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Ok, sorry forgot to mark code. Ignore last post.

Hey, I’ve just been looking at a solution related to this. You could put
<br /> before the text. That will force a line break between the icon and the text. Better to keep text out of images where possible – but that would work also.

Hey, I’ve just been looking at a solution related to this. You could put
before the text. That will force a line break between the icon and the text. Better to keep text out of images where possible – but that would work also.

Hi,

Whilst this doesn’t exactly answer your question it might be of use to others looking at mass import options and perhaps you if you find no other solution. I could find no way to assign categories in the data. But I could add an id to the html which enabled them to be marked up in 20’s which saved a lot of time…

Just thought I’d share my experience uploading and managing mass uploads of placemarks with lots of categories just in case anyone else is assigned the fun challenge of uploading thousands of them and wishes to keep things as simple as possible.
This is an extension of an earlier post I found very useful but with a couple of changes so that you can also assign featured images (placemark icons) in the data and assign categories quicker manually (there’s no way I could find to do this by including it in the data). It’s not ideal but the best we could manage with our level of skill and this plugin. Okay, let’s begin:

It’s a six step process.
1) In order for your maps to load quickly you should think about categories for your placemarks carefully. Basically you only want to load what you need by calling categories in the shortcode. Hundreds of placemarks are okay. Thousands are a problem.
To speed up assigning categories manually later on we included a unique identifier for each category in the HTML in column csv_post_post (see below). We wrapped the identifier(s) in a div with a class and then added display:none to that class in CSS (so it isn’t visible). You don’t need to do this but it made our lives easier because of the number of placemarks and categories we had.

2) Format Data – Your placemark data needs to be in CSV format (use excel, comma delimited) with the following column titles:
csv_post_title – in this column you put your placemark title
bgmp_address – in this column put coordinates or fuzzy address
csv_post_post – here you put the text/html for placemark
csv_post_type – enter “bgmp” for all cells (no quotation marks)
csv_attachment_thumbnail – enter the URL for the map-marker image (what will be featured image)

You will need to split the file if it’s large to maximum of around five hundred markers in each. Remember to save each one as CSV and include the column headings exactly as they are above or else it won’t work.

3) Get the right plugin – you need to download the forked version of CSV Importer plugin at GitHub and then upload it to WP/activate it.

4) Upload Data – upload your data file(s) by going to TOOLS then CSV IMPORTER. Tick import posts as drafts. Select the first file and upload. Repeat until all data is uploaded as drafts. If you don’t import them as drafts at this stage you will get into a mess later on.

5) You should now have all your hundreds or thousands of map markers as drafts with no categories assigned. You assign categories manually in batches of twenty. You do this by selecting all DRAFTS and then searching by your first category ID set in stage 1. The search will return however many there are in the data set containing that ID. Select all twenty on the first page with the tick box at the top. Then select EDIT from BULK ACTIONS and then APPLY. You can then assign the correct category to the twenty selected placemarks and hit UPDATE. Move onto the next page and repeat until all done. Then do the next category etc.
If you didn’t assign category ID’s in the HTML then you will need to assign categories manually one at a time. Enjoy that one. Probably easiest to do this when you do the final step.

6) You should now have all map markers as drafts with categories assigned. Now you need to publish each one individually (unfortunately). Open it and hit publish. I do twenty right clicks, opening them as new tabs. Using BULK ACTIONS and changing the status to PUBLISHED for twenty doesn’t work as the addresses don’t get geocoded. Nor does the QUICK EDIT select PUBLISH. In both these cases the post will be published but it will not be visible on maps and then you will be in a mess. You need to physically open each one and hit publish for the address to geocode.

That should save you a lot of time.

And please, if anyone finds a way to assign categories in the CSV file, let us know.

Now resolved thanks to post over at Drupal.org.

Get My Custom CSS Plugin and add the following:

.gmnoprint {
  width: auto !important;
}

Job done.

Hi,

I had this problem & now resolved thanks to post over at Drupal.org. It only occurs in IE (as with most problems, seemingly).

Forget what you’re doing above. Get My Custom CSS Plugin and add the following:

.gmnoprint {
  width: auto !important;
}

Job done.

I say keep it simple! Instead of getting into the code, simply create an .jpg image 300px by 300px (or something like that) of the title of the post. I use GIMP for this but you could use Paint or anything else which enables you to make jpg’s quickly and easily. Upload this image to Media making sure to give it a meaningful file name/useful alt text. Then set it as a featured image for the post. Job done. This was my solution.

The result is that you get the text you want in the circle on the front page. You can then insert your images as desired into the post and they will not show up in the circles (featured image comes first, so if that is set, that’s what you’ll see). And you have the added benefit of being able to use extra fonts/colours which would be complicated with CSS.

Someone will probably come along and say you should never hide text in images but I say that’s rubbish. Just do it and make sure you give image files meaningful names and alt text.

I also have this issue. Have looked through everything but no answers to be found. Problem can be viewed here using IE9:

nationalcottages.co.uk

Google credits are displayed vertically in a narrow strip rather than horizontally along the bottom of map. Looks like it could just be CSS issue which should be easy to solve? Anybody know? My usual method is to just inspect elements and play around/figure things out but I can’t do that with this. Solution would be appreciated.