VillaTheme

Andy Ha

If you run a business with multiple locations, making it easy for customers to find your stores is essential. Whether you own a retail chain, franchise, dealership, or service center, a well-designed store locator helps customers search, locate, and navigate to your nearest stores effortlessly. That’s where 9Map comes in.
Meet 9Map – Map Multi Locations – a powerful and easy-to-use multi-store location plugin for WordPress, allowing you to display multiple store locations on an interactive Google Maps-powered map. With search, filtering, and geolocation features, customers can quickly find nearby stores, view store details, and get directions with ease.
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<a href="https://new2new.com/?item=9map" title="Demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Try the Demo</a> | <a href="https://docs.villatheme.com/?item=9map" title="Documents" rel="nofollow ugc">Documents</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/villatheme" title="VillaTheme" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook group</a>
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<h3>How to install and use the plugin</h3>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ktkimfOMOGM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>Key Features:</h3>
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Display Multiple Store Locations: Add and showcase unlimited store locations on an interactive map.
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Easy Store Search and Filtering: Let users search by address, store name, categories, or custom fields.
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Geolocation Support: Automatically detect users’ locations and display nearby stores.
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Customizable Map Design: Adjust zoom levels, map styles, markers, and layouts to fit your website.
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Store Details Pages: Provide comprehensive information about each store, including address, contact details, website, and opening hours.
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Shortcode Integration: Easily add a store locator, store lists, or detailed store pages anywhere on your site.
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Distance-Based Sorting: Show results based on proximity or alphabetical order.
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Category and Custom Fields Support: Organize stores into categories and add custom fields for additional information.
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Store Search Results Customization: Choose which store details appear in search results, including images, descriptions, contact info, and more.
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Customizable Display: Modify how store details appear on the map and in lists.
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► Unlike many store locator plugins, 9Map – Map Multi Locations is the perfect solution for businesses with multiple locations, helping customers find stores quickly while enhancing user experience.
<h3>Important Notice:</h3>
<ul>
<li>It is released on WordPress.org and you can use the plugin as free to build themes for sale.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3rd party libraries & service</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin relies on Semantic UI, Select2, jQuery Address, JqColorPicker to build the settings function to work properly. 
► <a href="http://github.com/semantic-org/semantic-ui/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semantic UI: Form, Accordion, Button, Calendar, Checkbox, Dimmer, Dropdown, Form, Grid, Header, Icon, Input, Label, Loader, Menu, Message, Modal, Popup, Progress, Segment, Step, Tab, Table, Transition </a> 
► <a href="https://github.com/select2/select2/blob/master/LICENSE.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Select2</a> 
► <a href="https://jquery.com/license/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery Address</a> 
► <a href="https://github.com/PitPik/tinyColorPicker" rel="nofollow ugc">JqColorPicker</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to Google maps API to obtain location information, it’s needed to show the address information and forecasts in the included widget. 
It sends the user’s location every time the Map is loaded (If the location isn’t available and/or the user hasn’t given their consent, it displays a configurable default location). 
This service is provided by “Google”: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of use</a>, <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a>.
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<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.villatheme.com/?item=9map" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://villatheme.com/extensions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Project Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.villatheme.com/?item=9map" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://villatheme.com/knowledge-base/security-is-our-priority/" rel="nofollow ugc">Report Bugs/Issues</a></li>
</ul>

9Map – Map Multi Locations

A powerful and easy-to-set-up store locator plugin for WordPress with interactive maps, geolocation, search filters, and customizable layouts.

Benjamin Pick

Provides geographic information detected by an IP adress. This can be used in themes or other plugins, as a shortcode, or via CSS body classes. The city & country names are translated in different languages (<a href="https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services/#Languages-8" rel="nofollow ugc">supported languages</a>).
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>You can use one of these data sources (see <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/FAQ#which-data-source-should-i-choose" rel="nofollow ugc">comparison</a>):
<ul>
<li>Free (default source): <a href="http://www.hostip.info/" rel="nofollow ugc">HostIP.info</a> (IPv4 only)</li>
<li>Free with registration: <a href="http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/" rel="nofollow ugc">Maxmind GeoIP2 Lite City</a>, automatically updated weekly</li>
<li>Commercial: <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-country-database" rel="nofollow ugc">Maxmind GeoIP2 City</a> or <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city" rel="nofollow ugc">Maxmind GeoIP2 Country</a></li>
<li>Commercial Web-API: <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-services" rel="nofollow ugc">Maxmind GeoIP2 Precision</a> (City, Country or Insights)</li>
<li>Hosting-Provider dependent: <a href="https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168236-What-does-CloudFlare-IP-Geolocation-do-" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare</a> or <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/enhanced-cloudfront-customization/" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon AWS CloudFront</a> (Country)</li>
<li>Free or Commercial Web-API: <a href="https://ipstack.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ipstack</a></li>
<li>Commercial Web-API via AWS Marketplace: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-k5gjowexrefl2" rel="nofollow ugc">Fastah</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Provides these 5 functions (see <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-PHP" rel="nofollow ugc">API Documentation</a>):
<ul>
<li><code>geoip_detect2_get_info_from_ip($ip, $locales = array('en'), $options = array())</code>: Lookup Geo-Information of the specified IP</li>
<li><code>geoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip($locales = array('en'), $options = array())</code>: Lookup Geo-Information of the current website user</li>
<li><code>geoip_detect2_get_current_source_description(...)</code>: Return a human-readable label of the currently chosen source.</li>
<li><code>geoip_detect2_get_external_ip_adress()</code>: Fetch the internet adress of the webserver</li>
<li><code>geoip_detect2_get_client_ip()</code>: Get client IP (even if it is behind a reverse proxy)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>For the property names, see the results of a specific IP in the wordpress backend (under Tools > Geolocation IP Detection).</li>
<li>You can include these properties into your posts and pages by using the shortcode <code>[geoip_detect2 property="country.name" default="(country could not be detected)" lang="en"]</code> (where ‘country.name’ can be one of the other property names as well, and ‘default’ and ‘lang’ are optional).</li>
<li>You can show or hide content by using a shortcode <code>[geoip_detect2_show_if country="FR, DE" not_city="Berlin"]TEXT[/geoip_detect2_show_if]</code>. See <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-Shortcodes#show-or-hide-content-depending-on-the-location" rel="nofollow ugc">Shortcode Documentation</a>.</li>
<li>When enabled on the options page, it adds CSS classes to the body tag such as <code>geoip-province-HE</code>, <code>geoip-country-DE</code> and <code>geoip-continent-EU</code>.</li>
<li>If you are using a page cache, it is recommended to use the AJAX mode (see <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-AJAX" rel="nofollow ugc">AJAX</a>)</li>
<li>When enabled on the options page, the client IP respects a reverse proxy of the server.</li>
<li>If you are using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/" rel="ugc">Contact Form 7</a>, you can use these shortcodes:
<ul>
<li>A select input with all countries, the detected country being selected by default: <code>[geoip_detect2_countries mycountry]</code></li>
<li>A text input that is pre-filled with the detected city (or other property): <code>[geoip_detect2_text_input city property:city lang:fr id:id class:class default:Paris]</code></li>
<li>Geolocation information for the email text: <code>[geoip_detect2_user_info]</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>If you are using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/" rel="ugc">WP Forms</a>, you can use this shortcode:
<ul>
<li>Geolocation information for the email text: <code>[geoip_detect2_user_info]</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Together with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/svg-flags-lite/" rel="ugc">SVG Flags</a> you can show the flag of the detected country: <code>[geoip_detect2_current_flag]</code> (see <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-Shortcodes#add-a-flag-of-the-visitors-country" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a>)</li>
</ul>
See <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> for more info.
<h4>How can I use these functions?</h4>
<ul>
<li>You could choose the currency of the store based on the country name</li>
<li>You could pre-fill the shipping country</li>
<li>You could show the store nearest to your customer</li>
<li>You show or hide content specific to a geographic target group</li>
<li>Etc. … You tell me! I’m rather curious what you’ll do with this plugin!</li>
<li>Be careful to comply to the applicable laws. For example Regulation (EU) 2018/302 …</li>
<li>If you need to get the user’s timezone, it is more accurate to use JS solutions.</li>
</ul>
System Requirements: You will need at least PHP 7.2.5 . Also, if you use the plugin WooCommerce, you’ll need at least WooCommerce 3.9.0 .
GDPR: See <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/FAQ#is-this-plugin-gdpr-compliant" rel="nofollow ugc">Is this plugin GDPR-compliant?</a>
This extension is “charity-ware”. If you are happy with it, please <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BSYUZHS8FH3CL" rel="nofollow ugc">leave a tip</a> for the benefit of <a href="http://www.jmem-hainichen.de/homepage" rel="nofollow ugc">this charity</a>. (See <a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/FAQ#what-you-mean-by-this-plugin-is-charity-ware" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> for more infos.)
<a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Here are other ways to contribute to the development of this plugin.</a>
This product can provide GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
<ul>
<li>Does <code>geoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip()</code> return the same country, regardless of where you are visiting the site from? </li>
<li>Maybe your server has a reverse proxy configured. You can check this: Go to the options page and look for “reverse proxy”. Are there 2 IPs listed there? If so, which one corresponds to your <a href="https://www.whatismyip.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">public IP</a>?</li>
<li>Or maybe you are using a site cache plugin. Then enable the option <code>Disable caching a page that contains a shortcode or API call to geo-dependent functions.</code></li>
</ul>
<a href="https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/Troubleshooting" rel="nofollow ugc">More Troubleshooting Hints</a>

Geolocation IP Detection

Great plugin although the documentation could be better

Works well

Great plugin, easy to use


Really well written plugin that does exactly what it promises, includes well written documentation.



To those who wrote negative reviews about detection that is not the author's fault, he links you to several providers that issue that data, you literally could not ask for more.


Works as Advertised

Provides geographic information detected by an IP adress.

9Map – Map Multi Locations vs Geolocation IP Detection