This is by far the best plugin for adding Google Maps right now, but you desperately need to add support for wide and full width.

Hello,
The Google Chrome Console started to show the following message when I load a page including a map: “Google Maps JavaScript API has been loaded directly without loading=async. This can result in suboptimal performance. For best-practice loading patterns please see?https://goo.gle/js-api-loading”

Is there any way to solve this warning?

Thanks for your help!

Best

Jean-Christophe

Setting up the Map Block for Google Maps and have the dreaded “Google Maps Platform rejected your request. This API project is not authorized to use this API.”

Google API is set up according to directions with no site restrictions (for testing purposes only) and confirmed API project is set up in billing. Site is proxied through CloudFlare.

Please advise more troubleshooting if possible.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I like your plugin and have used it before, thanks for adding it for us to use. Unfortunately however, we have found a conflict this plugin has with a custom block plugin we have developed.

Our custom plugin registers a block that is specific to a teams custom post type, so we filter the specific my-block/team-role block out from the WP_Block_Type_Registry when in another post type editor or non post context. It appears your webfactory/map block is not registered in the WP_Block_Type_Registry so is also being filtered out of the block editor.

I fear that until your block is properly registered with register_block_type(), this function below will always remove it. I cannot find another way to filter out our custom block that does not also remove your block:

public function custom_post_type_block_restrictions( $allowed_block_types, $block_editor_context ) {
	// hide '<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8rem;">my-block/team-role' block from all post types except 'team-member'</span>
	if ( $block_editor_context->post === null || 'team-member' !== $block_editor_context->post->post_type ) {
		// Get all registered blocks.
		$all_blocks        = array();
		$registered_blocks = WP_Block_Type_Registry::get_instance()->get_all_registered();

		foreach ( $registered_blocks as $registered_block ) {
			$all_blocks[] = $registered_block->name;
		}

		// Remove blocks.
		$disallowed_blocks = array(
			'my-block/team-role',
		);

		// Return allowed blocks.
		$allowed_block_types = array_values( array_diff( $all_blocks, $disallowed_blocks ) );
		// $allowed_block_types =  $all_blocks; // <-- this also removes map block as it is not in the registry!
	}
	return $allowed_block_types;
} 

Hello!

This error : https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/googles-web-dev-warning-or-elements-do-not-have-a-title/ is not fixed. Little reminder…

Thanks for this great plugin!

This plugin has been working great for many months. Three days ago I began seeing this error. I’ve double checked everything and even created another api key to test. The map appears fine in the backend page view.

Please advise.

Someone on our team mistakenly clicked in the API key field and corrupted the key. We pasted the correct key, and new maps work fine, but thousands of old maps do not appear now. The only way is to edit a post and manually attempt block recovery. Is there are way to fix all the maps at once?

Hello,

I have a problem with the plugin. It shows the following error:

“Google Maps Platform rejected your requested. The provided API key is invalid”

Could you help solving this issue? Thanks

Our map is no longer working. When you try to view it you get this message: “Oops! Something went wrong. This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.” How can we fix this?

Is it possible to use animated marker with your maps plugin?

Hello

did you manage to add any ability to style the maps?
Its a shame that your other plugin doesnt work if you have Gutenberg

cheers
Niall

I had a problem with this plugin but I seem to have found a workaround.

I figured that on some of my websites, the Google Maps block wouldn’t show and it would show the following error message instead:

Google Maps Platform rejected your request. You must use an API key to authenticate each request to Google Maps Platform APIs. For additional information, please refer to https://g.co/dev/maps-no-account

Please note that I use the correct API key and that I also have activated billing in my Google cloud console. The Google Maps is just showing fine on other pages of my website and I am also not restricting the API key on some of my own web pages.

The problem occurs (and I am not sure if this is a problem with your plugin or a general one) whenever I use an apostrophe in the address field of your Map Block for Google Maps e.g. “Col’Cacchio” or “Maiden’s Cove” which are real names of real places. When I eliminate the apostrophe from the address e.g. “Colcacchio” or “Maidens Cove”, the problem is solved and Map displays correctly without error message.

Hope this helps someone else since I couldn’t find any solution when I googled for it.

Hello,

Thanks for the nice plugin. When all notices / errors are enabled in the server, I get the following message on the widgets page:

/wp-admin/widgets.php

<b>Notice</b>: Function wp_enqueue_script() was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. "wp-editor" script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets). Please see <a href="https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.8.0.) in <b>/home/user/http/wp_test/wp-includes/functions.php</b> on line <b>5831</b>

If I remove ‘wp-editor’ from the map-block-gutenberg.php file (line 119), the message goes away.

From what I can see, this is related to the new widgets page. Most likely the code needs to detect whether the old widgets page is enabled or not, and use ‘wp-editor’ or not. I thought I’d let you know, and you may want to get rid of that message.

Many messages like this one appeared after WP version 5.8 related to other plugins too.

Cheers

I am fairly new to using the block editor. In the classic version it was really simple to make a map in Google and then embed it in my page. I see that if you just want a simple map (ie just an address) that the map block for google maps works fine but I have detailed maps of routes with lots of pins that I made and want to put in my site but cannot figure out how to do it. Trying to embed doesn’t work, nor does map block. What to do?

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by gdenton.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by gdenton.

still no integration with acf or meta box?
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/acf-metabox-integration/

or would be nice if there’s a php hook to pass the dynamic address data.

Hi,
Using your plugin on a new site i’m building but need to display four addresses on the map. Could this feature be added as it doesn’t seem possible currently?

Hello guys,
Do you plan to add the functionality to style the maps?

Has this been implemented? https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/hide-competitors-on-the-map/

I know it’s possible through Google JS API https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/cloud-customization/poi-behavior-customization

Just wondering if the plugin handles that natively.

Would nice if you could add ACF/MetaBox support that uses a custom field attached to the post as the location.

Hello!

Just put any page with a map (shown by your plugin) in the web.dev test – https://web.dev/measure/

You will get this kind of error:

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Screen reader users rely on frame titles to describe the contents of frames. Learn more.
Failing Elements
div.kt-inside-inner-col > div.wp-block-webfactory-map > div.wp-block-webfactory-map > iframe
<iframe loading="lazy" width="100%" height="400px" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place?q=…" frameborder="0">

More details here – https://web.dev/frame-title/

Most likely this is a simple error to fix, the element just needs a title ?? Hope you can solve this by default in the next update.

Thanks.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by RicaNeaga.

Hi,
I’ve got a notice since 5.8 update in new widgets interface:
Notice: wp_enqueue_script() was called incorrectly. "wp-editor" script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 5.8.0.) in /home/a76864/public_html/wezzel/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5663

I understand if I turn off debug everything is fine and this notice doesn’t crash anything, but for sure it’s not what you expect to see in widgets.

I checked with default theme Twenty Twenty-One without any plugins except yours.

Will you resolve this issue? Thanks in advance!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by naskadi.

Hi,

As requested by Map Block for Google, I’ve tried to create my own API Key in the Google Console, and replaced the standard AIzaSyAjyDspiPfzEfjRSS5fQzm-3jHFjHxeXB4 with our new one. Everytime I replace it in WordPress, I get this error:

Google Maps Platform rejected your request. This API project is not authorised to use this API.

What might be wrong? I have created an API key, it is unrestricted. Should anything else be configured in particular, such as Domain Verification or OAuth Consent Screen?

Any help/idea would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

(I’ve running the latest version of WordPress, with the latest version of the plugin)

Can I link to an internal page within the Marker Caption?
Can I save the map to use on another post or page?
Can I implement within Oxygen page builder?

Can I use data from a metafield as the input for the address field?
Let’s say I already have a lat/long metafield on the post, how could i pass it to the address field?

Hi there. I wonder if there is a means of removing the white location info window which you can remove with the embedded maps by adding the string “&iwloc=near” to the end of the URL? Could I customise some of the code in the plugin to achieve this?

Google Maps provides 3 views: Map, Satellite and Terrain. Is there a way to specify which with this plugin?

Hi,

Does the map get the lat and long from Google?

If so, does it store lat and long per post?

If not, is there a way for me to programmatically access the address in the map block so that I can go to Google with the address and get lat and long myself?

Thanks ahead of time…..

Google APIs … grrr …

I think I created the API and pasted it into the API Key area in the plugin. The Map displays correctly while in WP edit mode for the page. After Updating and ‘Viewing’ the page, the map is not there … there is a error message however!

Any thoughts? thanks in advance.

Error message: Google Maps Platform rejected your request. You must use an API key to authenticate each request to Google Maps Platform APIs. For additional information, please refer to https://g.co/dev/maps-no-account

is it possible to define the API key in the wp-config file? Thanks.

It would be nice to have block alignment options (block width (wide/full) and positioning (left, center, right)) like other core blocks.