Comments on: New WordPress Plugin for Spot Messenger

By: Dave Pike

Dave Pike — Wed, 04 May 2016 15:21:57 +0000

I would like to add this tracking gadget to my site but am technology challenged. Are there some instructions as to how to add to my wordpress blog?

Thanks.

Looks like a great tool

By: jimmyv

jimmyv — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:53:06 +0000

Hi,
I’m getting the same issues as you Travelnutz.
I have been using this plug-in for a long time and it has worked great – love it.

But since May 6, 2013 SPOT has changed their API for the xml stream that this add-in relied on. I now get an error message indicating on line 237, the function fsockopen in findmespot.php. I’ved tried updating the variables with the new ones that SPOT changed, but no luck so far as I’m just a hack in programming.

Anyone else getting this issue? Anyone else get it resolved? Hate to lose this addin.

By: travelnutz

travelnutz — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:07:28 +0000

I have added the line to my .htaccess file as mentioned in previous comments, however my page still does not show any tracking points. They appear on my findmespot page, but not my wordpress page. All I get is a world map from google without the points. Is there something else that needs to be done?

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:00:46 +0000

Solved the problem of the third party map not updating.

You just need to add a cron job through your hosting control panel.

This is the cron job that runs once an hour for me

wget http://yourwebsite.com/index.php >/dev/null 2>&1

index.php being the root of your wordpress site so that the map will update as if someone has viewed your wordpress.

Works great!!

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:38:48 +0000

I have found that using the plugin on a third party site outside of wordpress will not automatically update the map.

I am trying to get the update to happen automatically as a cron job on my server, but can’t seem to get it to work.

Any idea on which .php scripts I should be running server side?

Some Guy, you out there?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:33:04 +0000

Is there a way to provide the distance traveled / pace between waypoints? I am no coder but I would love that functionality.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:11:19 +0000

Some Guy-

Can you tell me where the location data is stored? I’d like to be able to edit out some points.

Thanks,

Trevor

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:24:46 +0000

For anyone getting a Access-Control-Allow-Origin error a simple edit to the .htaccess file in the root directory will fix the problem. Simply add this line of code:

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *

Here is what my .htaccess file looks like:

# BEGIN WordPress

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:17:29 +0000

Hey there,
I am getting this error when trying to load my maps.

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://hike4hope.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-findmespot/xml.php?s=2010-01-01+15%3A00%3A00&e=2015-01-01+15%3A00%3A00&id=0-8307258. Origin http://www.hike4hope.org is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

What’s going on?!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:54:04 +0000

Hi (some)guy !

Many thanks for your very great plugin! It’s very useful.

I have just a small problem : at each update, a new point is added even if it’s the same location. On findmespot site I have only one point, but I my own website a lot (I have to delete manually). Have you an idea to resolve the problem?

My findmespot page : http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0lvqGc461KWP86CDVVupczrRpYPI35U4j
My website : http://www.kimitchstrip.com/gps/

Best regards!