Scott Cariss

<p>This plugin is meant to be used by other developers and to be used together with themes and other plugins. Many themes and plugins use WordPress meta data table to store longitude and latitude co-ordinates for posts. While this works fine the meta data table cannot be indexed very well. Let’s take for example you have made a custom post type called ‘properties’. You create 100,000 posts all attached with latitude and longitude co-ordinates. You want your users to search for those properties in a 50 mile radius for example. Because of the method of which WordPress stores the meta data the query is slow especially when dealing with large amounts of data.</p>
<p>This plugin has been made to retro fit your current WordPress install. You as the developer select, using filters, what meta data you want to start capturing and this plugin will put the data in a table better optimized for storing latitude and longitude co-ordinates. Upon plugin activate existing data will be index and any data from then on.</p>
<p>Usage:<br />
Before activating set what meta keys you want this plugin to capture by using the filter ‘sc_geodatastore_meta_keys’. Your latitude and longitude values have to be stored in a single meta field like: <code>51.507334,-0.127682</code></p>
<p>Example usage of the filter:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'sc_geodatastore_meta_keys', 'homes_for_sale_geodata' );
function homes_for_sale_geodata( $keys )
{
    $keys[] = "properties_address_coords";
    return $keys;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Notice:<br />
This plugin is currently limited to only allowing one pair of co-ordinates per post. Maybe in a later version I will allow multiple pairs per post, but since this plugin was made to serve my purpose and it serves it well I see no reason to build upon it yet.</p>


Geo Data Store

Stores lng/lat co-ordinates in a better optimized table. This plugin is meant for the use of other WordPress theme and plugin authors

Pär Thernström

Earth People

<p>Adds a new field type to <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-fields/" rel="ugc">Simple Fields</a> that let you choose a location.</p>
<p>The coordinates (lat/lng) of that location is saved<br />
and easily retrieved in for example your theme.</p>
<p>Happy geocoding!</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easily add maps to any post, page or custom post type</li>
<li>Integrates seamlessly into Simple Fields</li>
<li>You can have multiple maps with separately settings</li>
<li>Each map can have it’s own:
<ul>
<li>zoom level</li>
<li>map type (Roadmap, Satellite, Hybrid, Terrain)</li>
<li>default location</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Search location of address by using built in search box</li>
<li>Search location by enter its latitude and longitude coordinates</li>
<li>Supports Repeatable Fields – have any amount of maps connected to each post</li>
<li>From each saved position you can get
<ul>
<li>Latitude and Longitude</li>
<li>Address information, including store/shop name if that was what the user searched for when adding this location</li>
<li>Preferred zoom level</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>To add a map to a field group programmatically</h4>
<p>Slug for this field extension is “googlemaps”.</p>
<p>Full example using register field group:</p>
<pre><code><?php

// Add a field group with a Google Map-field
simple_fields_register_field_group('sf_map_test_field_fg',
    array(
        'name' => 'My map',
        'slug' => "mu_map"
        'repeatable' => 1,
        'fields' => array(
            array(
                "type" => "googlemaps",
                "slug" => "sf_map",
                "name" => "Test map",
                "options" => array(
                    "defaultZoomLevel" => 10,
                    "defaultMapTypeId" => "HYBRID", // ROADMAP | SATELLITE | HYBRID | TERRAIN
                    "defaultLocationLat" => 40.71435,
                    "defaultLocationLng" => -74.00597,
                    "defaultZoomLevel" => 10
                )
            )
        )
    )
);

?>
</code></pre>
<h4>Translations/Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin is available in the following languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>(Make sure you have Simple Fields installed)</li>
<li>Install the Simple Fields Maps Extension plugin</li>
<li>You will find the Map field in the usual settings page of Simple Fields</li>
</ol>


Simple Fields Map extension

Extension to Simple Fields that adds a field type for selecting a location on a Google Map.

Geo Data Store vs Simple Fields Map extension