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jt101
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Anybody. Please help. This one thing is holding up the progress of my site.
Maybe you can at least point me in the right direction
Thanks
What are you trying to do? Display a link to your sitemap?
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jt101
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Hi SS Minow thanks for responding
No, I’m trying to display a google map.
if you click on the blue link “Finall” in very small letters under the title “The Trail” on my homepage, it will take you to this page, which is my google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108515697620533959145.00045d87ca82c41574aa4&ll=66.124962,27.861328&spn=16.465958,56.513672&z=4
I just want to have a mini version of that map placed where the link is. The plugin should be able to do this. I changed my API key again for the fifth time, and it made no difference when I put it into the plugin.
Why don’t you just copy the Google image and stick into the post like this?
http://msgjustice.com/contact-us/
(that one is not linked to anything)
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jt101
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Because I want a map the users can scroll and zoom in and out. I’ll make it big enough so it’s usable. A Snapshot is no good to me I’m afraid.
Any other ideas why it’s not working?
Ah, I see. I have seen people do that but I haven’t done it myself. Sorry, but I can’t help.
You’re overthinking 🙂
If you go to your “map” page, and click on the “Link” link in the upper right corner, you get the embed code (below). Just paste it onto the page you want it. It will let you zoom, reposition, etc. before you finalize.
Good luck!
<iframe width=”425″ height=”350″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ src=”http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108515697620533959145.00045d87ca82c41574aa4&ll=66.124962,27.861328&spn=16.465958,56.513672&output=embed”></iframe><small>View The Breadcrumb Trail in a larger map</small>
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jt101
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HI Mark
Thanks for the advice, but you didn’t get the point in my very first post.
The XML plugin does not work for me so i used html as you pointed out above. But I, like several others have an issue whereby the map displays pefectly in html, but as soon as you go to edit anything in the post containing that html, the map disappears.
I’ve checked the html editor, and the html actually vanishes. I have this same problem with a “select” drop down menu i sometimes use. I think WordPress strips it out certain html elements.
What can I do?
Someone posted a topic about this, saying that if you have this problem, use the XML Google Maps plugin. But this does nothing except display a link to my map. It should display the map itself on my homepage.
So I’m stuck between a rock and a hardplace
Any other ideas?
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jt101
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I just tried pasting the code into http://kmlvalidator.com/validate.htm, and it comes up with an error. Could this mean anything? The code I used is:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108515697620533959145.00045d87ca82c41574aa4&ll=42.032974,17.578125&spn=161.334424,360&z=1
Thi website says the following (http://osdir.com/ml/GoogleMapsAPI/2009-08/msg01698.html):
“If it’s too big for the validator I think it’ll be too big for
> Google’s parser as well, which as a shared resource protects itself
> from large requests. In practice it sees to limit about 1Mb. Google
> Earth doesn’t need to do that, its not shared.”
If you just want to paste a single map and don’t need geocoding, XML Google Map plugins are overkill.
Here’s a solution where you don’t even need an API key to display a google map. http://www.ongster.com/how-to-insert-a-google-map-into-wordpress/
Cheers
