We are happy to release Maps Marker Pro v4.29, which includes the addition of Stadia geocoding and performance improvements as highlights as well as several other optimizations and bugfixes.
An updated to the latest version is – as always – highly recommended. If you access to updates and support has expired, please click here for more information on how to optionally renew your access. Although your license key never expires, unless you renew your access to updates and support, you will not be able to get plugin updates including new features, optimizations, bug and security fixes, translations updates as well as access to our helpdesk with dedicated 1:1 support. Therefore we always recommend updating to the latest version of Maps Marker Pro.
With v4.27 we added support for Stadia Maps and with v4.29 due to feedback from our users we also added support for Stadia Maps Geocoding. For details on terms and instructions on how to setup Stadia Maps geocoding, please click here.
We have also made significant improvements to the performance of Maps Marker Pro, specifically targeting and reducing bottlenecks in websites that host a large number of markers. This resulted in the following performance optimizations which are included in v4.29:
The share button for markers now includes a copy button for higher usability:
Thanks to our translators this release also includes updated translations, see full changelog for details.
If you want to join our team of more than 235 translators and contribute to translations (in exchange for free licenses) , please visit https://www.mapsmarker.com/glotpress/projects/mmp/ for more information.
Changelog for version 4.29 - released on 20.04.2024 (release notes)
 | add Stadia geocoding | |
| add copy button to share modal | |
| add rate limit to license validation | |
 | improve performance and RAM usage plugin-wide by only selecting required columns in database queries | |
| improve performance and RAM usage on maps/markers page by not loading data from hidden columns | |
| significantly improve performance and RAM usage of batch tools | |
| rework Yoast SEO sitemap integration | |
| rework Rank Math SEO sitemap integration | |
| add sanity check before saving local key | |
| show links to fullscreen maps instead of KML when using XML Sitemap Generator for Google | |
| remove native geo sitemap | |
| clear sitemap cache when a map has changed | |
| use SVG menu icon | |
| improve CSS on list all maps/markers page | |
| hide the sort control when no sort options are available | |
| update Google Mutant to 0.14.1 | |
| update Chart.js to 4.4.2 | |
| replace Select2 with Tom Select | |
| update leaflet-locatecontrol to 0.81.0 | |
 | fix edge case not showing the correct amount of markers when using filter logic "and" | |
| prevent redirect loops on list all maps/markers page | |
| fix last modified date for map URLs not showing correctly when using XML Sitemap Generator for Google | |
| fix deleting a map via action row not working on list all maps page | |
| fix delete link on edit map page not shown in some cases | |
| fix JS error when selecting maps for "batch update map settings" on tools page | |
| fix some (error) message not showing up correctly on tools page | |
| fix batch update layers toggle to switch between all maps and specific maps having its role reversed | |
| fix add new map page unnecessarily loading a list of marker IDs | |
 | updated Catalan translation thanks to Roc, Efraim Bayarri, Vicent Cubells and Marta Espinalt | → contribute |
| updated Chinese translation thanks to John Shen and ck | → contribute |
| updated Czech translation thanks to Viktor Kleiner and Vlad Kuzba | → contribute |
| updated Dutch translation thanks to Ronald Smeets, Marijke Metz, Patrick Ruers, Fokko van der Leest and Hans Temming | → contribute |
| updated Finnish translation thanks to Jessi Björk | → contribute |
| updated French translation thanks to Vincèn Pujol, Rodolphe Quiedeville, Fx Benard, Cazal Cédric, Fabian Hurelle and Thomas Guignard | → contribute |
| updated Galician translation thanks to Fernando Coello, Jorge Castro Ruso | → contribute |
| updated German translation by Maps Marker Pro team and Daniel Luttermann | → contribute |
| updated Japanese translations thanks to Shu Higash and Taisuke Shimamoto | → contribute |
| updated Korean translation thanks to Andy Park | → contribute |
| updated Lithuanian translation thanks to Donatas Liaudaitis and Donatas Liaudaitis | → contribute |
| updated Punjabi translation thanks to Vikas Arora, janbasktraining.com | → contribute |
If you experience any issues, please search our knowledge base or submit a helpdesk ticket.
Happy mapping!
The recommended way to update is to use the WordPress update process: login with an user who has admin privileges, navigate to Dashboard / Updates, select plugins to update and press the button “Update Plugins”. The pro plugin checks every 24 hours if a new version is available. You can also manually trigger the update check by going to Plugins and clicking on the link “Check for updates” next to “Maps Marker Pro”.
If there is an update available, please start the update by clicking the link “update now”.
No additional changes needed (as there was no beta release for this release).
No additional actions are required for Database API users when updating to this version.
For directly downloading and installing the Maps Marker Pro as zip file, please click here.
For the SHA-256 hash value and the number of files for this release please check the following file: https://www.mapsmarker.com/SHA256SUMS.txt
This file is digitally signed with our PGP key, key signature file available at https://www.mapsmarker.com/SHA256SUMS.txt.sig
Click here for a tutorial on how to verify the integrity of the plugin package (recommended if the plugin package for a new installation was not downloaded from https://www.mapsmarker.com – verification is not needed though if the automatic update process is used).
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