[Resolved] Map marker not showing after post creation with Cred form

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[David]

I have created a custom post type and one of the fields is a map location.

I have also created a Cred form to create posts from the front end. Once the form is submitted, it is set to be Published. I have a aslo used Cred API to assign a particualar taxonomy term.

Once the form submission is made, the user is redirected to a page showing a map with all post markers. The new post marker should appear on the map but it does not.

The map marker does not appear on the map in my content template for the post either.

But when I look at my post in WP Dashboard, I see that the map and marker have been stored correctly.

I can make my new post marker appear on the maps (in content template and combined view) only by Updating the post from the WP Dashboard.

Post creation form: hidden link

My page with View of all map location is: hidden link

I think this was working for me before I added the function to assign the taxonomy term, so that might have something do to with it.

This is the code I am using to auto-assign the terms:

// automatically assign a slug to all posts created by CRED
add_action('cred_save_data', 'set_term_for_cred_post',10,2);
function set_term_for_cred_post($post_id, $form_data) {
  // array of cred form IDs and corresponding term slugs
  $array = [
    '1527' => 'blood-veined-moth',
    '1533' => 'brown-hare'
  ];
  $taxonomy = 'species';
  $tag = array( $array[$form_data['id']] );
  wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $tag, $taxonomy, true );
}

[Christian Cox]

Hi, I don't think the Forms API code you shared here has anything to do with it. I can see a problem with your Maps API key, as shown in the screenshot here. It looks like the referrer restriction is causing some problems with geocoding addresses. Even though the address is saved correctly, the location isn't geocoded so it's not appearing on the map. You can try setting up a second API key if you'd like, for added security. https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/maps/display-on-google-maps/creating-a-google-maps-api-key/

[David]

My issue is resolved now.
It was a caching issue.

[David]

OK, it may not have been a caching issue.

OK, so I created a new unrestricted API key, and now it seems to work OK.

But if the key is unrestricted, how can I prevent it from being used be someone else?

[Christian Cox]

The unrestricted key should be used in the second API key field, since this key is only used for server-side requests and is never exposed on the front-end of the site. Does that make sense?

[David]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!