Geo Mashup Plugin for WordPress

Posted by Sech in Tips on Jul 19th, 2008 | no responses

I have been searching for a good Google Maps Plugin for WordPress. Google Maps Plugin by Avi was the one I had found the most useful after trying a few others. After inconsistent results and css problems with different themes, I even tried using iframe embed on pages and posts within “code” tags as I explained here.

I have been looking to find a solution to accomplish the following tasks:

1) I want to be able put maps of places I visited on individual posts. I also want to have a single page with a map with markers of all these places I posted about. Clicking on these markers will open the info window with a link to the individual map.

2) I want to add a location mashup map for a business with multiple locations. This will work pretty much the same as above except the markers will link to the individual location maps.

I am happy to report that I found the right plugin: Geo Mashup Plugin for WordPress.

You can see a working example of this plugin on my latest project CarDealsNet.com.

This is a must-have plugin.

Note on Word WordPress 2.6: While working to set this plugin up, I wanted to have the mashup page have a different page template. I noticed that my "page template" option disappeared. I found out that the page template I use did not have the header:

<?php

/*
Template Name: Geo Mashup
*/

<?

I am pretty sure the template without the header worked on the previous WordPress version. Anyways, if you don't see the "page template" option while writing a page even though you created one, it is because you forgot to add the template header.

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