Plazes (Google) Map Wordpress plugin released
Oh my. I just released my Plazes meets GoogleMaps plugin which takes your plazes location and displays the nice little Google map you can see here at the top of this blog. Disclaimer: Like the Last.fm plugin it’s very beta so it could very well make your server explode if you install it. Both the Last.fm plugin and this plugin are now available through the source repository over at wp-plugins.org.
Installation instructions:
- Download the plazesmap zip archive (version 0.4).
- Unzip it and copy the plazesmap directory over to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Get a Google Maps API key for your weblog.
- Edit plazesmap.php and fill in you API key (mine won’t work on your site).
- Turn on the plugin in your Wordpress admin interface.
- Call the plugin with your Plazes username and password from somewhere within your templates like so:
<?php current_location('username','password'); ?>
And that’s it!
Todo:
- Add caching of the plazes data
Changelog:
- version 0.4: switched to google maps version 2 (more data & images!)
- version 0.3: fixed Internet Explorer Javascript bug (thnx Andoni)
- version 0.2: added offline and error handling
- version 0.1: initial release
Branches:
- David Linsin created a mapless version that combines Twitter and Plazes, for the XML-RPC stuff he uses PHP, a solution you could use for my version too.
November 10th, 2005 at 08:04
Sweet! Now if only I could get it to work… hrmm.
November 10th, 2005 at 09:49
Nice
Vinnie
November 10th, 2005 at 09:49
commentform werkt niet tijs
November 10th, 2005 at 09:58
top mooi gedaan tijs
November 22nd, 2005 at 20:43
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December 19th, 2005 at 22:36
Is it possible to make a call to plugin from a post entry?
December 19th, 2005 at 22:58
I’ve tried to do it with Wordpress PHP Exec Plugin but doesn’t works
December 25th, 2005 at 13:49
I guess that doesn’t work because the plugin embeds a little javascript in the header of your blog needed for the google map instance. I have never used the PHP exec plugin though so it may work with some changes to the code. Do tell if you figure it out.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:29
If you open a web with this plugin in Internet Explorer crashes. I think that the problem is the one which are talking here-> http://www.ryangrant.net/archives/internet-explorer-cannot-open-the-internet-site-operation-aborted-google-map-api/
December 28th, 2005 at 11:29
Thanks Andoni! I knew about the bug in IE but i guess i secretly hoped it would encourage people to switch to firefox
Actually i didn’t have the time to delve into the problem further but alas! such is the power of opensource, i’ll add the fix to the plugin later today.
February 18th, 2006 at 02:19
nice plug-in !!
thx for it
March 17th, 2006 at 02:23
[…] Tra i plugin che vorrei trovare il modo di inserire, il questa mappa integrata con plazes e poi possibilmente la playlist di Last.FM. Parlando di Last.FM in verità assai più interessante è questo plugin tutto made in Italy (complimenti v4ny!), che permette di accedere anche alle altre informazioni esposte dalle API di audioscrobbler. Probabilmente basta giocare un po’ con i callback. Ma non ora. Un passo alla volta… […]
April 26th, 2006 at 14:16
[…] I just upgraded my Plazesmap Wordpress plugin to version 0.4 which upgrades the Google Maps API used to version 2. This will allow better satellite photos and map data where Google started offering these (parts of europe for instance). […]
April 29th, 2006 at 15:14
Tijs heb je deze al gezien, wel slick als je add-on maakt waarbij leden van je blog hun locatie kunnen toevoegen. Of was je daar al mee bezig
May 2nd, 2006 at 22:41
Deze plugin ga ik maar eens voor mijnnieuwe blog gebruiken:
http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/02/06/the-instant-googlemap-plugin/
May 31st, 2006 at 00:03
um, I don’t SEE a googlemap on this page. Is it working?
May 31st, 2006 at 08:48
casey: take a look at the homepage. the header should be replaced by a google map with my current location after the page loads.
September 21st, 2006 at 01:18
[…] I have just discovered Plazes, via Fabien whom I met at ubicomp. What Plazes does is to discover your location based on the WiFi network to which you are connected to. This information user-edited, i.e. the information about the places at hand are entered manually by all users, from the client that keeps track of the networks. What is nice is that there are a number of external plugins that exist, including one that uses google maps to show your position on your wordpress blog. Yet another excuse to update to the latest version… […]
December 9th, 2006 at 13:25
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June 10th, 2007 at 12:25
Hi,
I have it installed on the front page of my site and it is consistently saying “Error 801: Account could not be verified.”
I have checked and the details (name, password Map api) are all correct. Is this a problem at the Plaze end, or am I doing something wrong?