Author: Stiofan O'Connor
WP Easy Updates
WP Easy Updates We are happy to introduce WP Easy Updates! WPEU is our new update plugin, we will be using it to provide licencing and updates to all our GeoDirectory addons as well as all our future non GD products, in fact anyone who sells WP Plugins (and soon to be themes) through Easy […]
Distance to custom field
Update Sept 2019 This has been added as a predefined custom field in V 2.0.0.67. The snippet below will only work if using GeoDirectory V1. The Problem Today a member had a bit of an unusual request, they are using GeoDirectory to run a local festival and they are listing things like accommodation for it. […]
Custom fields in custom places
The Request Today we had a user ask how to show certain custom fields in a custom place, in her case it was to show info below the profile tab content. I though this might be a opportunity to show users (and developers) how easy it is to work with out new custom fields system […]
We added a 50% discount code in our T&C’s to see what would happen
The Story In April 2015 GeoDirectory became 1 year old, at that time we celebrated by running a discount over our birthday weekend. It had been a year since we wrote our terms and conditions (T&C’s) and in June of that year (2015) we decided to review them to see if anything needed updating, it […]
Making your WordPress site slow
In the coming days we will be writing a series of articles on how to keep you WordPress site lean and fast but as a pretext to those articles, we thought we would write a much shorter article on how to make your WordPress site slow. (we see these mistakes made over and over…) Please […]
This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly
This post will tell you how to fix the “This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.” problem with Google Maps. If you are using GeoDirectory please see our documentation here. If you want to read about the problem see our blog post here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/google-maps-api-key-and-new-limits/ If you have seen […]
Adding a SSL Certificate to your website
There are many good reasons to add a SSL to your site, we won’t go into detail here but to name a few: Google now gives a SEO boost to sites with SSL Your users are more protected! Some browsers (Chrome) now require SSL for geo-location to work This tutorial will walk you through everything […]
Snazzy Maps support for GeoDirectory
We are delighted to announce support for Snazzy Maps in our Custom Google Maps addon (1.0.5). What is Snazzy Maps? Snazzy Maps is an online resource that enables users to customize the colors, saturation, and other styling options of their Google Maps. The customization options are provided in the form of different map styles designed […]
PayPal SHA-256 Compliance and what it means
This week PayPal have been sending out scary emails and causing a lot of panic, these emails are titled: “IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades.” The problem is they are sending them to anyone who has used affected services such as Instant Payment Notifications (IPN) which is used by LOADS of consumer themes and plugins […]
Contact Form 7 vs Simple HTML Form
This post is related to my last blog post about my efforts to speed up our site, by removing plugins where the benefit does NOT outweigh the convenience. (Just here for the code samples? Click here.) The Story: Up until a few days ago our site was using the very popular plugin “Contact Form 7” which at present […]