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>
</ol>
<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>
<ul>
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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>
</li>
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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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</ul>
<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.

prakash.m

<p>Power your site with this WordPress-integrated map making & location management system possessing mapping tools to create store locators, store finders, and other location address maps. Manage and display a few or thousands of your important stores, points of interest, or product locations anywhere on Earth using Google Maps.<br />
Its strength is best seen in its flexibility to allow you to easily manage any number of locations from your WordPress admin interface and the several addons featuring top-level features that are available to further boost its capabilities. Also referred to as an address map, address location map, locator map, store finder, dealer locator (locater), shop finder.<br />
mapwidget allow you to search any location from front end. want professional version check <a href="http://magento.ifyouknowit.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Go pro</a></p>
<p>Example usage:         1. Go to admin mapworks settings and put google map api key of yours         2. in your page/post text/editer put this line:<br />
        [mapworks stext=”[php] if(isset($_POST[‘smap’])){ echo $_POST[‘smap’];} [/php]”]</p>
<pre><code>    in your php page you may put      <?php  
    if(function_exists('mapworks') ){              mapworks($_POST['smap']);     }     ?> 
     <?php  
    if(function_exists('mapworks') ){                 
     print do_shortcode('[mapworks stext="'.$_POST['smap'].'"]');     }     ?> 
     best option is in your page/post text editer in admin panel put this line.      
    [mapworks stext="[php] if(isset($_POST['smap'])){ echo $_POST['smap'];} [/php]"] </code></pre>


Mapworks

A WordPress-integrated map & location management interface. Quickly create street locator maps

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