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cyberetto on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

cyberetto — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:59:26 +0000

I finally heard back on this from WordPress support. Apparently if maps.google.com is used instead of google.com/maps, that fixes things. I've tried it once, and it does! Maybe the documentation should reflect that. Well it's good to have something which works. Thanks, JustJennifer, for your help on this.

cyberetto on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

cyberetto — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:49:11 +0000

Yeah, thanks JustJennifer. I put in an official request to WordPress support, but 5 days later have not heard anything. I'm surprised that an official, documented function fo WordPress fails in this way. It's really needed for a number of sites I look after.

Thanks so much for your help.

justjennifer on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

justjennifer — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:11:09 +0000

FWIW-Looking through the associated discussions using this tag, http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/google-maps it seems you are not alone in your problem.

justjennifer on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

justjennifer — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:07:57 +0000

That last one is coming up "googleapps" not "googlemaps" and perhaps this forum post will be relevant for you http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-google-map-appears-blank?replies=7#post-799318

Otherwise I'm stumped. I can't reproduce this problem using a PC and Chrome, whether I'm logged in or not to my Google account. I'll tag this for Staff attention, but I hope that perhaps another user might have an idea. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

cyberetto on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

cyberetto — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:46:24 +0000

If I go to google.com instead of google.com.au to get the maps, the following code is generated, but it doesn't display anything on the page:

[googleapps domain="www" dir="maps" query="f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=451+Miller+Street,+Cammeray,+New+South+Wales,+Australia&aq=0&oq=451+miller+st,+cammeray,+&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=451+Miller+St,+Cammeray+New+South+Wales+2062,+Australia&t=m&z=14&ll=-33.822205,151.210696&output=embed" width="425" height="350" /] View Larger Map

and what is displayed is just this:

View Larger Map

The same with the other map.

cyberetto on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

cyberetto — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:34:55 +0000

Well I just tried it on another browser (Safari), not logged in to Google, and it's still just converted into links, not maps:

http://www.google.com.au/maps/ms?msid=209017029632058060812.0004ae2327902773539c6&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=-22.390714,146.777344&spn=23.552538,39.287109&output=embed View NSW Variety Bash 2012 in a larger map

and

http://www.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=451+Miller+Street,+Cammeray,+NSW&aq=0&oq=451+miller+st,+cammeray,+ns&sll=-22.390714,146.777344&sspn=45.585809,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=451+Miller+St,+Cammeray+New+South+Wales+2062&t=m&z=14&ll=-33.822205,151.210696&output=embed View NSW Variety Bash 2012 in a larger map

It's definitely saved the screen refreshed, so caching is not the issue. It's in processing by WordPress that it is converted from <iframe>blah blah blah</iframe> to blah blah.

I've tried it with different themes, too, in case there's involvement with the theme, but it's still happening.

Frustrating.

cyberetto on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

cyberetto — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:21:11 +0000

Thanks, JustJennifer. I'm using a Mac with Chrome, and logged in to Google. I'll try it on another browser.

justjennifer on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

justjennifer — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:03:43 +0000

On my test site, I grabbed the code for your second example directly from Google Maps and pasted it in a post on my site and WordPress.com changed it to the shortcode without problem. But, copying and pasting the code you gave above in my test post, it did not change to the shortcode.

So you might want to give the following information:
What OS and browser are you using? (try clearing your browser cache and cookies)
Are you logged into Google or not when grabbing the code?

cyberetto on "Google Maps shortcode creation failing"

cyberetto — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:54:34 +0000

I'm having difficulty getting the Google Maps shortcode to work. And yes, I've tried the prescribed method of getting the embed code from Google Maps and putting into the page and letting WordPress figure out how the shortcode should be formatted, and I've tried doing it manually, and both ways fail. I've tried doing it from google.com.au/maps and google.com/maps, and get the same result

How can I get maps working on wordpress.com?

Here is an example of what fails, first a simple location:
View Larger Map

And here is another example of what I want to include on the page, another Google map:
View NSW Variety Bash 2012 in a larger map

Thanks,

Andrea