in mind for the next upgrade.
Which I will work on soon.
Travis
I just upgraded from WordPress 2.6.3 to 2.6.5, and now I get an error when this plugin is used:
“Request resulted in error. Check XML file is retrievable.”
The XML file in question has not changed and is accessible directly from the URL specified in the output code (in my case, http://www.kungfu-silat.com/wp-content/plugins/thydzik-google-map/cimac.xml). Did something in the fix for cross-site scripting break this plugin?
Hi Erik
I am really not sure of the problem,
I have upgraded my site to 2.6.5 and all my thydzikGoogleMap examples are still okay, including my cross-site examples.
I have also tried you xml file and it worked okay.
Travis
You can see the problem at http://www.harriswholehealth.com/about/location (I temporarily removed the map from my kungfu-silat.com site). Similarly, the hwh.xml file is present and works, but the plugin gives an error for it. The only change made since it was working is that I updated all of my sites to 2.6.5 today.
Erik,
From what I have divulged, it looks like your cross-site xml parser is not working.
Download thydzikGoogleMap again and overwrite the xml_proxy.php file in the plugin directory.
Alternatively, as your xml file is in the plugin directory, when calling thydzikGoogleMap, you can refer to the file only ie thydzikGoogleMap(hwh.xml).
Let me know how it goes.
No luck. I deleted and reinstalled the plugin, and I get the same error. The code in WP is just “thydzikGoogleMap(hwh.xml). I’m not explicitly entering the path. The plugin changes it to the full path in the output web page’s code.
Erik,
I think I have found the problem, when using HTML GET, colons are not allowed in the URL.
Download an update from here, only need to update the thydzikGoogleMap.php file though.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thydzik-google-map/
Awesome! Thanks for the quick action, thydzik! I uploaded 1.3.1 to the site listed above, and it worked like a charm.
Newcomb and Erik,
I have incorporated a zoom function in version 1.4, read about it here http://thydzik.com/thydzikgooglemap-v14/ , grab the latest version here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thydzik-google-map/ .
Awesome! Thank you, I’ve reinstalled it on my site, now that I can make it show more than a plain green field. :)