[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 8 months ago]

Yes, I agree – very sad indeed. I really wish I had more time available, but family life has changed all that…

My next project, and the only project that is currently getting my full attention (and most of the attention from the company I work at too) is MongoPress – http://mongopress.org – so please do take a look if you get a chance!

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 8 months ago]

So sorry to have to report this – it breaks my heart to say it, but…

I am no longer able to support this plugin – if you are interested in learning why, please read:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-exactly-does-gpress-do?replies=6#post-2300163

I will be returning to PressBuddies as and when time permits – http://pressbuddies.com

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 8 months ago]

Sorry to report but I am currently not supporting this plugin.

If you are interested in learning why, please read:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-exactly-does-gpress-do?replies=6#post-2300163

I will be returning to PressBuddies as and when time permits – http://pressbuddies.com

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 9 months ago]

To the best of my current knowledge, ThePremiumPress have ceased development on all of their WordPress projects and would highly recommend imagining that their website has been removed from the interwebs.

Would love to have the time to re-visit gMaps, and will do so in the future once gPress is stable enough to support such a theme – but “time” is of extremely short supply these days…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 9 months ago]

@tifire – gPress 0.2.6 is about 65% to 70% complete, but development has currently been put on pause due to our work with MongoPress. Once MongoPress 0.1.2 has been released, my current schedule puts me back on track with gPress, where I am 95% certain that polygon creation and route-planning will make it into the next release, whereas checking may need to wait until the version afterwards…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 10 months ago]

This sounds like it could be a common problem WordPress has with custom post types and permalinks, all you will need to do is re-visit your permalink page, save and refresh that page, then return to your site and you should find that the rewrite rules have been flushed and the custom post types (in this case “places”) can now be viewed with pretty permalinks…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 11 months ago]

Which version of gPress, WordPress and BuddyPress are you using, and in which browser…? I am using WP 3.1, BP 1.2.8 and FF3 without problems…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 11 months ago]

To be honest, I do not think I thought about that, so its quite possible that it cannot yet be done, and if it is, I will try to make sure it gets added into the next release…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 1 year, 11 months ago]

Assuming you are using the new “gpress_place_submit” function (which still needs a lot of work) for front-end posting, the problem is more than likely due to language and post-types, where the available VARs are as follows:

gpress_place_submit($gpress_post_type = ‘place’, $tax_or_cat = ‘tax’, $gpress_tax_type = ‘places’, $gpress_tag_type = ‘placed’, $gpress_post_status = ‘publish’, $gpress_must_be_logged_in = true, $gpress_no_map_message = true, $required_user_level = 10)

The first VAR indicates the post_type in use, which you will need to change to the translated one you are using. Hope to have this resolved in the next version to automatically use the one that the site is using, but for now, it can at least be fixed…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years ago]

The new gPress, Lau-Events and Lau-Meta plugins will all be available as soon we have officially launched the project that Laulima is presently working on, which is presently slated for June, but is certainly not something I can give any kind of guarantee for, as it’s beyond just my own control… Either way, we really appreciate your support and encouragement and wish you the best of luck with your projects. May the force be with us all…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years ago]

@johnnyrokkit – with the present version of gPress, this would be quite difficult to do, but not impossible, and is not something I can help with right now as I’m busy working on the next version, which will make things like this extremely easy! In addition, it just so happens that I am also in the middle of developing a really cool event management plugin, which automatically integrate with gPress 0.2.6+

Information on the new events plugin is rather limited right now, but for those that are interested, there are some links to the screen-shots available on the Laulima Labs blog – http://labs.laulima.com/projects/lau-events/ – FYI, Laulima is the company that I work for, who are producing the events plugin, and who are also presently sponsoring development of the latest gPress release…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years ago]

Glad it worked-out nicely for you and that you are having fun experimenting with the possibilities… Look forward to hearing back from you with those cool examples so that I can add them to the gallery / showcase…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years ago]

@johnnyrokkit – It is indeed possible by using the available hooks, filters and functions, and have done so myself on a demo project, as seen here – http://smalley.my/spiagge/place/ipoh/

This is done by first filtering out the content with something such as (in theme functions.php or gpress/custom.php):
`
/* THIS EXAMPLE SIMPLY REMOVES THE MAP FROM SINGLE PLACE PAGES */
function spiagge_remove_map_from_place_content($content, $id){
if(is_single()){
return get_the_content($id);
}else{
return $content;
}
}
add_filter(‘gpress_content’,'spiagge_remove_map_from_place_content’, 1, 2);
`

And then, in your sidebar, you could add something such as:
`
global $post;
$post_type = get_post_type( $post );
$title = $post->post_title;
$id = $post->ID;
if((is_single()) && ($post_type == ‘place’)) {
$map_settings = array(
‘map_id’ => ‘_gpress_places’,
‘map_height’ => ’300′,
‘map_type’ => ‘ROADMAP’,
‘map_zoom’ => ’13′,
‘post_type’ => ‘widget’,
‘post_id’ => false,
‘place_id’ => $id,
‘marker_title’ => ‘_gpress_widgets_places’,
‘marker_url’ => false
);
gpress_add_map($map_settings);
}
`

These and other functions will be made much easier and FAR more flexible in the next release, but its amazing just how much can be done already with the existing hooks and filters…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 1 month ago]

That’s strange – everything works just fine on my computer when visiting http://my.dotcom.name/register/ in Chrome. I wonder what could be making one of us crash but not the other. Can anyone else using Chrome please check the page and let us know if they run into any problems…?

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 1 month ago]

@nanchante – a little slower than I had hoped, but for good reason – as the company I work at now needs two new plugins (for events and optimised meta), which I nearing completion, from where, I will then be returning to gPress 0.2.6 and BuddyPress groups!

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 1 month ago]

@Jason%20Lau – I am using Chrome 10.0.648.151 and do not have that problem.

Have only tested with bp-default theme though, can you confirm if it’s a theme specific issue, and if so, what theme…?

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 1 month ago]

@neosmedia – as I hope you noticed, we did indeed get this squeezed in to gPress 0.2.5

@altisona – thanks for that – and all the best with gLocate.me!

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 1 month ago]

@fernandoagudo – thanks for the bug report – do not think there is any immediate way around it without changing core files, but it should be a relatively easy fix, and will try to get it done this coming weekend and release an update once it’s done…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 1 month ago]

@nit3watch – it’s definitely at the top of the list, and is required for a project I am working on at work, so will definitely be happening at some point over the month or so, but have presently been distracted by the development of two new plugins (events and meta) for the same project, which will be getting released to the public once the project has launched, so although it’s all been delayed, it’s also all for the best…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 2 months ago]

This must have slipped off my list with all the commotion regarding the MAJOR updates in 0.2.5. The map itself is set to display at 100% width, but it gets wrapped with a map_frame, so if you have a fixed design, you should be able to style the map frame and have the map inside styled along with it. I will however make sure that filters are added to the shortcodes to allow for easier customisation in the next release…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 2 months ago]

Am glad to hear you were able to fix some of the problems, may I ask how you repaired the errors? Did you make changes to gPress or the other plugins?

Am also very interested to help try to solve the other problems you are having regarding the clash of permalinks…

Does the error only occur with your modified version of the plugin or does it also occur with the original version of the events plugin?

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 2 months ago]

You can download the previous version of gPress from the WordPress repository – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gpress/download/ – 0.2.4.4.2 is specifically available for download from the following address – http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gpress.0.2.4.4.2.zip

However, I am much more interested in learning why it did not upgrade properly, and under what circumstances you made the upgrade, as all the tests I have run on my own sites, were I upgraded, everything worked fine… Can anyone else out there confirm if they had problems or if everything was OK when they upgraded from 0.2.4.4.2 to 0.2.5…?

What “search-box” are you referring to? What language are you / was you running WordPress and gPress in? Did you get any specific errors anywhere?

Would very much appreciate your help in troubleshooting this problem so that others do not run into the same trouble…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 2 months ago]

Am hoping this has been resolved with gPress 0.2.5 as we have spent a LOT of effort on improving the_content filters – http://gpress.my/documentation/ – please let me know how the upgrade goes…

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 2 months ago]

Please note that with gPress 0.2.5, we have had to remove all Foursquare functionality from core:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/gpress/forum/topic/foursquare-map-doesnt-appear/

[Mark SmalleyMember @msmalley 2 years, 2 months ago]

Is this any better with gPress 0.2.5…?