Open User Map
Open User Map is a flexible map plugin for creating custom maps, community maps, directories, store locators and location-based projects.
You can add your own markers — or let website visitors submit new markers directly from the frontend. New submissions can wait for your approval before they appear on the map, so you stay in full control.
No Google Maps API key is required. Open User Map is based on Leaflet Map JS and includes free map styles, marker styles, address search and flexible embed options for Gutenberg, Elementor and shortcodes.
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What can you build with Open User Map?
📍 A simple custom map – Show your own markers on a beautiful interactive map. 👥 A community map – Let visitors add new markers directly from the frontend. ✅ A moderated map – Review and approve new marker submissions before publishing. 📡 A store locator – Showcase business locations and help visitors find nearby places. 🔎 A filterable directory map – Organize markers with categories, search and custom fields. 😎 Personalized user maps – Show individual maps for signed-in users.
Why Choose Open User Map?
✅ Beautiful interactive maps – Create modern maps that do not feel like boring default map embeds. ✅ Made for WordPress – Embed maps with Gutenberg blocks, Elementor widgets or shortcodes. ✅ Frontend marker submissions – Visitors can add pins without backend access. ✅ Approval workflow included – Keep control over what gets published. ✅ No Google Maps API key required – Avoid API setup, access tokens and Google Maps restrictions. ✅ Multiple map styles – Use OpenStreetMap, MapBox and other flexible map styles. ✅ Powerful search options – Marker search, address search and category filtering. ✅ Customizable forms & fields – Collect the exact location data you need. ✅ Media-rich markers – Add descriptions, images, audio, videos and more. ✅ Perfect for directories, community maps, travel blogs, events, local guides and business locations.
Get a Map in 1 Minute
🍿 Watch Video on YouTube: Getting Started with Open User Map
🌏 How to create a Simple Map
Create a clean, customized map that shows only your own markers. This is perfect for business locations, travel spots, event places, real estate listings or any other collection of places you want to display on your website.
You can disable visitor submissions and use Open User Map as a simple custom map plugin for WordPress.
🍿 Watch Video on YouTube: How to create a Simple Map
👩🏾🚀🤵👩🏻🎤👩🏽🌾👩🏿💻 How to create an Interactive Map
Create a community map where visitors can add new markers directly from the frontend. You can receive a notification for new submissions and approve each location before it is published.
Your visitors can search for addresses or existing markers worldwide to quickly find the right spot. You can add custom fields and descriptions to the submission form to collect the data you need. Image, video and audio uploads are possible as well.
Let your users collaborate and watch your map grow.
How your website visitors add new markers to your map:
Visitors simply click the "+" button on the map. A form opens where they can enter the location details in a comfortable frontend interface. After submitting, the new marker can be saved as "pending" and wait for your review before it gets 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. This is useful for maps covering multiple cities, countries, regions or large areas.
See the Demo Map.
🍿 Watch Video on YouTube: Regions
More than 60 options to customize
Use the Gutenberg Block, Elementor Widget or shortcode to add your map anywhere on your WordPress site.
Nearby markers can be grouped together with marker clustering. You can customize the map size, marker styles, map focus, search options, frontend form fields, text labels, redirects, thank-you messages and much more.
Custom fields allow you to adapt the marker submission form to your exact use case.
Free Features:
- frontend adding of markers (can be disabled)
- frontend editing of locations for registered users
- admin approval for pending locations
- based on Leaflet
- no API keys required
- multiple map styles including MapBox
- GDPR-ready map tiles with servers in Germany
- multiple marker styles
- Regions as tabs 🆕
- full-width map size
- keep map focus in fixed position (stay in an area)
- optional scroll wheel zoom 🆕
- search for markers 🆕
- address search with OSM geosearch
- auto-generate address from marker location with reverse geocoding 🆕
- locations with custom fields 🥳
- private custom fields
- pre-filter locations by custom fields
- pre-filter locations by date or date range
- 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 and audio
- multiple images as slider per location 🆕
- shortcode with custom settings
- Gutenberg Block with custom settings
- Elementor Widget with custom settings
- marker clustering
- fullscreen option
- refresh, redirect 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 a 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 Features:
Open User Map PRO gives you more control, more automation and more flexibility for advanced community maps, directories and professional map projects.
You can try all PRO features for 7 days — no credit card required.
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⭐️ 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 next to your map and let visitors filter locations by any custom field you have configured. You can also add custom HTML content sections to display additional information or branding.
⭐️ Custom Image Map Style
Add a custom image layer to your map or replace the map entirely with a custom image, such as a floor plan, event map, seating plan or fantasy map, while keeping interactions, clustering and popups.
⭐️ Pre-filter locations by user or role
Use shortcode attributes to filter locations by current user, user ID or role. This works for maps, lists and galleries.
⭐️ 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 such as links, radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, opening hours and HTML. Social media links can automatically be rendered as icons.
⭐️ Additional geosearch providers
Use additional geosearch providers including Geoapify, HERE and MapBox.
⭐️ Videos from YouTube & Vimeo
Use videos instead of images to highlight each location.
⭐️ Export & Import locations
Already have a list of places you want to show on the map? Use CSV export and import to add, move or bulk edit locations more easily.
⭐️ Email user notification
Notify users by email after their location has been approved.
⭐️ Email admin notification
Send notifications to an admin email address when new location proposals are submitted.
⭐️ Zapier/Webhook Integration
Trigger an external webhook when locations are created or updated.
⭐️ User restriction
Restrict the "Add location" feature to registered users only and redirect visitors to your registration form.
⭐️ Auto-publish
Let registered users publish directly without admin approval. This can also be enabled for unregistered users.
⭐️ Extend user registration
Add the "Add location" feature to the WordPress user registration form.
⭐️ Custom filesizes
Customize the maximum filesize for image and audio uploads. The default is 10 MB.
⭐️ Custom marker icons
Use your own custom marker icons.
⭐️ Current location
Add a button that moves the map to the visitor's current location.
⭐️ Limit visible locations
Limit the locations shown on a map by marker categories or post IDs. This makes it possible to show only locations of a specific type or render a single location. This can be done in the block settings or with shortcode attributes.
⭐️ Single pages for locations
By default, locations do not have single pages. This helps prevent large numbers of location posts from negatively affecting your SEO. If you want to add more content to locations, you can enable single pages in Open User Map PRO.
⭐️ Default template for single pages
When single pages are enabled, locations automatically get a post thumbnail, an excerpt and a default content template. You can also show locations within query loop blocks to create 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 display a value from a location. This is useful when creating single pages for locations. You can find all available values in the Help section of the plugin settings under Open User Map > Settings > Help.
⭐️ Show all location images as gallery
Use the shortcode [open-user-map-gallery] to display a gallery view of all location images. Each image links to the corresponding location marker on the map.
⭐️ Show all locations as list or grid
Use the shortcode [open-user-map-list] to display all locations as a list. Alternatively, you can use native query loop blocks 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 can read, edit and delete their own locations from within the map.
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Use Cases
🍕 Restaurant & Food Guides
Build a collaborative map where visitors can add locations on their own. This is great for travel blogs, city guides, bar maps, restaurant guides or local recommendation platforms.
Ask your audience for their favorite food and drink spots. Prepare categories such as food, drinks, music or nightlife and let visitors drop markers directly from the frontend. Watch your map grow fast.
👭👬 Community Building
Extend the WordPress user registration form with an "Add location" input. New users can drop a marker on the map to share their location.
Use it to build a user map and help your audience connect with each other.
📺 Video Tour Map
Bring locations to life with video. Let visitors enhance markers by embedding YouTube or Vimeo videos directly on the map.
This could be a video tour of a neighborhood, a restaurant walkthrough, a city guide or a cultural event highlight. Perfect for travel bloggers, city guides and virtual tours.
🎤🎸 Sound Map
Create a sound map and let your audience upload audio files to locations.
This is useful for documenting soundscapes in urban or remote areas, collecting field recordings, building audio tours or creating creative map-based projects.
🎯 Business Directory
List businesses on a map with categories, filters, search and custom fields.
🗺️ Event or Travel Maps
Show tour locations, landmarks, event places, routes or recommended spots.
🏠 Real Estate Listings
Display properties with images, videos, descriptions and custom details.
📍 Store Locator
Make it easy for customers to find physical store locations.
📖 View More Examples & Live Demos
The possibilities are endless. We are very curious about what you are building with the help of Open User Map. Please do not hesitate to contact us, share your project or ask for feature requests. This plugin is under constant development and your feedback helps us improve it.