Well, that's not supposed to happen. Can you track down what other plugin could cause this issue? Is it also happening in a blank new project?
Yes, you can show/hide the minimap by using small scripts, as described here: Minimap – Aerosys' Blog
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Thanks for getting back with me.
::Edited after I had coffee and learned to read::
This is on an existing project that I'd sent a pre-alpha out on and a lot of the feedback was about needing a map. I did go through and uncheck all of the other plugins and the problem still persisted. When I get back to my computer, I'm going to try to uninstall and reinstall the plugin just in case I unwittingly did something stupid in the parameters.
One other question (and thanks for the hiding script): Am I able to specify what events show up on a map and what ones don't need to be on there? (And ideally, on an event page-by-page basis?)
You can try to download a sample project from here: https://downloads.aerosys.blog/demos/AerosysFreebies.zip
Furthermore, please verify that you have the latest version of the Minimap (1.3.4); I don't always update the sample projects so the plugins could be outdated when copy-pasted from there.
Yes, the full version allows you to choose different rendering modes (e.g. Icon) for every Event or not to display it at all, based on Event Pages, just as you describe.