Location Improvement

Resolved tantanilofas
(@tantanilofas)

4 years, 5 months ago

First of all, thank you for this new and promising plugin. I am excited to see its development.
I am trying it out right now and one of a few issues I face now is to create all markers new again. Creating Locations manually is very time consuming.
1) Will it be possible to copy existing Locations to reduce the customization process?
2) Will it be possible to connect Posts directly to the Locations? Actually, there is a dropdown item “To Feature Post” as part of the button action, but it has no function.
3) If it is possible to link posts, it would be fantastic, if it could use the feature image, date and header automatically
4) I noticed, that changing the pointer color has no effect.

Well, can’t wait for updates.

Thanks in advance

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Plugin Author mapster
(@mapster)

4 years, 5 months ago

Hello! Thanks for the comment and the great suggestions.

1) I will work on adding a “Duplicate” functionality. This shouldn’t be difficult and makes a ton of sense.

2) The “To Feature Post” currently connects the popup button to the feature post. ie, if you have a map with Locations on it, this button will send the user to the Location Post from the map. It doesn’t connect with a separate post inside WordPress.

3) This is a nice idea – maybe something for further down the line. Pulling the title and featured image is certainly possible but this is a bit more complex.

4) Can you clarify here what you mean? Are you creating a Location with a Marker? Perhaps you can send a link to a Location where you changed the marker color but it’s not showing up properly?

Thanks again.
Thread Starter tantanilofas
(@tantanilofas)

4 years, 5 months ago
I would be happy if you have a look on my map. I was putting 2 locations there. With “pointer” I understood the little arrows pointing the popup to the marker, am I correct?

Dustoftheworld

Edit: I noted, the little arrow is only with the wrong color when pointing up. Pointing down works with the correct color.

Well, again, I am really looking forward to future updates. On my map you see what I am up to as a travel blogger that shares his travel posts on a map rather than only by categories; maybe this usecase is interesting for you, since I haven’t found anything out there where you are free to combine nice maps from mapbox with markers on the map for posts
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4 years, 5 months ago
@mapster I’ve deleted your offer to login to your user’s site. I’m am 100% sure you mean well but please never ask for credentials on these forums.

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Now for the why: The internet is a wonderful place full of very nice people and a few very bad ones. I’m sure everyone here is very nice however, by giving some ones keys to your house you are trusting they wont steal anything. Likewise the person who takes the keys is now responsible for the house FOREVER.

If something was to go wrong, then you the author may well legally become liable for damages, which they would not normally have been as their software is provided without warranty.

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It’s never necessary to do that. Here’s why.

There are many ways to get information you need and accessing the user’s site is not one of them. That’s going too far.
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Plugin Author mapster
(@mapster)

4 years, 5 months ago

These issues are almost all fixed in 0.5.4!

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