Using Google Maps in WP

I assume you’ve already dug through the Google Maps API documentation?

I’ve included a map in a WP page. It’s a static map that shows a number of points with lines drawn between them. The points and the info about them are stored in a db table. So my little script probably won’t help you that much. But this is what I did, more or less:

1) I got a google map api key.

2) I set up a template for my map page because I wanted it to be separate from my main blog.

3) I put a call to the google map script, including the key for my page.

4) I added onload="showMap();" to my body tag.

5) I replaced the loop with <div id="map" style="width: 820px; height: 700px"></div>

6) I wrote a script that reads the db table and plots the markers and lines on the map and stored it with my template.

7) In the footer of my template I include the script page.

8) In WP, I created a page using my template.

I’m not all that good at this, and may have done more than needed and may have done it in a hokey way. But it did work.