Customize Route Planner Map using PrettyRoutes Plugin
PrettyRoutes is a robust WordPress plugin that lets you create a visually appealing Route Planner Map with customized colors and icons.
Not only can you add colorful routes that chart ‘to’ and ‘from’ locations as needed, but PrettyRoutes also lets you add customized pinpoint graphics to each location (using any graphic you choose), customized tooltip content, and even specific colors for each route on display.
The PrettyRoutes plugin is fully integrated with Mapifypro, providing users with a seamless experience.
With this plugin, businesses and individuals can create personalized Route Planner Maps that better reflect their brand or interests.
Works Worldwide
Specify Default Zoom, Generate Distance, and More
Pretty Routes Plugin Feature List
Customized Route Planner Map! You control the color of each route and add as many as needed to each of your maps.
Supports waypoints for even more control over your routes! Map specific turns, chart a tour, or give directions that bypass traffic.
Drag and drop locations, or enter specific addresses to generate your beginning and endpoints.
Unlimited unique maps throughout your site. You can add as many maps as needed to your website, each containing its own unique routes.
Custom pinpoints for each location. Use any graphic you wish for every location, for both “from” and “to” locations.
Unique tooltip content on each location/turn. You enter whatever you want for each location’s tooltip, or toggle tooltips off altogether.
Post unique maps of any size anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode. Each map is assigned an ID, which lets you display them as needed.
Seamless WordPress integration with an intuitive admin that makes adding maps and OSM map routes as simple as possible.
Generates distance and travel duration automatically for every route.
You control the zoom level for each map. Default settings automatically zoom into OSM Maps to best present every route on the map, but the custom zoom level allows you to zoom in on a specific area of your choosing, at any distance.
Watch the Basic Setup and Admin Overview
Looking for more Route Planner Map features?
PrettyRoutes is integrated with MapifyPro* and also many additional extras, such as:
Add tooltips to waypoints to fully document your route
Control the behavior of the tooltips
Additional styling options
Hide all markers as needed in order to build polylines only
Go off-road! It documents travel both on the road and off. Perfect for hiking trails, ocean tours, and more.
Fully integrated with MapifyPro, meaning you can use them seamlessly to build guided tours, filter locations, categorize tours, add galleries to your locations, share on social media, and more!
FAQ
What is PrettyRoutes?
Can I change the color of each route?
Yes, You control the colour of each route and add as many as needed to each of your maps.
Can I drag and drop locations?
Yes, you can drag and drop locations, or enter specific addresses to generate your beginning and endpoints.
WordPress Map Plugin Full Feature List by MapifyPro
In this article, you will discover the top WordPress map plugin features you can get from MapifyPro.
Unlimited Maps: Google or Image Mode
Add as many maps as needed throughout your site, whether on pages, blog posts, or even widgets. Place the map with a simple shortcode that is automatically generated.
100% Responsive and Mobile/Tablet Support
With this WordPress map plugin, you can pinch, zoom, and swipe through locations and galleries in app-like fashion through our mobile-supported maps and location galleries. Every element of MapifyPro is also 100% responsive-site ready.
WPML Support
Translate individual locations (good if you have locations in different countries) or entire maps with via full WPML translation support.
Search by Zip, City, Country, or GPS Coordinates
MapifyPro has one of the most robust search engines available, allowing visitors to search for locations on the road or off, specifying the distance they’d like to search within, and more.
Customized Filters that You Create and Assign
Organize your map locations even further by creating map filters, and assigning them to each location as needed. These are then organized in a dropdown, and/or a list beneath the map. When a visitor clicks on a filter, only the locations you’ve tagged with the filter will appear on the map while hiding the rest.
Pop-up Video/Photo Galleries
Each location can include a sleek pop-up gallery with a video and photo gallery (Vimeo and YouTube fully supported). These pop-ups will dynamically adjust to the content you add, and will automatically generate an interactive gallery.
Unlimited Unique Map Marker Icons for Every Location
Add and mix as many unique map markers as needed for each map. Assign a default map marker for the overall map (great for your most common location type), and also add specific marker graphics to any location as needed.
Add Locations to Multiple Maps In a Click
This WordPress map plugin allows you to add locations to any or all of your maps in a single go. While creating a location, you choose each map you’d like it to appear on in a single action, cutting workload down and applying the location instantly to every selected map.
Detailed Location Information
Address, phone numbers, and external links (such as Yelp Reviews) can be added to each location as needed, as well as a button to provide directions.
Custom Image Map Mode
Our advanced custom image mode renders any image and emulates an actual Google map. Better yet, it supports nearly all of MapifyPro’s features (everything besides GPS-related features since images don’t support GPS data).
Snazzy Maps
Customize Google map styles with over 2 dozen unique looks are included and more can be easily added as needed. Simply select your style from a dropdown and instantly add a unique look to your map.
Share Any Location
Share any location on all popular social media sites and drive traffic to your site, which is perfect for creating a viral following. Send visitors to your maps and grow your following!
Directly Link to Any Map Location
Send or share a link with friends and send them directly to any location on the map. It’s also the perfect way to link to a map from your blog to highlight specific locations.
Batch Upload Images to Each Location
Add all of your photos to a location in a single upload. MapifyPro will then automatically generate thumbnails and add an interactive gallery to the location in the form of a sleek modal overlay.
HTML/CSS Tooltips
Add images, links, directions, and other items to our html-based tooltips. You can also set the color, transparency, and animation effect of the tooltip from the settings.
Map Clusters
Have a lot of locations in a single location? This feature groups locations into clusters, eliminating the clutter while making it fine to drill down to specific locations.
Add Blog Articles to Your Maps
MapifyPro integrates with your actual blog, allowing you to quickly add your blog posts to any of your maps. The blog post will then appear on-location on the map in a customized, article-based pop-up. Perfect for travel bloggers!
Interactive Location Directory
Add an interactive list of locations beneath your map to provide quick previews of each location, group locations by topic, and more. It’s perfect for a store locator and allows visitors a unique way to interact with the map.
Bulk Upload Map Locations
Our enhanced bulk uploader allows you to maintain a separate .csv of your locations for any map, and when you update the .csv and re-upload, only the locations changed will be affected by the updated file.
Color and Style Options for Tooltips and Pop-ups
Customize the color of your tooltips, pop-ups, and accent colors directly from the admin. You’ll have full control over animations, background colors, transparency, and more!
Animated Tooltips and Markers
Add a sleek touch to your map with subtly animated tooltips and markers. You control whether to enable this feature or not via the intuitive settings panel, along with plenty of other customization options.
Search by Location Radius
Our powerful search engine lets you specify a radius in which location results are shown on the map after entering a search inquiry. Search by city, zip code, and even GPS coordinates for off-road locations.
Search Radius
Let visitors specify how far they want to search within a specific location on the front-end maps. This works to create the perfect store locator.
Suggest Nearest Locations
If searching for a location on a map but none are found within the search radius, MapifyPro will suggest the nearest location to your visitor, and can even provide directions.
GPS Support on Supported Devices
Provide to and from directions on GPS-supported devices. If not on a GPS device, MapifyPro will still supply directions to a location via Google Maps.
Each Location is a Post
Each location is familiar to anyone who has created a WordPress blog, and enhances SEO ten-fold, supports 3rd party plugins, supports HTML formatting, and adds an amazing amount of flexibility.
Categorize Map Locations
Like Blog posts, map locations are to be added to any category you’ve added to your actual blog. This means that visitors can view all map locations in the category you put them in within your blog, as well as on the maps!
Duplicate Map Locations And All Settings
Creating new locations has never been easier with our “duplicate location” feature, which lets you duplicate a location and all of its settings with a single click. This keeps all photos, videos, and specific settings intact for new locations.
Link Map Locations to External Sites/Pages
Locations aren’t limited to displaying a pop-up. Markers can be set to link to external sites or other pages in your own site with a simple click.
Specify Default Location Focus
Choose mouse zoom or manual zoom for each map. You can also set the default zoom level of the map while centering on any of your locations.
Specify Map and Location Behaviors
Toggle tooltip behavior (close automatically or manually, hide tooltips completely, etc.), marker behavior, and auto-zoom, which zooms into locations when they are located via filter or search.
Automatically-Generated Shortcodes
Each map gets its own unique shortcode for easy placement of each map anywhere on your site! Shortcodes are placed next to each map in the list view, so they’re simple to organize.
Yes, You can translate individual locations (good if you have locations in different countries) or entire maps with via full WPML translation support.
Can visitors use MapifyPro to search for locations on road or off?
MapifyPro has one of the most robust searching engines available, allowing visitors to search for locations on road or off, specifying the distance they’d like to search within, and more.
Can I add Detailed Location Information?
Address, phone numbers, and external links (such as Yelp Reviews) can be added to each location as needed, as well as a button to provide directions.
