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WordPress Google Maps plugin will help you to integrate maps from the mega-popular Google's service to your WordPress site in an easy way. With this plugin activated, you would not need to copy/paste code the code snippets from Google, but just to select your location and enter dimensions of your map in pixels. Selection of any location worldwide is as simple as on Google Maps main site: You just enter keywords (i.e. Copacabana Rio) or street address and that's it! This plugin will be very useful for all travel agency websites, real estate websites and all other WordPress based sites where you often need to embed maps on pages.

This plugin can be used like widget in any available widget sidebar of your theme, or can be embedded directly into the WordPress page or post. You will receive two different plugin files, so you can use it in a way you prefer. Also, you can use the plugin both as widget and embedded plugin.

Google Maps in Widget Sidebar

There are several options that can be accessed through WordPress' widget manager:

• Widget Width - Overall width of the Hot Maps' area.
• Widget Height - Overall height of the Hot Maps' area.
• Location or Address - Enter location in a descriptive way (in example "Copacabana Rio") or enter address (in example "1 Infinite Road Loop, Cupertino, California").
• Satellite Image - Select whether to display satellite images or not.
• Show Link - Select whether to show link to the full map page (on maps.google.com).
• Link Text - Anchor text of the link.
• Text Before Map - This is text that will be shown before the map image.
• Text After Map - This is text that will be shown after the map image.

Google Maps in Posts or Pages

Beside showing Google maps in the widget sidebars, you can show them directly into your posts and pages. The "In Post" version of this plugin has options in WordPress backend under Plugins > HOT Maps Plugin Settings. Those options are similar as widget version's options. Difference here is that you enter location and dimensions directly on page/post, using this simple code snippet:

{*hotmaps}paris eiffel tower,300,200{/hotmaps}

Important: Please remove asterisks (*) from the above sample!

It's obvious this code snippet will show you a Google map of Eiffel Tower's area in Paris (France) in a frame width 300px and height 200px.