Title: Maps Balloon Content
Last modified: September 18, 2025

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# Maps Balloon Content

 *  Resolved [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/)
 * (@nvnvnvnvn)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/)
 * In the Maps view, is there a way to add or change the content populated in the
   balloon pop-up window?
 * It sure seems like others would have asked this, but I searched and couldn’t 
   find it. No documentation or FAQs I could find either so it would seem you can’t
   change it, but that seems hard to believe as well.
 * The idea being, for example, if I want to see all garage sales this weekend and
   I go to map view to see which ones are in areas I want to go to, if I click the
   balloon, it won’t have much info for me to know or to know how to go find that
   actual event for more info.
 * I seem to missing something, thanks for any help!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmaps-balloon-content%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/)
 * (@joneiseman)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/#post-18647528)
 * You can modify the text in the balloon but it can only have location information
   not information about the event.
 * You could add a category for garage sales then you could filter the results to
   only show events near a particular location and that are in the category garage
   sales.
 *  Thread Starter [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/)
 * (@nvnvnvnvn)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/#post-18647565)
 * Thank you [@joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/)! That’s
   what I was seeing, I didn’t phrase my question correctly, thank you for elaborating.
 * Would be amazing if there could be a link in the bubble/balloon to take you to
   the event page for that event, or some other fields. Anything more than the current
   offering seems very helpful.
 * I think my example indicates the need for it, but poorly. You are correct and
   helpful in answering it the way you did, but if I wanted to see what time the
   garage sale opened or wanted to see more details about what they had at the garage
   sale, it would be a little harder to go back and find those specific events….
   from what I can figure out at this point.
 *  Thread Starter [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/)
 * (@nvnvnvnvn)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/#post-18647566)
 * I am going to go pro though, regardless. These developers deserve every penny
   of it.
    -  This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/).
 *  [joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/)
 * (@joneiseman)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/#post-18647594)
 * There can be multiple events from the same location. That’s why you can’t get
   the event information on the map balloon. There is a way to loop through all 
   the events using EM_Events::get() to get all the events at this location. Here’s
   an example of how that could be done:
 *     ```wp-block-code
          echo '<div>'    // Get the current location's ID    $location_id = $EM_Location->location_id;    $additional_balloon_text = "";    // Define the arguments for our query    $args = array(        'scope' => 'future',          // Only get events happening in the future        'location' => $location_id,   // Filter by the current location ID        'orderby' => 'event_start_date', // Order them by start date        'order' => 'ASC',             // In ascending order (soonest first)        'limit' => 0                  // Use 0 to get all future events, or set a number like 5 or 10    );    // Fetch the events using our arguments    $future_events = EM_Events::get($args);    // Check if any events were found    if ( count($future_events) > 0 ) {        // Loop through each event        foreach ( $future_events as $EM_Event ) {            $additional_balloon_text .= 'Event Title:' . $EM_Event->event_title;            if (!empty($EM_Event->event_excerpt)) {                $additional_balloon_text .= '<br />Excerpt:' . $EM_Event->event_excerpt;            }        }    }    echo $additional_balloon_text . '</div>';
       ```
   
 * To modify the text in the map balloon you would need to create the directory 
   wp-content/plugins-templates/events-manager/placeholders then copy wp-content/
   plugins/events-manager/plugins/events-manager/templates/placeholders/locationmap.
   php to that directory then modify the copied file. You would add the above code
   into that file after line 58.
 *  Thread Starter [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/)
 * (@nvnvnvnvn)
 * [4 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/#post-18732499)
 * [@joneiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joneiseman/):
 * When on the event page, the map pin has a link for “Events” in it. Which clicking
   on it goes to the page of all events at that location. (i.e. – [https://fun-in-phelps.com/events/drop-n-shop/](https://fun-in-phelps.com/events/drop-n-shop/))
 * When searching events, the map display pin does not have that Events link in 
   it. How can I get that Events link to show up? (i.e. – [https://fun-in-phelps.com/events/](https://fun-in-phelps.com/events/))
   and change display type to map.
 * I’ve tried taking what you’ve stated previously, but just not quite getting the
   expected output. Almost like the events page map is a different file generating
   it?
 * Thank you!
    -  This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/).
    -  This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/).
    -  This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by [nvnvnvnvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nvnvnvnvn/).

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 * Last activity: [4 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maps-balloon-content/#post-18732499)
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