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: * Mon Oct 8 2007 Avi Alkalay 5.7 - Removed defer tag on all