Unless I simply forget to do it every post at Szapp should be followed by a map of a random place on earth. I do this with the OpenStreetMap (OSM) WordPress Plugin.

I made a small change to the plugin. By default the OSM maps are output at 600×400. I wanted to make it 800×640, to better fill the space of this template. I may be sorry I did this if ever I switch to a narrower template, though I don’t foresee that happening.

This theme at present, by the way is “Divi”, from ElegantThemes.com, where I subscribe to the “Developer” account. Most of the 87 themes will never find a use in my travels but many of them should.

I thought I had found the way to change those default sizes in the plugin’s osm/osm-options.php file, but I was wrong. The file to be changed is actually osm/osm-oljs2.php, which contains 2 occurances of width=”600″ height=”400″ that I changed to width=”800″ height=”640″.

If I make any other change it would be to output the shortcode into a <textarea> or <input type=”text”> window for easier copying and pasting. Either that or figure out how to automatically copy the shortcode to clipboard when the map is clicked.

UPDATE: May 19, 2014. As I should have guessed, updating the plugin to its most recent version overwrites this tweak. Maybe it’s better left as-is.