This release includes an important fix for the updated GeoJSON/CSV importer introduced in v4.9, which resulted in marker updates not being applied correctly. Furthermore we also modernized the default popup design, amongst some further optimisations and bugfixes.
An updated to the latest version is – as always – highly recommended.
Now let´s get to the highlights of this release:
We modernized the default popup design to use more available space, remove unneeded separators and to better align scrollbars.
Sample default popup with v4.9:
Sample popup with v4.9.1 after optimization:
Further customisation is always possible by using custom CSS in your theme´s style.css.
With v4.9 we introduced an enhanced importer, supporting GeoJSON and CSV as input files. Unfortunately we missed a bug which resulted in markers not being updated correctly when using update mode – this is now fixed with v4.9.1, sorry for any inconvenience caused!
On slow internet connections, map may take a while to load. In order to make clear for users, that a map will load, we added a map loading text, which is briefly displayed before the map gets initialized:
Thanks to 100+ translators this release also includes some update translations, see full changelog for details.
If you want to contribute to translations (in exchange for free licenses), please visit https://www.mapsmarker.com/glotpress/projects/mmp/ for more information.
Changelog for version 4.9.1 - released on 07.02.2020 (release notes)
 | display map loading message | |
 | modernize popup design | |
| localize dates | |
| set permalink slug to "mmp" by default (for new installations only) | |
| flush rewrite rules after changing permalink slug | |
 | fix importer update mode not working | |
 | updated Catalan translation thanks to Roc, Efraim Bayarri, Vicent Cubells and Marta Espinalt | → contribute |
| updated German translation by Maps Marker Pro team and Daniel Luttermann | → contribute |
| updated Spanish translation thanks to David Ramírez, Alvaro Lara, Victor Guevara, Ricardo Viteri, Juan Valdes & Marta Espinalt and Fernando Coello | → contribute |
| updated French translation thanks to Vincèn Pujol, Rodolphe Quiedeville, Fx Benard, Cazal Cédric, Fabian Hurelle and Thomas Guignard | → contribute |
| updated Italian translation thanks to Luca Barbetti and Angelo Giammarresi | → contribute |
| updated Japanese translations thanks to Shu Higash and Taisuke Shimamoto | → contribute |
| updated Russian translation thanks to Ekaterina Golubina (supported by Teplitsa of Social Technologies - http://te-st.ru) and Vyacheslav Strenadko, http://slavblog.ru | → contribute |
| updated Slovenian translation thanks to Igor Čabrian | → contribute |
| updated Swedish translation thanks to Olof Odier, Tedy Warsitha, Dan Paulsson, Elger Lindgren, Anton Andreasson and Tony Lygnersjö | → contribute |
| updated Chinese translation thanks to John Shen and ck | → 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”.
If you try to update from v3.1.1 or lower, please see this user guide in our knowledge base for installation instruction and a migration tutorial.
No additional changes needed (as there was no 4.9-beta1 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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