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Meks Easy Maps
Easily display map locations for your posts and categories with Google Maps or OSM.
The facts
- Active installs
- 900+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 4 Mar 2026
- Added
- Mar 2018
- Requires WP
- 3.7
- Tested up to
- WP 6.9.7
- Downloads
- 16,350
Our analysis
AI-assistedMeks Easy Maps is a WordPress plugin that allows you to assign locations to your posts and categories using Google Maps or Open Street Map. It provides a user-friendly interface for displaying maps and offers various options for customisation, including the ability to show location pins and use shortcodes for embedding maps on any page.
This plugin is suitable for WordPress users who want to enhance their content with geographical information, making it particularly useful for travel blogs, local business sites, or any site that benefits from location-based content.
Best for: This plugin is best for travel blogs, local business websites, or any site that requires location-based content.
What it does well
- ✓Supports Google Maps and Open Street Map
- ✓Allows assignment of locations to posts and categories
- ✓Offers shortcode for manual map embedding
- ✓Includes options for clustering and polylines
- ✓Street view support available
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on user ratings
- •No live demo provided in the description
Verdict
Meks Easy Maps provides a straightforward solution for adding maps to your WordPress site, but lacks detailed user feedback and a live demo in the description.
From the developer
Meks's own description of Meks Easy Maps, lightly tidied.
Meks Easy Maps was originally created as a feature for our Trawell WordPress theme but now it can be used on any WordPress website.
With Meks Easy Maps WordPress plugin you can easily assign locations to your posts and categories via Google Map user-friendly interface. The plugin is highly configurable and provides you with the various options for displaying the map.
Meks Easy Maps WordPress plugin is created by Meks
Features
- Assign Google Map or Open Street Map locations to your posts and categories
- Display post location pin above or below your post content
- Display all posts with locations on the current category template/archive
- Display category location pin on category template/archive
- Shortcode to manually display pins with posts or categories on any page
- Several display settings to fine-tune the map behavior like clustering (pin grouping) and polylines (lines that connects pins)
- Street view support
Live example?
You can see Meks Easy Maps live example on our Trawell theme demo website
Quick shortcode guide
Besides the automatic display of your posts and categories on the map, you can embed your map anywhere on the website by using the predefined [mks_map] shortcode.
- Use
[mks_map type="posts"]to display all your posts with locations on a single map. - Use
[mks_map type="posts" cat="2"]if you want to display posts from a specific category only (cat parameter represents the category ID). - Use
[mks_map type="categories"]to display all your categories with locations.
Tagged as
purpose
Maps & Location
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