Andrea Tarantini

BP Distance Search adds a new Google Place Autocomplete field type to your BuddyPress extended profiles, and registers this field type with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/" rel="ugc">BP Profile Search</a>.
After installing this plugin:
<ol>
<li>Admin can create new profile field(s) with type Google Place Autocomplete</li>
<li>Members can fill in the new profile field(s) on their Profile Edit page</li>
<li>Admin can add the new profile field(s) to a BP Profile Search form, selecting either the distance search mode or one of the usual text search modes contains, is, or is like</li>
<li>Visitors can use the search form with the new profile field(s)</li>
</ol>
See the screenshots below depicting the above steps.

BP Distance Search

As simple as installing the plugin, adding the field and API key. Perfect. 

Another exceptional plugin by Andrea. Thank you so much for your continued development of this plugin and BP Profile Search. 


Simple to use and effective

Adds a Google Place Autocomplete profile field type for BuddyPress, and enables search by distance with BP Profile Search.

jhackett1

A plugin to add location-aware geographical search to <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_Query</a>.
You can use it to power location-aware apps, such as showing a user results near them.
<h3>🔎 Using it in a query</h3>
Adding a <code>geo_query</code> parameter to WP_Query will add a “distance” column to the returned results, provided they have the right metadata.
You can then display this in your templates.
You can use a location search parameter, which will be <a href="#geocoding" rel="nofollow ugc">geocoded</a> or directly provide latitude and longitude values:
<pre><code>$query = new WP_Query(array(
 "geo_query" => array(
 "location" => "London"
 )
))

$query = new WP_Query(array(
 "geo_query" => array(
 "latitude" => -52.005,
 "longitude" => 0.005,
 )
))
</code></pre>
Optionally, you can then filter by search radius.
By default, distances are given in miles. You can provide <code>"units" => "km"</code> if you need kilometres.
<pre><code>$query = new WP_Query(array(
 "geo_query" => array(
 "latitude" => -52.005,
 "longitude" => 0.005,
 "radius" => 10
 )
))
</code></pre>
Or order by nearness:
<pre><code>$query = new WP_Query(array(
 "geo_query" => array(
 "latitude" => -52.005,
 "longitude" => 0.005
 ),
 "orderby" => "geo"
))
</code></pre>
<h3>Displaying distance in templates</h3>
In a <code>WP_Query</code> loop that includes a <code>geo_query</code>, you can use two extra functions to show distance away:
<ul>
<li><code>jhgs_get_the_distance(object $post)</code> – which returns a rounded integer for the distance away, similar to <code>get_the_title()</code></li>
<li>
<code>jhgs_the_distance(string $less_than_one, string $one, string $more_than_one)</code> – which displays an approximate human-readable string, similar to <code>the_title()</code>
jhgs_the_distance will show one of three messages depending on whether the rounded distance is less than one, one, or greater than one. By default these are:
</li>
<li>
“Less than a mile away”
</li>
<li>“About a mile away”</li>
<li>“About %s miles away”</li>
</ul>
If you need to use different units or translations, can pass three <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.printf.php" rel="nofollow ugc">printf-formatted</a> strings to <code>jhgs_the_distance()</code> to override these messages. Put <code>%s</code> where you want the value.
If you need the exact, unrounded value, you can use <code>$post->distance</code>.
<h3>Geocoding</h3>
<a href="https://nominatim.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nominatim</a>‘s service is used for geocoding location searches.
Using it is subject to an <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/" rel="nofollow ugc">acceptable use policy</a> – if you use case will involve lots of API calls, you should replace it with a paid alternative, like <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/overview" rel="nofollow ugc">Google</a>‘s.
<h3>📍 Populating latitude and longitude data</h3>
It looks for two <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/custom-fields/" rel="ugc">custom field</a> values with the keys <code>latitude</code> and <code>longitude</code> on your posts.
It’s agnostic about how you supply this data. The simplest thing to do is type it in using WordPress’s built-in custom field editor.
You could also hook into the <code>save_post</code> action to populate meta whenever you create or change a post, by adding a snippet like this to your theme’s <code>functions.php</code>:
<pre><code>function example_update_latlngs($post){
 $location = get_field("location", $post);
 if(isset($location)){
 update_post_meta($post, "longitude", $location["lng"]);
 update_post_meta($post, "latitude", $location["lat"]);
 }
}

add_action("save_post", "example_update_latlngs", 10, 3);
</code></pre>
This example assumes you are using an <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/google-map/" rel="nofollow ugc">ACF Google Map</a> field called “location”, but the data could come from anywhere, including a custom meta box you code yourself, so long as the post meta keys are right.
<h3>Bulk-updating existing posts</h3>
If you have many posts that you need to add longitude and latitude meta to in bulk, you could add something like this to <code>functions.php</code>, which will run on <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/after_switch_theme/" rel="nofollow ugc">theme activation</a>:
<pre><code>function example_update_all_latlngs(){
 $query = new WP_Query(array(
 "posts_per_page" => -1
 ));
 foreach($query->get_posts() as $post){
 // Function from above
 example_update_latlngs($post);
 }
}

add_action('after_switch_theme', 'example_update_all_latlngs');
</code></pre>

WP Geo search

Add location-aware geographical search to WP_Query. You can use it to power location-aware apps, such as showing a user results near them.

BP Distance Search vs WP Geo search