Micah Wood

<p><strong>Stellar Places</strong> is an intuitive plugin for easily creating, managing and displaying locations using Google Maps.</p>
<h4>How?</h4>
<p>Using this plugin is simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>In the WordPress admin, click on ‘Places’</li>
<li>Click on ‘Add New’ and create a new place.</li>
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<p>Once you have added a new place, you will be able to access the listing view and single location view, both of which will automatically have maps associated with them.  If you wish to insert a map in a custom location, just use the <code>[stellar_places_map]</code> shortcode (see FAQ section for more details).</p>
<h4>Why?</h4>
<p>There are plenty of Google Maps plugins for WordPress, but very few actually use custom post types to manage locations. Additionally most don’t have a simple and intuitive interface.  Let’s take a look at some use cases where Stellar Places shines:</p>
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<p><strong>Store Locator</strong> – If you own a business that has multiple physical locations, this plugin will automatically feature a list of all store locations as well as provide a page for each store location, which is good for local SEO.</p>
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<p><strong>Local Events</strong> – If your organization sponsors or holds local events, this plugin makes it easy to display them all on a map, or even display subsets based on categories.</p>
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<p>Let us how know how you are using Stellar Places!</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Live map preview</li>
<li>Drag and drop marker relocation</li>
<li>Location pages for better SEO</li>
<li>Unlimited locations and maps</li>
<li>Mobile friendly, responsive maps</li>
<li>Easy map embeds via shortcode</li>
<li>Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upcoming Features</h4>
<p>If there is a feature or integration that you are interested in, please let me know. What I build will be entirely based on what my users need, so let your voice be heard by using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stellar-places" rel="ugc">support forum</a> or creating a <a href="https://github.com/wpscholar/stellar-places/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">new issue on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p><em>Banner Disclaimer</em>: The icon used in the banner was designed by <a href="http://www.iconarchive.com/show/flatwoken-icons-by-alecive/Apps-Google-Maps-icon.html" rel="nofollow ugc">alecive</a>.  It has been altered and used with the author’s permission under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license</a>.</p>
<h4>Special Thanks</h4>
<p>A very special thank you to our plugin translators:</p>
<p>Jacques Soulé (French) – http://wordpress-pour-vous.com/</p>


Stellar Places

I've used this plugin many times on multiple sites.  It has worked as expected every time.

Great plugin

Easily create, manage and display locations in a way that makes sense.

Matthew

<p>Event-O-Matic has been rewritten for WordPress 4. View details below.</p>
<p>The Event-O-Matic is an amazing plugin that allows rapid publishing of event listings to your website. Event-O-Matic allows your users to submit their own events and gives you the ability to moderate these events as they arrive to your site. Edit or reject submitted events and add them to your listings for the ultimate social driven event service. Event-O-Matic is also fully integrated with Google Maps to give each event clear location information within your city. View more information <a href="http://garvinmedia.com/eom" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>Other features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Easy media upload for events.</li>
<li>Sidebar widget with upcoming events listings.</li>
<li>Admin Dashboard for quick status previews.</li>
<li>Updated Google Maps Geolocation service.</li>
<li>Exportable to iCal formats</li>
</ul>


Event-O-Matic

Manage submissions to build a community-driven event listing. Allow users to submit events that you can easily review and moderate.

Stellar Places vs Event-O-Matic