Create Posts for Map Navigation for a geographical taxonomy using MapPress Google Maps in WordPress.
| Author: | David Rothman (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.0.2 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.2.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.1.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 08-01-2012 |
| Last updated: | 23-01-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 20 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
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| Total downloads: | 10 998 |
| Active installs: | 20+ |
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This plugin imports a Map Navigation file into your WordPress blog.
The Map Navigation file defines one or more Continents, Countries, Regions, States and Cities.
The plugin creates Posts that each contain a MapPress map or mashup that provide a linked
navigation of the geography using your organization's name, image file and icon in the Post's
Post, Excerpt and on the Map markers. The Map Navigation hierarchy can then be added to your
themes header or provided as a link so that your organization can locate its members Posts
or Pages by Geographical area. The plugin also provides an affiliate Register script that adds
an Affiliate to your Map Navigation hierarchy along with their link and image when they join
your organization. Any post can be added to the Map Navigation hierarchy using the Map Taxonomy
tags and a Custom field used by the MapPress plugin. Exisitng MapPress maps can be linked into
the Map Navigation Hierarchy from the MapNavigator Admin Tool Interface.
This plugin is built on top of the CSV Importer plugin so it contains all of the features of
CSV Importer with the additional customized features for MapPress Google maps navigation.
Screenshots
Plugin's interface under Tools
Second level of the Hierarchy - Mountain Region States
Marker for State of Montana - USA Mountain Region
Third level of the Hierarchy - State of Montana Map
Fourth level of the Hierarchy - City of Helena, Montana Map
WP-Affiliate-Platform Custom Registration Screen
Affiliate Registration Creats a Map for Boulder Colorado
I have quotation marks and commas as values in my Map Navigation file. How do I tell Map Navigator to use a different separator?
It doesn’t really matter what kind of separator you use if your file is
properly escaped. To see what I mean by proper escaping, take a look at
examples/sample.csv file which has cells with quotation marks and commas.
How can I import characters with diacritics, Cyrillic or Han characters?
Make sure to save your CSV file with utf-8 encoding.
Prior to version 6.0.4, MySQL did not support some rare Han characters. As
a workaround, you can insert characters such as 𠊎 (U+2028E) by
converting them to HTML entities – 𠊎
I’m importing a file, but not all rows in it are imported and I don’t see
a confirmation message. Why?
WordPress can be many things, but one thing it’s not is blazing fast. The
reason why not all rows are imported and there’s no confirmation message is
that the plugin times out during execution – PHP decides that it has been
running too long and terminates it.
There are a number of solutions you can try. First, make sure that you’re not
using any plugins that may slow down post insertion. For example, a Twitter
plugin might attempt to tweet every post you import – not a very good idea
if you have 200 posts. Second, you can break up a file into smaller chunks that
take less time to import and therefore will not cause the plugin to time out.
Third, you can try adjusting PHP’s max_execution_time option that sets how
long scripts are allowed to run. Description of how to do it is beyond the
scope of this FAQ – you should search the web and/or use your web host’s help
to find out how. However, putting the following line in .htaccess file inside
public_html directory works for some people:
Sets max execution time to 2 minutes. Adjust as necessary.
php_value max_execution_time 120
The problem can be approached from another angle, namely instead of giving
scripts more time to run making them run faster. There’s not much I can do to
speed up the plugin (you can contact me at dvkobozev at gmail.com if you like
to prove me wrong), so you can try to speed up WordPress. It is a pretty broad
topic, ranging from database optimizations to PHP accelerators such as APC,
eAccelerator or XCache, so I’m afraid you’re on your own here.
I’m getting the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in .../public_html/wp-content/plugins/csv-importer/File_CSV_DataSource/DataSource.php
on line 61. What gives?
This plugin requires PHP5, while you probably have PHP4 or older. Update your
PHP installation or ask your hosting provider to do it for you.
1.1.0
- Add new Functionality
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- MapPress Map Tables cleanup to remove orphan maps
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- Link all maps in MapPress database into the MapNavigator Hierarchy
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- Option to update all posts with Maps to set Maps Taxonomy and tags
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- MapNavigator Admin Tool user interface updates for new functionality
1.0.4
- Move mappress_pro.php to the correct directory under mappress-google-maps-for-wordpress
1.0.3
- ReadMe update for issue with screenshots not correct on WP site
1.0.2
- ReadMe update for issue with update version not correct on WP site
1.0.1
- Code cleanup
- Documentation and insertion of a link to download map Navigation files by geography.
- Provide MapPress Icon to be inserted into Map Markers and specified on Tool Dialog
v1.0.0
- Initial version of the plugin
