Category Archives: Plugins

What's coming for SimpleMap

Yes, it’s another post about SimpleMap… I swear that other development insights and code snippets will be in my posts in the near future, but for now SimpleMap is taking up most of my dev time. This is more of an announcement and invitation for suggestions than anything else. What I have planned for the [...]

SimpleMap Browser Compatibility Fix

It has been brought to my attention that SimpleMap 1.1 (and 1.1.1) was completely broken in all browsers but Safari. First of all, I’m really sorry about this; second, I’ve got a fix worked out that I will release tonight in 1.1.2. In the meantime, here’s the fix that you can apply yourself: In js/functions.js, [...]

Behold: SimpleMap 1.1

This turned out to be a behemoth of an update! Here are the biggest new features: Support for international locations (any country supported by Google Maps) HTML description for each location Custom categories for locations Improved admin interface Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to use Google Maps API version 3 yet, which means you still need [...]

SimpleMap 1.1 is coming, really!

For those of you waiting for the update, I’m sorry I didn’t get it finished over the weekend. I have been trying to solve the problem of large CSV imports stalling the browser, to no avail. Even though I’ve found a way to import large files extremely fast, it still has to process each line [...]

SimpleMap Updates

Thank you so much to everyone who has commented or emailed with errors and feature suggestions. It has helped me fix a lot of things I would not have seen otherwise! Also, a big thank you to Thorsten and Fernando for the German and Spanish translations, respectively. These will be included in the 1.0.6 release [...]

SimpleMap is launched!

SimpleMap version 1.0 is launched! Here is some eye candy for you: Check out more on the plugin’s home page or on the WordPress.org Plugin Repository!

How NOT to make a WordPress plugin

At Brave New Media, we’re working on an intranet-style site for one of our big clients. We’re using a combination of WordPress and a custom web-based file management software to build it. The Sales department of this company is divided up into a number of teams, and the user accounts in WordPress needed to have [...]

WordPress Plugins Updated

I’ve posted some of my WordPress plugins on my WordPress Plugins page. More will be added in the next few days as I get them packaged up for public use. Enjoy, and stay tuned!