GPS Plotter by St. Pete Design allows you to track Android phones in real time. GPS Plotter displays a map on your website with your present location using Openstreet Maps or Google Maps. We recommend that you start with Openstreet Maps unless you have experience with Google Maps API.
GPS Plotter was forked from a plugin called GPS Tracker by Nick Fox. Nick stopped development on GPS Tracker so we picked up where he left off. You can watch the cell phones being tracked using Openstreet maps and Google maps and you can store and reload routes easily for later viewing. The plugin is fully responsive and it will display properly on any device such as a cell phone, tablet or desktop computer.
You can download the app from the Android store then you enter your username and the URL that you have installed the GPS Plotter plugin on. Now you are ready to click "Tracking On" to start sending GPS tracking information to that URL.
Then you can go to that site on either your computer or mobile device and check out the GPS information you are sending for yourself.
I hope you find this plugin useful. If you find any bugs, please email us so we can address any issues that come up immediately.
Please rate it and leave a review so we can help other developers find this software. Thanks!
For OpenStreet Maps
- Download the plugin from the WP repository and then Activate.
- Go to "Settings"->"GPS Plotter Menu" to see your settings.
- Add the short-code to any page or post: [gps_plotter]
- Use the pre-selected OpenStreetMap version.
- Download Gps Plotter from the Google Play Store onto your Android cell phone and add your user name and the URL of the page you entered the short code to.
GPS Plotter Android App
That's it! Click on the "Start Tracking" button and then go to your WordPress website and view your location on the map. Please note that it may take a couple of minutes for the first location to appear. If you are having trouble viewing your first location make sure you are outside and that there are not a lot of trees or something else covering your view of the sky. If it's a really cloudy day, it may take a while to get your first location. This is normal behavior for all cell phones since they tend to have a smaller antenna than a dedicated gps device.
How to Install GPS Plotter on your Android phone;
How to Install GPS Plotter on your WordPress site with Google Maps;
How to install GPS Plotter on your WordPress site with OpenStreetMaps;
=5.3.0 November 11th, 2024
tested with WordPress 6.6.2
added link to new Playstore app
*fixed tracking pings displaying on Openstreetmaps
= 5.2.0 August 14th, 2023
tested with WordPress 6.3
fixed XSS vulnerability
= 5.1.4 January 7th, 2023
*tested with WordPress 6.1.1
= 5.1.3 December 17, 2021
*fixed dropdown
= 5.1.2 July 22nd, 2021
*tested with WordPress 5.8
5.1.1 October 31st, 2020
Happy Halloween
Updated readme.txt
*Updated gpsplotter.php
5.1.0 October 3rd, 2020
added OpenStreetMaps video to instructions.
fixed Gamajo template loader
*tested with WordPress 5.5.1
5.0.9 July 8th, 2019
*fixed Openstreetmaps
5.0.8 June 29th, 2019
added how to install on Android video to instructions.
updated readme.txt
*updated svn
5.0.7 May 29th, 2019
fixed Changelog
added OpenStreet Maps instructions.
*added Google Maps instructions.
5.0.6 May 7th, 2019
Tested with WordPress version 5.2
Updated screenshot of admin area
*Updated readme.txt
5.0.5 April 16th, 2019
*Updated readme.txt
5.0.4 March 30th, 2019
*Updated readme.txt
5.0.3 March 10th, 2019
*Updated readme.txt
5.0.2 February 13, 2019
- added Openstreet Maps option
5.0.1 September 3, 2018
- added review request to admin panel
5.0.0 February 5, 2018
- Updated readme.txt
- Updated gpsplotter.php header info
- Updated screenshots
4.0.0, March 27, 2017
- Replaced all gps_tracker with gps_plotter in the code
3.0.0, February 5, 2017
- added Google satellite map view, API box in backend
2.0.0, January 26, 2017
- updated sub-header location and color
1.0.0, December 27, 2016