Maps location with user registration

This tutorial should get you half way there. Basically you can create page templates with front-end registration and extra profile fields.

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/1012-wordpress-user-registration-template-and-custom-user-profile-fields/

Now the tricky part comes. You need to manually create an extra field that takes information from google maps and saves the GPS coordinates and run a GeoLocation query on Google Maps so you can save both in your database.

While the “save in the database” is easy, I’m not sure if the Google Maps API allows you to set pointers on the map and then returns you the coordinates.

Let me know how this turns out cause I’m interested in it.

PS: an alternative would be to have a simple country drop down on registration. You can use this plugin for that: https://www.cozmoslabs.com/wordpress-profile-builder/

Hmmmmm seems a little difficult.. i’ve tried Geo Mashup which works great! I find it hard to let users define their location whilst registering, but they are able to add their location later on in their profiles..

The only problem Im experiencing now is that I want to have the default settings differently from what they are now for each subsite..

Didn’t know about GeoMashup. If users can setup their location later on then the best choice is to contact the GeoMashup developer and ask him about adding this to the registration form: https://www.cyberhobo.net/hire-me/

Not sure I understand the last paragraph. What default settings?

Glad I am able to let you know something new as well ??

Well what I meant is that if I want this plugin to be activated within ‘profiles’ I have to select this option. By default this plugin is only activated for ‘posts’ and ‘pages’ (which I don’t need..)

The problem is that I want to be able to change these settings as a superadmin and have this as set up by me on all the new subsites.. Instead, all subsites now have to change these settings themselves.. thanks again!

Ok…

Chances are you need to either modify the Geo Mashup plugin for this to work or modify the https://wpebooks.com/replicator/ plugin so instead of replicating a blog on demand to create new blogs based on an existing blog template (not sure if there’s a plugin that creates new blogs based on existing ones).

Hope this helps.