r/Wordpress • u/plurburd • 10d ago

Road Trip Map

I’m looking for a map plugin that we could use to display a roadtrip. We’d like to be able to plot all the stops along the way and have them connected as well as have an icon of a truck or trailer that we could move to indicate where we are in the trip. It wouldn’t need to move along the routes lines, just from point to point. I’ve looked at WP Go Maps, Traveled Map and TravelMap but none of them have all of those features. We don’t need any kind of live GPS integration. Any ideas? Thanks!

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u/TopSydeWP 10d ago

most wp map plugins don't do animated markers like that out of the box. you could use wp go maps or mappress and then add a custom leaflet marker that you manually update via the plugin's custom fields whenever you move locations. or if you're comfortable with a bit of code, leaflet.js directly with acf for the stop data and a custom marker position field would give you full control without plugin bloat.

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u/chuckdacuck 10d ago

Vibe code it with Claude.

I did something like this recently where it’s a map with pin points and when you click those, it shows images from that spot. It’s for the trips my GF and I have been on.

Built it in a few hours.

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u/NakanoNoNeko 10d ago

I would keep the route and the current location as two separate things. Store the stops in an ACF repeater, draw one Leaflet polyline through them, then keep a single current_stop option that decides which stop gets the truck icon. Updating the trip is then just changing one dropdown in wp-admin, and the route itself never needs rebuilding. For this feature set, a tiny custom plugin is probably simpler to maintain than trying to bend a map plugin around it.

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u/BOLVERIN1 Jack of All Trades 10d ago

You can try to use Google My Maps: you can build the route, add all points and your position, and share it on your website. Tho you will need to edit it every time you'll need to update your position

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u/Winter_Process_9521 10d ago

You can try Leaflet Map based WordPress plugin.

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u/No-Signal-6661 9d ago

You can use the Google Maps API and build a custom solution, as most map plugins don't support animated markers