How to Add a Live Location Map to Your Food Truck Website

Updated July 26, 2026 · 6 minute read

Every food truck owner knows the question. It comes in Instagram DMs, in comments, at the window while you are slammed: “Where are you going to be tomorrow?”If the answer lives only in your head or in this morning's story post, you are losing customers who went looking and gave up.

The fix is a location map on your own website that updates itself. Not a static pin on your commissary, and not another morning of copy-pasting your schedule into three apps. This guide covers exactly how to do it on WordPress, Squarespace, and Wix, in about ten minutes, with no developer.

First, what actually works (and what does not)

There are four common ways trucks handle the where-are-you problem. Being honest about all of them:

• Posting daily on social media. Free, and it reaches your followers. But it vanishes in 24 hours, does nothing for people who find you on Google, and you have to remember to do it every single morning, forever.
• A static Google Maps embed. Free and easy, but it shows one fixed pin. A truck is never in one place, so a static pin is wrong most of the week.
• A directory app profile. Sites like StreetFoodFinder list your schedule, which helps. But the page is theirs, it looks like everyone else's, and your customers browse a list where your competitors are one tap away.
• A live map on your own site. A map that reads your calendar and always shows your real upcoming stops, in your own branding, on your own website. This is what the rest of this guide sets up.

What a live map looks like

This is a real one, live right now, for a coffee truck in Wilmington, NC. It pulls from the calendar the owner already keeps, so it is always current without anyone touching it:

Everything below assumes you have a map like this with an embed code. If you do not yet, request one here and you will have it within a day or two. The embed code is one line and looks like this:

WordPress

1. Open the page where you want the map (usually a “Find Us” or “Schedule” page) in the editor.
2. Click the plus button to add a block and search for Custom HTML.
3. Paste your embed code into the block.
4. Click Preview to check it, then Update. Done.

If your theme uses a page builder like Elementor or Divi, the move is the same: add the module called HTML or Code and paste the embed line into it.

Squarespace

1. Edit the page and click an insert point where you want the map.
2. Choose Code from the block menu (it is under “More” on some templates).
3. Paste your embed code, leave the type set to HTML, and click outside the block.
4. Save. The map may show as a placeholder in the editor but renders on the live page.

Note: code blocks work on all current Squarespace business plans. On the cheapest personal plan Squarespace disables them, so check your plan if the block will not save.

Wix

1. In the editor, click Add Elements, then Embed Code, then Embed HTML.
2. An empty box appears on your page. Click Enter Code and paste your embed code.
3. Drag the box to size it. Full width and about 500 pixels tall works well.
4. Click Update, then publish the site.

Wix puts embeds inside a frame, and BuildMyMap maps are built to behave inside it. One of our longest-running client maps lives on a Wix site.

No website? You still get the map.

Plenty of great trucks run entirely on Instagram, and that is fine. Your map is also its own page with its own link, so you can skip the embed entirely:

• Put the map link in your Instagram bio (or your link-in-bio page).
• Add it to your Google Business Profile as the website link.
• Print it as a QR code in your window so customers save it on the spot.

Then a single “where are we this week” answer works everywhere, and you never post a schedule screenshot again.

Common questions

Will it slow my website down?

No. The embed loads lazily, meaning it only loads when a visitor scrolls to it, and it lives in its own frame so it never blocks the rest of your page.

Does it work on phones?

Yes, and that matters more than desktop: most where-are-you searches happen on a phone. The map switches to a stacked mobile layout with the event list under it automatically.

What keeps it up to date?

Your calendar. Connect the Google Calendar (or any calendar with an iCal feed) you already use to plan stops, and the map reads it live. Move a stop, cancel a day, add a festival: the map follows without you touching it. Weekly recurring stops are handled automatically.