Title: War Map Live
Author: Lumora Build
Published: <strong>30 An Lùnastal 2026</strong>
Last modified: 30 An Lùnastal 2026

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# War Map Live

 By [Lumora Build](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lumorabuild/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/warmaplive.1.0.4.zip)

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## Description

**War Map Live** is the official WordPress plugin for [War Map Live](https://www.warmaplive.com/)—
a live war map of ongoing conflict, built from public news feeds and refreshed every
few minutes.

It puts the same real-time conflict map you see on warmaplive.com directly on your
own site: incidents appear on an interactive world map as they are reported, each
one linking back to the article it came from. Drop it on a page with a shortcode
or a block and it keeps itself up to date — there is nothing to sync and nothing
to maintain.

Add `[warmaplive]` to any page and the map appears, full width and interactive, 
exactly as it is on warmaplive.com. It keeps updating on your page on its own — 
there is nothing to sync and nothing to maintain.

#### Who uses it

 * **News and current-affairs sites** that want a live conflict map next to their
   reporting.
 * **Analysts, researchers and OSINT writers** who need an at-a-glance world war
   map that updates itself.
 * **Bloggers and educators** covering geopolitics, who want a real-time map without
   building one.

#### What the map shows

 * **Incidents from live news**, pulled from a wide spread of free public feeds 
   every few minutes.
 * **Every marker links to its source**, so a reader can check the original report
   themselves.
 * **Filters** by time window, type, region, severity and country, built into the
   map itself.
 * **Nothing invented and nothing seeded.** An empty map means nothing has been 
   reported in that window — not that the map is broken.

#### You need a free embed key

warmaplive.com refuses to be framed by default, so an ordinary `<iframe>` pointing
at it shows an empty box. An embed key lifts that for **the domains you list on 
it**, and nothing else.

Getting one takes about a minute at [id.lumorabuild.com/account/embeds](https://id.lumorabuild.com/account/embeds):
name your site, list your domain, copy the key, paste it into the plugin. It is 
free and it does not consume credits.

Because a key only permits showing the map on your own domains, it is not a secret
and it is safe to leave in your page source. It is worthless to anyone else.

#### In WordPress

 * **Shortcode** — `[warmaplive]` anywhere a shortcode works: post, page, text widget,
   page builder.
 * **Block** — search for “War Map Live” in the block editor. Live preview, height
   and credit controls in the sidebar.
 * **Per-embed options** — height, maximum width, accessible frame title, an optional
   credit link (off unless you turn it on), extra CSS class.
 * **Connection check** — one button that says whether your key is valid _and_ whether
   this exact domain is allowed to use it. That second half is the thing browsers
   will not tell you: a valid key on an unlisted domain just renders an empty box,
   with the reason buried in a developer console. The result is kept, so the Overview
   screen always shows where the site actually stands rather than merely whether
   a key has been typed in.

#### Light on your site

 * The map loads **lazily**, in its own frame, after your page.
 * **Your server does no work.** It never contacts War Map Live on a visitor’s request—
   the only outbound call the plugin ever makes is when an administrator presses
   the connection check button.
 * The stylesheet is only loaded on pages that actually contain a map.
 * **No tracking, no analytics, no scripts** added to your pages by this plugin.

#### Official plugin

This is the **official** War Map Live plugin. War Map Live (warmaplive.com) is a
service built and operated by Lumora (lumorabuild.com), the author of this plugin—
it is not a third-party integration with somebody else’s product.

#### External service

The plugin is a client for the War Map Live service. The plugin itself is free; 
an embed key is required for the map to display, because the map is generated and
hosted on the service.

**Your server** contacts `https://www.warmaplive.com` in exactly one situation: 
when an administrator presses the connection check button. It sends your embed key
and this site’s address, and receives back whether the two match. Nothing else is
ever sent, and never on a visitor’s request.

**A visitor’s browser** requests the map from `https://www.warmaplive.com` directly
when it renders a page containing the embed, exactly as it would for any embedded
map. Their request carries the embed key (so the map knows it is allowed to appear
on your site) and the standard information any web request carries. No visitor data
passes through your server to us, and this plugin sets no cookies.

 * Service: https://www.warmaplive.com/
 * How it works: https://www.warmaplive.com/about
 * Terms of Service: https://www.warmaplive.com/terms
 * Privacy Policy: https://www.warmaplive.com/privacy

## Screenshots

[⌊The live war map, embedded straight into a WordPress page.⌉⌊The live war map, 
embedded straight into a WordPress page.⌉[

The live war map, embedded straight into a WordPress page.

[⌊Settings - your embed key, the map height and width, and the optional credit link.⌉⌊
Settings - your embed key, the map height and width, and the optional credit link
.⌉[

Settings – your embed key, the map height and width, and the optional credit link.

[⌊Help - every shortcode option, and answers to the questions people actually ask.⌉⌊
Help - every shortcode option, and answers to the questions people actually ask.⌉[

Help – every shortcode option, and answers to the questions people actually ask.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   War Map Live The live War Map Live conflict map, embedded on this page.

## Installation

 1. Install through **Plugins  Add New** and search for “War Map Live”, or upload the
    ZIP.
 2. Activate the plugin.
 3. Get a free embed key at [id.lumorabuild.com/account/embeds](https://id.lumorabuild.com/account/embeds),
    listing this site’s domain.
 4. Open **War Map Live  Settings** in your admin menu, paste the key, and save.
 5. Go to **Overview** and press **Check connection** to confirm it works from this
    domain.
 6. Add `[warmaplive]` to a page — or insert the **War Map Live** block.

## FAQ

### Is it free?

Yes. The plugin is free and the embed key is free. Embedding the map does not consume
credits.

### Why do I need a key at all?

Because War Map Live blocks embedding by default. Without that block, any site could
frame the map — including sites that would wrap it in their own advertising or present
it as their own. The key is the opt-in, and it is bound to your domains so it cannot
be lifted and reused elsewhere.

### The map area is blank. What is wrong?

Almost always the key is not allowed on the domain you are viewing. Press **Check
connection** on the Overview tab — it names exactly which domains your key covers.
Note that `www.example.com` and `example.com` are different origins; a key created
for one normally covers both, but a key created for a different site will not work
here.

### Is the key a secret?

No, and it does not need to be. Anyone can read it in your page source, but it only
permits displaying the map on the domains listed on that key. Do not reuse it as
a password anywhere else.

### I revoked a key and the map still shows.

Revocation takes up to five minutes to reach every server. Wait, then reload.

### Will it slow my site down?

No. The map is lazy-loaded in its own frame and loads after your page. Your server
never contacts War Map Live when a visitor loads a page.

### Can I put more than one map on a page?

Yes. Each gets its own settings and its own frame.

### Does it work with page builders and caching plugins?

Yes. The output is plain static HTML with no server-side work per request, so caching
plugins can cache it freely and the map still updates itself in the browser.

### What happens if I deactivate it?

Nothing is deleted and your settings stay. Uninstalling removes the plugin’s own
settings and nothing else — your embed key lives in your Lumora account and is untouched.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“War Map Live” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Lumora Build ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lumorabuild/)

[Translate “War Map Live” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/warmaplive)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/warmaplive/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/warmaplive/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/warmaplive/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/warmaplive/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.4

 * Housekeeping for the directory listing. No functional changes.

#### 1.0.3

 * The optional credit link under the map now defaults to off.
 * Project page: https://www.lumorabuild.com/warmaplive/

#### 1.0.2

 * The block now declares Block API version 3, so it works correctly in the iframed
   editor that
    WordPress 7.1 always uses. This raises the minimum WordPress version
   to 6.3.
 * The block’s stylesheet is registered on `init` rather than `wp_enqueue_scripts`,
   so the editor
    preview is styled inside the iframe and not only on the front 
   end.
 * Uninstalling now removes the saved connection status and the usage counter as
   well as the
    settings — previously those two rows were left behind.
 * Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

#### 1.0.1

 * Overview now reports the real connection status for this site — whether the key
   is valid, whether
    this exact domain is on it, which domains it covers, when 
   it was last checked, and how many published pages already show the map. It used
   to report only that a key had been typed in.
 * A site that changes address (staging to live, http to https) is told its last
   check no longer
    applies, instead of being shown a stale pass.
 * Height and maximum width no longer clip their own values in the settings form.
 * The admin screen follows the WordPress admin colour scheme instead of the operating
   system’s
    dark mode setting, which could render the panels dark on a light admin
   page.
 * Stylesheets are versioned by file contents, so an update can never be masked 
   by a cache.

#### 1.0.0

 * First release: `[warmaplive]` shortcode, a server-rendered block with live preview,
   embed-key
    settings, a connection check that reports domain mismatches and is
   remembered on the Overview screen, an optional credit link, lazy loading, and
   a tabbed admin screen with Help, About and More from Lumora.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.4**
 *  Last updated **8 uairean a thìde ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/warmaplive/)
 * Tags
 * [embed](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/embed/)[live map](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/live-map/)
   [news](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/news/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/warmaplive/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Lumora Build ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lumorabuild/)

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