Title: XML Google Map – Map Doesn’t Display
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# XML Google Map – Map Doesn’t Display
* [jt101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jt101/)
* (@jt101)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/)
* As you can see on my homepage [http://www.thebreadcrumbtrail.org/](http://www.thebreadcrumbtrail.org/),
the google map does not display. I have followed the instructions to the letter,
including installing the correct API code. All it shows is the Link.
* I would just use the straight html iframe, but everytime I edit the page, the
map disappears. Apparently this is a common issue with the html.
* Please someone help me. Thanks in advance
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* Thread Starter [jt101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jt101/)
* (@jt101)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406978)
* 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
* [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/)
* (@ss_minnow)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406979)
* What are you trying to do? Display a link to your sitemap?
* Thread Starter [jt101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jt101/)
* (@jt101)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406981)
* 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](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.
* [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/)
* (@ss_minnow)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406982)
* Why don’t you just copy the Google image and stick into the post like this?
* [http://msgjustice.com/contact-us/](http://msgjustice.com/contact-us/)
* (that one is not linked to anything)
* Thread Starter [jt101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jt101/)
* (@jt101)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406983)
* 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?
* [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/)
* (@ss_minnow)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406984)
* Ah, I see. I have seen people do that but I haven’t done it myself. Sorry, but
I can’t help.
* [markkeatingaim-writecom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markkeatingaim-writecom/)
* (@markkeatingaim-writecom)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406985)
* 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!
* View](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”>View)
[The Breadcrumb Trail](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&source=embed)
in a larger map
* Thread Starter [jt101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jt101/)
* (@jt101)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406993)
* 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?
* Thread Starter [jt101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jt101/)
* (@jt101)
* [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1406994)
* I just tried pasting the code into [http://kmlvalidator.com/validate.htm](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](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](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.”
* [zotium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zotium/)
* (@zotium)
* [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-google-map-map-doesnt-display/#post-1407047)
* 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/](http://www.ongster.com/how-to-insert-a-google-map-into-wordpress/)
* Cheers
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