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 with your own fields, and let visitors search by keyword, category, location or distance. Markers, clusters, popups, the listings sidebar and the search form are set per map with a live preview, visitors can add their own listings, and an optional AI assistant drafts listing text and reads a visitor’s whole sentence into the search filters.

Live demo: maps.salephpscripts.com

AI That Writes Listings and Reads Searches

Add a key for an AI service and the plugin starts helping. Until you do, nothing is sent anywhere and the feature is off.

• 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.
• 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.

The AI Assistant Add-on (a separate plugin, installed from the AI tab in one click) adds:

• Five more services – OpenAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, OpenRouter and Google Gemini.
• Every text field – a Write button on your custom fields too, and one click to fill all empty fields at once.
• Assisted search – a visitor types “a cheap place open on Sunday that takes cards” and the map’s search form sets its own filters. Each one shows as a chip the visitor can remove.

Three Map Engines, Markers & Clusters

• Google Maps (Street View, satellite, rotate and tilt), Mapbox GL JS (vector tiles, globe view) or MapLibre GL + MapTiler (open source). Switch any time; maps and listings stay as they are.
• Ready-made styles for each engine, remembered per engine.
• Marker sources in your order – category or listing icons, photos, ratings, prices or any field as a label, opening hours that turn green or red, or plain dots.
• Marker sizes per source, 30 to 70 px.
• Clusters with your own thresholds and colours; a cluster that cannot split opens a list of its listings.
• Fast with thousands of listings – markers in view load first, the rest stream in batches, all drawn on a canvas.

Popups, Sidebar & Directions

• Popups with the fields you pick and drag into order, word and item limits per row, and a price badge.
• Auto-popups – small cards beside the visible markers, no click needed; they follow the map as it moves.
• Listings sidebar on the left, right, top or bottom, paged, with its own fields and order; hovering a listing flies to its marker.
• [webmap-listings] – the same listings as cards anywhere on the page.
• Directions – a route from the visitor’s address or location, drawn A to B, with its steps listed beside the map.
• Contact form in the popup, or your Contact Form 7 form.

Lazy Load & Map Settings

• Lazy load mode per map – load with the page, when the map scrolls into view, or on a click on its placeholder.
• Nothing loads while a map waits – no map scripts, no requests; a search made meanwhile shows once the map is there.
• A settings screen per map with a live preview – size, style, starting point and zoom, radius, controls, sticky map and geolocation.
• Shareable map views – the camera can be saved in the browser or in the page address.

Search Form Builder

• Drag-and-drop builder for the search form of each map, on a grid of full, 2/3, 1/2 and 1/3 widths.
• Keyword search – a full-text index with relevance order and suggestions.
• Address and radius – “within 25 km”, with the circle drawn on the map.
• Filters – categories, locations, price and number sliders, lists, dates and “open now”, with a “More filters” section.
• Filter chips and shareable links – remove a filter in one click, or send a search as a link.
• On the map or off it – in a corner of the map, draggable and foldable, or anywhere on the page with [webmap-search].

Custom Fields & Form Builder

• Field types – text, number, price, website, email, phone, images & videos, file, lists, date & time and opening hours.
• Six-part grid – fields and groups at full, 2/3, 1/2 or 1/3 width.
• 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, markers, popups, the sidebar and the search filters.

Front-end Submission & Dashboard

• [webmap-submit] – visitors add listings on any page, with images, videos and reCAPTCHA.
• Guests or members – login and registration built in, guest submissions confirmed by email, moderation if you want it.
• Save as draft and finish later.
• [webmap-dashboard] – members edit, renew and pause their listings.
• Expiry and renewal with reminder emails, status badges and a history of every listing.

Ratings

• One-click star ratings in popups and the sidebar.
• Rating markers – the score on the map.
• Anonymous ratings if you allow them, protected by reCAPTCHA v3.
• Written reviews with the separate Ratings & Reviews plugin.

Categories & Locations

• Hierarchical categories, each with its own marker: a Font Awesome icon in your colour, a bundled PNG or your own image.
• Subcategories inherit their parent’s marker.
• Locations as a Country, State, City tree.
• Tags found by keyword search.

Addresses

• Several addresses per listing, each with its own marker.
• Autocomplete and “Get my location” on address fields, limited to one country if needed.
• Pin on the map when the address is not enough, or exact coordinates.
• Address format set by drag and drop.

CSV Import & Export, Demo Content

• Import in resumable batches, with images from a ZIP (optional WebP), videos, opening hours and geocoding of addresses.
• Export every listing with its images and videos, ready to import back.
• 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.

Emails & Contact Form

• Notification emails – activation, reminders before expiry and expiration, each with its own subject, text and on/off switch.
• Test email delivery in one click.
• Contact form in the map popup, straight to the listing owner, or your Contact Form 7 form.
• reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 on sign-in, registration, submission, contact and anonymous ratings.

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.

Customization

• Seven colour palettes, or your own primary, link and button colours.
• Button gradient and an image lightbox for popup and sidebar photos.
• Template overrides for the submission page and the dashboard from your theme.

Speed & Tools

• Setup wizard – engine and keys, the listing form, demo content and the first map on a page.
• Migration from Web 2.0 Google Maps / Google Maps Locator, keeping markers, listings, fields and settings.
• Diagnostics – tests for map keys, reCAPTCHA, email and listing expiry, plus a front-end self-test.
• React front end and REST API, with a full-text search index.

What’s Included

• The Rocket Maps plugin.
• The Rocket Maps theme, a ready-made theme for the plugin (separate download).
• 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

  = 1.5.7 - October 21, 2026 = * New: Lazy load mode - a map loads with the page, when it scrolls into view or on a click; until then none of its scripts load. * Improvement: routes drawn A to B with steps that follow the map and a Reset button, on Google's current Places and Routes APIs. * Improvement: search forms on one page stay in step, each filter chip removes its filter, and a cluster that cannot split lists its listings. * Fix: Mapbox and MapLibre markers, clusters and popups behave near the edges and in fullscreen. * Fix: listing titles no longer link to pages Rocket Maps does not have, and the dashboard and the directions panel can be translated.  = 1.5.6 - October 13, 2026 = * Improvement: the pre-expiration email can go out more than once, for example 7, 2 and 1 days before. * Improvement: time a listing spends paused or waiting for moderation no longer counts against its period. * Improvement: Quick Edit is back on the listings table. * Fix: the renew link in the expiration emails renews the listing, also when the owner has to log in first. * Fix: a listing in the trash no longer gets expiration emails. * Fix: on a phone, the categories and the map on the listing form are no longer missing.  = 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.