Title: Photerra Nearby – Local Attractions & Travel Map Widget
Author: photerra
Published: <strong>July 28, 2026</strong>
Last modified: July 28, 2026

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# Photerra Nearby – Local Attractions & Travel Map Widget

 By [photerra](https://profiles.wordpress.org/photerra/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/photerra-nearby.0.1.0.zip)

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## Description

**Photerra Nearby** puts a beautiful map and photo gallery of the local attractions
around you onto any WordPress page — free, in about a minute, with no account and
no code.

Every photograph is a real place at a real coordinate, taken by a traveler or drawn
from openly-licensed archives, and every one carries its credit. It updates itself
as new photos arrive, so the “things to do nearby” section of your site stops going
stale the week after you write it.

Made for the sites where place matters: **hotels and vacation rentals** (“explore
the area”), **tour operators**, **travel blogs**, and **tourism boards**.

#### Why you might want it

 * **Free, and free for commercial use.** No account, no trial, no paid tier.
 * **Genuinely lightweight.** The plugin renders a lazy-loaded iframe that reserves
   its height in advance — nothing render-blocking, nothing that can shift your 
   layout.
 * **No cookies, no visitor tracking.** It sets nothing in the browser, so it needs
   no entry in your cookie banner.
 * **Every photo credited.** Traveler photography names the contributor; openly-
   licensed archive photography names the author, the licence and the source, with
   links.
 * **Themeable.** Light / dark / auto, your accent colour, background, corner radius
   and font, and five layouts — compact grid, map, strip, sidebar rail, or a small
   badge.
 * **Nothing left behind.** Remove the block or shortcode and that is the end of
   it: no residue, no stored data, no account.

#### An honest note on SEO

The widget renders inside an iframe, so its content is **not** indexed as part of
your page and it will not improve your search rankings. We would rather say so here
than let you find out later. What it does is give your visitors a reason to stay
and explore the area, which is the thing that actually matters on a page about where
you are.

#### How to use

**Block:** add the **Photerra Nearby** block and choose a location, layout and colour
in the sidebar.

**Shortcode:**

    ```
    [photerra_nearby hub="pdx" layout="grid" theme="auto" rows="2"]
    ```

Attributes: `hub` (pdx, sf, la, sd, phi, np, hi, mx), `lat`/`lng` for an exact location,`
layout` (grid, map, strip, rail, badge), `theme` (auto, light, dark), `rows` for
grid and map (1–8), `count` for strip and rail (3–24), `accent` (hex colour), `preset`(
editorial, minimal, native), `bg`, `font`, `border`.

Set site-wide defaults under **Settings  Photerra Nearby**.

Don’t see your area yet? Locations are added on request — email info@photerra.com.

#### External service

This plugin displays content from Photerra (https://photerra.com), a travel photography
service operated by Photerra, Inc.

It renders an `<iframe>` pointing at `https://photerra.com/embed/v1/frame`. Your
visitor’s browser loads that frame, which then requests spot data and photographs
from Photerra. As with any request, Photerra receives the visitor’s IP address and
user-agent, recorded in ordinary server access logs. The frame also sends Photerra
one diagnostic message per load describing **the embed** — which domain it loaded
on, which location was requested, whether it rendered, and how many photographs 
it showed — so broken installations can be found. It contains no visitor identifier,
no page path, no referrer and no coordinates. No cookies are set and nothing is 
stored in the browser.

If a visitor opens the map view, their browser additionally loads map software from
jsDelivr (https://www.jsdelivr.com) and map tiles from OpenFreeMap (https://openfreemap.
org). The default gallery view loads neither.

Terms of service: https://photerra.com/terms
 Privacy policy: https://photerra.com/
privacy

## Screenshots

[⌊The gallery: real nearby places, each credited to the person who photographed 
it.⌉⌊The gallery: real nearby places, each credited to the person who photographed
it.⌉[

The gallery: real nearby places, each credited to the person who photographed it.

[⌊The map view: every spot in the area, clustered, with clickable photo pins.⌉⌊The
map view: every spot in the area, clustered, with clickable photo pins.⌉[

The map view: every spot in the area, clustered, with clickable photo pins.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Photerra Nearby

## FAQ

### Is it really free?

Yes, including on commercial sites — hotels, vacation rentals, tour operators, restaurants,
tourism boards and travel publishers. There is no account, no trial and no paid 
tier.

### Does it slow my site down?

No. The widget renders inside a lazy-loaded iframe that reserves its height up front,
plus one small asynchronous resize script — so it never blocks your page render 
and cannot cause layout shift.

### Does it use cookies or track my visitors?

No. It sets no cookies, writes nothing to browser storage, and creates no visitor
identifier, so it needs no entry in your cookie banner. See the “External service”
section above for exactly what is and is not sent.

### Why is the block showing an empty box in the editor?

Some editors and page builders do not execute embedded frames on the editing canvas.
Save and view the page and it renders. If it is still empty on the live page, see
the troubleshooting guide below.

### What if there aren’t many places near me?

For an exact lat/lng it shows the nearest real spots (up to 500 miles out), and 
when there is genuinely nothing to show it says so honestly instead of rendering
a broken-looking box. Coverage is real where it exists and thin where it isn’t —
locations are added deliberately, on request, not scraped.

### Can I change the colours and layout?

Yes — in the block sidebar, in Settings  Photerra Nearby, or in the visual builder
at https://photerra.com/embed/v1/configurator which previews your exact settings
against real data.

### Who owns the photographs?

The photographers do. Displaying the widget is covered by Photerra’s terms, and 
every photo carries its credit inside the widget. The one condition is that credits
are not removed or covered.

### Where do I get help?

https://photerra.com/for-business/help — or email info@photerra.com, where a real
person answers.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Photerra Nearby – Local Attractions & Travel Map Widget” is open source software.
The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ photerra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/photerra/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/photerra-nearby/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/photerra-nearby/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/photerra-nearby/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/photerra-nearby/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial release: `[photerra_nearby]` shortcode, Photerra Nearby block, and a 
   settings page for site-wide defaults.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1.0**
 *  Last updated **1 day ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.2**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [nearby places](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/nearby-places/)[travel map](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/travel-map/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/photerra-nearby/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ photerra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/photerra/)

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