[Plugin: Comprehensive Google Map Plugin] Plugin was working great but has stopped?!

Kewl and good luck!

@aferrazlr,

The W3 Total Cache minified all JS, which is fair enough. But its minifications caused some problems, it got rid of the jQueryCgmp variable that I am using…

Hi Alexander,

Indeed W3 Total Cache was the problem, and it is out of the scene! ??

Thank you very much for your time!
Your plugin is the BEST!

Cheers,
André

Try WordPress Quick Cache plugin…. I use it and really like it!

Thank you ??
You can “star” me if you want to ??

5 star’ed ??

Running 6.0.3. and all appears to work ok :o)

Love your plugin. Deserves the title “comprehensive”.

I also was successful in using it several days ago, and now I can’t get it to work on any sites. I am running WP 3.3.1 multi-site. I’ve tried adding a new site without any plugins except this one with no luck. I was just using the basic KML URL. A map is showing, but zoomed in all the way in the middle of the ocean off the coast of Africa. If I zoom out and go to where the saved places are suppose to show up on the map, the markers are not there.

Here’s my test site: https://so-media.lasalle.edu/muto/

Here’s the Google Places that worked previously: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115313511168238002318.0004921b75221d82bc8c6&z=12

I have the following plugins set as must use across all my sites (they were all active when the map was working previously). The only change among them was I added some code regarding failed logins to our CAS authentication plugin (wpcas-conf.php):
BNS Login
General Headers & Footers
Odiogo Listen Button
Organization Definition
Secure WordPress
Simple Code Embed
Viper’s Video Quicktags
WP-Mail-SMTP
wpCAS
wpcas-conf.php
WPMU Custom CSS

Hi Mike,

“I also was successful in using it several days ago” –>
a/ How many days ago was that?
b/ Was it the same version of the map plugin that suddenly stopped working?
c/ Did you use KML URL when the plugin was working successfully?
d/ If you did use KML URL all along, was it the same KML URL?

Regards,
Alex

This past Monday, Feb 20. Just noticed that it wasn’t working yesterday. Same version (just installed it Monday and it was working fantastic), then an end user client went to add a new map, and it didn’t work. I had left the original test map intact (that had been working on Monday) and saw that it no longer was working. Thought it might be a plugin conflict, so started a completely new site to test with no luck. It was the same KML URL (that I used on Monday when it worked and which I used on the new test site).

This was the original test using the KML URL from the Google Places map link from above:
https://so-media.lasalle.edu/lasalleservicepartners/?page_id=496

Hi, manakuke.

Google returns an error for your KML URL:

INVALID_DOCUMENT:
The document is not a valid KML, KMZ or GeoRSS document.

So it is not a plugin, it is coming from Google itself.

The Google Maps API supports the KML and GeoRSS data formats for displaying geographic information. Perhaps the URL (although coming from Google itself), is not in the valid format

I hope this helps

Although you can paste the URL: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=utf8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115313511168238002318.0004921b75221d82bc8c6&z=12 into a browser and see the generated map with markers, when you view the source it is not in valid format. Google expects to find in the source something of a similar style (some example):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="https://earth.google.com/kml/2.1">
<!-- Data derived from:
       Ed Knittel - || tastypopsicle.com
       Feel free to use this file for your own purposes.
       Just leave the comments and credits when doing so.
-->
  <Document>
    <name>Chicago Transit Map</name>
    <description>Chicago Transit Authority train lines</description>

    <Style id="purpleLine">
      <LineStyle>
        <color>ffcc00cc</color>
        <width>4</width>
      </LineStyle>
    </Style>
    <Style id="yellowLine">
      <LineStyle>
        <color>ff61f2f2</color>
        <width>4</width>
      </LineStyle>
    </Style>

    <Placemark>
      <name>Blue Line</name>
      <styleUrl>#blueLine</styleUrl>
      <LineString>
        <altitudeMode>relative</altitudeMode>
        <coordinates>
-87.89289951324463,41.97881025520548,0
-87.89184808731079,41.97788506340239,0
        </coordinates>
      </LineString>
    </Placemark>

  </Document>
</kml>

In other words, when you pass KML information to Google, does not matter from which plugin, it expected to be in a certain format. Hence the error: “The document is not a valid KML, KMZ or GeoRSS document.”

Ok, I know what happened!

You/client used the wrong URL! The right URL is this one:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&output=kml&msid=214658171961153321121.0004921b75221d82bc8c6

In order to get the above, open the https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=utf8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115313511168238002318.0004921b75221d82bc8c6&z=12 in the browser, find a little link “KML” or click in the little blue Google Earth square icon under the “SJU Freshman Service-Learning Sites”, right click there and copy the URL. Then you can use the copied URL in the plugin.

I believe you owe me some stars for that ??

See the screenshot, it works on my test site:
https://skitch.com/azagniotov/8rmc8/initbinder-just-another-wordpress-site

Stars given!. Great support!

I think something else funky is happening on my end, probably a plugin. It appears that in the javascript it is replace all “&” with “&”

So instead of:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&output=kml&msid=214658171961153321121.0004921b75221d82bc8c6

I get:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=utf8&hl=en&msa=0&output=kml&msid=214658171961153321121.0004921b75221d82bc8c6

Here’s the shortcode that I saved.

[google-map-v3 width="350" height="350" zoom="12" maptype="ROADMAP" mapalign="center" addmarkermashupbubble="false" addmarkermashupbubble="false" kml="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&output=kml&msid=214658171961153321121.0004921b75221d82bc8c6" maptypecontrol="true" pancontrol="true" zoomcontrol="true" scalecontrol="true" streetviewcontrol="true" scrollwheelcontrol="false" bubbleautopan="true" showbike="false" showtraffic="false" showpanoramio="false"]

I was able to get it working on another old site that I haven’t used for a while. This leads me to believe it may also be some plugin I have installed, perhaps the theme, but most likely a plugin.

Supper thanks for all your help! Great developer!

So in playing around some more, for me at least, I can only insert the short code successfully in HTML edit mode, not in Visual edit mode. On a separate server, the only plugins installed were this map plugin plus TinyMCE Advanced (which I tried deactivating). The shortcode would insert, but when I updated in Visual mode, I got an error on the front end, but when I updated in HTML mode, it worked fantastic.

For example, this map (same KML) was updated in Visual mode (doesn’t work):
https://so-media.lasalle.edu/muto/?page_id=36

This map, (same KML as above) was updated in HTML mode:
https://so-media.lasalle.edu/muto/?page_id=33

I truly appreciate your help. It’s probably something easy on my end that I need to tweak, but I am blind to it.