technical difficulties

Posted on February 14, 2008 by JH

I did a run this morning and at the time I thought it was pretty gosh-darn impressive. Clearly, not as impressive as my Anderson Street escapade earlier in the week, but pretty good nonetheless.

So I mapped it all out on mapmyrun.com, as you do. I then thought I’d have a stab at inserting the map in my blog, as per the instructions. I copied the little bit of code, pasted it into a blog entry and hit “publish”.

What happened? Nothing, for a long time. Then, grudgingly, WordPress loaded the post, but not before stripping out all the interesting bits of code, the bits that make it work (mainly the iframe tags). Bastard.

Any ideas how I can get around this? Steve, you’re a bit of a clever-clogs… help me out here.

Running
The run itself was 13.02kms in 55 minutes. I started at work, headed down St Kilda Road, then right along Albert Road down to the bay. Right again into Beaconsfield road and then back to the city through Port Melbourne. It was all done more-or-less at marathon pace, with minimal stops for traffic lights, and I was pretty happy all-up.

Port Melbourne, by the way, has changed a bit since last I visited. It’s becoming progressively more “developed”, which typically means bland, soul-less, full of ugly great apartment blocks and restaurants with expensive fit-outs. Yuck.

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7 Responses to “technical difficulties”

  1. Jaykay, on February 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm Said:

    You could always try using a program called Captura, which lets you copy the page (or bits of the page) and save it as a jpeg. You can then insert the jpeg.

    Just a thought :-)

  2. JH, on February 14th, 2008 at 1:40 pm Said:

    I did think of that, but I want people to be able to click around the map, like when you see a google map embedded on a page.

    That’s what the iframe tags are for.

  3. jojo, on February 14th, 2008 at 6:23 pm Said:

    good run :)

  4. ajh, on February 14th, 2008 at 9:08 pm Said:

    I have only ever been able to insert maps as pictures too. Maybe Steve will be able to help, he does seem pretty switched on with this sort of stuff.

  5. Steve, on February 14th, 2008 at 10:14 pm Said:

    Talk about pressure. As you know, I’m not a WordPress user but do have an account. I’ll check my account, play with some settings and get back to you.

    I’m assuming there is probably a setting somewhere where you’ve got it set to strip out such code. There should be a setting to turn that off. I’m only guessing at the moment.

  6. Steve, on February 14th, 2008 at 11:03 pm Said:

    Okay, figured it out. Unfortunately, WordPress.com site is designed that way. This thread explains it. If you were to host your own WordPress blog on your own server things would be different.

    Sorry for being the bearer of bad news.

  7. Steve, on February 14th, 2008 at 11:05 pm Said:

    Sorry John, forgot to put a closing after the word “thread”. I can’t edit it.

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