Open User Map

Create a custom map featuring your own locations or an interactive map where anyone can add location pins without registering. New locations will wait for your approval before getting published.

The map is based on Leaflet Map JS and offers you many free map and marker styles. You do not need an API Key, Access Token or any other external registration (unlike Google Maps). Additionally you have access to awesome MapBox map styles.

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Why Choose Open User Map?

✅ Fully interactive – let visitors add pins instantly!
✅ No API keys required – avoid Google Maps restrictions.
✅ Supports multiple map styles – including MapBox, and GDPR-friendly OpenStreetMap.
✅ Powerful search options – live search, address search & category filtering.
✅ Customizable forms & fields – add multiple images, videos, custom descriptions, and more!
✅ Works with Gutenberg, Elementor & Shortcodes – easily embed maps anywhere.
✅ Perfect for directories, community maps, travel blogs, and business locations.

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With Open User Map, you can easily create:

📍 A Simple Custom Map – Show only your own marker pins (no user submissions).
👥 A Crowdsourced Interactive Map – Let visitors add new locations with names, descriptions, images and videos.
📡 A Store Locator – Showcase business locations and allow users to search for nearby places.
🔎 A Filterable Map – Add categories & custom fields to organize locations.
😎 Personalized Maps – Offer individual maps to your signed in users

🌏 How to create a Simple Map

Integrate a customized and clear map showcasing only your own location markers, without the option for other users to add new locations. Additional features will be deactivated by default.

🍿 Watch Video on YouTube: How to create a Simple Map

👩🏾‍🚀🤵👩🏻‍🎤👩🏽‍🌾👩🏿‍💻 How to create an Interactive Map

Create a community map! Visitors to your page can add new location markers to the map. You will receive a notification to approve each location before it is published. Your visitors can search for addresses or markers worldwide to quickly find the right spots. You can add custom fields and descriptions to the form to collect the data you need. Image, Video and Audio uploads are possible and much more. Let your users collaborate!

How your website visitors add new markers to your map:

Just by clicking a “+”-Button a form will popup to let the visitor enter location details the same comfortable way you can do it in the backend. After submit the location proposal will be “pending” and wait for your review approval to get published.

🍿 Watch Video on YouTube: Add a new Location

🆕 Regions

Add regional navigation tabs and let your visitors ‘fly’ back and forth between locations that are far apart from each other. See the Demo Map.

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More than 60 options to customize

Use the Gutenberg Block or Elementor Widget to integrate your map or place the shortcode anywhere on your site. Close by locations will group together in clusters. Make use of Custom Fields to create the form accoding to your needs.

Free Features:

• frontend adding (can be disabled)
• frontend editing of locations (for registered users)
• admin approval for pending locations
• based on Leaflet
• no API Keys
• multiple map styles (including MapBox)
• GDPR ready map tiles (Server in Germany)
• multiple marker styles
• Regions as tabs 🆕
• full width map size
• keep map focus in fixed position (stay in an area)
• scroll wheel zoom (optional) 🆕
• Search for Markers 🆕
• Search for Address (OSM geosearch)
• Auto-generate address from marker location (Reverse Geocoding) 🆕
• locations with custom fields! 🥳
• private custom fields
• Pre-Filter locations by custom fields
• Pre-Filter locations by date or daterange
• conditional fields (🪄 experimental, please see Help section)
• “subtitle”, “description”, “image”, “audio” and even “title” fields can be disabled
• “subtitle”-field links to google route
• every text bit can be customized
• locations with images & audio
• multiple images (slider) per location 🆕
• Shortcode with with custom settings
• Gutenberg Block with custom settings
• Elementor Widget with custom settings
• marker clustering
• fullscreen option
• refresh, redirection or thank you message after submit
• use URL-Parameter &markerid=123 to highlight a specific marker on the map
• get a specific value from a location by using the PHP function oum_get_location_value( ‘YOUR VALUE’, $post_id )
• use WordPress Hooks to extend the plugin functionality with your own code (including hook to modify location data before rendering) 🆕
• use Shortcode [open-user-map-form] to display the “Add Location” form stand-alone
• Custom JS inputs
• Custom CSS inputs

🚀 PRO

The Open User Map plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more styles, more funtionality and more flexibility!

• Filterable Marker Categories
  Organize locations in multiple filterable marker groups. Each group (category) can have an individual marker icon and will be accessible to visitors.

• Live Marker Filter
  Use the search bar to filter markers as you type. Instantly see relevant locations on the map.

• Advanced Filter Interface
  Create a filter sidebar that appears next to your map, allowing visitors to filter locations by any custom field you’ve configured. You can also add custom HTML content sections to display additional information or branding.
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• Custom Image map style
  Add a custom image layer to your map or replace it entirely with a custom image (like floor plans or event maps) while retaining all interactions, clustering, and popups.

• Pre-Filter locations by user or role
  Shortcode Attribute to filter locations by current user, user_id or a role. Works for map, list and gallery.

• Vote button for locations
  Add a customizable button for Likes, Upvotes, or Flagging – with flexible privacy controls.

• Star Rating
  Let visitors rate locations with a customizable star rating system.

• More custom field types
  Add custom fields like links, radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, Opening Hours, and even HTML. Social media links will automatically be rendered as icons.

• Additional geosearch providers (Geoapify, Here, MapBox)

• Videos from YouTube & Vimeo
  Use videos instead of images to highlight each location.

• Export & Import locations
  Maybe you already have a list of places you need to show on the map. No problem – just make use of the CSV Export & Import feature. This also comes in handy for bulk editing a lot of locations.

• Email user notification
  Users get notified by email after their location has been approved.

• Email Admin notification
  Send notifications to an Admin email account on incoming location proposals.

• Zapier/Webhook Integration
  Trigger an external webhook on new or updated locations.

• User restriction
  Restrict “Add location” feature to registered users only. Redirect your visitors to the registration form.

• Auto-publish
  When activated registered users will publish directly without admin approval. This can also be enabled for unregistered users.

• Extend user registration
  Integrate the “Add location” feature to the WordPress user registration form.

• Custom filesizes
  Customize max. filesize for image/audio uploads (default: 10MB).

• Custom marker icons
  Use your own custom marker icon.

• Current location
  Add a button that relocates the map to the users current location.

• Limit visible locations
  You can limit the locations to be shown by marker categories and by post ids. So it is possible to show only locations of a specific type or to render only one single location. This can be done in the block settings or with shortcode attributes.

• Single pages for locations
  Per default locations will not have a single page. This should ensure that all the locations wont negatively affect your SEO. But if you’d like to add more content to locations you can easily enable it in the PRO version.

• Default template for Single pages
  If Single pages are enabled locations will automatically have a post thumbnail, an excerpt as well as a default content template. And you can show locations within query loop blocks to setup your own list or grid view.

• Shortcodes for single location values
  Use the shortcode [open-user-map-location value=”YOUR VALUE” post_id=”POST ID (optional)”] to easily display a value from a location. You will need this when creating single pages for locations. See all the available values in the Help section of the plugin settings (Open User Map > Settings > Help).

• Show all location images as gallery
  Use the shortcode [open-user-map-gallery] to get a nice gallery view of all the location images. Each image is linked to the location marker on the map.

• Show all locations as list or grid
  Use the shortcode [open-user-map-list] to get a list view of all the locations. Alternatively you can use the native query loops block to build a custom list or grid.

• Allow registered users to edit their locations
  Open User Map PRO extends WordPress capabilities to allow backend access. If assigned to the user role registered users get access to read, edit and delete their locations from within the map.

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Use Cases

🍕 Restaurant & Food Guides

You want to build a collaborative map service where your visitors can add locations on their own. This could be a travel blog or a something like a bar and restaurtant guide. Where are the top locations for food and drinks in your city? Ask your audience for their recommendations! Prepare some categories like food, drinks, music etc. and let them drop the markers right in the frontend. Watch your map grow fast!

👭👬 Community Building

Extend the WordPress user registration form with an “Add location” input. Your new users can drop a marker on the map to share their location. Use it to build an awesome user map and help your audience connecting.

📺 Video Tour Map

Bring locations to life with video! Let your visitors enhance location markers by embedding YouTube or Vimeo videos directly on the map. This could be a video tour of a neighborhood, a restaurant walkthrough, or a cultural event highlight. Perfect for travel bloggers, city guides, or virtual tours—give your audience a dynamic, interactive experience by combining video with location markers.

🎤🎸 Sound Map

Get your audience a soundmap. Your visitors can not only upload text and images to their locations but audio as well! This way e.g urban (or remote) areas can be discovered by its specific soundscape.

🎯 Business Directory

List businesses on a map with categories & filters.

🗺️ Event or Travel Maps

Show tour locations, landmarks & routes.

🏠 Real Estate Listings

Display properties with images, videos & descriptions.

📍 Store Locator

Make it easy for customers to find physical store locations.

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The possibilities are endless. We are very curious about what you are building with the help of our plugin. Please don’t hesitate to let us know or ask for feature requests. As this plugin is under constant development we are keen to know what are the features that you need? Contact us!