CM Maps Route Manager (CMMRM) + PeepSo - Use Case - Letting Users Manage Their Routes in PeepSo Profile

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Introduction

CM Map Routes allows you and your users to create and showcase routes in Google Maps, including images and notes for each location route.

The plugin can receive social features by integrating with social platform  PeepSo.

Use Case Assumptions

In this example use case guide we will consider how to let your users add and manage routes from their PeepSo profiles.

We consider that you have already bought and configured the base plugin CM Map Locations, but not installed PeepSo and the PeepSo Integration Add-on.

It follows:

• Installing the plugins and add-ons
  • Routes recap
• Initial setup - PeepSo
• Integration Settings
  • 1) User profile and widget: Maps tab
  • 2) User profile and widget: Manage Maps tab
  • 3) Activity feed
  • 4) Dashicons
• Labels
• End result

Installing The Plugin and Add-on

The process is the same for all CM plugins and add-ons.

• Download the plugin from your customer dashboard
• Log in to WordPress and navigate to the WordPress Admin  → Plugins settings
• Click on Add New
• Activate it and add the license

Initial Setup - PeepSo

How Do I Install PeepSo?

PeepSo can be downloaded from the WordPress back-end.

Once installed, follow its documentation for the initial setup.

Integration Settings

Then you need to install and activate PeepSo Integration add-on. Upon activating the Integration Plugin and installing the license for it, new settings will become available in the PeepSo settings on the WordPress dashboard.

There are many ways to help users showcase their locations and routes within PeepSo.

All the following settings can be found at Admin Dashboard → PeepSo → Configuration → CM Maps Routes.

1) User Profile and Widget: Maps Tab

This tab will show all the user's published routes and allows managing them.

This tab can be configured from the box  User Profile: Maps. The options are:

• Show "Maps" tab in the user's profile - If enabled, users will see the Maps tab in each user's profile that displays the routes created by the specific user.
• Show route's parameters - If enabled, the route's parameters such as distance, max elevation etc. will be visible on the route's snippets.
• Route's snippets layout - Choose the appearance of the routes list. Choose between:
  • List:
  • Tiles:
• Route featured image - Choose what kind of route's image to display in the user's profile page. You can choose between:
  • First route image:
  • Map thumbnail:
• Manage routes under "My Maps" tab - If enabled, the user will be able to manage his routes under the same tab Maps, using the button Manage Maps.

2) User Profile and Widget: Manage Maps Tab

The Admin has the option to add the Manage Maps tab to users' navigation menus as well or instead.

This is done by enabling the option  Show separate "Manage Maps" tab in the user's profile:

3) Activity Feed

It's possible to have status updates to be automatically posted to a user's profile page and to the activity feed when they create a new Map Route.

There are two options under the  Activity Feed box for configuring automatic updates:

• Create PeepSo activity when user created a map - Turn on this option to make automatic updates work. The activity post with the user's route link will be added to his Stream (wall) in his profile and will be also visible in the [peepso_activity] shortcode.
• Activity post template for new map - Customize the template that is used to generate the posts. You can use the following shortcodes:
  
  • [fullname] - user's display name
  • [title] - route's title
  • [permalink] - permalink to the route's page
  • [excerpt] - excerpt of the route's description

4) Dashicons

The tabs in user profile and links in the widget have dashicons that you can change.

The dashicons can be changed in the  Style box, the options are:

• Maps link icon CSS
• Manage Maps link icon CSS

You can find more dashicon links here: Developer Resources: Dashicons

When you finished configuration, don't forget to click the button Save Settings at the bottom of the page.

Labels

You can change the names of front-end labels - tabs and buttons. To do this, navigate to  Admin Dashboard → CM Map Routes Manager Pro → Settings → Labels.

The labels related to PeepSo integration are located in the corresponding section:

End Result

Following instructions found in the plugin and guides, you and your users should be able to add multiple routes to your site from the PeepSo profile.

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