I used to develop in Drupal, and must say I dislike to limitations I’m having with wordpress. E.g. a store locator.
Welcome to WordPress. As someone who also came from Drupal (before then, Joomla), I’ll say the biggest barrier I encountered turned out to be completely my own making: I expected things to be the way I was used to 😀
In this case…
It sounds like you’re using some ecommerce plugin (of which there are many) and it sounds like you using some other plugin to create these markers (of which there are many), as WordPress itself doesn’t provide any such features as you describe.
You see, that’s a lot of unknowns there… making it impossible for us to provide any assistance.
In most cases, you’ll need to access the documentation and support of whatever plugin you’re having an issue with. If it’s a free plugin you installed from WordPress.org, you can open the plugin here and click on the “Support” tab. If it’s a commercial plugin you purchased (or it was bundled with your theme), you’ll need to contact the developer or marketplace you purchased it from, as we’re unable to support commercial plugins and themes (simply because we don’t have access to the code).
I hope that helps.
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sdko
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In Drupal this would be possible to build. I currently have to install plugins given WordPress.
The question for me is not whether ‘my’ plugin is capable of doing so, for I tried 3 plugins and none seemed to be capable of doing anything close. I simply wonder whether it can be done or not and to which plugin I should turn to.
In WordPress (as in Drupal), there are essentially three ways to do anything:
1) Use the in-built feature if it is available
2) Use custom code to add the desired feature if it’s not already built-in
3) Use existing custom code that has been written by someone else (plugins for WordPress, modules for Drupal).
I simply wonder whether it can be done and to which plugin I should turn to.
As I said earlier, WordPress itself doesn’t provide any product catalog, mapping or marker features as you described.
But WordPress, as with Drupal, is just PHP. If you’re a developer, you should be able to do whether you want.
If you want to use a plugin, there are a ton of mapping, market and “store locator” plugins out there. You’ll need to review a couple of these against your own requirements and choose one that best fits your needs.
Please see: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/marker/
Good luck!
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sdko
(@sdko)
Thanks, that is indeed what I expected.
Surely you know that D7 and D8 are capable of doing most of the above with very little code. Views are exactly what I would need. Anyway, good to know I need not look no further then writing code for a client, which will lead to maintenance costs…
Anyway, it is what it is.
