GeoPress/WP 2.4.1
GeoPress, the WordPress plugin that makes it very easy to add location, maps, Microformats, GeoRSS, and KML to your blog, was has been neglected for awhile. Some very nice users have sent in bug reports and I’ve been working through these and update the v2.4beta to 2.4.1 today. You should be getting it from the WordPress Plugin repository. This way you get notified when new versions are available. If only WordPress had a simple mechanism for upgrading plugins without requiring downloading zip files and shell/FTP access.
Please let me know if you run into any issues. There had been numerous bugs in the beta – and I think most of these have been ironed out. I also updated the KML to use KML 2.2 and some simple atom links to your blog and post authors.
Also, the geopress_map function has some nice functionality for being embeddeable in Archive, Category, and Search pages. Right now the function signature is a little long, but if you want to have all your markers for a category or search show up in the map, you use the following in your template (assuming you want your map to be (200px high, 400px wide)
This will embed the map with unlimited (-1) locations from the category (unless you have lots of geo-posts in a single view). Check out my conference blog post archive.
There have been numerous requests for per-item and categorical styling. This shouldn’t be too hard to add. And also per-post zoom and map types. Also I will be updated GeoPress/MovableType to converge on the same feature-set.
Also – if you have any updates/patches/suggestions for GeoPress – chime in (and contribute code 
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March 1st, 2008 at 2:36 am (#)
Hi Andrew! Nice work you’re doing with this plugin.
Also, although Wordpress doesn’t provide an integrated solution to do updates I found PlugInstaller (http://henning.imaginemore.de/pluginstaller/) to be very helpful in managing all things related to plugins. There is still hope such features will be included in the official releases sometimes.
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 am (#)
Hi Andrew,
thank you for this great plugin.
I noticed a problem when a map was added to a post in wordpress. So everythink works fine and the map is shown correctly. But as soon as a comment is submitted to the post, the map disappears.
After manually adding it again, it is shown until the next comment will be submitted.
I don’t know whether it’s the plugin or wordpress itself. Do you have any idea how to fix this?
- Blog where plugin is used http://julia.mapled.de (its german).
- Wordpress 2.3.3
- Geopress 2.4.1 using Google Maps
Thanks
Philipp
April 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm (#)
same thing here, using WP 2.5, Geopress 2.4.2, adding comments to a post removes the map, and seems to eliminate the geo data in the post altogether – trying to re-add the data as above has no effect
perhaps there is a conflict in the SQL tables or somesuch ?
my site here – http://www.samrohn.com/
many thanks for this plugin, great work !
sam
April 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm (#)
fixed in 2.4.3
thanks andrew -
sam
April 30th, 2008 at 4:23 pm (#)
Hey Andrew,
GeoPress is just the plugin I’ve been looking for, it’s great!
I notice in the post above you give the PHP code for displaying a map of all posts for a category. I want to use this function display posts for different trips I have been on traveling.
However, when I list a category page it only shows those posts that come up in that page (ie the last 10) and the archive page before that shows the previous ten to the first lot. I have my settings set to ‘display map on single post’ pages, is this the cause of the problem as hinted at above?
Is there a way instead I could change my settings not to display a map in single posts as default and then hard code the map into my single post template? And then get all the posts to show up on the main index/archive page for the specific category (I sort my trips into different categories).
Cheers
Andy
April 30th, 2008 at 4:36 pm (#)
Hi Andy – you’re correct that the snippet I put in there does what you describe – shows the posts on a page.
However, someone recently sent me an patch that handles all locations within a category and even draws a line between each of the locations (perfect for a trip). I’ve started integrating this in and it should be in the next release.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:13 pm (#)
Thats excellent news! I look forward to it!
May 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am (#)
Duhhh – *just* found this post… maybe I should try subscribing to the feed? Thanks again for a great WP plugin and mapping tool – RH
June 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm (#)
Hey Andrew,
Me again, I just wondered whether there was a function I could specify in my template to over-ride the default zoom level, so that I can have two different zoomed maps. (One for a list view, and the other for the full post).
I’ve tried playing with the geopress_map() function, but I’m not a coder and its all a bit out of my depth!
Cheers,
Andy
June 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am (#)
Andrew,
Great plugin! Just what I needed. I’m looking forward to the next release w/added features!
I hope I’m not bugging you too much on GetSatisfaction. I just love this plugin and think it has a lot of potential (it’s already awesome).
Thanks for all your hard work.
-Ryan (Johnstonian)
July 29th, 2008 at 5:41 am (#)
Really nice plugin!
I have a couple of questions:
a) Custom markers – possible? You seem to have them on your blog
b) Set the view to Terrain by default – possible?
Keep up the good work
James
September 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm (#)
Can i add a search box to this plugin in order to search for location, zip codes from the box to find onthe map.
Thanks
September 15th, 2009 at 1:05 pm (#)
@bk – that would be great. There is a newer version being worked on here: http://github.com/geocommons/geopress – that supports WP2.8+ and is also being split out better to make it easier to support.
Let me know if you have questions on how to add this.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:02 am (#)
Thanks Andrew for the link. Anyway can you please visit the link http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/mapsearch/index.html and can suggest if this effect can be possible through this plug in would be really appreciated.