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How to configure followers widget?

Travelmatic uses Silicon Counters plugin for displaying in a widget social buttons with counters.

To add a widget with social buttons with statistics go to Dashboard → Appearance → Customise → Widgets → Sidebar and choose Silicon Counters widget.

For Post, Users, Comments, Instagram, Vimeo, GitHub, Steam, Twitch and Pinterest counters you don’t need to provide API information. For other social networks configuration you need API keys. To configure your social buttons with statistics go to Dashboard → Settings → Silicon Counters.

Hot to get API keys for Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube?
Twitter Counter
  1. Login to https://apps.twitter.com/ with your Twitter username and passowrd.
  2. Click “Create New App” button and fill your information.
  3. If your information valid your new App will be created, after that navigate to “Keys and Access Tokens” tab and you will see Consumer Key (API Key) and Consumer Secret (API Secret).
  4. Scroll little bit down and click “Create my access token”. After that you will get Access Token and Access Token Secret.
Facebook Counter
  1. Login on https://developers.facebook.com/
  2. Create new Application for Site.
  3. On your Application Dashboard you can find Application ID and Application Secret (need to click “Show” and anter your password). You can find all your Apps on that page.
Twitch Counter
  1. Login on Twitch and go to https://www.twitch.tv/settings/connections
  2. Scroll down and click “Register your application” button.
  3. Set your App name, url to your site, choose category “Website Integration”, click “Register” button and you will see your Client ID
Google Plus Counter

If you already have Google API key just follow step 4.

  1. Login to https://console.developers.google.com with your Google Account.
  2. Create New project and set your porject name.
  3. Navigate to Credentials and create credentials (API Key).
  4. Now you need switch on Google+ API for your project, just go to here and click ENABLE button.
YouTube Counter

If you already have Google API key just follow step 5.

  1. Login to https://console.developers.google.com with your Google Account.
  2. Create New project and set your porject name.
  3. Navigate to Credentials and create credentials (API Key).
  4. YouTube Channel ID can be found here
  5. Now you need switch on YouTube Data API for your project, just go to here and click ENABLE button.

Source of this article: https://siliconthemes.com/free-wordpress-social-media-plugin-counters/

Post Formats

Travelmatic has 6 post formats available:

  1. Standard post has no image on blog page:
  2. Image post format has single image on blog page:
  3.  Gallery – you can choose photogrid or slider to be displayed on blog page:
  4. Video post format:
  5. Audio post format
  6. Quote post format:

How to add new map styles?

  1. Browse Snazzy Maps and find map style which you would like to use.
    Then click “Expand Code” and copy whole code.
  2. Go to Travelmatic → Map Styles and paste code that you copied from Snazzy Maps in “Code” field. Then click “Save Changes“.
  3.  Next, go to  Travelmatic → Global Map Settings, choose from the dropdown your newly added style and “Save Changes”.

Post – KML Layers

We tested two apps that allow exporting recorded tracks to a .KML file and you can install them from  Google Play / App Store by scanning QR codes below.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.basicairdata.graziano.gpslogger
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mytracks-the-gps-logger/id358697908?mt=8

These apps are only our suggestion and you can use any app you want if it allows exporting recorded GPS tracks to a .KML or .KMZ file.

To upload .KML or .KMZ file click on the “KML” tab and “Upload your KML file” button. Then upload your KML file (or paste the URL if it’s already hosted somewhere).

Sometimes .KML files may not work properly and tracks won’t be displayed on a map.
In that case open your .kml file in notepad and “Save as type” with .kmz extension.

If you are not going to add any custom points then you’ll have to set center map point for your KML tracks. You can do it by clicking “Custom Center Point” field and adjusting marker position (this marker won’t be visible in published post).

Recorded tracks from the file won’t be visible on map until you will save the post (you don’t have to publish it yet, you can save it as Draft).

Post – Drawing Polygons

  1. To add a polygone you need to first click the blue button “Draw new polyline” – it will add new element to the list.
  2. To start drawing polygone just click on the map. Each click will add new marker (they are draggable, so you can edit polygone that way). When you want to finish drawing, click the “Stop drawing” button.
  3. Once you finish drawing polygone you can change the content of the marker’s infobox in Infobox Settings.

    By clicking the arrow next to “Encoded polygone” green marker, you’ll access details of the marker infobox. You can select any image (or don’t), change the icons color using ColorPicker, set the title (if you won’t the address of marker will be used) or set your short custom text for the marker

  4. After saving post, polygone and infobox will be displayed on post’s map:

Post – Drawing Polylines

  1. To add a polyline click the blue button “Draw new polyline” – it will add new element to the list.
  2. To start drawing polyline just click on the map. Each click will add new marker (they are draggable, so you can edit polyline that way). When you want to finish drawing, click the “Stop polyline” button.
  3. Once you finish drawing polylines you can change the content of the marker’s infobox in Infobox Settings.By clicking the arrow next to “Encoded polyline” green marker, you’ll access details of the marker infobox. You can select any image (or don’t), change the icons color using ColorPicker, set the title (if you won’t the address of marker will be used) or set your short custom text for the marker
  4. After saving post, polylines and infobox will be displayed on post’s map:

Post – Adding Markers

  1. To add a marker you need to click the blue button “Add New Marker” – it will add new element to the list and drop new marker to the center of your map. You can drag and drop or type and choose the address from dropdown in address field.
  2. By clicking the arrow next to “Marker Address” field you’ll access details of the marker infobox.
  3. After saving your post all added markers will be displayed on post’s map:

Post – Main Marker

Post Main Marker is a marker that will be displayed on global map (this is a map on homepage).

Setting Main Marker

You can set that marker in various ways. The easiest would be to just drag and drop it to the place you want. Other way is to type address of the place you want to select. Thanks to autocomplete feature, it will use the same way of autocompleting addresses as the Google Maps use.

After setting marker position you can set up marker’s infobox. You can select any image (if you won’t, the Featured Image set in post will be used), change the icons color using ColorPicker, or set your short custom text for the marker (if you won’t, it will show first 16 words from the post content)