Easy Google Library - Wordpress plugin

How to use Easy Google Library

You may use Easy Google library by widget or programatically.

Using wordpress widget

Easy Google Library provides a widget with user friendly interface. Widget you may use by WordPress widget area and for the pages content you may access it by shortcode or with any interface builder such as SiteOrigin Page Builder.

• Open Dashboard > Appearence > Widgets
• Add Easy Google Map from available widgets to any side bar location.
• Click on widget to modify your preferred settings.

On widget settings you have various options.

• General settings
  • Title
  • Object ID
  • Maptype (default road)
  • Width and Height for map (default is 100%)
  • Label for direction links

• Marker defaults (Places defaults)
  These options represent default settings for every new marker that you will add to map.
  • Show direction link
  • Show icon
  • Show label

• User Controls
  These options represents which map controls will be visible to end-user.
  • MapType
  • Zoom
  • Fullscreen
  • Scale
  • Rotate
  • Streetview

• Locations tool
  After you setup map default layout, you may click on Add location button to add markers (places) to your map. Easy Google Library allows you to make multiple locations in one map.

You may create a map for 1 or more places on same time.
If you have Google Places API and Google Geolocation API activated you may use Geolocation search to set coordinates.

Adding locations to map

When you click on Add Location button, a popup window will open with location settings. Enter obligatory and visual options here and click on save button. You may edit this entry from the widget everytime. Repeat the process for additional locations.

• Title : Google Map title
• Location coordinates
  If you have already activated Google Places API for the key you are using, you may search directly here for the location. Otherwise you may get the location coordinates from https://www.google.com/maps website.
  • Set location by Google placesWrite in geolocation input box the address or the name of place. Choose the location from drop down box.
  • Set location using Google Map websiteGo to https://www.google.com/maps website. On the search box find your desired location.
    When site showed you the location from the url you may extract Lat (X) and Lng(Y) values and enter input boxes as shown in picture below.

• Information text
  
  This input accepts html raw text. You may put here html formatted content. It will not encode itself. If you fill this box, visitor will get a memo box when they click on marker. You may add here text, pictures and other html based media. You may change the visiual by changing css properties.
• Link target and linkYou may use this field with 3 options.
  To have a regular a link and choose opening in same page or blank.
  If you choose js call then you may enter here the js code which you want to trigger.
• Location Icon
  If you click on icon you may choose/upload a new icon for your location (32px X 32px).
• Other options
  • Show direction link :End user will see a memo box with link to google website with direction information.
  • Show iconshow marker icon on map.
  • Show labelshow the label of marker on map.