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How To Embed Bing Maps In Your WordPress Blog

Bing Maps

Quite a many times you do wish to have bing maps in your WordPress blog. Then, whether it will be just to display your own brand address (for contact purpose) or showcasing different locations (if you are planning to use it in the blog). Possibilites are many on how you like to use it but utterly important is that how you plan to implement it in your website. In context to the above, I am going to share out the ways in this article with which you can have bing maps with you.

#1 Option 1 – With Plugin

Plugin 1: BingMaps

In order to get started, first you need to install and activate the plugin name BingMaps. The BingMaps plugin will let you add an interactive map(s) to your WordPress Page or Post, using the Bing Maps AJAX Control. Once you activate the plugin, go to the settings page and enter your BingMaps key and you are done.

Plugin 2: Leaflet Maps Marker

Install and activate the plugin name Leaflet Maps Marker. Once activated, create an account on Bing Maps Portal website from where you get your Bing Map API key. Once done, you are ready to create your first marker map.

#2 Option 2 – Without Plugin

Go to Bing Maps and search for the location or map which you wish to embed in your website. As soon as you found the location, simply click the share button which leads to open up a popup screen. The popup screen will show you an embed code as well as a link to the map. Once you got your code, all you require now is to simply copy this code and paste it in your website, wherever you want to display the Bing Map.

How To Add Google Maps In WordPress

Google Maps

From one-to-many times, you, me or any other person who is building up his/her website do wish to have Google Maps on board. While interestingly, thanks to content management system like WordPress, we got large number of plugins available for the purpose to ease the job. But, the important thing is that which plugin one consider on choosing it at the end. This is why, in this article, I will share some of the amazing plugins which you do consider on using for the purpose.

Suggested Reading: How To Embed Bing Maps In Your WordPress Blog

Google Maps Ready!

The plugin display custom Google Maps. Set markers and locations with text, images, categories and links. You can customize google map without any programming skills.

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WP Google Maps

The plugin can let you create custom maps with high quality markers containing locations, categories, descriptions, images and links.

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CP Google Maps

The plugin allows to associate geolocation information to your posts and to integrate your blog with Google Maps in an easy and natural way.

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Comprehensive Google Map Plugin

The plugin is a simple and intuitive, yet elegant and fully documented Google map plugin that installs as a widget and a short code.

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WP Google Map Plugin

The plugin is a multilingual, multisite supported & most advanced Google Maps plugin for WordPress.

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Pronamic Google Maps

The plugin makes it easy to add Google Maps to your WordPress post, pages or other custom post types.

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Adding Google Maps In Your WordPress Blog

Google Maps

If you are professional of any kind or running a business or having offices at one-to-many locations, then you do wish to have your location represented by proper Google Maps. Google Maps brings huge interactivity on board which help your visitors to find locations easily. Adding a Google Maps is an easy process but just like others, it comes with condition applies i.e. you do know well that how to have it installed properly.

Adding Google Maps Manually

  1. Go to Google Maps website, and simply type in the address of the location which you want to show or search for a location.
  2. Once you have the location with you, click on the link button in the right hand panel.
  3. Doing this, it will show you the embed code.
  4. You can either copy the iframe code or can also click on the “Customize and preview the embedded map” to further customize the appearance of the map.
  5. Once done, go to your WordPress blog and paste the code in a post, page or a template.

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Adding Google Maps Via A Plugin

While adding Google Maps manually is a simple process to do, but still if you think it can’t be possible for you to do, then will suggest you to consider on choosing any of the plugin available out there for the purpose which will ease the job for you. You can check the whole best free Google Maps plugins list via the link here (we covered it earlier in different article).

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Best WordPress Google Maps Plugins

Google Maps

Whether you are running a real estate site or a restaurant chain or business directory site, Google Maps plays an important role in all as it brings huge interactivity in your site to help your visitors find locations easily. If you are running a WordPress blog or site, you can use a WordPress Google Map plugin while it might be havoc at first as there are plenty of such plugins available online. To ease your job in finding the perfect one, I have collected the best available WordPress Google Maps plugins.

CP Google Maps

The plugin allows you to associate geolocation information to your posts and to integrate your blog with Google Maps in an easy and natural way.

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Pronamic Google Maps

The plugin makes it easy to add Google Maps to your WordPress post, pages or other custom post types.

More Info | Download

WP Google Maps

The plugin lets you Create custom maps with high quality markers containing locations, descriptions, images and links and directions. You can then add your customized map to your WordPress posts and/or pages quickly and easily with the supplied shortcode.

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Comprehensive Google Map Plugin

The plugin is a simple and intuitive, yet elegant and fully documented Google map plugin that installs as a widget and a short code.

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Leaflet Maps Marker (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps)

The plugin allows you to pin, organize and share your favorite places & tracks through your WordPress powered site easily. You can use maps from OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps or custom maps and additionally display your spots in innovative ways like through augmented-reality browsers.

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Basic Google Maps Placemarks

The plugin embeds a Google Map into your site and lets you add map markers with custom icons and information windows.

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Google Maps GPX Viewer

The plugin inserts Google maps to your posts. You can upload GPS tracks, trails or Points of Interests by gps files like kml or gpx as well as you can create and edit tracks, waypoints and POI’s and more.

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Google Map Shortcode

The plugin allows you to include instances of Google Maps in your blogs with a simple editor button. You can insert maps everywhere: in your theme files, posts and pages.

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Google Maps Widget

The plugin displays a single-image super-fast loading Google map in a widget. A larger map with all the usual features is available on click in a lightbox.

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