Interactive World Maps – WordPress GPL Plugin

Interactive World Maps GPL Overview:

This is a WordPress plugin to create as many maps as you want, with interactive and colored markers, continents, countries or regions.
(Check out the standalone non-WordPress version here)

THIS PLUGIN IS IN MAINTENANCE MODE AND WILL ONLY RECEIVE IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATES. NEW FEATURES ARE NOT PLANNED.

Show Different Regions

You will be able to show hundreds of different kinds of maps, already included:

• A map of the entire world.
• A continent or a sub-continent. (Africa, Europe, Americas, Asia, Oceania and all their sub-continents)
• A country. (virtually all the countries in the world are included, featuring the most requested: USA, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, India, Australia…)
• A country is divided by its regions. *
• A state in the United States.
• The United States is divided into metropolitan areas.
• A state in the United States is divided into metropolitan areas.

Color Regions or add Markers

You can add active colored regions to the map, and display them in 2 different ways:

• As Regions – It will color the whole region, for example, a continent, subcontinent, country, country province, or a US state.
• As Markers -It will display a colored bubble in the chosen regions, which can be a city, a state or a country.

Add Interactivity

You can add interactivity to the active regions:

• A Tooltip– A tooltip will be displayed by default on hover with the information you provide.
• An Action? You can set up different kinds of actions for when the user clicks in an active area. You can make a new URL open, or simply display a message. Advanced users will be able to create their own Javascript functions for customized actions, like opening information with a lightbox effect.

Customizable

You will be able to customize the visual of your maps:

• Background color;
• Box border width and color;
• Inactive regions color;
• Individual colors for each active region;
• Markers size;
• Width and Height of the map;

Add the Maps anywhere on your website

You can use a shortcode to include the maps in posts, pages and even in sidebar widgets! You can also add the maps to your template, with a simple php function.

Responsive

If no width is specified it will load with the maximum width available in the container div. For example, it will load and adapt with different sizes for phones/ipads/laptops. However, after loaded, it will not change size if you resize the window.

Since the plugin includes an option to make the maps fully Responsive. This will use jQuery to check if the window size changed and will redraw the map with the new available space.

Cross-device and browser compatible

The maps are built in SVG, no flash is used and therefore they will display in Mac products.

CSS Hacks made easy

There are a few features that the Google Geochart API doesn’t provide by default, but the plugin provides a ‘Custom CSS Generator’ to help implement some features like the hover colour change effect, implementing font icons as markers, and changing the border colour, among others.

Where to use it?

This plugin is perfect for:

• Travel Websites – Create maps to display destinations and link to pages about a specific location
• Traveler Website – Display a map with destinations/countries visited
• Multinational Companies – Create maps of the cities/countries where they operate
• Small Companies – Show the location of the business in a country map
• NGOs – Create maps of NGO projects around the world
• Infographics – Display simple-to-read maps with various information
• And much more other applications! Be creative!

Compatible with all the popular WordPress Themes

Including:

• Divi – by ElegantThemes
• Avada
• X Theme

This plugin uses the powerful Google Geochart API which creates SVG vector maps.

Featured in

• Create Interactive World Maps with WordPress – wpContent.co.uk
• WPNuggets – Interactive World Maps Plugin Review
• WPMU – 7 WordPress Map Plugins That Put The World At Your Fingertips
• Tripwire Magazine – 75+ Best WordPress Plugins? Want an Unfair Advantage?
• Item Collection – Great for Politics
• Come creare mappe geografiche interattive e personalizzate (Italian)

Notes

* The maps of countries divided by regions include the main regions of the specified country. The plugin calls all of them ‘Provinces’ but in reality, they could be states, regions, provinces or counties, depending on the country. They are the first level of division of a country. In the particular case of the UK, it only includes 4 regions (ENG, NIR, SCT and WLS). The maps of some small countries divided by regions are not available, since the country is too small (Malta for example). If you need to make sure a map divided by regions is available, contact us via the support tab.