Google Map API Key Required

• roymahfooz

• June 27, 2016 at 6:43 pm

Hello All and ACF Pro People

We are using ACF Pro and have developer license, we have integrated ACF Pro in our theme.

http://themeforest.net/item/realty-unique-real-estate-wordpress-theme/8583309

The problem is, google API key is required now, as we are using acf_form() to add properties from front end and back end, it is not allowing to add address, the address field is google map field.

Here is the error.

http://screencast.com/t/Cv9gRS8dUB

And here is the google announcement about this issue.

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/building-for-scale-updates-to-google.html

Looking forward to hear from you all.

Thanks

• John Huebner

• June 27, 2016 at 9:26 pm

This has been reported a couple of times in other topics. The developer is aware of the problem. https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/google-maps-field-needs-setting-to-add-api-key/

• roymahfooz

• June 28, 2016 at 4:50 am

Thank you john, i tried to search but did not find solution. I opened this because i wanted to notify the developer, i have fixed issue.

• rps

• June 29, 2016 at 9:05 am

Do you have an ETA on when this will be fixed?

• John Huebner

• July 1, 2016 at 9:25 pm

There is a fix for this in the new version of ACF Pro. You can get it by logging into your account and downloading from there. It is 5.4.0-beta3.

• heidijoe

• July 2, 2016 at 3:54 am

Is there documentation on the fix? Updating to the beta did not correct the API Key problems.

• John Huebner

• July 2, 2016 at 3:57 am

I posted what I know in the other thread https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/google-maps-field-needs-setting-to-add-api-key/

• roymahfooz

• July 2, 2016 at 6:24 am

For now i think this is the only fix.

Please go to

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key#get-an-api-key

– get a Google API Key

– make sure the Google Maps Api’s are enabled:

Google Maps Directions API
Google Maps Distance Matrix API
Google Maps Elevation API
Google Maps Geocoding API
Google Maps JavaScript API
Google Places API Web Service
Google Static Maps API
– Copy the generated API key

–Open the acf-input.min.js file located in the plugins folder of your WordPress-install (full path: /wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-pro/assets/js/acf-input.min.js)

– find sensor=false&libraries=places and replace both instances with key=XXX&libraries=places (replace XXX with your own API key)

(Add key in all occurrences of “sensor=false&libraries=places” )

Thank you

• Yasp0

• August 17, 2016 at 8:28 pm

I did the last two steps of roymahfooz’s solutions, this works fine.

But is there any ‘update proof’ solution? I added the api key in my functions.php (as suggested by ACF) but this did not fixed the backend problem.