Key Concepts
Learn about how to understand the Mapster plugin if you're having trouble getting started.
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Learn about how to understand the Mapster plugin if you're having trouble getting started.
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Because the Mapster WP Maps plugin is quite extensive, it can be a little overwhelming at first if you just want to create a really simple map. If you're struggling, understanding a few key concepts might help.
are like the canvas upon which you place your geographies. You don't create geographies in maps, though. This is so that the options don't get too overwhelming!
There are a ton of options for how to style, load, and add controls to your maps, which you can explore by just clicking around and trying things out, or using this documentation alongside the Map editor to learn about each individual option.
Geographies are the things that go onto the map. These come in a few forms:
(AKA Points) - includes markers, circles, icons, and labels. A single coordinate pair of longitude and latitude.
- An array of coordinates that make up a continual line
- A set of coordinates that create an area
Popups can be attached to any geography. They can be opened through clicking, hovering, or some other ways that you'll discover (such as opening on load or by clicking on a list).
Because the ability to style your popups is usually really important to your map and cohesive site design, we created a system that lets you completely customize popup structure and where certain information, like the title, link, or descriptive information, appears.
There are also options to display popup information in modals or sidebar displays.
: this is where you create "templates" for popups that you can then assign to specific geographies
: on each individual geography, you can specify the content that should appear in the popup. This can also be done dynamically with custom fields.
Mapster WP Maps incorporates a lot of different ways to , whether from GeoJSONs, shapefiles, KML files, GPX, CSV, and more. You need to use Web Mercator projection. You can also import CSVs that will refresh imports on a regular basis. There are very extensive importing options available that take some time to learn if you want to deal with a lot of points.