Google Maps WD is a new and powerful WordPress Google maps plugin enabling you to add Google Maps to your website. It’s extremely feature-rich, easy to setup and configure, is clearly coded and works out of the box. The plugin is absolutely user-friendly. Its clean and straightforward design enables both advanced Google Map users and novice map explorers easily create and integrate maps to their websites.
Core Features
- Configuration Wizard
- Responsive
- Clean coding
- Support for all essential Google Maps controls and overlays
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- Instant Live Preview
Google Maps WD is developed with clean coding to ensure smooth and seamless operation on any website and with any WordPress theme. After the successful installation of the plugin a configuration wizard will lead you through some needed steps to set it up. It supports all essential Google Maps overlays with some additional and unique customization features, such as customizing the available markers and creating custom map themes with preferred colors and settings.
With its straightforward and intuitive interface Google Maps WD plugin allows you to create and customize your maps in a matter of a few minutes and instantly preview the changes you’ve made. Created maps are responsive and accessible from all types of devices.
Google Maps WD FREE Version Features
- Unlimited maps for posts and pages
- Road, Traffic, Satellite, Terrain and Hybrid map styles
- Unlimited number of markers per map
- Drag and drop feature for markers
- Polygon and Polyline map layers
- Bicycle, traffic and transit layers
- Store locator
- User geolocation
WordPress Google Maps WD plugin combines advanced functionality and ease of use to enable you to create and display maps on your website with rich geospatial data, markers,locators, info windows, and other objects. You can add unlimited number of maps to your posts and pages and display them in four basic map types: roadmap,satellite, terrain and hybrid.
The FREE version of the plugin allows you to add unlimited markers on the map with drag and drop functionality. It also comes with polyline and polygon overlays. Both the overlay types are highly customizable, allowing you to specify custom settings for each of them.
Google Maps WD FREE allows you to add various layers on the maps to provide additional info or highlight specific routes, directions or roads. The plugin supports bicycle layer to highlight bicycle routes traffic layer to provide real-time traffic information, transit layer to highlight transit routes between destinations.
Store locator is another overlay type with a center and specified radius, allowing you to create a circle over the map which involves the markers located within its scope. You can set the circle’s window width and position, choose the measurement unit, and define the coloring and style of the circle.
PRO Version Features
- Directions
- Google maps skins
- Custom icon, description, images and link support for the markers
- Advanced Marker listing options
- Google Maps themes
- Multi-level marker categories
- Custom Marker icon builder
- Custom icon, description, images and link support for the markers
- Circles, rectangles
- Marker listing display within the map as a map legend
- Circle and Rectangle layers over the map
- Advanced layer support
Google Maps WD PRO allows you to customize the added markers with some additional features and provide detailed information, such as address, description, custom icon, link URL, image,category etc. You can set a custom size for the icon, enable marker info window and select bounce or drop animation types. The plugin currently comes with two category types, but gives you the possibility to add new ones.
It also comes with a custom marker icon builder feature, which is definitely a stand out option. It allows you to give custom coloring to the selected icons and give them the look most fitting to the maps.
There are three different options for marker listing:basic table, advances dable and carousel. The basic type listing displays all the map markers one after another right under the map, and shows the marker category, address and “get directions” option.
The Advanced table shows more marker details, like title, address and description with search possibility as well as ordering. The carousel listing displays markers in a slideshow. Additionally you can enable category filter and let your website visitors filter the markers by categories and also place the marker listing anywhere on the map.
In addition the the available categories , the PRO version enables you to add multi-level marker categories which can have the existing or newly created categories as a parent.
With the PRO version of Google Maps WD you can also add GeoRSS feed-based layers on the map and use KML and Fusion Table ID links to create layers .
Google Maps WD PRO gives the possibility to get directions between the chosen locations. Your website visitors can choose between driving, walking or bicycling or transit modes.All you have to do is to enable the directions feature in the plugin settings and give it your preferred customizations.
The PRO version also comes with seven theme options with predefined settings for map styles, directions,store locators and the available marker listing types. However, you are enabled to make the necessary changes in the settings according to your needs. You can also create as many new themes as you want with custom map styles and other customized features. There is a possibility to add custom map skins as well. All the changes and selected settings are instantly shown in the live preview to give you the overall picture of how your map looks. You can check Google Maps WD demo to see the plugin in use.
Google Maps WD is an advanced tool to help you to integrate Google maps to your website with various markers, layers, themes and wide customization options. It’s extremely user-friendly and is developed keeping things simple and straightforward.
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