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The Google Maps Quicktag for Wordpress plug-in has been updated to include a version for WordPress MU installations, including code contributed by a user.
WordPress MU, by default, does not allow the use of the iframe tag and its attributes, thus preventing the publishing of embedded Google Maps and Street View in MU. What the added […]

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Google Maps has been actively shaping things up with a handful of issues raised, since ‘embeddable’ Maps were provided. One issue that I noticed yesterday, will hopefully be addressed soon as well. I’ve sent this in to the Google Maps Help Group, so hopefully an employee notices and forwards it on.

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This morning, I went through and ran a mark-up validation check with the W3C services to make sure that my site was rendering properly. I generally do this at least once per month to ensure there isn’t anything I’m missing. I’m a major compliance freak when it comes to mark-up!
I fixed the video embedding errors […]

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With the embedding capability for publishing Google Maps, a common need for publishing a Google Map might be to provide the following:

Address information for a business location, or several locations

Providing directions to or from a business location

Displaying a route of destination-points for a trip or tour
Displaying points of interest you’ve visited

This is done by adding […]

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Nikolas Schiller discovered an interesting problem associated with the new ‘embeddable’ Google Maps. I tried to suggest a couple things to correct for this, but even after seeing if that’d work — I’m also realizing that it’s a major flaw.
The problem is that Google Maps doesn’t allow you to save a link with the target=”_blank” […]

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Since Google Maps can now be ‘embedded’ in a similar way to YouTube and Google Videos, I decided to create a basic plug-in for WordPress users and share it with whoever might think it’s useful. All it is, is a simple addition of a button in the administration panel editor — which pops open a […]

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