Comments on: All Gray / Blank Map Issues Should Now Be Fixed! + Enjoy the Holiday Season

By: admin

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:57:27 +0000

Thanks for your purchase Poppy, much appreciated. Hopefully your layoff period doesn’t last for much longer in this tough economy.

You’re welcome, glad that you’ve found the plugin to be of great use to — and stay tuned — have only scratched the surface in terms of what we plan for it to be able to do in terms of functionality.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:01:29 +0000

FYI to readers: Carl’s issue solved — folder permissions were set to 777 (which is too permissive).

Your folder permissions must be 755 and your files need to be set to 644.

Other than that, as of version 1.2.36 has no blank map issues. Any blank maps will be related to your server functionality or your folder permissions, as opposed to the actual store locator code.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:13:37 +0000

Leah (doodiepack.com) … Just noticed that your javascript & CSS are at the bottom of the HTML of your page. There’s no way it will work like that.
The < ?php wp_head(); ?> function needs to be at the top of your HTML (usually in your ‘header.php’ theme file, if it exists, or in your ‘index.php’ theme file) before the tag and before the < ?php wp_footer(); ?> function — it currently looks like it’s below everything. The store locator can’t load this way.

By: Poppy

Poppy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:58:46 +0000

Also, I don’t have a lot of money to donate because I was laid off a year ago, but I donated by buying a theme just now http://www.viadat.com/products-page I hope that helps out.

Thanks for all the work you’ve put into this plugin. It really is great. It’s the best one I’ve found for the purpose of listing doctors, and I did a lot of hunting around before I settled on this one.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:02:25 +0000

Interesting … therein might lie your problem.

Going to email you an .htaccess file

Sure, you can donate here: http://www.viadat.com/donate

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:33:17 +0000

I don’t have an .htaccess file in my root directory. These are the files found in my root directory:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/287/picture9lq.png

I appreciate the help. Is there a way to donate? If I can get this working, I’ll be happy to pitch in.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:19:02 +0000

1) Save a copy of the .htaccess file in your wordpress root directory to your computer (in your case your wordpress root directory is ‘/friendlytest/’)
2) Open your .htacess file and delete everything in it
3) Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Permalinks’ in your wp-admin and re-save your permalink settings. Wordpress automatically re-creates the content of your .htaccess file

And now your .htacess should be normal

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:11:42 +0000

Sorry to be an idiot, but how do I use the default .htaccess from my WordPress install? I don’t really know what that is.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:09:39 +0000

Your ’store-locator.js.php’ file is receiving a ‘500 Internal Server Message’, which usually tends to occur when you modify your .htacess file. So try using the default .htaccess from your WordPress install, and then go to Settings > Permalinks in your admin menu and re-save your permalink settings.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:57:40 +0000

Hey,

I’m using v1.2.36 , and I’m getting the gray screen too.

Here’s my link: http://collegetownmacon.com/friendlytest/?page_id=5

Any ideas what might be wrong?