Title: Major Development Beginning Now
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Major Development Beginning Now

 *  Plugin Author [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * (@webdevmattcrom)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/)
 * First we want to thank all our active users. It’s amazing that this plugin has
   been out less than a year and it already has over 10K active installs! Thank 
   you all!
 * Secondly, we want you all to know that we are finally designating the time and
   investment to improve this plugin like it really needs it. You all have been 
   giving us a lot of feedback, and issuing a lot of bugs and we appreciate that.
 * Our plan right now is to focus on cleaning up the bugs and implementing a couple
   new features as well. Please feel free to comment on this post. For now, here’s
   the list of the most important issues we’re focusing on now.
    - When other plugins use Google Maps API, it creates a conflict — our last solution“
      works”, but we’d like a more robust solution
    - Solidify marker creation, both saving and displaying them well, as well as
      build in the ability to create custom markers easily
    - When the map is embedded inside a tab or hidden intially and loaded via Ajax,
      it doesn’t initiate.
 * That’s it for now. Would love your feedback on this list as well as any additional
   items you’d like to see happen soon. We’ll keep this thread updated with our 
   progress. Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-maps-builder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-maps-builder/)

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 *  [LS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsterling03/)
 * (@lsterling03)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965309)
 * I’d love the ability to only load the map scripts on pages that use a map.
 *  [NativeRank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativerank/)
 * (@nativerank)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965399)
 * I could really, -REALLY- use the ability to mark out areas on the map with the
   polygon tool. I work on dozens of sites and clients are all requesting ‘service
   area’ maps…I cannot figure out a fast/easy way to do this :/
 *  Plugin Author [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * (@webdevmattcrom)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965401)
 * @isterling03 — absolutely. We can make that happen for sure.
    [@nativerank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativerank/)—
   interesting. No promises, but we’ll dig into it.
 *  [NativeRank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativerank/)
 * (@nativerank)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965402)
 * Or at least a way to incorporate the code generated from here:
 * [http://www.gmapgis.com/](http://www.gmapgis.com/)
 *  Plugin Author [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * (@webdevmattcrom)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965437)
 * Interesting Feature Request here:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/let-site-visitors-create-custom-routes-on-map?replies=1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/let-site-visitors-create-custom-routes-on-map?replies=1)
 *  Plugin Author [Devin Walker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlocc/)
 * (@dlocc)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965450)
 * Some Google places (business) unable to be found here:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-marker-function-not-finding-locations](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-marker-function-not-finding-locations)
 * I believe it has to do with the plugin using the Reference ID rather Places ID.
 *  [timtav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timtav/)
 * (@timtav)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965455)
 * I would like the markers to actually show the info assigned to them when the 
   map is in place. A the moment it just hangs waiting for the info to display.
 *  Plugin Author [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * (@webdevmattcrom)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965456)
 * Hi [@timtav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timtav/),
 * Yes, we’ve heard from users that that often happens. It’s not so easy to reproduce,
   but that is one of the main purposes of this intiative, so no worries, the next
   update you see will resolve that issue for sure.
 *  [Rotozaza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rotozaza/)
 * (@rotozaza)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965476)
 * Great, if you have working copy where my graphic designs can change marker label
   with image themselves, plus choosing any Snazzy map until next week, we’ll use
   it…
 *  [AlfonsoAB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alfonsoab/)
 * (@alfonsoab)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965488)
 * Hi, are there plans to include clustering?
    I’ve done some research to manage
   markers and clusters, but lack the knowledge to put them into a plugin. Here 
   is an example of what I’m meaning. [http://chafalladas.com/wp-content/mapas/simple_example.html](http://chafalladas.com/wp-content/mapas/simple_example.html)
 * BTW good work.
 *  Plugin Author [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * (@webdevmattcrom)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965489)
 * [@alfonsoab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alfonsoab/) wow, that’s a cool
   feature that I haven’t come across yet. Will add it to the list for future enhancements.
 *  [AlfonsoAB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alfonsoab/)
 * (@alfonsoab)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965490)
 * Great, I’ll be waiting for it 🙂
    There is some nice documentation and code here
   that I’ve used for the example: [http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tags/markerclustererplus/2.1.2/docs/reference.html](http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tags/markerclustererplus/2.1.2/docs/reference.html)
   If you like the checkbox search, it’s a really simple script, here is the dev
   version and a fiddle.
 * [http://chafalladas.com/wp-content/mapas/src/match_markers_clustered_dev.js](http://chafalladas.com/wp-content/mapas/src/match_markers_clustered_dev.js)
 * [https://jsfiddle.net/AlfonsoAb/7a4thzqe/](https://jsfiddle.net/AlfonsoAb/7a4thzqe/)
 *  [michel.b](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michelb-1/)
 * (@michelb-1)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965509)
 * Hi, would it be possible to have a “Marker shortcode” ?
    It would display the
   map with all its markers, but “focused” ( centered and zoomed ) on a specific
   marker. I would also appreciate a clustering possibility. Thank you for your 
   plugin. Your development program looks great
 *  [bogdyap77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bogdyap77/)
 * (@bogdyap77)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965523)
 * Hi,
    Also love the plugin! My suggestions would be:
 * 1. Display – introduce a full width option – testing px, etc to see how far it
   goes on my page + it may appear big on my computer which has a small screen, 
   but on larger screens it may appear tiny… full-width would solve that issue;
   
   2. Clustering – have it as an option, I could use it on certain maps, but not
   on all, so ideally it would not be a default; 3. Preview – in the settings area
   when preview is on, if the display size is big, the map goes out of container
   and covers all the controls on the right hand side – Display and Control Options–
   any way to change that? 4. Marker Icons – I’ve seen from previous posts that 
   there’s a bug that prevents the new marker icon from being displayed, hopefully
   that will be solved. Is it possible to have individual marker icons for each 
   location I am adding? when choosing a location to add on the map / marker to 
   drop, have an option to add a custom make icon… that could be very useful… 5.
   As mentioned earlier by someone, a possibility to centre the map on one particular
   location would be super helpful – it could be either one of the markers of a 
   separate location that is not necessarily marked on the map but that can be indicated
   somewhere in the settings section.
 * Thanks a lot for your great work!
    Bogdy
 *  Plugin Author [Devin Walker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlocc/)
 * (@dlocc)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-development-beginning-now/#post-5965526)
 * Hey version 2.0 has been released and I’m going to unpin this topic and mark 
   it as resolved. If you experience any issues with the latest release please post
   on a new topic.

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