The first release was based on “address”, then to include a point on the maps new instance of google geocoder was need, but google limits the number of this kind of request, read more here.

In this version new custom field “google-map-sc-latlng” was included to save the (Latitude,Longitude) for each address entered:

Now, you can include points on your maps using one of this custom fields considering this:

• If you use “google-map-sc-address”, the first time that you display a point, the “google-map-sc-latlng” value will be generated automatically.
• In order to use “google-map-sc-latlng” you need to include the latitude and longitude separated by comma.
• If you update “google-map-sc-address” you must delete the “google-map-sc-latlng” cause this point will be located based on the previews address.
• You can use “google-map-sc-latlng” only.
• If you are planning to display large number of point is better to use “google-map-sc-latlng” or generate them one by one to avoid large number of address requests at the same time. You can generate latitude and longitude using for instance: http://www.batchgeocode.com/lookup/
• You can attache more than one point per post/page but based on address or (latitude,longitude) see the example bellow.
• If you are displaying all the points under specific category, just the first costum field of each post will be used.

The shortcode options can be found in the first release.

Examples

This example shows the points attached to the posts under the category 42 cat=”42″ and display the links to the points at the bottom of the map, external_links=”true”.

and the custom fields looks like this:

Using the post “id” id = “335″.

Using specific address option in the sortcode (not the custom field) address=”3501 S.W. 130th Ave., Davie 33330″,width=”250″, height=”250″ and zoom=”8″.

Notes

The Info Window is showed when you are displaying post on your maps for example the posts under a category or when you use the post ID, just in these cases make sense to display the the title, thumbnail and excerpt of your posts.

You can change the html and the css of the Info Windows to cutomize it.

The shortcode name is google-map-sc

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The shortcode looks like:

and the custom field name is:
google-map-sc-address

Example

This map shows 5 popular events and the shortcode looks like:

• Allows to include more than one google map instance on your pages.
• You can use the shortcode on your post, pages and theme files.
• When you click on a point in the map the window box opened shows part of the content of your posts (post title, thumbnails, excerpt).
• You can customize the html of the info window box on your maps.
• One custom field define the address of a post.

Installation

Unzip the google-map-sc file into your plugins folder and activate it.
Go to the Google Map Shortcode Options page under settings and Insert your Google Api Key .

Use

Insert the address in the google-map-sc-address custom fields on your posts or pages.
Decide where to show your maps and paste the shortcode in there.
In your post/page using:

In your theme files using:

Shortcode Options

This shortcode support the following options:

address
You can include a map with a single specific address. For example:

id
The Map will display the address assigned to the post with this id. When you create or edit a post or page you will have a Custom Field with the name google-map-sc-address to assign an address to this entry.

cat
Display on the map all the address assigned to the posts under this specifics categories separated by comma.

number
(1 to 10) Number of points on the map.

zoom
Default 10. Initial zoom of your map.

width
Default 400. Width of your map

height
Default 400. Height of your map.

external_links
Include the links to the map points outside of the map

Note:

There is a limit in the number of requests to the google map services, so you can not include more than 10 points on maps by page,  read more here on Google Map API FAQ.

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