If you have a WordPress website and are using the standard WP Google Maps element, you might be seeing the “This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly” error for your location map. This error has become a lot more common since Google Maps started requiring a Google API key and Google Cloud Platform billing account to access the core Google Maps APIs on June 11, 2018. If you started using Google Maps on your website on or after June 22, 2016, then you will need to sign up for and implement an API key – if your map pre-dates that, it is grandfathered in and does not require an API key.
Google has not made setting up an API key very friendly for novice website users. Their interface is geared towards website developers and web designers. This guide is for WordPress website users that want to know how to fix the “This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly” error.
Follow these steps to create and implement a Google Maps API Key. Google typically allows up to 28,000 dynamic map loads every month for free – larger volume sites should evaluate pricing here.
Now you can add your Google Maps API. In your WordPress theme options, find the API integrations, enter the key, and then click Save Changes. Don’t forget to add that missing Analytics ID while you’re at it!
We hope Google will improve the process of creating an API key now that they have made it a requirement for millions of user-maintained WordPress Development sites, but hopefully this guide will give you some hope until that happens.
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Ben Lindberg, CR is a partner in Lion Tree Group, a marketing agency in Madison, WI. His expertise is in multi-platform brand messaging for clients in construction, legal, health clubs, manufacturing, and dentistry. His agency specializes in digital website design and branding face lifts. He regularly blogs on his company’s blog: The Bark and Roar.
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