Yongfook’s Instant Google World Map Plugin, for Wordpress

Posted in Technology on November 24th, 2005 / 75 Comments

I have updated the plugin to use Google Maps API Version 2. The new support page is here: http://www.yongfook.com/2006/05/28/plug-n-play-google-map/

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75 Responses to “Yongfook’s Instant Google World Map Plugin, for Wordpress”

  1. This will really come in handy when I stalk you for not posting enough about smegma cake. Mmmm. Smegmalicious.

    Carl / November 24th, 2005

  2. ok-for us stupid beginners-after downloading instant google world map plugin VO.1, here’s the message that popped up:Sorry, Expander will not work without the Stuffit Engine. Please reintall from the original installer - what does that mean and how do I do it? Sorry - i know nothing. C

    caccy46 / November 24th, 2005

  3. It means you have failed to open a zip file…

    You need to re-install stuffit, I think. It’s nothing to do with the plugin though.

    yongfook / November 24th, 2005

  4. Wow, I’m really impressed! That’s a great idea…now I really wish I could use wordpress :/ Still doesn’t top your sketchplanet thing of course. Argh…looks and brains…it’s not fair! -whinge-

    evane / November 25th, 2005

  5. Very cool YF, too bad I don’t have a use for it.

    @evane: WordPress.com is free, that said I don’t think they let you use plugins.

    Alex / November 25th, 2005

  6. Wow… you are such a genius to improvise the Goggle World Map into blogs!

    Hmmm… I am really impressed.

    ling / November 25th, 2005

  7. […] Yongfook.com Has released a handy WP plugin that allows for the instant creation of a Google World Map to, in the author’s own words: * […]

    Yongfook's Instant Google World Map Plugin at WordPress Station / November 25th, 2005

  8. Hi! Recently linked you - you might have noticed. Really like your stuff - even your smegma cakes - and look forward to reading your blog more in the future. Cheers!

    • Crunchy Hamster
    Crunchy Hamster / November 25th, 2005

  9. Argh. Must. Stomp. On. Baby. Seals.

    Fuckstress / November 25th, 2005

  10. This is the ceremonial 2000th comment on yongfook.com.

    Holy. Freaking. God.

    yongfook / November 25th, 2005

  11. Hey well done. Producing fruits my friend.

    Laura / November 25th, 2005

  12. This is a great idea, thanks. On my installation, it appears to have longitude and latitude the wrong way round though…

    Will / November 25th, 2005

  13. actually I think that’s a problem with the infosports site - they are displaying lat/long backwards - if you get your lat/long from another place I think it’s ok.

    yongfook / November 26th, 2005

  14. unsuccessful…

    scavin / November 26th, 2005

  15. Great tool! I love it. Thx for the code, Yongfook! It would be really great to be able to use this while posting by email. Anyone figured out how to do that yet? Is there some way to enclose a tag for Lon/Lat or for a predefined location? This would really come in handy when being on the road and blogging by mail.

    Grasland / November 26th, 2005

  16. But….you did get longitude and latitude the wrong way around :) Click the “maps” link that’s placed next to a predefined location on the Options/Geo Info page.

    Grasland / November 26th, 2005

  17. More dead seals. Mother seals this time too. Get back to the food.

    xman / November 26th, 2005

  18. Er.. im techno-idiot, I like the idea of tha map thingy.. but dun think I will use it. =)

    cynthia / November 27th, 2005

  19. Quite a creative talented individual. Are we seeing the next internet millionaire in the making? If so, maybe your barren love life can be solved? Check out http://www.sabbathfilmandtv.com/portfolio.html You should be able to find some lovey doves there! ;)

    Joseph Tsai / November 27th, 2005

  20. […] I’m just posting to quickly test yongfook’s google map plugin for wordpress. […]

    Firecolor.org » Google Map Plugin / November 27th, 2005

  21. Its a dumb idea. Just forget it.

    Pikachu / November 28th, 2005

  22. Pikachu: How is this dumb? Maybe you havent moved from your spot for the past 20 years, well, then, thats a problem…

    kien / November 28th, 2005

  23. Has anyone got this plugin to work? I have downloaded both plugins and done what it says. But in my page where the map should be (http://www.catonett.com/blog/?page_id=55) is blank. I have for several posts added the cordinates. Does anyone have an idea of what’s wrong? thanks ;)

    Cato / November 28th, 2005

  24. Cato I think I know the problem - I forgot to addslashes to the title strings so the titles you have that have quotation marks ” ” are messing up the script. I’ll fix it and let you know.

    yongfook / November 28th, 2005

  25. I dig your mapping plugin, thanks for your good work. Question: it says ver 0.3 is the latest, how do I know that I am downloading the latest code?

    MaxPower / November 29th, 2005

  26. Tremendous work, dude. Thanks so much. And thanks for fixing that problem with the lat/long being reversed. :)

    mark / November 30th, 2005

  27. COOL!

    You have come a long way from teaching teenage japanese girls to say “Take me now you horny foreign devil”!

    They do say “before you can love anyone else you have to love yourself”, so you are half way there to filling your barren love life full of bouncing and stuff.

    Keep up the great work! This blog makes me happy! Lucky devil! I love Japan

    Coder Keitaro / December 1st, 2005

  28. i am afraid it did not work! look at this, all blank http://www.hkxl130.com/wp/google-map/

    whats the problem?

    hai tang / December 2nd, 2005

  29. Ok now, i just forgot to add to the page template.

    Thanks dude!

    hai tang / December 2nd, 2005

  30. I get impossible to use RSS

    yutaka / December 6th, 2005

  31. beautiful! It’s working great. A couple questions: - where do I look to change content/style the pop-up windows so as to add a pic (as you have done)or show post excerpts? - wouldn’t it be cool to link from the post itself to a centered location on the main map? The GeoMashUp plugin, which is similar to yours (but I couldn’t get working) supposedly allows for this. Thanks yongfook.

    nate / December 6th, 2005

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    scavin’s blog » Blog Archive » “Google Maps API” 相关进度: / December 6th, 2005

  33. Works great under Firefox, but when I try to access my page with IE6, I can see the map load but then I get a message saying that explorer can’t open the site, with this message in the corner: res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm Any ideas? Your demo works fine in both browsers.

    Thanks!

    nate / December 8th, 2005

  34. If you don’t show me a link then I can’t really help you debug.

    yongfook / December 8th, 2005

  35. FIX- Put at the very bottom of the page (as per instructions). Now IE6 is happy. Cheers YF.

    nate / December 8th, 2005

  36. This is why you should follow instructions exactly as they are written. I even put “bottom” in bold lettering…

    Glad you worked it out.

    yongfook / December 8th, 2005

  37. yongfook - re your nov. 25th comment above, did someone forget to tell you there is no holy. freaking. god. ????

    caccy / December 8th, 2005

  38. Thanks for the awesome plugin! I’m thinking about expanding on it … I’ll shoot you another comment if I get anything up.

    chriskk / December 9th, 2005

  39. i did everything as u said.. (using wamp and wordpress 1.5) but i am getting this:

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\geo.php:751) in e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-admin\admin.php on line 10

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\geo.php:751) in e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-admin\admin.php on line 11

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\geo.php:751) in e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-admin\admin.php on line 12

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\geo.php:751) in e:\stripe-man.com\wordpress\wp-admin\admin.php on line 13

    Terry Remsik / December 10th, 2005

  40. looks like a problem with the geo plugin, not mine.

    yongfook / December 11th, 2005

  41. Hi, I get the same symptoms as nate (IE chrashes), but I cannot resolve the problems by pasting at the bottom of page.php - Internet Explorer cannot open the page, check here: http://groops.org/map/

    FF works fine… Thx for any idea, Jens

    Jens / December 20th, 2005

  42. Hi,

    Your plugin looks really nice … on your website ! I installed it and follow your instructions but it still doesn’t work.

    What’s the problem ?

    thx

    Doritos / December 23rd, 2005

  43. Does this plugin work with wordpress 2.0??

    Cato / December 30th, 2005

  44. Cato, I just upgraded to 2.0 and it seems to works just fine again.

    Jamez / January 4th, 2006

  45. Is there a way too edit/add information that appears in the “comic bubble”?… I am particularly interested in adding images.

    Also, is it possible to link to coordinates in the map from the post?

    Charles / January 6th, 2006

  46. where is the binman video!

    Anonymous / January 6th, 2006

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  48. Awesome idea!! I love it! Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work when using the K2 theme (http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/k2/). When using K2, it doesn’t load the map image. Only a white square with the zoom in/out tools. Looking at the progress bar, it seems to be loading the images, just not displaying them properly. Any ideas?

    Ranken / January 12th, 2006

  49. […] Thanks to the very able Yongfook and one of his plugins, I’ve added a Google Map to this site. As entries that talk about specific places are added they will start showing up on the map. Very cool! […]

    douglas.nerad » Blog Archive » Cartography on the Blog! / January 18th, 2006

  50. […] Mit dem Yongfook’s Instant Google World Map Plugin lässt sich Google Map einfach in Wordpress integrieren. Neben dem Einblenden der Landkarte, können auch bestimmte Orte, Strassen oder Lokale hervorgehoben werden. * If you blog on the road, keep track of where you blogged from. * If you review a restaurant / art exhibition / concert etc, show us where you are talking about. * If you are blogging about something that can be related to a specific place (e.g. a past holiday, something that caught your eye in the news) you can put it on the map. Stichwort: Blogs, wp plugin […]

    Webmasterfind Blog Wp-Plugin Googlemap / January 19th, 2006

  51. Awesome plugin! worked immediately with no problem….

    Ummm…except this one….It formats the map text based on the css style of the page. My page text is all white and i want to keep it that way. Unfortunately, all of the google boxes are also white, so they appear blank.

    Do you have a recommendation as to how to make the text on the google map black while the original text is still white? Referencing a different css tag or inline formating should work, but what line needs that formatting??

    Any idea?

    I agree with the other poster, if you included a way to link directly from a post to that posts place on the map (like geomashup) it would be even cooler! :)

    Thanks!

    ben / January 21st, 2006

  52. All of these are planned features for the next update - I just need some time!

    yongfook / January 21st, 2006

  53. Congrats on your plugin! Im looking forward to next update. I noticed that Safari browser wont be able to view the map. I had to install firefox on mac os x. I rather to use firefox on mac instead safari. Im a pc user which I handled web development for our company. Gotta to test mac/pc compatibility!

    Lets see if yahoo plugin for wp available soon so we can offer choices to our viewers as long it needs geo to feed. Im going to release this as our road trip blog. I ll post my url soon!

    Jed Barish / January 22nd, 2006

  54. Just wanted to say thanks for the plugin!

    I tweaked it slightly so it gets the data for the map from a different source.

    I’m currently using it to display a map of all Golden Tee (A golf aracade game) locations in Seattle. Check it out here FWIW : http://kumarshome.com/game-finder-beta/.

    thanks again!

    Deepak / January 23rd, 2006

  55. Hi - thanks for the plugin. I am having trouble with the plugin pushing sidebars out of line and wanted to see if you had any ideas. I have tried several themes, changed the size of the map etc. etc. and it seems to effect all two column themes that I have tried.

    I loaded the Almost Spring theme that Deepak has running on his site and had the same problem. When I asked, he said that he had a straight install of the plugin and no changes to the theme.

    Here is a link to the map page - http://tber.com/test/googlemap/. The rest of the site seems to be fine. Any ideas?

    Travis

    Travis / January 23rd, 2006

  56. […] A WordPress 2.0 feature I like is the ability to write pages (as opposed to Posts) which are kept alive in the sidebar and therefore resemble ’stickies’ (in WP parlace ‘they live outside of the usual timeline’). At the moment there is just one test-page NAGworldMAP on which you can see that geocoding was added to this site via the Geo Plugin (allowing to add geographic data to posts) and the instant google world map Plugin plotting these data on a Google Map. At the moment you can see the distance I have to cycle to get to the university, but I have pplans to do something more substantial with this feature soon, so please familiarize yourself with dragging and zooming the map (for US-citizens, European countries often do not put geographic data in the public domain, so there is a limit to the zoom-factor and I use the ’satellite’-view rather than any of the other two). […]

    upgrade to wp 2 — NeverEndingBooks Archive / January 25th, 2006

  57. Hi, this plugin is awesome. I got it working quite well @ Firefox, but just as Nate and Jens I got the same problem in IE. It just crashes.

    Nate said: FIX- Put at the very bottom of the page (as per instructions). Now IE6 is happy. Cheers YF.

    I did put it at the BOTTOM of my page default template, but it still doesn’t work in IE. Any hints, help, ideas are more then welcome!

    Thanks allready!

    Hendrik / January 27th, 2006

  58. link which I’m talking about: http://www.hendrikburgler.nl/wordpress/?page_id=42

    Hendrik / January 27th, 2006

  59. I love the plugin. Got it to work just fine last night. Found it much easier than Geo-Mashup. I tried to demo it this morning and my map is blank. Can’t figure out why. Any suggestions? I am using WordPress 2.0.

    Kevin / January 28th, 2006

  60. What could I tweak to make the map display in map view rather than satellite view? Great plug-in!

    The Flying Dutchman / January 28th, 2006

  61. Nevermind… got it. :)

    The Flying Dutchman / January 28th, 2006

  62. Map Page ID

    I guess we are limited to one page id for GWP to display on my blog. Is there another way to specific category to display on a specific page id to display the map instead the whole blog archives.

    Email me if someone has a solution! (jed@deafnation.com)

    Jed Barish / January 30th, 2006

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  65. I’ve moved all support for this plugin to a page on pingmag, the Japanese design magazine:

    http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/02/06/the-instant-googlemap-plugin/

    Check out the new features - thumbnails and map-jump button!!!

    yongfook / February 6th, 2006

  66. […] A while ago I wrote a basic googlemaps plugin for the popular online publishing application Wordpress, and put it on my blog to download. I’m now ready to announce version 2.0 of the plugin, and am moving the support page away from my blog and onto this page at PingMag! […]

    PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » The Instant Googlemap Plugin! / February 6th, 2006

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  69. It seems that the GeoPlugin is no-longer available. Do you (or any reader) happen to have it? Please post a URL if you know of one..

    Thanks! Knobee

    Knobee / July 21st, 2006

  70. http://mediatricks.biz/blog

    I have included a zip file that has a slightly revised GoogleMap plugin that interfaces with ImageManager Plugin for uploading and thumbnailing the images included on the map.

    Zip also includes the geo plugin and ImageManager plugin (unedited)

    For people experiencing IE crashes check that your Rich Editor is off when adding the DIV tag. I found that the Rich Editor was messing up the DIv tags leaving an opn DIV which crashes IE 6.

    Check out my website for the complete zip file and also a variation on a theme - The Yahoo Members Map!

    Tim / August 30th, 2006

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  73. Very nice work! and very good explanation as well!!

    Expired Domain Names / January 15th, 2007

  74. Very nice work! and very good explanation as well!!

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  75. Hi, i tried to install the Google Worls Map Plugin and it works.

    But the Geo Plugin doesn’t work. I uploaded it and it will not be shown in the Wordpress Backend. I’m working with Wordpress 2.0.4.

    Has anyone the same experience? Anyone knows how to solve this problem?

    Cheers, Andre

    Andre / January 16th, 2007

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