Rocket Maps plugin for WordPress

Rocket Maps – Searchable Maps, Store Locator & Listings for WordPress

Rocket Maps builds fast, searchable maps for WordPress and places them on any page with one shortcode. Choose Google Maps, Mapbox or MapLibre, add listings, and let visitors search by keyword, category, location or distance.

Live demo: maps.salephpscripts.com

AI That Writes Listings and Reads Searches

• Write with AI – a Write button beside the description drafts the text from the listing name, categories and location.
• Groq built in – its free tier needs no payment card. Nothing is sent anywhere until you add a key.
• No invented facts – prices, phones, dates, opening hours and web addresses are never generated.
• Your key, your limits – keys stay on your server; hourly and daily limits cap what visitors can spend.
• AI Assistant Add-on (installed from the AI tab in one click) – five more AI services, a Write button on every text field, and assisted search: a visitor types “a cheap place open on Sunday” and the form sets its own filters.

Three Map Engines

• Google Maps – Places autocomplete, Street View, satellite, rotate and tilt.
• Mapbox GL JS – vector tiles, smooth zoom and a globe view.
• MapLibre GL + MapTiler – open-source rendering, no vendor lock-in.
• 20+ ready-made styles, picked from a dropdown.
• Switch any time – listings and search forms stay as they are.

Markers & Clustering

• Icon, image, PNG or price markers, with an icon and colour per category or per listing.
• Label markers – a rating or field value on the pin, in your colours.
• Clustering with adjustable grid size and styles.
• Batch loading – maps with thousands of listings open instantly.

Search Form Builder

• Drag-and-drop builder for the search form on each map.
• Keyword search – a full-text index with relevance order and suggestions.
• Address and radius – “within 25 km of me”, with the circle drawn on the map.
• Filters – categories, locations, price and number sliders, lists, dates and “open now”.
• Filter chips and shareable links – remove a filter in one click, or send a search as a link.
• On the map – four corners, draggable and collapsible, with live results.

Sidebar, Listings & Popups

• Sidebar on the left or right, with pagination and fly-to on hover.
• Sorting – date, title, price, rating, distance, relevance, any number field or random.
• Listings grid below the map, and a page for every listing with a contact form and directions.
• Popups with your choice of fields, auto-open, and “Get directions”.

Custom Fields & Form Builder

• Field types – text, number, price, website, email, phone, images & videos, file, lists, date & time and opening hours.
• Field groups, shown only for chosen categories, and hidden from logged-out visitors if you want.
• Clickable contacts – phone, email, WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram.
• One set of fields for the form, popups, sidebar cards and search filters.

Front-end Submission & Dashboard

• [webmap-submit] – listing submission with images and reCAPTCHA.
• [webmap-dashboard] – members edit, renew, pause and delete their listings.
• Login and registration built in, with optional guest submissions and moderation.
• Expiry and renewal with status badges and a history of every listing change.

Ratings, Emails & Contact Form

• Star ratings on markers, popups, the sidebar and listing pages.
• Notification emails – each with its own subject, on/off switch and a delivery test.
• Contact form on listing pages, or your Contact Form 7 form.
• reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 on contact and submission forms.

Categories, Locations & Addresses

• Hierarchical categories with their own marker icons and colours.
• Locations as a Country, State, City tree.
• Autocomplete and “Get my location” on address fields, limited to one country if needed.
• Pin on the map when the address is not enough, and an address format set by drag and drop.

CSV Import & Export, Demo Content

• Import in resumable batches, with images from URLs (optional WebP), videos and opening hours.
• Export every listing with its images and videos.
• Demo content – 40,179 ready-made listings in 113 country files, plus 7 demo maps with their pages and a form template, imported in one click.

Multilingual & RTL

• WPML and Polylang – maps, search, listings, forms, settings, emails and CSV per language, with one set of markers per listing.
• Right-to-left languages – Arabic, Hebrew, Persian.
• Translation-ready, admin screens included.

Map Settings, Look & Speed

• A settings panel per map – size, camera, controls, search form, markers, clusters, popups and sidebar, with a live preview.
• Colour palette in Settings, applied everywhere.
• React front end and REST API, with a full-text search index.

Setup & Tools

• Setup wizard – engine, API keys, first map and demo import.
• Migration from Web 2.0 Google Maps and Google Maps Locator, keeping markers, listings, fields and settings.
• Diagnostics – tests for map keys, reCAPTCHA, email, the search index and outgoing connections, plus a front-end self-test.

What’s Included

• The Rocket Maps plugin.
• The Rocket Maps theme, a ready-made theme for the plugin.
• Demo content: 40,179 listings, 7 maps with pages, a form template.
• Documentation and 6 months of support.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+.
• A key from your map provider: Google Maps browser key (a server key is optional), Mapbox access token, or MapTiler key. Keys stay on your server.
• A key from an AI service, only for the AI features. Groq is built in and free to start.

Changelog

  = 1.5.5 - October 7, 2026 = * Improvement: My listings in the front-end dashboard shows the time with the Created and Expires dates. * Fix: renewing a listing that is still waiting for approval no longer publishes it. * Fix: a map placed beside taller fields on the listing form no longer grows past its Height. * Fix: listings saved through the listing form are found when searching by their location. * Fix: Pause and Resume in the front-end dashboard return to the listing they were pressed on.  = 1.5.4 - October 1, 2026 = * Improvement: category markers, listing markers and image markers each have their own size in Edit Map. * Improvement: map popups and the map sidebar cut long content, with a word and item limit per row. * Improvement: the map's cookie-consent notice can be translated and names the consent plugin holding the map back. * Improvement: the translation template lists every string of the plugin, the new screens included. * Fix: on Google Maps, markers and clusters no longer disappear while the map pans. * Fix: a map held back by a cookie-consent plugin says it is waiting for consent instead of "API key is not configured". * Fix: on phones the map's "Number of locations" counter no longer hides under the sidebar tab.  = 1.5.3 - September 28, 2026 = * New: three ways to choose categories on the submission form: a checkbox list, dropdowns level by level, or type-to-search. * New: Save as draft on the submission form, and a draft the member comes back to from their dashboard. * New: the form builder lays fields out on a grid of sixths, each field and group with its own width. * Improvement: renewing adds the new period to the time a listing still has, so renewing early costs nothing. * Improvement: the listing form is easier to read, and the one in wp-admin is wider. * Improvement: what you can do to a listing sits in its own Actions box on the dashboard. * Fix: "Geocode addresses" in the CSV import puts listings on the map from their address. * Fix: the dashboard shows listing names as names, not as visible HTML tags. * Fix: "Use gradient on buttons" works again.  = 1.5.1 - September 22, 2026 = * New: WPML and Polylang support for maps, search, listings, forms, settings, emails and CSV. * New: right-to-left languages. * New: a price can stand out in popups and the sidebar with a badge, divider or accent colour. * New: "Hide from anonymous users" for field groups.  = 1.5.0 - September 16, 2026 = * New: AI writes your listing text. Groq is built in. * New: the AI Assistant Add-on adds five more AI services, a Write button on every text field and assisted search.  = 1.4.2 - September 14, 2026 = * New: shareable search links and filter chips above the results. * New: clickable phone, email, WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram contacts. * New: a Relevance sort order for keyword searches. * Fix: expiration emails are sent again, and listings expire again.  = 1.4.1 - September 7, 2026 = * Fix: the theme no longer flattens the map's buttons.  = 1.4.0 - August 31, 2026 = * New: every notification email has its own subject and on/off switch. * New: YouTube and Vimeo videos beside listing photos.  = 1.3.3 - August 25, 2026 = * Fix: login, registration and logout work without a separate Dashboard page.  = 1.3.2 - August 21, 2026 = * New: pause a listing, or set its expiration date, or "Never". * New: WebP conversion for imported images.  = 1.3.1 - August 19, 2026 = * New: "Always load front assets" for shortcodes in page-builder headers and footers.  = 1.3.0 - August 11, 2026 = * New: coloured label markers and an HTML marker mode.  = 1.2.5 - August 6, 2026 = * New: globe projection for Mapbox and MapLibre. * New: a front-end self-test.  = 1.2.4 - August 4, 2026 = * New: drag to reorder listing images, and a collapse toggle on the search form.  = 1.2.3 - August 2, 2026 = * New: a Map language setting.  = 1.2.0 - July 29, 2026 = * New: built-in star ratings. * New: a Custom colour palette. * New: upgrade from the Google Maps Locator plugin.  = 1.1.0 - June 9, 2026 = * New: 20 more Google Maps and MapLibre styles.  = 1.0.0 - June 1, 2026 = * First release.