Pre-fill location and zoom on the embedded widgets

Feature

Week of May 21, 2026

The floating button widget and the map embed now accept two optional data attributes for seeding the map’s starting view:

data-location — pre-fills the “find someone near…” search with any free-text query (a city, ZIP/postal code, or address). The embed geocodes it server-side and centers the map there.
data-zoom — sets the initial zoom level. Accepts city, metro, state, region, or country; any other value is silently ignored.

Both attributes are entirely opt-in. Leave them off and the embeds behave exactly as before. The Embed Code Configurator under Settings → Widgets now exposes both fields for both widget types so you can copy ready-to-paste snippets.

Related: Embedding Your Community