Hugo Ashmore

This matter is being handled over on BP trac:
https://buddypress.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/6295

This thread ought to be considered as closed to avoid split discussions.

@projectfms please don’t just copy other post responses lock stock and barrel take some responsibility for your predicament, you have been asked to provide details other than a simple screen capture which for developers isn’t going to be a whole heap of help.

Please attempt to describe exactly what your actions are that are failing, attempt to provide any error messages seen in your browser console as has been asked.

@jordy-de-ruijter Sorry if I/we appear to be throwing things back your way but BP & bbP run quite happily and do with one of the other plugins mentioned rt media. as the SC appears to show a modal window I’m going to guess the issue lies somewhere in the realm of JS but that’s as far as I’m going to be guessing ??

I too had to track down the cause of a site acting up and tracked it down eventually to your plugin. Please read up on why it’s best not to do this kind of thing, it’s a very bad practise to force a dequeue of the WP jQuery files for the sake of loading the library from the google CDN which gains very little if you look into things, even if you thought you really had to are you not aware it’s possible to load a current version that stays current with jQuery stable releases.

I would have a read of pipinplugins post on the subject and consider updating your plugin and removing this troublesome bit of code.

https://pippinsplugins.com/why-loading-your-own-jquery-is-irresponsible/

P.S and maybe respond to your support threads ??

it is a fair point but as always , not something I hadn’t considered but something that requires more thought and testing than one imagines, as soon as you move away from one field you have a minor nightmare testing and working out where to grab address strings from as people will all want something different, so one ends up with extended options just to ask user to tell the plugin what fields hold what then grabbing that and having to build a string from different fields, and hoping that the string from each field makes sense when concatenated together; chances of providing strings Google can’t locate increase greatly.

@oc2ps no afraid not only exists in WP repo at present
As I need to do an extensive re-write of this plugin from top to bottom, new features were not a priority, and single maps with grouped markers a fair bit of work.

@josiahw Was there some specific issue with 1.8 & WP 3.6? Hadn’t noticed any and have it running on 3.6 and buddyPress trunk with no issues I can spot.

Great stuff, a minor issue-ish. I’ll update plugin, thanks.

No way unless the plugin was modified, at the moment it uses one field to pass through to Google geolocate changing this is more work than it appears.

There are two particular errors the first is attempting to set a bp global for the plugin slug – the warning you report, it’s actually not being used and effects things not although ought to be and will be removed, the other warning is of undefined variable , not really an issue, nice to clear those up but they don’t cause failures.

However it’s only an issue overall if you have error reporting on and on a production site you shouldn’t have! On a test site agreed annoying but turn it off while testing the plugin.

The whole plugin is due for an overhaul on all the codebase, but that is a task and I have no time right now, and as the plugin does function and work that has to wait.

Lastly sorry for the slow response, we used to have our plugins on BP in groups with their own forums and where we mainly kept an eye on things.

This is a topic that is BuddyPress specific thus the BP forum is the appropriate place to post and indeed you did so a while back:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/create-private-membership-site-with-buddypress/

You shouldn’t really cross post questions to multiple forums, choose one and wait to see the response you receive before trying others.

@bcnbuda

Rather than post this here or the four posts on bp.org linking back here, it would have been more helpful to open a ticket on BP’s trac that way we would have seen it, the issue would be logged and a core developer could decide whether there was an issue to fix and examine/test your proposed change/fix.

There are maps for group members but the detail you refer to is quite a lot of work, the basics is in there though with the location popup on the map marker and thus could be extended in future to include profile details.

I’m afraid Google would struggle with that, not really sure much can be done about that, a town name would work I think you’ll need your users to be a little more specific.

It’s not possible at the moment I’m afraid, the plugin is designed to work through the BP do_action hooks for BP pages or directly in a profile field entry using the provided function. The standalone shortcode and function provided intended simply for pages or posts.

However you could simply take the primary function for the BP map displays ‘upm_gmap_display()’ and add that in the template at the position you require, if you then ensure you don’t select a region to display, say, the members list maps then you should get a map rendering as long as you’re in a loop. The other map options such as zoom should still be configurable frm the settings page.

but in the meantime please try and provide me with the basic information so I can better envisage what may be going wrong.

The exact page this occurs on i.e /members/myname/ or /members/myname/profile/

What part of the page is the upm map displaying on i.e in the member header using the BP do_action selection – in which case the upm map displays on all member account screens.

Does the event plugin add a map to an existing account screen or does it create a new screen, where in the page markup does the event map try and display. How do you pass address information to the event map is it in tha same manner as the UPM maps by using a profile field, do we have a clash of filed names? i.e ‘loacation’

Calling multiple maps on a single map can cause issues, in order to render multiple maps I have to ensure I call new instances of each map requested from google, that the page won’t load another map after it runs mine doesn’t surprise me, and yes equally it could be something as simple as a naming conflict, although I have attempted to keep my naming conventions quite unique to avoid isssues.

I really needed detail from you not Godaddy, as in what page are you referring to in all this? a BP groups members list, a members account screen what UPM settings are / were you using, where on the page was this events map trying to render it’s own map.

Contacting the other developers isn’t an option at the moment, I’m sorry about that but the nature of my plugin is a very basic approach to providing maps for a BP enabled site, it’s not the best written plugin in history ?? and really has to be taken as is, I haven’t added a donate link on the plugin as I never intended it as a major work thus the hours that have gone into it have been without recompense and I can only spend time on the plugin when it doesn’t interfere with paid work or as recently when someone commissioned me to add features to it (fed through to the public release for all)

What you could do is leave a link to the actual page on your site that is displaying this events map so I can see their map in action.

Lastly and this may come across in the wrong way ?? but have you contacted the other plugin and enquired with them, after all you have said my plugin works ok but there’s on the same page doesn’t so it may well be an issue with their method of calling maps that needs adjusting rather than anything I can actually do with mine. Not saying this is the case but it’s possible.