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?
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A simple custom map – Show your own markers on a beautiful interactive map.
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A community map – Let visitors add new markers directly from the frontend.
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A moderated map – Review and approve new marker submissions before publishing.
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A store locator – Showcase business locations and help visitors find nearby places.
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A filterable directory map – Organize markers with categories, search and custom fields.
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Personalized user maps – Show individual maps for signed-in users.
Why Choose Open User Map?
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Beautiful interactive maps – Create modern maps that do not feel like boring default map embeds.
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Made for WordPress – Embed maps with Gutenberg blocks, Elementor widgets or shortcodes.
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Frontend marker submissions – Visitors can add pins without backend access.
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Approval workflow included – Keep control over what gets published.
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No Google Maps API key required – Avoid API setup, access tokens and Google Maps restrictions.
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Multiple map styles – Use OpenStreetMap, MapBox and other flexible map styles.
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Powerful search options – Marker search, address search and category filtering.
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Customizable forms & fields – Collect the exact location data you need.
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Media-rich markers – Add descriptions, images, audio, videos and more.
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Perfect for directories, community maps, travel blogs, events, local guides and business locations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Demo Map.
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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
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit Plugins > Add New
- Search for “Open User Map”
- Install and activate Open User Map from your Plugins page
- Use the default WordPress editor or Elementor to insert the "Open User Map" block onto a page. Alternatively, you can use the shortcode
[open-user-map].
- You can manage locations in the “Open User Map” menu.
- You can manage styles and features under "Open User Map > Settings".