Google Maps Builder Pro from WordImpress is an excellent plugin that lets you easily buildy advanced (or simple) Google Maps. The superb flexibility and control it includes is awe inspiring. Checkout my in-depth video review for more.
This plugin will enable a simple short code that you can use for embedding Google Maps in any WordPress post or page. The short code uses the WordPress HTTPS API and the Transients API for delivering cached maps with little to no impact on your site’s performance.
Sugar Event Calendar is a a simple, elegant Event Calendar plugin for WordPress that keeps event management incredibly simply. This is an add-on plugin for Sugar Event Calendar that lets you easily display a Google Map of the event location on the event details page.
In this advanced tutorial we’re going to walk through the process of creating a simple short code to display Google Maps. The concept is simple, but we’ll be using advanced techniques and tools for displaying our maps. All maps will be cached using transients and all requests to Google’s API services will be done with…
