Title: Adding Google Maps API key to code
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Adding Google Maps API key to code

 *  [daymobrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daymobrew/)
 * (@daymobrew)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-google-maps-api-key-to-code/)
 * I created a new map and it does not work because it needs a Google Maps API key.
 * I generated one and I wrote code to add it to the call to //maps.google.com/maps/
   api/js.
 *     ```
       add_action('wp_footer', 'sm_add_gmaps_api_key', 1);
       function sm_add_gmaps_api_key() {
           wp_deregister_script('google-maps-api');
   
           $gmaps_api_key = 'Insert Your API Key Here';
           wp_register_script('google-maps-api', '//maps.google.com/maps/api/js?key='.$gmaps_api_key, false, null, true);
       }
       ```
   
 * I have a suggestion to allow users enter an API key without using a new options
   page: add a new parameter to the shortcode!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-map/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-map/)

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 *  Thread Starter [daymobrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daymobrew/)
 * (@daymobrew)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-google-maps-api-key-to-code/#post-7572485)
 * I created a pull request with my code that adds a ‘key’ tag to the shortcode.
 * [https://github.com/miya0001/simple-map/pull/18](https://github.com/miya0001/simple-map/pull/18)

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