Showing category map in my category description

  • Hello!

    Your plugin is great, I don’t understand why the ratings are so low. ??

    I’m looking to do something a little more advanced and I’m not sure if there is a way to do this or not. I’d like to add a map of a category in its category description. Is there a code I could enter into the category description that would show the marker map of that parent category?

    Alternatively, is there a way to make a widget show the marker map of the current map category? Even show breadcrumbs?

    Thank you in advance for your help! I look forward to boosting your reviews. ??

    Have a great day.

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  • jshands

    (@jshands)

    I am also after this functionality… it’s *almost* there… but not quite. You can add a widget which has the ability to only show items from within a certain taxonomy parent… the problem of course is that to do this , you need to create a separate widget for each category… it would be great if there was an option to automatically detect the category page and dynamically choose which parent to restrict the map to based on that.

    jshands

    (@jshands)

    I sort of got it working by adding the following to my category code:
    <?php echo do_shortcode( “[mmp-geochart mode=\”marker\” parent=” . get_category(get_query_var(‘cat’))->slug . ” ]”) ?>

    The problem is, the map only really works if there are child items with mapable elements… that is, I can have something categorized with Seattle, and then the categories of USA and Washington above it both work fine, but as soon as you click the Seattle category the map is the oddly shaped polygon. Similarly, if I have the France category associated with France, but none of the items below it have any more “refined” category (that is, if they’re not tagged with anything at a lower level than just France) I still get the polygon… even though it seems to me that it should just show the dot in the center of the country, like it does on the more “zoomed out” maps…

    I’m guessing the problem is that it sets the current category as the parent element, and it’s doing so in a “children but not including parent” manner…

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