Google Maps for Wordpress

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell | Monday, April 14th, 2008
Google Maps, plugin, shortcodes, Wordpress

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Warning: This plugin was affected by Trac ticket 6444, which was fixed in WordPress 2.5.1, so get 2.5.1!

The Google Maps for WordPress plugin allows you to easily insert Google maps into your blog, making use of the new shortCode system in WordPress 2.5. The maps can be configured to offer directions to or from the location, show or hide the zoom/pan controls, show/hide map type, activate zoom using mouse wheel, and more.

It requires a Google Maps API key, and then gives you a nice interface near your editor to help you build the map and send it to the editor.

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Thies
April 21, 2008

Helo,

my wordpress installation throws an exception:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /ampelsprinter/mainsite/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-maps-for-wordpress/wp-google-maps.php on line 49

Can you help?

Regards

Thies

Aaron D. Campbell
April 21, 2008

It looks like you don’t have PHP5, which is a requirement. I was pretty sure it was documented in the readme.txt, plugin description, etc, but it was not. I apologize for that. The documentation has been updated in the repository on wordpress.org, and will be available in about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, as you can see from the text under my navigation links on the left of this site, everything I write now requires PHP 5.2+ (some will work with PHP5+, but 5.2 is guaranteed).

Soleh
April 23, 2008

Greetings,

Thank you for to writing this wonderful plugin. I love to use it but would like to ask you one thing. The map can be generated without ‘Balloon (Map name and information)’? It would be nice if I can make the map ’simple’ look as well as a single ‘Pointer’. Could you help me?

Sincerely,

Soleh

Aaron D. Campbell
April 23, 2008

It’s certainly possible, I’ve added it to my TODO list. Keep an eye on new releases!

Bowin Tichenor
April 24, 2008

I’ve installed your Google Maps for WordPress plugin and have gotten an API key, but when I click to insert into editor, nothing happens. Do you have any idea what the problem could be? I’m using PHP5 and Wordpress 2.5.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 24, 2008

Bowin: The “insert into editor” functionality uses JavaScript, the same JavaScipt that the media manager uses (with some tweaks). Can you see if you are getting any JavaScript errors?

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alex
April 24, 2008

Will Google Maps for Wordpress be planned to support Wordpress MU? If so, how long will it take? Thank you very much in advance!

Thilo
April 24, 2008

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in … error on install

also with php 5.2.x !

Aaron D. Campbell
April 24, 2008

Alex: There are currently no plans for that, but I’ve added it to the todo list and will try to get to it when I can.

Thilo: Are you absolutely sure that you are using PHP 5.2.x? That error comes from PHP4 trying to run PHP5 code that uses the keywords public, protected or private for visibility in it’s classes.

john
April 24, 2008

This is great, but I am getting a gray map box and the following error:

“..error polling the google servers…”

can you help?

john
April 24, 2008

It seems to be adding [amp;] (not including the brackets) to everything after an & character.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 24, 2008

As noted at the top of this page (and in the readme, setting the minimum WP version at 2.5.1), this plugin is dependent on a support ticket. If you follow the link at the top of the post, there are patches that can be applied to WordPress to fix it. The problems is that the Google code is run through WordPress’s formatting process, and should be exempt from it.

Jared
April 24, 2008

Are there any screen shots out there that I can check out? This sounds like a perfect addition to a site I’m building, but I’d like to learn a little more about it if possible.

john
April 24, 2008

Thanks, Aaron. Basically, for Joe WP Peasant like me, it sounds like the plugin is not quite ready for prime time? I am uncertain how to implement the patch you mention (nor am I certain really which patch you mean), and I am not sure how to proceed.

The interesting thing to me is the very first test map I made with the plugin, I indeed saw the map in the post, although it was only a Preview. Then, when I published, I only see the gray box and of course everytime since then it has not worked.

Any ideas before I cut you loose to do your work? I appreciate very much your response.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 24, 2008

My suggestion would be that 2.5.1 will be released soon, and the plugin will operate correctly with that version. The patches for that particular ticket are constantly changing, as we work out what the best solution is. However, whatever solution is chosen, it will definitely fix the problem for 2.5.1

john
April 24, 2008

perfect — I’ll wait. Thanks! It’s just what I’m looking for.

Matt
April 25, 2008

Just as an FYI, it’s not working for me either in my tests - I hit “send to editor” and nothing happens.

Alex
April 25, 2008

Aaron, thank you for your kindly reply. It’s great to know that is on your todo list. I will check this site periodically. Please let us know once you make a plan about it.

Schulte
April 25, 2008

Running 2.6-bleeding. As Matt indicated, nothing happened. Looking quickly at trac ticket 6444, it doesn’t look like it got rolled into 2.5.1 (which just got announced).

Console produces only one error.

wpGMapsAdmin is not defined.

Bummer, was hoping to see this thing in action.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 25, 2008

Schulte: Last minute they applied a different patch than I had expected, but it did make it into 2.5.1. I just checked in version 1.0.1 to the wordpress.org repository, so it should be available in about 15 minutes. Please check it out and let me know.

Make sure that there is one php file, and two JS files in the zip when you get it.

Schulte
April 25, 2008

Serves me right for being antsy. 1.0.1 works. Great work Aaron.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 25, 2008

Thank you, and I’m glad to hear it works for you.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 25, 2008

I just got an update from Bowin as well, looks like everything is working for him. For those that had a similar problem:

Bowin Tichenor
my problem was that I was still using WP 2.5. Once I upgraded that and then upgraded your plugin everything worked like a charm. Thanks for your work on this.

Diwaker
April 25, 2008

Hey, the plugin looks great. Unfortunately, it doesn’t run on my server. I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_encode() in /users/home/diwaker/web/public/wedding/wp-content/plugins/google-maps-for-wordpress/wp-google-maps.php on line 344

It seems this function is only available in PHP 5.2 or greater, and my server has 5.11. Is there any way around this?

Thanks!

Aaron D. Campbell
April 25, 2008

Diwaker:
Thank you for pointing out the problem. Something similar happened over on my Twitter Widget for WordPress with json_decode. I have taken and modified the ZendFramework json_encode alternative, and packaged it as an alternative. If json_encode does not exist, it should fall back to the other. The update is in version 1.0.2, which just went live on the repository.

owen
April 25, 2008

hi,I had installed this wonderful plugin,But I want to know,how to paste such google map(mymaps) to my wordpress.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=zh-CN&msa=0&msid=105764520852232685345.0004389b384f7651ed771&t=k&om=1&ll=24.484024,118.13427&spn=0.145289,0.233803&z=12

john
April 25, 2008

Ok I’ve still got trouble. Here’s what I have done:

I deleted the previous install of the maps plugin from the database.
I am running: PHP v5.2x
I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1
I downloaded and installed the newest version of the plugin: v 1.0.2
I activated the plugin
I obtained and validated a Google Maps key
I correctly (I think) entered map data into the Write Post, including a link to the map as provided by the googlemaps link function.
I hit Save and Publish

and still I get an error polling the google servers.

Interestingly (but perhaps not surprisingly) I also have an error in the Write page, in that I cannot switch out of HTML Mode, even though it shows I am supposed to be in Visual Mode.

Any thoughts at this point?

Thanks!

max
April 26, 2008

hi,
i installed everything, have wp 2.5.1, php 5.2.x, can send to the editor, but when i call a page with a google-map i get the following error:

this.map[mapNum].mapInfo.get is not a function
[Break on this error] var address = this.map[mapNum]['mapInfo'].get(’address’);
wp-google-maps.js… (line 69)

you can see it here:
http://wissenbelastet.com/2007/05/03/crupi/
(dont get confused becuase the page is german )

what i am doing wrong?

thanks

Eastofwest
April 26, 2008

Dear Aaron, first off, great plugin, makes inserting Google Maps a snap.

I upgraded my Wordpress to 2.5.1. before installing the plug-in, and everything worked beautifully right out of the box.

My only challenge and the reason I won’t be able to use it for my site, is that I live in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Where? My point exactly. The streets here hardy have addresses, certainly none which are recognised by Google Maps.

Any possibility to make your plug-in work with Geocodes?

Diwaker
April 26, 2008

Hi Aaron,

I actually found the json extension on my host, I just had to enable it. So
that problem has gone away. However, my maps are not displaying correctly and
I’m not sure what the problem is. For instance, if you go to:
http://wedding.floatingsun.net/travel/

you’ll see a blank map. I’ve added a debug line to print the co-ordinates, and
those seem to be correct. In fact, clicking on the “Powered by Google” image
on the bottom right of the map opens up the correct location in Google Maps.
For some reason it is not showing up on the web page. If you have any ideas
as to where the problem might be, do let me know.

Thanks,
Diwaker

Ryan
April 28, 2008

Aaron,

With this plugin can there be more than one pinpoint? Also, is there a way to add more content to the bubble, like a link or images?

Great plugin!

Thanks,
-Ryan

Stefan
April 28, 2008

Aaron,

Is it possible to pre-select the initial “zoom”factor of the map yourself.?

Thanks,
Stefan.

[LuY]
April 29, 2008

I have an error trying to “pool” the Google servers. I think the error is related with this.

When I paste the URL look like this.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=102391542229008936850.00044c00b672e42a64c45&t=h&z=3

But If I check the source code for the URL it is trying to get this.

http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=102391542229008936850.00044c00b672e42a64c45&t=h&z=3

the #038 caracter gets introduced.

Do you know why?

Sebastian
April 30, 2008

Hello,

I have a problem too. I habe WP2.5.1, the version of the plugin is 1.0.2. I have an correct API Key and made a testpost with this code in it:

[googleMap name="Testkarte" description="Hier" width="250" height="250"]Ottoplatz 1, Köln[/googleMap]

Some code from the plugin is in the page http://www.archimag.de/?p=21 but I cannot see any map.

Whats wrong?

Davide
April 30, 2008

My problem is like to Sebastian one.

http://www.partitodemocraticonovate.it/2008/04/28/incontro-leredita-di-moro/

Greg
May 7, 2008

Hi,

I get the same problem as LuY above. I’ve tried messing with the URL, but nothing I’ve tried works.
I have WP 2.5.1, and using latest 1.0.2 version of the plugin.

I would really appreciate some pointers.

Here’s the code as inserted in WP:
[googleMap name="Test" width="100%" height="300"]http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110872770045489580233.00044aa8bd9217fc02df9&z=13[/googleMap]

Pasting that out into the address bar works fine. But when showing the page:
http://familywhitfield.co.uk/wordpress/?p=58

I get an error, and it looks like a mangled URL - extra characters.

Any help much appreciated. This is potentially by far the best Google Map plugin I’ve found in terms of ease of use & setting up.

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Aaron D. Campbell
May 8, 2008

Sorry that I haven’t been able to check in sooner. Hopefully I can answers everyones concerns here:

Owen: You need to give the plugin the address, etc. It does not use a google map link.

John: if you contact me through my contact page, I’ll see if we can work that out.

Max & Sebastian: Is the plugin active? Are you running Wordpress 2.5.1? The shortcode is not being processed at all, and I haven’t seen that, nor can I duplicate it without disabling the plugin.

Eastofwest: I added it to the TODO list, but I can’t promise any kind of timeframe..

DiWalker: I visited the link, and it seems to be working great. Did you figure out the problem?

Ryan: You can currently only do one location per map, but I added that to my list as a possible future feature. As for adding content to the bubble, the “Location Description” goes into that bubble, so you can put what you like in there.

Stefan: No, you cannot set the zoom, Google Maps sets a default for you.

Davide: I’m sorry, it took me a long time to get back here, and the map is no longer on your page.

Greg and [LuY]: You are not supposed to paste the link of the Google map. You are actually supposed to put the address to the location (ie “123 Main St, San Diego, CA, 92101″). Please let me know if that fixes the problem for you.

Sebastian
May 8, 2008

Hello Aaron, thanks for your replay. I have tested serval other googlemapsplugins for wordpress, so I have deactivated yours. But your seams to be the best. It is now again active.

Can you please check again?

And yes, I run 2.5.1.

Aaron D. Campbell
May 8, 2008

Sebastian: It actually looks like you have some other JavaScript loading in your theme, which is throwing an exception, and keeping other javascript from running properly. Google Maps requires javascript to load the maps and it’s not able to.

Greg
May 8, 2008

Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the info - that has got it working. But I was hoping I could use this plugins to show my own maps, which using the URL would allow.

Are there any plans to enable such a feature? It’s what other GM plugins (which are otherwise nowhere near as good as this one) provide, and is my main use case.

Thanks.

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AleDV
May 15, 2008

Hi Aaron,
first sorry for my english.
I have a problem with your beautiful plug-in (google maps for wordpress) only if I visit my web-site using Internet Explore.
When I visit the following page (only with IE) http://www.vetreriafalegnameriacuassese.it/?page_id=21
shown me an error that is not possible load the page.

there are some configuration, parameters for fixed this problem?

thank you,
Bye - Ale

Wayne
May 16, 2008

Thanks for this plugin. Small problem though. The marker isn’t displayed correctly on my map. And the address bubble has a shadow which covers a large part of the map. It is very difficult to see our location.

Aaron D. Campbell
May 16, 2008

Greg: There are currently no plans to support copying/pasting a Google Maps URL into the plugin. That’s not to say it will never happen, just that I don’t currently have plans for it. If you are really interested, feel free to contact me.

AleDV: I just tried your site in Internet Explorer 7, and that page loaded fine.

Wayne: It looks like you replaced my plugin with a map straight from Google, and the marker still doesn’t display right. I’m guessing that there is something in the CSS for your template that is interacting. Try testing it by switching to the default template. If that fixes it, look into the CSS or possibly even JavaScript of the template.

AleDV
May 16, 2008

Sorry Aaron, but I have yet the problem.
the error shown me only with IE, with WinXP or VISTA …with FireFox no problem.

If you go at http://www.vetreriafalegnameriacuassese.it and click on “come raggiungerci” you can see the error.

I would use your plug-in because I think it is the best google maps plug-in for wordpress, but I have this error =(((

I’m waiting for you answer.

bye & goodWork

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AleDV: I’m sorry, I can still access it in IE7, and my IE 6 is on a Virtual Machine that I haven’t set up on my new Kubuntu install yet. Can you send me a screenshot or something so I can see what’s happening?

Henry
May 18, 2008

While the plugin generates nice maps, it makes excessive calls to the Google Maps API in the admin section. Every time you click “Write Post” or “Write Page” it connects to maps.google before it draws the screen. When you save a post or page, although you didn’t enter any data into the map parameter fields, it connects to maps.google again. This seriously degrades the performance of the wp-admin interface since maps.google responds slowly more often than not. I see this even on a virgin install of 2.5.1. I’m running 1.0.2 on WP 2.5.1 on an 8-core Xserve running 10.5.2 fully patched, so it certainly isn’t a CPU or software problem. Suggestions are welcome, although I can’t see what I could do to fix it.

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darren
May 20, 2008

Get the following error when attempting to activate the plugin:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in wp-content/plugins/google-maps-for-wordpress/wp-google-maps.php on line 63

I am running WP 2.5.1 and PHP 5.2.4

Any ideas?

Aaron D. Campbell
May 20, 2008

darren: Are you absolutely sure that you are using PHP 5.2.x? That error comes from PHP4 trying to run PHP5 code that uses the keywords public, protected or private for visibility in it’s classes.

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May 25, 2008

Hi Aaron,

Superb plugin. We have used it on our site.

You can view ‘em at http://www.jalaluddinservices.com/contact/location/

It’s really simple. Download the plugin. Extract the zip file. Upload all folders to your plugin directory. Activate plugin. Insert Google Maps API key. Write a post or page with the details under Google Maps for Wordpress.

We use 2.5.1 and have PHP 5.2.5

Kudos again!

Kakha
May 26, 2008

Please tell me how I can do “satelite” by defoult?

Regards,
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May 28, 2008

I just installed (today) WordPress 2.5.1 and Google Maps for Word Press 1.0.2, (it’s active), I have a valid Google API Key, I’m using PHP5, Firefox, but when I click on the “Send Map to Editor” button, nothing happens. Am I missing something?

Here’s what I’m putting in the box:
Location Name: ACME Store (for example, I use the actual store name)
Address: 123 Some Road, City, State, Zip
Location Description: ACME Store

Coop
May 30, 2008

I am having the exact same issue as Dan. WP 2.5.1 (new install), 1.0.2 version of your plugin. Valid Google API key, PHP 5.2.6 but using IE 7. Everything is good except nothing happens when I click on “Send Map to Editor”.

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DaveBurns
June 7, 2008

For those who get the error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in wp-content/plugins/google-maps-for-wordpress/wp-google-maps.php on line 63

but swear they’re running PHP5, you may have the problem I did. My hosting service supports PHP4 and 5 at the same time. Files that end in .php default to PHP4. Files that end in .php5 run PHP5 instead. To make PHP5 the default for files that end in .php, add the following line to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your blog:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

(Make sure you put this outside the Wordpress begin/end comments.)

I made this change and I could then activate the plug-in just fine. The plug-in works very well!

Rattler
June 16, 2008

Hi!

I installed your plugin (v1.0.2) on WP 2.5.1 (php 5.2.6) on theme seashore-10 (http://demo.wpthemeshop.com/), but I have run into a serious problem:

Our site atm is a test site and we try to provide maps to certain places we feature, all of them in Spain on the Island of Mallorca, Province: Illes Balears.

Now, if we enter (example) “Port d`Andratx” or (with zip code) “07157 Port d`Andratx”, or, to make it even clearer: “E-07157 Port d`Andratx” into the location field, and then (example) “Calle Garcia Morato 17″ into the address field, your plugin resolves this to a map that shows center Spain, somewhere about 500km away from the desired location.

We tried all kind of modifications, like adding the province, changing the name to Castellano (Puerto de Andraitx), etc., but as result only once changed the map and then we ended up in Valladolid (800 km to our location), all the rest ended up the same.

Interestingly, when we search for the above mentioned parameters (”Calle Garcia Morato 17 07157 Port d`Andratx”) = without the “E” and without commas in one phrase into the search field of http://maps.google.es we instantly get the right location.

For the moment we used this solution linking the map that maps.google.es shows to our pages, but we would still prefer to use your plugin, mainly because of the more refined control options (see the linked map effect at http://mallorca-service.net/node/?p=16 and you will see, why) and the ease of use if it works.

Any ideas?

We have come up with the following idea:

- Modify the search by adding “country” first and then assure its pulling from the right servers?

Or would this have nothing to do with it?

Thanks for your consideration,

Kind regards,

Rattler

Mike B
June 17, 2008

For those who get the error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in wp-content/plugins/google-maps-for-wordpress/wp-google-maps.php on line 63

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

(Make sure you put this outside the Wordpress begin/end comments.)

I made this change and I could then activate the plug-in just fine. The plug-in works very well!

Thank you DaveBurns

I also had to change one additional line:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php
to
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

I thought I would add this as it was necessary for me and if there are any other dummies out there we need all the help we can get.

Thanks for the plugin!

Aaron D. Campbell
June 17, 2008

DaveBurns & Mike B: Thanks for pointing out how to change to PHP 5.

However, you only need to do one of the two options, and there is actually a third choice as well. If you need to make your host use PHP 4, one of the following will probably work. Add one of the following lines to your .htaccess file (outside the WordPress area of that file). If unsure which to use, check with your hosting provider on which version works best for your configuration.
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php AddHandler cgi-php5 .php

Jason
June 18, 2008

This plugin is exactly what I was looking for, and it works great; until I activate

Not sure what is causing the problem, if ms-lightwindow is activated Google Maps for Wordpress will do everything it needs to but will not display the map, the post formats though a map is there but none is displayed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron D. Campbell
June 18, 2008

Jason: It’s hard to tell for sure, might be easier with a link, but they are probably using JavaScript that is interfering with Google’s JavaScript.

Hugo
June 19, 2008

Hiya!

thanks for the excellent work. Looks like this is the plugin I’m looking for.
I just have on epb; nothing will show on the website; you can see the place has been left for the map but the map iteslf is not showing (no border, no nothing, boooo…)

any idea?

thanks,

Steve Mills
June 19, 2008

Love the plugin. Works great for me in Firefox.

I know there was some discussion above about IE problems. I have it here:

http://www.foxvalleycomputerservices.com/?page_id=7

I have a screen capture if I knew where to send it. There was a similar issue with the Webassist Google maps Dreamweaver control which required moving the script below the tag. Of course that’s not an option here.

Anyone else see this?

Steve

Jason
June 19, 2008

Sorry I thought I pasted the link, here is the plugin that it does not work with.
http://mockersubat.fr/2007/07/23/lightwindow-20-pour-wordpress/

Jason Arend
June 20, 2008

Great plugin but it’s not quite working for me yet.

ANy images with transparencies in the map are not rendering right it is causing everything in my tabbed sidebar to show. I’ve tried disabling all my plugins but that made no difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Aaron D. Campbell
June 20, 2008

Jason Arend: The problem is that the CSS from your site is conflicting with Google’s CSS. Specifically, around line 593 of your style.css file you will see:
.entry img { background:#F8F8F4 none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
The background line there is the problem. Remove it and your map works fine.

Jason Arend
June 20, 2008

fantastic! that worked great! Now It is still causing the side bar content to show everything.

Here is how it look with the map

Here is the way it suppose to look

Something is conflicting or causing the layout to break I just don’t what or where.

Jason Arend
June 20, 2008

Sorry I inputed the links wrong above

Here is the Page with the amp and the screwed up sidebar content:
http://www.pfimagazine.com/2008/06/10/52nd-annual-pro-rodeo/

And Here is the way it suppose to look:
http://www.pfimagazine.com/2008/06/12/recipe-supercharged-spicy-shrimp/

Aaron D. Campbell
June 20, 2008

Jason Arend: I see that firebug shows a Javascript error on the page with problems. I’m guessing that the Google Maps JavaScript is interfering with your other Javascript (and you have a lot for it to interfere with). You are running Prototypejs and jQuery, as well as other libraries, along with Google. They just aren’t all playing nice together. You’ll probably need to simplify if you want to use Google Maps. Here is the error:
this._each is not a function http://www.pfimagazine.com/wp-includes/js/prototype.js?ver=1.6 Line 592

Steven
June 25, 2008

Do I have to write in Wysiwyg or HTML mode?

Also can you put multiple maps in one Post/Page?

[LuY]
June 25, 2008

But if you can just enter the address that means you can’t add any custon map, like the one on my maps.. isn’t it?

Aaron D. Campbell
June 25, 2008

Steven: You can use either editor, and yes, you can put multiple maps on one post/page.

[LuY]: Correct, this is for mapping a single address per map.

Steven
June 25, 2008

I have 2 problems:
1. The map is not showing
2. Google Analytics isn’t working anymore

I run Php 5.2.3, mysql 5.0.15 and WP 2.5.1 on a Linux node1.c40 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 11 22:57:02 EDT 2006 i686

Php safe_mode is ON and php is working correct on the site.

I run the Bloxpress2 theme (AJAX) with drag&drop sidebar items. Also I have this Lightbox plugin running: jquery-lightbox-balupton-edition

Any suggestions?

Daniel
June 26, 2008

Hello AAron,

The map is not showing

Apache version 2.2.8 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.6
MySQL version 5.0.45

Aaron D. Campbell
June 26, 2008

Steven: I checked your URL, but it looks like you might have the plugin disabled at this point, so it’s hard to tell. However, as I’ve stated before, and JavaScript errors in other JavaScript that loads will cause Google Maps not to work right. You have errors showing.

There is also the possibility that your lightbox interferes. I’ve had quite a few users with that problem. Unfortunately, I only implement the maps and have no control over Google’s Javascript.

Daniel: I don’t see any maps on your site. A link to one would help me see what’s going on.

Daniel
June 26, 2008

Sorry Aaron. I can see only Internet Explorer. But, I can´t see Firefox 2, and 3.
Any suggestions?

Michael
July 6, 2008

Great plugin, now that I have figured out the real issue I thought I would just post up here. I was having an issue where the space for the map in the post would be there but no map, tried removing all my plugins etc, well on a hunch I changed my theme back to default and all is well. It appears that there is a issue with some of the themes conflicting with this plugin.

Aaron D. Campbell
July 6, 2008

Michael: That is actually pretty common. Some templates have sloppy CSS, rules that affect things that they don’t need to, etc. If you look up a little in the comments, Jason Arend was having problems and needed to remove a rule from his CSS:
.entry img { background:#F8F8F4 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; }
I get a lot of similar problems via E-Mail as well

Daniel, the problem probably lies in your CSS from your theme.

Rattler
July 7, 2008

Hi!

I am sorry to report major problems with your plugin:

I had it used on my test website http://mallorca-service.net/node/ to supplement a map for all the restaurants and bars present (food and drink category). On my machine (mac g4, OSX 10.9.3 with Firefox 2) it worked well and without ever producing an error, but I got swamped with reports that others couldnt see anything on the maps or not even load the page.

First I had not take this too seriously, but when the reports amassed I initiated a few test rounds with frineds of mine (see one test thread with screenshots here: http://www.airdisaster.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1004&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a) and it turne out to be a problem the majority of users had.

As you can see in this thread I concentrated testing on different angles (like conflicting java, polling issues on the google servers, etc), but in the end the only probable cause left was your plugin.

Today we changed the maps provided by your plugin to custom made google maps, voila! problem solved, everybody can see the maps now.

The problem occured when more than one entry with a map was to be displayed (e.g. a list of 3 restaurants with a map each), most brwoser refused to display the page under these circumstances.

Any ideas?

Kind regards,

Rattler

Rattler
July 13, 2008

Refering to afore menitoned post I can add the following data (not sure whether this helps, but it might help you see whether the prob was with your plugin or with the WPtheme/Javascript) that I received from ppl that found the page working but checked their error console (using seashore10 theme), I cannot interpret them clearly:

>There were also some additional warnings:
>
>”Resource interpreted as script but transferred with MIME type text/html. >http://www.mallorca-service.net/node/wp-content/themes/seashore-10/jquery.js”

(Dont think the next is of relevance, but anyway):
>”Resource interpreted as script but transferred with MIME type text/html. >http://instant-counter.phpwelt.net/js.php?id=38989&typ=z1&lang=&reload=3600″

>Warning: Expected ‘:’ but found ‘=’. Declaration dropped.
>Source File: http://mallorca-service.net/node/?cat=11
>Line: 0

some others like

>Warning: Error in parsing value for property ‘font’. Declaration dropped.
>Source File: http://mallorca-service.net/node/?cat=11
>Line: 0

A number of problems from maps.google.es:

>Warning: Unknown property ‘resize’. Declaration dropped.
>Source File: http://maps.google.es/intl/es_es/mapfiles/118/maps2.css
>Line: 1

>Warning: Expected ‘,’ or ‘{’ but found ‘*’. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
>Source File: >http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Bar+Es+Moli,+Pla%C3%A7a+Mossen+Sebasti%C3%A0+Grau,+2,+07159+Sant+Elm&sll=39.585136,2.349873&sspn=0.007706,0.013175&ie=UTF8&cid=39582837,2349443,4714613081237544730&s=AARTsJpOJ10OZ_7APmtaIL83kb3rGsRFrg&ll=39.591734,2.353649&spn=0.02315,0.036478&z=14&iwloc=A&output=embed
>Line: 1

And a couple of errors:

>Error: this._windows[aWindow.__SSi] has no properties
>Source File: >file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsSessionStore.js
>Line: 671

>Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "'[JavaScript Error: >"this._windows[aWindow.__SSi] has no properties” {file: >”file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsSessionStore.js” >line: 671}]’ when calling method: [nsISessionStore::getClosedTabCount]” nsresult: >”0×80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JAVASCRIPT_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)” location: “JS >frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: PHM_toggleRecentlyClosedTabs :: >line 6580″ data: yes]

The page(s), though, load the way its intended now with all browsers.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your consideration,

Rattler

Dan
July 16, 2008

# May 28th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Dan Says:

Here’s what I’m putting in the box:
Location Name: ACME Store (for example, I use the actual store name)
Address: 123 Some Road, City, State, Zip
Location Description: ACME Store
# May 30th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Coop Says:

Ricky Irvine
July 28, 2008

Getting 500 Internal Server Errors on admin page-edit screens with this plugin installed under WP 2.6.

Bandit
August 5, 2008

I tried to use this plugin and everything looks good when I create the map and insert code in to the editor. However, when I try to view the page from the Blog no maps shows up. I do get the temperature and info in small type at the bottom. I am using PHP v5x and Wordpress 2.6.

When I view the page an error box shows up in the bottom of the browser and states Object doesn’t support this property or method. Any ideas?

Aaron D. Campbell
August 5, 2008

Bandit: It’s probably some JavaScript or CSS you have that’s causing the problem. If you give me a link to a map that is having this problem, I will take a quick look.

Bandit
August 5, 2008

Check it out right here: http://banditvlog.com. First post.

Bandit
August 5, 2008

I went ahead and made a seperate page. It is listed as a test page. http://banditvlog.com.

Bandit
August 5, 2008

Sorry about so many messages. Go to my Blog and look under pages. Go for the test page and see the results. Sorry it took me so many tries to get this out.

halvat lennot
August 19, 2008

Hi!
Just tested plugin with my wp 2.6 and so far worked well.
Map appers on my blog at http://halvat-matkat.net/rooman-nahtavyydet/

Aaron D. Campbell
August 19, 2008

halvat lennot: Thanks. I fixed your link and removed you second comment. I appreciate your feedback.

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Daniel Tyack
August 25, 2008

Aaron, I just downloaded this baby for a client site and it’s great! Thanks a bunch!!! (Also thanks for the MySQL help this morning

neil
August 26, 2008

works great! thanks for saving me a lot of time coding!!

Peter
September 3, 2008

I’m currently using WP 2.6.1 and I tried the install on 2 different sites, nothing shows up. It just takes up space… so I see nothing but white space..

Peter
September 3, 2008

This plugin conflicts with the flickr-tag plugin. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Jaska K
September 6, 2008

Hi,
Your plugin is great! It’s the best Google Maps -plugin for the purposes of our family blog: you can get driving directions without login in to Google Maps.
But, would it be possible to add “enableGoogleBar” into the map control options?

Bandit
September 12, 2008

I would love to get this plugin working but there must be something in my theme that it doesn’t like. I tried installing it again since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.62 but I either get an error and the blog won’t load at all or it loads and gives me half a map. Maybe the next version will fix it but for now it still desn’t fly wih my theme.

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Manuel
September 21, 2008

It seems to be a great plug-in
but i can’t get it to work…

I get a “Error polling Google” javascript alert and an empty map.

My config:
Worpress 2.6.2
Default Theme (Kubrick)
No plug-ins (except Google Maps), no hacks
PHP 5.1.25-rc

My post’s HTML code is:
[googleMap name="Alex" width="500" height="300" mousewheel="false" zoompancontrol="false" typecontrol="false" directions_to="false"]http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Alexanderplatz+1,+Mitte+10178+Berlin,+Berlin,+Berlin,+Germany&sll=52.525439,13.368537&sspn=0.006632,0.022531&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FSNyIQMdVqnMAA&ll=52.523624,13.412697&spn=0.006632,0.022531&z=16&iwloc=addr[/googleMap]

please help me, i would so much love to use this beautifully crafted piece of code

lang
September 30, 2008

I also get a “Error polling Google” javascript alert and an empty map.

Only when “Display option to get directions to this location.” is unchecked.

lang
September 30, 2008

Not getting the error now, but…

#1) How can I remove the default label with the street address that covers up half of the map? I’m guessing I can edit something in wp-google-maps.php ?
#2) The map is only showing in the Chrome browser. Other browsers are showing google text but no underlying map data.

Take a look at…

http://keywestconcierge.com/key-west-accomodations/key-west-hotels/reach-resort/

Thank You!!! (once I get these issues resolved, This plugin is going to be very helpful!!!)

Fred Greco
September 30, 2008

I am having trouble putting more than one map on the same page. When I do, one of the two (it appears random on the reload) shows up blank white. All I am doing is repeating the same steps for including the map code twice and putting them both on the page.

http://www.cckpca.org/worship/find-us/

Any help?

Rusty Russell
October 2, 2008

Nice plugin, but there’s one feature I’d really like: ability to set zoom level. The default is zoomed out too much for my usage.

Or is it there and I’m missing it?

Thanks,
Rusty.

marwin
October 5, 2008

Aaron, could you please calrify this issue? I have troubles with my google map:

Issue:
There was an error polling the Google Servers for http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rts+plzen&ie=UTF8&ll=49.744533,13.333068&spn=0.019301,0.04549&z=15&iwloc=A.
Please try again.

Many thanks, Marwin.

yordan
October 16, 2008

Hi Aaron, Thank you for the great plugin. I installed it on WP 2.6.2 with PHP 5.x on (mt). The first few times it was working but now it just shows a white page - no error, grey screen or anything comes up. I have the correct API key and if you look at the source, the map s are in there but nothing’s showing up. Could you by any chance have a look or do you know what the issue might be? You’re probably super busy so I hope you’ll be able to give me a hint at least. Here’s the page with the map: http://havanaswing.com/dev/category/gigs/. The google code in the post is:
[googleMap name="The Bar" description="The best" width="505" height="280"]Professor Mihaylov 10, Sofia[/googleMap]. I know the address isn’t super valid but it should give me the grey box as it used to at least.