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bbPress Topic Location

Description

This plugin brings topics geolocation to bbPress, and can filter topics by location and radius.
It has been originally developped for a classified ads forum.

Features

  • Works both for frontend & backend
  • Users can set the location of a post manually or automatically (HTML Geolocation API)
  • Geocoding using the Nominatim API by Open Street Maps
  • Search posts by location and radius

Demo

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Bugs/Development

For feature request and bug reports, please use the Github Issues Tracker.

If you are a plugin developer, we would like to hear from you. Any contribution would be very welcome.

Screenshots

  • Topic edition (frontend)
  • Topic in topics list
  • Topic edition (backend)
  • Search results, with (bbPress) Geo Search Widget on the side

Installation

  • Copy this plugin directory to wp-content/plugins/.
  • Activate plugin.

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Contributors & Developers

“bbPress Topic Location” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.0.9

  • handle ‘HTML Geolocation API’ requires HTTPS better

1.0.8

  • 5 years after, it’s alive again !
  • updated for WP 5.3.2
  • code cleaned and improved
  • SCSS
  • geocoding using (Nominatim API)[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/]
  • HTTPS notice

1.0.7

  • Added admin settings
  • New template functions bbptl_post_has_geo(), bbptl_post_address(), bbptl_get_post_address(), bbptl_post_latitude(), bbptl_get_post_latitude(), , bbptl_post_longitude(), bbptl_get_post_longitude()
  • Added class ‘has-location’ for topics and replies having a location
  • Various code improvements

1.0.6

  • Minor

1.0.5

  • Allow to get results without search terms set (see functions bbpress_add_dummy_keyword and bbpress_remove_dummy_keyword)

1.0.4

  • improved location form input & javascript
  • when geolocated posts are found, displays distance between origin point and post location
  • bbPress custom search widget, with geolocation parameters
  • ability to search forum posts by location (and radius)
  • code refactoring

1.0.2

  • ‘Guess my location’ now returns a readable address instead of coordinates
  • 2 new files : bbptl-ajax.php & bbptl-template-tags.php
  • Uses native bbpress functions
  • Bugs fixed
  • Clode cleanup

1.0.1

  • Screenshots, readme update, css fixes.

1.0.0

  • Initial launch