Leaflet Maps Marker (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps) vs Slick Google Map

As of January 2020, the free version of the Maps Marker plugin has earned its retirement: It will still be usable, but it we will only add occasional security updates, no new features and bugfixes. Our recommendation is to upgrade to Maps Marker Pro – read more in our sticky forum post & retirement FAQ at https://www.mapsmarker.com/news/leaflet-maps-marker-retirement We are working hard on delivering the best mapping solution available – helping you to share your favorite spots and tracks. Display locations and directions on your WordPress site. Organize customized icons in tidy layers on a variety of maps. Leaflet Maps Marker is your individual Geo-CMS that features highest security standards and a moral code. With Leaflet Maps Marker, you can pin your favorites places with markers, search for locations by using geocoding providers like MapQuest Geocoding or Google Places show directions for your locations, choose from over 1000 free, customizable icons from Maps Icons Collection, add popup description text or images for each marker, organize your markers in layers, choose an individual basemap, size and zoom level for each marker and layer map display your maps by just adding a shortcode – e.g. [mapsmarker marker=”1″] – to posts, pages, widgets and templates on the basemap of your choice: Open Street Map, Google Maps (road, satellite, hybrid, terrain), Bing (aerial, aerials + labels, road), Mapbox (road, satellite) and any custom WMTS-map This plugin is built by a team with a vision. We follow a moral code and value the plugin’s security, your privacy and the documentation of our work. Read our mission statement here. FULL FEATURE LIST Frontend show directions for your locations using Google Maps, yournavigation.org or openrouteservice.org configure up to 10 WMS servers to display additional information from external geo data providers (like the European Environment Agency) on your maps export your markers as KML file for displaying in Google Earth (view screenshot) or Google Maps (view screenshot) export your markers as GeoJSON for embedding in external websites or apps subscribe to your markers via GeoRSS or for embedding in external websites or apps export your markers and layers as XLSX, XLS, CSV or ODS-file show recent marker entries in a widget anywhere on your site unobtrusive scale control keyboard navigation support for maps display a list of markers below layer maps show standalone maps in fullscreen mode automatically generated geo sitemap for all maps (for submitting to Google) automatically add microformat geo-markup to maps to make them machine-readable create QR codes for standalone maps automatically add meta-tags with location information to maps use maps that do not reflect the real world (e.g. game, indoor or photo maps) by adding basemaps created by maptiler Backend support for geocoding providers MapQuest Geocoding and Google Geocoding organize your markers in layers or multi-layer-maps option to switch between simplified and advanced editor TinyMCE button for easily searching and adding maps on post/pages edit screen support for custom marker timestamps for more precise KML animations (view example youtube video) option to set WordPress roles (administrator, editor, author, contributor) which are allowed to add/edit/delete markers and layers option to add marker directly to posts or pages without saving them to your database audit log for changes on markers & layers (saving first created by/on and last updated by/on info) mass actions for markers (assignment to layers, deletions, duplications) option to reset plugin settings to defaults dynamic preview of maps in backend (no need to reload) option to select plugin default language in settings for backend and frontend WordPress Admin Bar integration to quickly access plugins features admin dashboard widget showing latest markers support for google maps and bing map localization (cultures) TECHNICAL DETAILS Frontend full support for responsive designs (automatic resizing of maps if viewport is wider than map width) full RTL (Right-to-Left) language support full UTF8-support for cyrillic, chinese or other alphabets on marker/layername and marker popup text support for 46 languages – please check out our translations platform if you want to contribute support for Retina displays to display maps in a higher resolution GeoJSON feeds for every marker and layer with JSONP support option to select plugin default language in settings for backend and frontend Backend WordPress MultiSite compatibility integrated check for known incompatible plugins (and instructions on how to fix) use of WordPress settings API for storing options TinyMCE editor on backend for editing popup texts dynamic changelog to show all changes since your last plugin update Security Coding: best practice (use of prepared SQL statements to prevent SQL injections; use of WordPress nounces on forms to prevent attacks and input mistakes; use of custom function names and enqueue plugin scripts/css only on plugin pages to prevent conflicts with other plugins) smooth update functions complete uninstall: one-click removal with zero data residue (also on WordPress MultiSite installations) 46 TRANSLATIONS – AND COUNTING! We feature full RTL (right-to-left) language support as well as full support for cyrillic, chinese and other characters with UTF-8. Leaflet Maps Marker makes it easy to switch between languages. Thanks to over 100 translators around the world, more languages are added regularly. Please feel free to contribute (and earn a license key in return) at https://translate.mapsmarker.com Available translations Afrikaans (af) thanks to Hans Arabic (ar) thanks to Abdelouali Benkheil, Aladdin Alhamda, Nedal Elghamry, yassin and Abdelouali Benkheil Bengali (ba_BD) thanks to Nur Hasan Bosnian (bs_BA) thanks to Kenan Dervišević Bulgarian (bg_BG) thanks to Andon Ivanov Catalan (ca) thanks to Vicent Cubells, Efraim Bayarri and Marta Espinalt Chinese (zh_CN) thanks to John Shen and ck Chinese (zh_TW) thanks to jamesho Ho Croatian (hr) thanks to Neven Pausic, Alan Benic and Marijan Rajic Czech (cs_CZ) thanks to Viktor Kleiner and Vlad Kuzba Danish (da_DK) thanks to Mads Dyrmann Larsen and Peter Erfurt Dutch (nl_NL) thanks to Marijke Metz, Patrick Ruers, Fokko van der Leest and Hans Temming English (en_US) Finnish (fi_FI) thanks to Jessi Bjoerk French (fr_FR) thanks to Vincèn Pujol and Rodolphe Quiedeville, Fx Benard, cazal cédric, Fabien Hurelle and Thomas Guignard Galician (gl_ES) thanks to Fernando Coello German (de_DE) Greek (el) thanks to Philios Sazeides, Evangelos Athanasiadis and Vardis Vavoulakis Hebrew (he_IL) thanks to Alon Gilad and kobi levi Hindi (hi_IN) thanks to by Outshine Solutions and Guntupalli Karunakar Hungarian (hu_HU) thanks to István Pintér and Csaba Orban Indonesian (id_ID) thanks to Andy Aditya Sastrawikarta, Emir Hartato and Phibu Reza Italian (it_IT) thanks to Luca Barbetti and Angelo Giammarresi Japanese (ja) thanks to Shu Higashi and Taisuke Shimamoto Korean (ko_KR) thanks to Andy Park Latvian (lv) thanks to Juris Orlovs and Eriks Remess Lithuanian (lt_LT) thanks to Donatas Liaudaitis Malawy (ms_MY) thanks to Mohd Zulkifli Norwegian/Bokmal (nb_NO) thanks to Inge Tang Polish (pl_PL) translation thanks to Pawel Wyszynski, Tomasz Rudnicki, Robert Pawlak, Daniel and Paul Dworniak Portuguese (pt_BR) thanks to Fabio Bianchi, Andre Santos and Antonio Hammerl Portuguese (pt_PT) translation thanks to Joao Campos Romanian (ro_RO) translation thanks to Arian, Daniel Codrea and Flo Bejgu, http://www.inboxtranslation.com Russian (ru_RU) thanks to Ekaterina Golubina (supported by Teplitsa of Social Technologies) and Vyacheslav Strenadko Slovak (sk_SK) thanks to Zdenko Podobny Slovenian (sl_SL) thanks to Anna Dukan Spanish (es_ES) thanks to David Ramirez, Alvaro Lara, Ricardo Viteri, Juan Valdes and Marta Espinalt Spanish (es_MX) thanks to Victor Guevara and Eze Lazcano Swedish (sv_SE) thanks to Swedish translation thanks to Olof Odier, Tedy Warsitha, Dan Paulsson, Elger Lindgren, Anton Andreasson and Tony Lygnersjö Thai (th) thanks to Makarapong Chathamma and Panupong Siriwichayakul Turkish (tr_TR) thanks to Emre Erkan and Mahir Tosun Uighur (ug) thanks to Yidayet Begzad Ukrainian (uk_UK) thanks to Andrexj and Sergey Zhitnitsky and Mykhailo Vietnamese (vi) thanks to Hoai Thu Yiddish (yi) thanks to Raphael Finkel For full credits of each translations please visit https://www.mapsmarker.com/languages (credit links had to be removed from readme-file as they were considered as spam by WordPress :-/ ) Need more power? Try Maps Marker Pro latest [leaflet.js](http://www.leafletjs.com) version for higher performance & usability significantly improved performance for Google basemaps by using the leaflet plugin GoogleMutant pre-loading for tiles beyond the edge of the visible map to prevent showing background behind tiles images when panning a map animated marker clustering organize your markers in categories and to toggle their visibility on frontend WPML/Polylang translation support for multilingual maps dynamic list of markers supporting paging, searching and sorting – including distance from current position home button allowing your visitors to reset the map to its original state display GPX tracks, elevation chars and waypoints display your markers in the augmented-reality browser layar mobile web app support and optimized mobile viewport geolocation – show-and-follow with real-time updates support for GeoJSON import and export for bulk additions and bulk updates of markers HTML5 fullscreen maps minimaps custom Google Maps styling option to remove backlinks upload icon button & custom icon directory backup and restore of settings MapsMarker API and MMPAPI class access whitelabel backend admin pages advanced permission settings improved performance for layer maps with a huge number of markers (parsing of GeoJSON is up to 3 times faster) improved performance for layer maps by asynchronous loading of markers via GeoJSON support for dynamic switching between simplified and advanced editor (no more reloads needed) support for filtering of marker icons on backend (based on filename) support for bulk updates of marker maps on the tools page for selected layers only option to add markernames to popups automatically map moves back to initial position after popup is closed option to disable loading of Google Maps API for higher performance if alternative basemaps are used only map parameters can be overwritten within shortcodes (e.g. [mapsmarker marker=”1″ height=”100″]) tool for monitoring “active shortcodes for already deleted maps” layer maps: center map on markers and open popups by clicking on list of marker entries support for shortcodes in popup texts support for setting global maximum zoom level to 21 (tiles from basemaps with lower native zoom levels will be upscaled automatically) duplicate markers improved accessibility/screen reader support by using proper alt texts Parsing of shortcodes in popuptexts optimized editing workflow – no more reloads needed due to AJAX support highlight a marker on a layer map by opening its popup via shortcode attribute [mapsmarker layer=”1″ highlightmarker=”2″] or by adding ?highlightmarker=2 to the URL where the map is embedded XML sitemaps integration: improved local SEO value by automatically adding links to KML maps to your XML sitemaps (if plugin “Google XML Sitemaps” is active) support for sorting list of markers below layer maps by distance from layer center improved backend usability by listing all contents (posts, pages, CPTs, widgets) where each shortcode is used Marker validity check for layer assignements RESTful API allowing you to access some of the common core functionalities Javascript Events API for LeafletJS to to attach events handlers to markers and layers new option to open popups on mouse hover instead of mouse click Pretty permalinks with customizable slug for fullscreen maps and APIs (e.g. yourdomain.com/maps/fullscreen/marker/1) support for tooltips to display the marker name as small text on top of marker icons support for AMP optimized mobile pages new widget “show latest marker map” list all markers page enhancement: dropdown added to filter markers by layer loading indicator for GeoJSON download and marker clustering global basemap setting “nowrap”: (if set to true, tiles will not load outside the world width instead of repeating, default: false) frequent updates dedicated and priority support from the plugin author non-expiring license keys If you want to compare the free and pro version side by side, please visit https://www.mapsmarker.com/comparison. Interested? Check out our demo maps (including admin area access) or start a free trial of Maps Marker Pro. Leaflet Maps Marker also includes a pro upgrader which allows you to start a free 30 day trial easily with a few clicks. Plugin’s Official Site https://www.mapsmarker.com Affiliate program – Reseller program – FAQ – Docs – Support – Twitter – Facebook – Translations – Newsletter Licence Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, please consider upgrading to the pro version. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License included with this plugin for more details. Licenses for used libraries, services and images Leaflet.js, Copyright (c) 2010-2011: Cloudemade, Copyright (c) 2010-current year: Vladimir Agafonkin http://www.leafletjs.com OpenStreetMap – The Free Wiki World Map: OpenStreetMap License Map Icons Collection by Nicolas Mollet – https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com Datasource OGD Vienna maps: Stadt Wien, Creative Commons Attribution (by) http://data.wien.gv.at Jquery TimePicker, by Trent Richardson, http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/, licence: GPL Adress autocompletion powered by Google Places API Map center icon Joseph Wain – Creative Commons Attribution (by) Plus-, json-, layer-, language- & csv-export icon by icon by Yusuke Kamiyamane – Creative Commons Attribution (by) Question Mark icon by RandomJabber Home icon by Pro Theme Design – Creative Commons Attribution (by) Images for changelog from Firefox release notes, licence: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0) Home-Icon from Pro Theme Design, licence: Creative Commons Attribution (by) Editor-Switch-Icon by AMAZIGH Aneglus, license: GNU/GPL Submenu icons from Bijou and Iconic icon sets (GPL) PHPExcel for import/export http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/ (LGPL) Special thanks to Sindre Wimberger (http://www.sindre.at) for help with bugfixing & geo-consulting Julia Loew (http://www.weiderand.net) for logo and corporate design WordPress-Settings-API-Class by Aliso the geek (http://alisothegeek.com/2011/01/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial-1/) Hind who originally release a basic Leaflet plugin (not available anymore) which I used partly as a basis for Leaflet Maps Marker plugin shramov for bing and google maps plugins for leaflet Synonyms: Map Maker – …

A simple, intuitive Google Map / OpenStreetMap plugin that installs as a Gutenberg block and a shortcode. Packed with useful features — geo-mashup of posts, KML overlays, marker icons, address geocoding — and fully free and open source. No subscriptions, no SaaS, no telemetry. Slick Google Map lets you embed maps using either: Google Maps — requires your own API key (configurable per-site). Leaflet / OpenStreetMap — no key required, free tile service. Features: Insert maps via the Slick Google Map Gutenberg block (with a multi-marker repeater) or the [slick_map] shortcode. Classic Editor users get a Slick Map media button above the editor that opens a dialog with the same repeater. Marker geo-mashup — aggregate every post/page that has lat/lng custom fields onto a single map. KML and GPX overlays — drop a track or boundary onto any map. KML works on both providers; GPX is Leaflet-only. Address geocoding — write address="Vienna, Austria" instead of coordinates. Geocoded once per address and cached for 30 days. Uses your Google Geocoding API key if set, falls back to Nominatim/OSM otherwise. Coordinate formats — accepts decimal (48.2082) and DMS (48°12'29.5"N) in any marker. Marker icons — bundled set of 13 modern SVG pins (default, restaurant, lodging, cafe, bar, museum, airport, rail, shop, camera, mountain, castle, religious), plus your own URL. Legacy filenames from the 2014-era plugin are auto-aliased. Map controls — toggle the zoom / map-type / street-view / scroll-wheel / drag controls per map. Layers — Google bicycling and traffic overlays on demand. 45° aerial tilt — passed through to Google as tilt: 45. Only takes visible effect on vector Map IDs, or on satellite/hybrid view over the specific cities where Google has 45° aerial imagery. No effect on raster maps or on Leaflet. Custom Google styles JSON — for branded maps without cloud-styled Map IDs. Wiki-style links in marker titles: [[https://example.com|Display text]] becomes a real link. Compatible with WordPress page caches — no per-visitor state in the rendered HTML, no AJAX side-effects. No fixed-cost dependencies — Leaflet / OSM is free; Google Maps is pay-as-you-go with a generous monthly free tier (≈28k map loads/month at no charge). History: Slick Google Map 1.0 is a rewrite of the original plugin version 0.3, which was itself a fork of the Comprehensive Google Map Plugin by Alexander Zagniotov (2011–2014). Version 1.0.0 is a complete rewrite for WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 8.1+ — see the “Parity & rewrite” section below for what changed. Insert a map via the Slick Google Map Gutenberg block, the Slick Map media button in the Classic Editor, or the [slick_map] shortcode. Optionally aggregate posts/pages that have lat/lng custom fields onto a single map (“geo-mashup”), and overlay a KML or GPX file. Shortcode [slick_map lat="48.2082" lng="16.3738" zoom="13" height="400px" provider="leaflet"] Geo-mashup of posts and pages: [slick_map mashup="post,page"] KML or GPX overlay: [slick_map kml="https://example.com/track.kml"] [slick_map provider="leaflet" gpx="https://example.com/hike.gpx"] KML works with both providers; GPX requires the Leaflet provider (Google’s Maps JS API does not natively render GPX). Markers with addresses and custom icons (nested [marker] children): [slick_map zoom="6"] [marker address="Vienna, Austria" title="Home"] [marker lat="52.5" lng="13.4" title="Berlin" icon="https://example.com/star.png"] [/slick_map] Each [marker] accepts address (geocoded once and cached) or explicit lat/lng, plus optional title and icon. The icon attribute accepts either an https://… URL pointing to your own image, or one of the bundled short names: default, restaurant, lodging, cafe, bar, museum, airport, rail, shop, camera, mountain, castle, religious. Legacy filenames from the 2014-era plugin (1-default.png, museum_naval.png, hotel_0star.png, …) are auto-aliased to the nearest modern equivalent. For geo-mashup markers, set a marker_icon custom field on each post to override the default pin for just that post. Map controls and layers Toggle Google’s built-in UI: zoomcontrol, maptypecontrol, streetviewcontrol, scrollwheel, draggable (all default true). Google-only overlays: showbike="true", showtraffic="true". 45° aerial tilt: tilt="45". Only takes visible effect on a Google vector Map ID, or in satellite/hybrid view over cities where Google has 45° imagery. Ignored elsewhere. Custom Google map styles JSON: styles='[{"featureType":"poi","stylers":[{"visibility":"off"}]}]' (ignored when a Map ID is configured — cloud styling takes precedence). DMS coordinates Marker lat / lng values accept either decimal (48.2082) or DMS form (48°12'29.5"N). Wiki-style links Marker titles support [[https://example.com|Display text]] to embed real links, or [[Plain Page]] for unlinked highlighted text. Geocoding When a Google Maps API key is configured the plugin uses the Google Geocoding API (same Cloud project as Maps; enable Geocoding API alongside Maps JavaScript). Otherwise it falls back to Nominatim/OpenStreetMap. Results are cached in a 30-day transient per address, so each unique address is geocoded at most once. Privacy Using the Google provider loads scripts and tiles from maps.googleapis.com. Using the Leaflet/OSM provider loads tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org and the Leaflet library from unpkg.com. Choose the provider that matches your site’s privacy posture. Parity & rewrite Version 1.0.0 is a complete rewrite of the 2015 codebase. The old plugin’s PHP and JavaScript were written against WordPress 3.6 and PHP 5, used the long-retired Google JSAPI loader, geocoded addresses on every page view, shipped 300+ marker PNGs of mixed provenance, and had several unauthenticated AJAX write paths in wp-admin. Re-issuing it as-is on a modern stack was not viable, so the codebase was rewritten from scratch around the same shortcode vocabulary. What you keep. Posts written against the very old [google-map-v3 ...] shortcode still render. The plugin registers google-map-v3 as a back-compatibility alias that maps the still-useful attributes (width, height, zoom, kml, maptype, addmarkermashup, addmarkerlist, maptypecontrol, zoomcontrol, streetviewcontrol, scrollwheel, draggable, showbike, showtraffic, tiltfourtyfive, styles) onto the new renderer. The Google provider is selected by default for these legacy shortcodes, the old addmarkerlist="addr{}icon{}desc|..." packed format is parsed transparently, and the most-used legacy icon filenames (1-default.png, museum_naval.png, hotel_0star.png, …) are aliased to the bundled modern SVG set. What’s gone for good. Some features can’t come back because the upstream services or APIs disappeared: panoramio — Google shut Panoramio down in November 2016. pancontrol — Google removed panControl from the Maps API in 2017; there is no flag to set anymore. google.maps.KmlLayer — deprecated April 2026; replaced internally with a fetch + KML→GeoJSON renderer. The old https://www.google.com/jsapi loader — retired by Google in 2017; the modern loader requires a user-supplied API key. What’s not yet back. Marker clustering, directions/routing, geolocation marker, and marker drop/bounce animations are reachable from the rewrite but not yet wired up. See PARITY.md on GitHub for the full, categorised list (restored / new / missing-but-doable / deprecated-by-upstream / deliberately-dropped) plus a migration cheat-sheet. What was dropped on purpose. The sidebar widget (Classic Widgets is in long-term legacy mode), the saved-shortcodes admin library (it was the largest single security surface in the old plugin), and the 300+ marker PNG library (replaced with 13 modern SVGs plus a legacy-filename alias map) — see PARITY.md for the rationale on each. Contributors Current maintainer Norbert Preining Original author of the upstream “Comprehensive Google Map Plugin” (2011–2014) Alexander Zagniotov — thanks for the original work, released under GPL. Additional contributors Honza Rameš