Travel Map

Easily create Travel Baidu Maps to add to any WordPress site. You can create one or multiple travel map , then insert the map with a shortcode.

With Travel Baidu Maps you can generate a map with multiple locations, a route, hyper links and pictures.

The motive is that China mainland user cannot access Google map, so they could not use these map plugins based on Google API, but the map plugins based on Baidu API is a little limited.

This plugin comes from “Custom baidu maps” plugin, but the usage is totally different and lots of enhancement.

Basic Usage with shortcodes :

You just need to save the map as draft, then you can find a short code in the maps list page, or you can find it in the current page after clicking “Publish” button.

[btmap id=”id”] Options : – id : unique id for a travel map, such as 333

Advanced Usage Travl Map post-type :

1. 01Enter your Baidu Developer API Key (if you have not already).
2. 02Select the “Travel Map” post type from the wordpess menu.
3. 03Click on “Add New”.
4. 04Enter the map settings (height, width, zoom and coordinates).
5. 05Upon publishing, add the new generated shortcode to the page content.

Adding a Marker on the map (optional) :

1. 06Click on the map to add a new marker to this map.
2. 07Right click on the map to set the center point, the setting data will change too.
3. 08Scroll up or down to scale the map, or click the button within the map, the setting data will change too.
4. 09Click on “Show Marker Details” if you wish to see the details visible at start.
5. 10Change the “Back Color” if you wanna the color of that marker and the route ending into it.
6. 11The content of name and description for a marker supports HTML, so you could imbed some small image and or hyper link.

Adding a Marker on the map (optional) :

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