Comments on: Google Map Shortcode Version 1.1

By: Ortixia

Ortixia — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:23:33 +0000

Thank you for this plug-in. It is exactly what we needed. I have two questions:
First, is it possible amend the code to make the satellite or terrain version come up first when the page is loaded. Secondly, i would like the map itself to be centered, rather than focused on the last post.
Please let me know if there is any reference that i could use to make these changes. thank you!

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:47:15 +0000

Hey great plugin! I’m wondering if it’s possible to automatically pull the address from custom fields? I have many posts that are just listings which have the address, city, state in different custom fields. Is there a way to pull the address from these without manually doing it for each post?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:13:17 +0000

That should have read, in sidebar.php I'm doing: echo do_shortcode ('[google-map-sc address="86 broadwater street west, worthing, uk" width="380" height="300" zoom="15"]')

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:07:55 +0000

@Dave Dave, I can appreciate using the custom field google-map-sc-latlng when adding it to a page, but I want to include it in my template. At the moment I'm doing this in my sidebar.php: How could I do long / lat instead of using address= ?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:03:58 +0000

maps are not being displayed onto the page

where the map should be there is the following in the html

div style=”display: none” UA:D [1.8.1_1037] closing div

By: Alain

Alain — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:21:37 +0000

@Alex Stanhope Can you please include the page where the map is deploying. Thanks

By: Alex Stanhope

Alex Stanhope — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:13:05 +0000

@Alex Stanhope

Alain,

I’ve sorted out hiding the “balloon”/clicking through to posts point I raised in my previous message – just needed some judicious use of location.href and commenting out the call to openInfoWindowHtml; pretty simple to do in all honesty!

However, I’m still a bit flummoxed as to why one of the several maps on my page isn’t centering properly – any thoughts?

I’ll look forward to your response!

Alex

By: Alex Stanhope

Alex Stanhope — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:19:52 +0000

Hi Alain,

Firstly, thanks for taking the time to code up this great plug-in, which I have just installed on a WP 2.9.1 site I’m currently building, and I can confirm that everything is working fine as regards compatibility between Google Map Shortcode 1.1 and WP 2.9.1

I did have a couple of quick questions though – is it possible to disable the InfoWindowHTML “balloon” that appears when markers are clicked, and just have it so that the markers click through to the posts that they are associated with?

Also, I’ve got a couple of maps set up on the site, but on one of them, the Map window doesn’t seem to centre on the “cluster” of markers that are shown within it – in fact they, seem to go off the edge of the map. The development version of the site is password-protected, but I’ll gladly provide the relevant details if you wanted to take a look at all?

Thanks again for all your great work!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:44:31 +0000

@Tim Hall Yeh, just use enter the lat long into the custom field google-map-sc-latlng

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:26:21 +0000

This is a great plugin, the best I’ve used for Google Map integration, not least because you can use it in your templates. One issue I’m having though, is there anyway if using longitute / latitude instead of “address” when using it in templates?