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Advanced Custom Fields does not scale
Advanced Custom Fields is a fantastic plugin used by millions that convert WordPress into a full-stack CMS, allowing you to create unlimited custom field groups, and types and add them to any type of custom post type. However not many know about Advanced Custom Fields Scalability limits. Quite often we get asked if GeoDirectory uses […]
Loading WordPress language files correctly
WordPress localization features allows you to make plugins and themes easily translatable through WordPress Language files (po/mo files). This is true especially since WordPress 3.7 and it got a whole lot easier since WordPress 4.6. A lot of improvement has been made to the whole translation system for WordPress, I felt it really needs a […]
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. […]
Move bbPress Multisite plugin and the story behind it
Are you hosting your bbPress powered support forum within your main install? That’s going to slow down your money website. In similar cases, it’s really a good idea to move bbPress into its own website. Why should I Move bbPress? The main reason is that you are loading a lot of extra resources on your […]
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 […]
Google Maps API Key and new limits
Google announced on Wednesday Updates to Google Maps APIs Standard Plan. Here you can read the full article. For all new applications created on or after June 22, a Google Maps API Key will be required. Existing applications will continue to work without a key, but the new limits will be applied to everyone. Before […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to remove all GeoDirectory Breadcrumbs
Even if we don’t have Breadcrumbs on this website, we consider them very important, that’s why GeoDirectory has breadcrumbs on all its pages. They allow your visitors to always know where they are at, while navigating your website. We would never suggest to hide them, but several of our users asked how they could remove […]