This plugin imports a Map Navigation file into your WordPress blog. The Map Navigation file defines one or more Continents, Countries, Regions, States and Cities. The plugin creates Posts that each contain a MapPress map or mashup that provide a linked navigation of the geography using your organiza
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 2.0.2.
SourceWordPress plugins · Oct 19, 2026
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About this tool.
This plugin imports a Map Navigation file into your WordPress blog. The Map Navigation file defines one or more Continents, Countries, Regions, States and Cities. The plugin creates Posts that each contain a MapPress map or mashup that provide a linked navigation of the geography using your organization’s name, image file and icon in the Post’s Post, Excerpt and on the Map markers. The Map Navigation hierarchy can then be added to your themes header or provided as a link so that your organization can locate its members Posts or Pages by Geographical area. The plugin also provides an affiliate Register script that adds an Affiliate to your Map Navigation hierarchy along with their link and image when they join your organization. Any post can be added to the Map Navigation hierarchy using the Map Taxonomy tags and a Custom field used by the MapPress plugin. Exisitng MapPress maps can be linked into the Map Navigation Hierarchy from the MapNavigator Admin Tool Interface.
This plugin is built on top of the CSV Importer plugin so it contains all of the features of CSV Importer with the additional customized features for MapPress Google maps navigation.
Map Navigator features
Map Navigation Files available (for a small fee) for geographical areas (USA available now)
Documentation and Sample file so that you can create your own Map Navigation File
Automatically creates the MapPress Maps, Mashups and Markers with your organizations: Name or Title
Link to website or other location
Image from an http:// link
Icon from a list of icons supplied by MapPress or a custom icon placed into the MapPress icon directory
Cleans database for ‘orphaned’ MapPress Maps Links exisitng MapPress Maps into your Map Navigation hierarchy Creates a Map Taxonomy that provides easy categorization of a Post by geographical location Provides the ability to add any post to your Map Navigation hierarchy without coding any complex MapPress parameters. Provides a customized WP-Affiliate Registration script that will place your new affiliate on the appropriate Map in your Map Navigation hierarchy Provides several customizations to the MapPress plugin to address limitations and enhancements that provide the above functionality
CSV Importer Features
Imports post title, body, excerpt, tags, date, categories etc.
Supports custom fields, custom taxonomies and comments
Deals with Word-style quotes and other non-standard characters using WordPress’ built-in mechanism (same one that normalizes your input when you write your posts)
Columns in the CSV file can be in any order, provided that they have correct headings
Multilanguage support
Usage
Click on the Map Navigator link on your WordPress admin page, choose the Map Definition file you would like to import and click Import. You can build your own Map Definition file using the example file “Test Map-Navigator-USA.csv” in the examples directory inside the plugin’s directory or you can download one for a small fee from:
http://mapclick.org
The Map Definition file is in CSV format that consists of rows and columns. Each row in a CSV file represents a post; each column identifies a piece of information that comprises a post. Each Post is assigned to a level in the Map Taxonomy which provides the Map Navigational Hierarchy as follows:
Maps Taxonomy * Continent * Country * Region (optional) * State (optional) * City
Basic post information
nav_post_title – title of the post. The name should reflect the category of the taxonomy level. For instance : ‘United States Regions’ or ‘Mountain Region States’ or ‘California Map’
nav_post_post – body of the post. This will hold the MapPress command to create a ‘mashup’ or to display a map in this post
nav_post_excerpt – post excerpt. This will contain the title that will appear in the Map Marker. The word ‘mapClicks’ will be replaced with your organization’s name entered on the Map Navigator Tool dialog in WordPress.
nav_post_categories – a comma separated list of category names or ids. This will be the level associated with this post; for instance : Maps > Continent > Country > Region
nav_post_tags – a comma separated list of tags. Tags are used in the nav_post_post column to specify the mashup posts that will be included in the mashup post. See the Examples directory for a sample file. Pay close attention to the tags defined in this column and the references in the nav_post_post column.
nav_post_date – about any English textual description of a date and time. For example, now , 11/16/2009 0:00 , 1999-12-31 23:55:00 , +1 week , next Thursday, last year are all valid descriptions. For technical details, consult PHP’s strtotime() function documentation .
nav_ctax_maps – See the Examples directory for a sample file (Test Map-Navigator-USA.csv). This column is used to specify the Post’s taxonomy tags and thus what the post will appear as in the ‘Maps’ taxonomy (Continent, Country, Region, State or City)
‘map_address’ – holds the address of the MapPress map marker. This must be defined as a Custom field and specified in the MapPress setup as the field used to create maps automatically from when a post is updated.
Custom fields
Any column that doesn’t start with nav_ is considered to be a custom field name. The data in that column will be imported as the custom field’s value.
General remarks
WordPress pages don’t have categories or tags .
Most columns are optional. Either nav_post_title , nav_post_post or nav_post_excerpt are sufficient to create a post. If all of these columns are empty in a row, the plugin will skip that row.
The plugin will attempt to reuse existing categories or tags; if an existing category or tag cannot be found, the plugin will create it.
To specify a category that has a greater than sign (>) in the name, use the HTML entity >
Advanced usage
nav_post_author – numeric user id or login name. If not specified or user does not exist, the plugin will assign the posts to the user performing the import.
nav_post_slug – post slug used in permalinks.
nav_post_parent – post parent id.
Custom taxonomies
Once custom taxonomies are set up in your theme’s functions.php file or by using a 3rd party plugin, nav_ctax_(taxonomy name) columns can be used to assign imported data to the taxonomies.
Non-hierarchical taxonomies
The syntax for non-hierarchical taxonomies is straightforward and is essentially the same as the nav_post_tags syntax.
Hierarchical taxonomies
The syntax for hierarchical taxonomies is more complicated. Each hierarchical taxonomy field is a tiny two-column CSV file, where the order of columns matters . The first column contains the name of the parent term and the second column contains the name of the child term. Top level terms have to be preceded either by an empty string or a 0 (zero).
Sample examples/custom-taxonomies.csv file included with the plugin illustrates custom taxonomy support. To see how it works, make sure to set up custom taxonomies from functions.inc.php .
Make sure that the quotation marks used as text delimiters in nav_ctax_ columns are regular ASCII double quotes, not typographical quotes like “ (U+201C) and ” (U+201D).
Comments
An example file with comments is included in the examples directory. In short, comments can be imported along with posts by specifying columns such as nav_comment_*_author , nav_comment_*_content etc, where * is a comment ID number. This ID doesn’t go into WordPress. It is only there to have the connection information in the CSV file.
Credits
This plugin is based upon [csv-importer][3] by Denis Kobozev (thanks !) . This plugin uses [php-csv-parser][3] by Kazuyoshi Tlacaelel (thanks !).
Contributors: * Israeli Rothman (Original Idea and Requirements Spec)
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
Plugin's interface under ToolsSecond level of the Hierarchy - Mountain Region StatesMarker for State of Montana - USA Mountain RegionThird level of the Hierarchy - State of Montana MapFourth level of the Hierarchy - City of Helena, Montana MapWP-Affiliate-Platform Custom Registration ScreenAffiliate Registration Creats a Map for Boulder Colorado
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Getting started.
Installing the plugin:
01Unzip the plugin’s directory into wp-content/plugins .
02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
03The plugin will be available under Tools -> Map Navigator on the WordPress administration page.
04Copy the contents of the “map-navigator/mappress-google-maps-for-wordpress/*” to “wp-content/plugins/mappress-google-maps-for-wordpress/”
05Copy the contents of the “map-navigator/wp-affiliate-platform/*” to “wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-platform/”
06Add a new Custom Field called ‘map_address’ in any post
07Go to MapPress Settings and Custom Fields section. Assign ‘field for addresses’ to ‘map_address’
08Check “Update map when post is updated” and “Update map when address is changed by a program”, then Save Changes
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Frequently asked questions.
Sets max execution time to 2 minutes. Adjust as necessary.
php_value max_execution_time 120
The problem can be approached from another angle, namely instead of giving scripts more time to run making them run faster. There’s not much I can do to speed up the plugin (you can contact me at dvkobozev at gmail.com if you like to prove me wrong), so you can try to speed up WordPress. It is a pretty broad topic, ranging from database optimizations to PHP accelerators such as APC, eAccelerator or XCache, so I’m afraid you’re on your own here.
I’m getting the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in .../public_html/wp-content/plugins/csv-importer/File_CSV_DataSource/DataSource.php on line 61 . What gives?
This plugin requires PHP5, while you probably have PHP4 or older. Update your PHP installation or ask your hosting provider to do it for you.
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