thydzikGoogleMap v1.3
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.
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
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.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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
June 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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.
June 28th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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
June 28th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
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.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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