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enProblem
The WordPress plugin Geo Mashup (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geo-mashup/) has a problem displaying the correct post detail when a post is clicked on a map other then in the default language (posts are translated by Sitepress WPML (http://wpml.org).
Map in default language:
Map in another language:
As you can see in the examples above the post in the other language is not shown.
Solution
First of all copy the file /wp-content/plugins/geo-mashup/info-window-default.php to your template directory and rename it to geo-mashup-info-window.php.
Now open your favorite text editor and edit the geo-mashup-info-window.php.
Replace the following :
<?php else : ?>
<h2>Not Found</h2>
<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p><?php endif; ?>
By this :
<?php else : ?>
<?php
$object_ids = $_GET['object_ids'];
if ( !is_array( $object_ids ) ) {
$object_ids = split( ‘,’, $object_ids );
}// Create a new instance
$query_vars = array( ‘post__in’ => $object_ids, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ );
$second_query = new WP_Query( $query_vars );// The Loop
while( $second_query->have_posts() ) : $second_query->the_post();
?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<?php
endwhile;wp_reset_postdata();
?>
<?php endif; ?>
Save the file and open the map in another language then the default. Click on a point on the map and see the magic happens. The correct post is shown!
5 reacties
Great solution. Did you suggest it to the Geo Mashup authors?
It doesn’t break anything for single-language sites and makes a big difference for multilingual sites.
Amir,
Thanks for your comment. I sent an email to the developer of Geo Mashup referring to this blog post.
Tom
Geo Mashup author here – thanks!
This at least gives me an idea why the Geo Mashup query isn’t working. My suspicion is that this technique will not work for a custom post type, though. Would it be easy to test that on your site?
Here’s where I’m tracking progress on this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-geo-mashup/issues/detail?id=435
I just recalled that there’s open issue with custom post types and some of the plugins for creating them. Here’s one I know works: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Cyberhobo, I’ve setup a test environment on http://tom.iben.ch. I created a Custom Post Type resellers (categories enabled). Installed WMPL (2 languages – english & dutch), installed Geo Mashup.
I created a Reseller in 2 languages and tried above solution. It did not work. I had to add an extra parameter to the $query_vars variable in the geo-mashup-info-window.php file in my theme directory.
Instead of :
$query_vars = array( ‘post__in’ => $object_ids, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ );
I did this :
$query_vars = array( ‘post__in’ => $object_ids, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_type’ => ‘resellers’ );
Now you can see that http://tom.iben.ch/resellers/ shows the correct information of my reseller in English and http://tom.iben.ch/nl/verkooppunten/ shows correct information of my reseller in Dutch.
Because Geo Mashup has only an option to show maps for certain categories (parameter map_cat), I have created a category Resellers and translated this into Verkooppunten. In my page where I show the map I use for English : [geo_mashup_map map_cat='6'] and [geo_mashup_map map_cat='8'] for Dutch. Maybe the developer can add another parameter (map_tax) to the plugin so we can use our own custom taxonomies.
cheers,
Tom