Title: Mentora Maps Author: Mentora Labs Published: November 12, 2026 Last modified: November 12, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/mentora-maps/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3798891) ![](https://ps.w.org/mentora-maps/assets/icon.svg?rev=3798891) # Mentora Maps By [Mentora Labs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mentorasolutions/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mentora-maps.0.32.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mentora-maps/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mentora-maps/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mentora-maps/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mentora-maps/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mentora-maps/) ## Description Mentora Maps puts your shops, restaurants, clinics or partners on a map, with a list beside it that stays in step: click a marker, the list follows; click an entry, the map goes there. It runs on OpenStreetMap through Leaflet. That means **no API key to get, no credit card to leave, no quota to watch , and nothing to re-do the day a provider changes its prices. #### What an activity holds * Name, description, address with postcode, town, province and country * Coordinates, found from the address or set by dragging the marker * Phone, mobile with WhatsApp, email, website * Opening hours, with today’s “open now” worked out in the reader’s browser * Photos, videos and documents, and social profiles: as many as you need * Links and documents: menu, bookings, a price list, a PDF — each one to an address or to a file * A category with its own icon and colour #### On the page * Map and list side by side, the map on the left or on the right, or the map on its own * Markers grouped when there are many, single when there are few * Light, standard and dark views of the map * Detail in a popup on the map, in a panel over the list, or as a sheet that rises from the bottom on phones, with three heights * A page of its own for every activity, if you want one * Search and filters above the list: by name, address, category, town, country, and “open now” * Colours, corners, shadows and motion, from a panel with a live preview * Shortcodes and a Gutenberg block #### It stays yours * No limits on what is here: activities, photos, videos, documents, links and social profiles * Uninstalling leaves your activities alone unless you say otherwise * No account, no key, no call home #### What Mentora Maps Pro adds The free plugin is a whole map, not a demo, and what is in it has no limits. Pro is a separate plugin that adds things this one does not do: * Import from CSV, WP Go Maps and Google Business, export to CSV and JSON, and scheduled sync * “Where I am”, with the distances, the distance filter and sorting by distance * The whole card: the full week of opening hours, reviews with stars, custom fields of your own * Accounts for your readers: saved places, reviews, notifications * Heatmap, satellite, map styles, the scale bar, and routes with distance and time * Backgrounds, typefaces and a size for every element, and all the layouts * The activity’s name written on the cover, instead of where your theme puts it * Statistics of your own, and the badge removed The comparison, line by line, is inside the plugin under **Activities Pro**. #### What it talks to One thing only, and it waits for consent: the map images come from OpenStreetMap. Everything else — sharing a place on WhatsApp or Telegram, opening directions in Apple or Google Maps — happens when your reader clicks, not before. The **External services** section below says exactly what is sent, to whom, and when. #### What this plugin does not do It does not phone home, does not collect statistics, and never asks your readers where they are — there is no “where I am” button in this version, so the question is never put. It does not send anything about them anywhere. ### External services This plugin connects to the services below. Two of them are contacted on their own— the map tiles, by your reader’s browser, and the address lookup, by your site while you fill in an activity. All the others are **links**: nothing is requested until somebody clicks one, and what travels is what is written in the link. **OpenStreetMap tiles** (tile.openstreetmap.org) — the map images themselves. Requested by the browser of whoever is looking at a page with a map on it, which means their IP address and the area of the map they are looking at reach the tile servers. This is the only service a reader’s browser contacts by itself, and for that reason the map **waits for cookie consent** where a consent banner is installed (Complianz and iubenda are recognised): before consent it shows a notice instead of loading anything. Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ Privacy: https:// osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy **Nominatim** (nominatim.openstreetmap.org) — turns an address into coordinates, and coordinates back into an address. Called by your site, from the administration only, while you are filling in an activity or moving its pin: the address you typed, or the coordinates of the pin, are what gets sent. Never called for your readers, and never on a public page. Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/ nominatim/ Privacy: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy **WhatsApp** (api.whatsapp.com, wa.me) — two links, and only if you turn them on.« Share» opens WhatsApp with the name and the address of the page already written in the message; «WhatsApp» next to a phone number opens a chat with that number. Nothing is sent until your reader clicks, and nothing about your reader is added to the link. Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service Privacy: https:// www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy **Telegram** (t.me) — the same two cases: «Share» opens Telegram with the address of the page and the name of the activity, and the contact link opens the chat of the username the activity has. On click only. Terms: https://telegram.org/tos Privacy: https://telegram.org/privacy **Apple Maps** (maps.apple.com) — the «Directions» link, when the reader’s device is an Apple one. It carries the coordinates of the activity and its name, and it opens when clicked. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/maps/terms- en.html Privacy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ **Google Maps** (www.google.com/maps) — the same «Directions» link on everything else, with the same coordinates and name. On click only. Terms: https://www.google. com/intl/en/help/terms_maps/ Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy The social buttons of an activity — Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and the others— are plain links to the addresses **you** typed in that activity. This plugin writes nothing into them and contacts nothing: they are listed here only so that the picture is complete. #### Services Mentora Maps Pro can reach **This package does not contain the code that talks to any of them.** Satellite imagery, street routing, Adobe Fonts, Google Fonts and the FontAwesome Kit live in the Mentora Maps Pro add-on, which is not distributed here, and each is named in full in that plugin’s own readme. Installing this one gives your readers’ browsers exactly one destination outside your site: OpenStreetMap, for the map images, after they have accepted cookies. ## Screenshots [⌊Map and list side by side on a page of your site, with the markers carrying each category's icon.⌉⌊Map and list side by side on a page of your site, with the markers carrying each category's icon.⌉[ Map and list side by side on a page of your site, with the markers carrying each category’s icon. [⌊The activity's own page: cover, categories, address and contacts, with the links to call or write.⌉⌊The activity's own page: cover, categories, address and contacts, with the links to call or write.⌉[ The activity’s own page: cover, categories, address and contacts, with the links to call or write. [⌊The activity in the administration: one screen, four tabs, and the categories with their icons.⌉⌊The activity in the administration: one screen, four tabs, and the categories with their icons.⌉[ The activity in the administration: one screen, four tabs, and the categories with their icons. [⌊Map and list: what every map starts from, and the two layouts.⌉⌊Map and list: what every map starts from, and the two layouts.⌉[ Map and list: what every map starts from, and the two layouts. [⌊The activity card: a page of its own for every activity, and the line that signs it.⌉⌊The activity card: a page of its own for every activity, and the line that signs it.⌉[ The activity card: a page of its own for every activity, and the line that signs it. [⌊Look: colours — the accent, the markers, the text — corners, shadows and motion, with a preview that follows while you choose.⌉⌊Look: colours — the accent, the markers, the text — corners, shadows and motion, with a preview that follows while you choose .⌉[ Look: colours — the accent, the markers, the text — corners, shadows and motion, with a preview that follows while you choose. [⌊Map controls: every button on the map can be switched off, and the big map has its own.⌉⌊Map controls: every button on the map can be switched off, and the big map has its own.⌉[ Map controls: every button on the map can be switched off, and the big map has its own. ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin through **Plugins Add new Upload**, or copy the folder into` wp-content/plugins`. 2. Activate it. 3. Go to **Activities Add activity**, write an address and press the button that looks it up. 4. Put `[mentora_map]` in a page, or use the **Activities map** block. That is the whole setup. There is no account to create and no key to paste. ## FAQ ### It says my site needs PHP 8.2. Why? Because PHP 8.1 and everything before it stopped getting security fixes, and in October 2026 PHP had two flaws that let somebody run code on a server without signing in at all. They were fixed from 8.2 onwards; older versions were left as they were, and they will stay that way. This plugin holds the names, phone numbers and email addresses of real businesses, so it does not tell WordPress it is fine on a version of PHP with a known hole and no patch. Your host can usually move you to a newer PHP from the control panel, and it costs nothing — most of them have done it already. ### Do I need a Google Maps key? No. The map is OpenStreetMap through Leaflet, and neither needs a key or a card. ### Will the map work with my cookie banner? Yes. Complianz and iubenda are recognised: until the reader accepts, the map shows a notice and loads nothing at all — not a single tile. Which consent it waits for is up to you: Settings Map and list “Waits for consent to” holds the category your banner files map tiles under, because banners do not agree on that one — many sites count a map as a necessary service and put it among the functional ones, where consent is granted to everybody. Check a page the way a visitor sees it, not the preview in here: in the admin there is no banner, so the map always draws. With no banner at all the map loads straight away, and the `mentora_maps_consent_category` filter still overrides the setting. ### Where do the coordinates come from? From the address, looked up with Nominatim while you are editing. You can also drag the marker, and the address fields follow it. ### How many activities can the free version publish? As many as you like. There is no limit here, and there is none on photos, videos, documents or social profiles either: what this plugin does, it does all the way. Up to version 0.28.0 it published twenty and saved the rest as drafts; that limit is gone, and anything it had paused comes back online by itself when you update. ### Can I bring in what I have in another plugin? If it exports a CSV, yes, with Mentora Maps Pro. The import shows you the first rows of your file, lets you say which column is what, and runs a dry run before writing anything, and there are ready-made column profiles for WP Go Maps and Google Business. None of that code is in this free plugin: the «Get Pro» page tells you what it does, and the add-on brings it with it. ### Does each activity get its own page? Only if you turn it on, and it is off by default: a site full of pages with two lines inside does more harm than good. The settings tell you how many of your activities have enough inside to deserve one. ### Does it work with my theme? It should, including block themes. The activity page is not a template of ours fighting yours: it goes inside your theme’s content, with your header, your footer and your widths. ### There is a small badge on my map. Can I remove it? Yes, and the plugin tells you about it the moment you activate it, with a button that removes the link right there. The badge sits in a corner of the map, next to the OpenStreetMap credit: in the free version it carries our name and a link to our site, which is how the plugin gets found. You can keep the name without the link at any time in **Settings Map and list Our badge**. Removing the badge altogether is part of Pro. ### Is it translated? The plugin is written in English and ships with an Italian translation. ### Does it work with a multilingual site? Yes. Your activities are an ordinary custom post type and the categories an ordinary taxonomy, so WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress all see them once you switch them on in their own settings. The plugin ships a `wpml-config.xml`, which WPML and Polylang read, so they already know what to do with each field: the address, the town and the labels of your links are copied when a translation is created and are then yours to change, while the coordinates, the phone numbers, the opening hours and the photos stay identical in every language. Ratings and statistics are left alone, so one language never overwrites another’s. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Mentora Maps” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Mentora Labs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mentorasolutions/) [Translate “Mentora Maps” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mentora-maps) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mentora-maps/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mentora-maps/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mentora-maps/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mentora-maps/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.32.0 * **The badge on your maps.** This plugin offers two choices — the name with a link, or the name alone — and the code that removed it altogether is no longer part of it. If you have Mentora Maps Pro and had chosen to remove the badge, ** update Pro to 0.23.0 first**: that choice now lives there. Until you do, your maps show the name alone. * **Cropper.js updated to 2.3.1 and pdf.js to 6.5.438**, the current stable releases of both. The crop window for the profile and cover images works as before — pick the frame, rotate a quarter turn, save — and the cropping itself still happens on your server, on a copy, leaving the original in your media library. Leaflet 1.9.4 and MarkerCluster 1.5.3 were already current and are unchanged. * Field values are cleaned by this plugin **before** any extension refines them, and whatever an extension hands back is checked again before it is saved. #### 0.31.1 * The plugin header, the licence and the translation template now carry the current company name, Mentora Labs. Nothing else changed: same files, same behaviour. #### 0.31.0 * The **Pro** page under Activities is now two plain lists — what this plugin does, and what the separate Pro plugin adds — instead of a three-column table with a red cross on every line this plugin does not do. Same information, and the half that was missing is now written down: what you already have, with no limits. Older versions are listed in changelog.txt, next to this file. ## Meta * Version **0.32.0** * Last updated **23 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 8.2 or higher ** * Tags * [business directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/business-directory/)[leaflet](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/leaflet/) [map](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/map/)[openstreetmap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/openstreetmap/) [Store locator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/store-locator/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mentora-maps/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mentora-maps/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mentora-maps/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Mentora Labs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mentorasolutions/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? 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