Google Maps plugin homepage: http://avi.alkalay.net/2006/11/google-maps-plugin-for-wordpress.html License: LGPL Author: Avi Alkalay (insipired by previous work by Macdiggs) Notes: - Google Maps API v.2 is used - Your site should be UTF-8 encoded (although the plugin SHOULD work for other encodings) There is a problem with IE for Windows on Japanese Windows systems when page encoding is not set to UTF-8, but to ShiftJIS (errors, map is not loaded). Switch your page encoding to UTF-8 to fix the problem. Using: On the post editor: 1. write some text, glue some image 2. select it and create a regular link 3. if you manually edit the tag putting class="something" or style="somestyle", these attributes will be inherited by the map 4. on the Title field of the Create Link dialog put "googlemap" and some controls separated by ';' 5. For compatibility with other plugins, you can also use the rel="" attribute instead of title="". You'll have to manually edit the HTML though. Other controls are: w:SOMEWIDTH or w:SOMEWIDTH% h:SOMEHEIGHT or h:SOMEHEIGHT% nocontrols nomarker Examples for the Title (or rel) field: googlemap;w:300;h:500 (renders a 300x500 map with controls and marker) googlemap;w:500;nomarker (renders a 500xDEFAULTHEIGHT map with controls and no marker) googlemap;w:300;h:500;nomarker;nocontrols (renders a 300x500 map without controls nor marker) Using on complex maps: 1. Create a definition list (

, first green line) must contain only a link to Google Maps site, to define its center and other map parameters. The text for the link is ignored when a map is generated, so use a text like “Center of Map” so people accessing your posts outside your blog (for exemple, through feed readers) will have a clue what is this link for. 3. The rest is a pair of terms and definitions (

and

) with the marker position (as a Google Maps URL) and the text on the balloon respectivelly. 4. You can create a balloonless markers specifying only a

without a

. 5. Whatever you put inside the

block will appear inside the balloon. Put links, images, lists, tables, etc. ------- Installing on any page, without the Wordpress plugin Make sure you have this inside your block: Version history: * Thu May 17 2007 Avi Alkalay 5.2 - Fixed a wrong comparation for visibility==hidden * Wed May 16 2007 Avi Alkalay 5.1 - Fixed an IE diversity on the window.onUnload property, as cited at http://forums.devshed.com/javascript-development-115/ie-window-onunload-returns-error-messsage-319723.html?p=1374616 - Removed the handling of the useless sll parameter from GMaps URL. * Sat May 12 2007 Avi Alkalay 5.0 - Added support to embed My Maps and custom KML maps. - Methods documentation. - Updated homepage to explain how to embed My Maps/KML maps. - Included a troubleshooting guide on the homepage. * Sun Apr 01 2007 Avi Alkalay 4.3 - Changed order things happen: first collect all maps data, then start creating maps. Its faster. - Added support to style="visibility: hidden" - 4.2 - Fixed a bug that prevented multiple complex maps to be rendered on same page. - 4.1 - Complex maps are now based on

, support to balloonless markers, added scale control - 4.0 - Completely rewritten with classes, faster, lighter, more precise, and support multimarker maps - 3.2 - Default location for locationless URLs - 3.1 - Separated PHP and JS code. Option to use rel instead of title attrib - 3.0 - Cleaner code, and map control happens on the link title attribute now - 2.1 - added map size, controls display and marker display on per-map basis. as well as ability not to replace a link with google map (just set the title to "nomap") - 2.0.3 - fixed problem with link arigument parsing (2006/10/19) - 2.0.2 - small changes to text and such... - 2.0.1 - fixed problem with google maps api key not being saved (2006/10/16) - 2.0 - a complete rework of version 1.1. Most of the code is not JavaScript-driven (2006/10/15)