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.

A single map page that can present your posts in many ways

• It can show just one category, for example
• Clicking on a post marker shows a summary of the post in an info bubble

A small search map on the post editing page to easily add location to posts

Template tags to make links from located posts to the map and other things

GeoRSS automatically added to feeds

Option show the full post for a clicked marker on the map page

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.