This issue is occurring sporadically. The maps are currently showing again.
Is it possible that there is too much traffic on your API Key and Google is throttling access?
Hi,
We don’t use an API key. There’s a per-IP daily limit that you most probably pass 🙁 We’re working on a PRO version of the plugin that will use a different API with higher limits. Till then there’s not much we can do except tell you to get a pro API acc (Google charges for it) and get more requests per day 🙁
Thanks for the reply! I don’t think a per-IP limit is the issue though.
The site that is using your plugin (http://once.brilliant-dev.com) is on the same server as many of my other sites, and just now your plugin is displaying the map icon and red x and the maps on other sites on the same server (same IP) are showing correctly.
Here is a screenshot of the error image:
https://copy.com/7IRmswegTkxdiNtK
Furthermore, when I click on the error image, the full map opens correctly in the lightbox, so Google maps can be accessed.
The issue is only on the static image.
Thumbnail (static) image and lightbox map use 2 completely different Google products so …. that’s expected. I’ll read up on the Google limits and see what can be done.
Thanks very much!
FYI, I have only 1 site on that server (and IP) that’s using calls to the Google map static image. It’s a very low traffic site. Also, I verified that the static images were working on that site at the same time they were not working on the site that’s using this plugin.
I think your plugin is simple and brilliant, so I hope that there is something simple that can be figured out here. And I really appreciate your responsiveness!
As far as I can tell there’s at least 5 sites on that IP so apparently the 25k limit gets crossed – https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#Limits
We’re looking into the details …
If you can rate the plugin, that’d help us out a lot – https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/google-maps-widget Thanks!
Thanks! I’ve added a rating and review.
Thank you for the review!
For now – register for an API key (it’s free) https://code.google.com/apis/console/?noredirect and then add the API key to gmw-widget.php#342 as &key=API_KEY. It should give you a bit more requests.
We’ll be adding the API key option at some point but it’s not going to be “tomorrow”. Sorry 🙁
Hey! That’s great. Thanks for finding this solution. I’ll take care of this now.
Are you saying to add &key=MY_KEY on line 342 of that php file? Doing so creates a PHP error.
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