Top 10+ Free Map Plugins for WordPress & WooCommerce

Want to integrate Google maps to your WordPress website? Fortunately, WordPress offers plenty of free plugins that you can use to easily embed Google/Bing/WikiMapia maps to your WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores. 

In this article, we are going to discuss some of the best ones that are available without any charge. 

But before we get to that, we need to tell you that WordPress can directly embed maps from Google maps. If you are not sure how to do that then read on.

Manual Process to Add Maps in WordPress

Although many Google maps exist in the market, you don’t necessarily need one if you are embedding a single map to your Contact Us page. For that, you can use Google Maps embed code. 

1. Visit Google maps
2. Click on the place that you want to add to your website
3. From the side menu, click ‘Share’ 
4. Now you will see the embed option displayed
5. Copy the code from this screen and paste it to the ‘Text’ area on your WYSIWYG editor in WordPress

Easy, right? But a lengthy process.

This process will work for a single map, but most real estate companies have to add maps from multiple locations regularly. For them, embedding maps like this on pages can be difficult. That’s where WordPress maps plugins come to help.

Benefits of using WordPress Maps Plugins

• These plugins provide a menu option in your content editor where you just have to type the address and it will generate a map that can be added to the content area with a single click. 
• The map plugins allow multiple customizations to maps, extra layers that can be used for explanations and signals
• Add markers, directions, and routes to your maps and make them interactive with WordPress maps plugins.

List of Best WordPress Maps for Your Website

Let’s discuss some of the best WordPress maps plugins that you can easily install on your website and use for free.

WP Google Maps

WP Google Maps is the most widely used Google maps plugin in the market. It is an open layer maps plugin which means you can add multiple layers on top of the original one for explanations. It offers iframes and shortcodes that you can add to the content section easily.

You can also add markers and assign them directions within the map so that your visitors can easily get to the place. It offers both free and paid versions. 

Features of WP Google Maps

• Create multiple maps and add them to your website with a click
• Add directions to your markers so that visitors can easily get to your location
• Add descriptions, images, links to your map markers.
• Add categories for your map markers 
• Create and filter markers by category
• Merge multiple maps and add layers
• Customize icons available in Google maps

WP Google Map Plugin

Another widely used Google maps plugin, WP Google Maps Plugin, let’s you easily create customized maps on top of original map layers. It also offers custom markers, street view option, map controls, and window messages for each location available on the map.  The map is fully responsive and can be customized according to multiple templates available in it. It also has auto-suggest enabled so you don’t have to write the complete address always.

Features of WP Google Maps Plugin

• Unlimited location options 
• Assign markers to each location and create window messages
• Categorize map markers and reuse them on other maps
• Assign a category to any location 
• Use shortcodes to add maps to posts and pages 

Ultimate Maps by Supsystic

Supsystic Ultimate Maps plugin is an alternative to Google maps. Google maps premium extension increased its prices and that was how Supsystic developed. It allows users to use Bing Maps, Open StreetMap, and Mapbox for adding to their website. The Ultimate maps plugin is used on over 100,000 websites and successfully does its job. You can get the Supsystic map for real estate, navigation, and address listings.

Features of Ultimate by Supsystic 

• An alternative to Google maps
• Offers customization on maps with descriptions, links, images, and more
• Market categories available
• Add map with shortcodes or PHP code

Maps Widget for Google Maps

Maps widget was created to add google maps to any website without a problem. It now offers its own Gutenberg block. When the plugin is installed, the gutenberg block appears thus making it easier for people to set up maps.

Features of Maps Widget

• Easily customize the size of maps
• Choose any layer or layout of the map from road, satellite, hybrid, and terrain
• Multiple google map layout templates available to choose from
• Create your own pins and add descriptions

Google Maps Easy

If you are looking to create customizable maps for your website that too in bulk then you need a completely customizable map creator plugin. Fortunately, Google Maps Easy plugin does that for you. It offers market categories and pin locations to make maps easy to use. Moreover, it also adds videos, images, and links to your customized map. You can add more layers over the current map to explain the distance more understandably. Google map easy plugin can be implemented with short codes and code embeds. It is a great map for real estate, route locators, and navigation firms.

Features of Google Map Easy

1. Get an unlimited number of markers added to your maps
2. Add assets such as text, images, videos, and phone numbers
3. Modify markers and save them as and when needed
4. Import Google map settings for all your maps when migrating to other hosting solutions
5. Create alternate routes and navigation patterns with your custom maps

Map Multi Marker

Creating an unlimited number of maps for your WordPress website is nowhere easy. But with the right plugin that can be done within minutes. With Map Multi Maker WordPress plugin, you can easily create an unlimited number of maps for your website and customize them accordingly. Multi maker plugin offers templates for each map. Moreover, you can create your own templates for the map. Whether you want to display tooltips, descriptions, or change the icons available, then that is also possible.

Features of Map Multi Maker

• Display an unlimited number of maps
• Create markers and add them to your website
• Save markers and pin icons
• Customize pin icons if needed
• Add tooltips and description boxes with each location
• Choose the type of map you want to be created such as terrain, satellite, road, or hybrid
• Easy import-export of map market settings

Snazzy Maps

Snazzy maps let you customize the maps that you have added to your website. It is not just an embedding plugin but a customization suite. You get a bulk of options including freestyle formats for maps, roads, locations, and more. You also get free personal and open-source maps that are pre-made but can be customized to your needs.

An instance of how you can discolor a map or change its look. In short, Snazzy maps is a smaller version of the cartoDB map creator.

Features of Snazzy Maps

• Hundreds of free customizations to choose from
• Apply Google Maps on your WordPress website.
• Google Maps API connection
• Get pre-made customized templates for maps and edit them on the go
• Embed maps with HTML code and shortcodes

Leaflet Map

With Leaflet maps, you get to create your own open street map. The leaflet map uses a JavaScript library on top of Google Maps. So, in a sense, you are not dealing with Google Maps but the leaflet map plugin itself creates the map. Whatever customizations you make are on the leaflet plugin. This ensures that all your data remains safe and you get the liberty to do as many customizations as you want. From changing the colors, creating routes, customizing icons, to adding descriptions, labels, and pinpoints, you can do everything.

Its dashboard keeps a copy of all the customizations so that you can easily roll them back if not needed.

Features of Leaflet Map 

• Import shortcodes to Google map or get them through the editor
• Customize map according
• Change zoom levels
• Easy implementation with shortcodes

Interactive Geo Maps

Interactive Geo Maps are perfect for anyone who is looking to create a geographical website. Mostly research firms use interactive maps to create research reports around them. Interactive Geo Maps enable these websites to create layered maps with regions and colored markers. They can also display the world map, continent maps, and single country maps all in different colors.

Features of Interactive Geo Maps

• Create responsive and cross-device
• Color countries, continents, regions 
• Customize icons with colored markers
• Set hover colors for your interactive maps
• Create actions for clicks, hover, and much more when creating maps

Flexible Map

Sometimes simple maps are the best maps especially when you have to create and embed maps all day long on a website. For data specialists, Flexible maps is a gold mine. They can use it to add maps by just adding the address in the search bar. The maps work smoothly and tell about the location, direction, and distance of each map. What the map plugin is doing is using the Google Maps API and running it across a set of commands to generate a navigational map. It doesn’t offer a lot of customizations, but it is still one of the simplest WordPress maps I came across.

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Features of Flexible Map

• Load maps through street address, Google URL, and location name
• Add shortcodes for your desired maps
• Show maps through PHP code changes or with code embed feature
• Supports maps on pages, posts, widgets, and even on the footer section

Gutenberg Map Block

Don’t want to install a separate plugin for customizations and creating maps on your website? You can use the Gutenberg map block. It is a simple block plugin that lets you add maps to your posts, pages, and product pages using the Gutenberg block.

Features of Gutenberg Map Block

• Add coordinates or address and it will fetch the map
• Change layout height and width
• Offers an API key to save data for the block

FAQs About WordPress Maps Plugins

1. Can You Use WordPress Maps Plugin to Add Map to Site Footer?

Yes, you can use any WordPress maps plugin to add a map to the footer section. Simply use the shortcode or the embed code on the footer widget area and the map will start to display itself. Most of the map plugins we added to the list support customizations even for website footer maps. 

2. How Can You Create WordPress Map Widget?

You don’t have to create a separate widget to display WordPress maps on your website. Simply add the shortcode or the embed code that you get from your desired WordPress map plugin and add it to the widget. The widget will display the map with all customization options.

3. Can You Use Google Maps for Free on Your Website?

Google Maps allow 25,000 free hits per day. If you are using a WordPress maps plugin, you can use the maps for free for an unlimited number of hits. It is because the maps plugin uses Google API to display map data on your website. In some cases, they require you to sign up for Google maps to populate the map on the site. If that happens, then you will be limited to 25,000 free hits per day.

Ready to Add Maps with Free WordPress Maps Plugins?

That’s all there was to know about the WordPress maps plugins. You can now choose the one that offers the best value to your users. It is better if you compare a few of the maps by adding them to your website and then settle for one. 

We hope that our article helped you make an aware decision about which WordPress maps plugin to use for your website. If you think we have missed a WordPress map plugin, simply comment below or email us. You can find our email address on our contact us page.