EA Advanced Google Map gives you the opportunity to display Google Maps on your website while pinpointing your business location. It gives you the freedom to choose your preferred Map layout out of 8 available options, configure it and style it as per your preference. For more information, you can check out this documentation.
EA Advanced Google Map gives you the freedom to choose your preferred Google Map type, configure it, control the settings, set your desired theme, style it and most importantly, helps you display Google Map on your website.
To use Essential Addons element, go to your WordPress Dashboard. Then navigate to WordPress Dashboard > Essential Addons. From the ‘Elements’ tab, you will find the ‘Advanced Google Map’ option.
Simply click on ‘Settings’ and insert your Google Map API Key in there. After you are done, make sure to click on ‘Save Settings’ option.
If you do not have Google Map API key, you can check out this documentation to learn how to get map API key.
You can find the ‘EA Google Map‘ element from the Search option under the ‘ELEMENTS‘ tab. Simply just Drag & Drop the ‘EA Google Map’ into the ‘Drag widget here‘ or the ‘+’ section.
After you are successfully done with step 1, this is how the element is going to look like:
You can use the dropdown menu to choose your preferred Google Map type of the 8 given. By default, it is set to ‘Basic’. You can change the ‘Address’ type from here. You can either add your physical location or add the ‘Coordinates’.
For ‘Multiple Marker’, you need to insert the ‘Latitude’ and ‘Longitude’ of the location. This is will be used as the ‘Focal’ location for this purpose.
For ‘Multiple Marker’ Google Map type, you need to configure this ‘Map Marker’ settings. This lets you add multiple locations which will be shown in the map.
Simply just add a location by inserting its Latitude, Longitude, Title & Content. You can change the ‘Icon Color’ from this section as well.
To add more locations, simply click on ‘ + Add Item’ button.
This is how Multiple Marker looks like how you are done with its configuration.
If you choose ‘With Routes’ as your Map type, you will need to configure the Routes Coordinate Settings.
You can set the coordinates of ‘Origin’ and ‘Destination’ from ‘Routes Coordinate Settings’. Besides, you can use the dropdown menu to choose ‘Travel Mode’ as well.
From ‘Map Control’ section, you can increase or decrease the ‘Zoom Level’. You can also use the toggles to enable or disable the followings: Street View Controls, Map Type Control, Zoom Control and many more.
You can choose your preferred ‘Theme Source’ from out these 3 options: Google Standard, Snazzy Maps & Custom.
Under each tab, you can easily use the drop-down menu to choose your preferred theme. From ‘Custom Styles’, you can import your personalized theme as well.
From the ‘General Style’’ section, you change the width & height of your Google Map. You can also modify the ‘Margin’ settings from this section as well.