WordPress Plugin

Location Finder for WordPress

THE PROBLEM

Most location finders decide in advance what a location is.

A store with a phone number. A clinic with services. When your locations don’t fit the shape the plugin already chose, you end up storing “Wheelchair accessible” in a field labelled Fax.

Location Finder has three built-in fields — name, latitude, longitude — and nothing else. Every other field is one you define: its type, its label, whether it shows on the result card or only in the details, whether it can be searched, whether it becomes a filter.

A food bank defines Services and Eligibility. A clinic defines Specialties and Languages Spoken. Neither one has to pretend to be the other.

HOW IT WORKS

You define the fields. It handles the hard parts.

Nine straightforward field types — text, number, email, phone, yes/no and the rest — plus three composites that are genuinely difficult to build by hand, and are usually where a spreadsheet gives up.

Addresses

Six subfields, a tidy one-line version, and a directions link. Type an address into the editor and the coordinates fill themselves in.

Recurring hours

Not just 9 to 5 on Monday, but the 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 9am to 4pm. Consecutive days collapse on display, so seven rows read as Mon–Fri.

Temporary closures

A date range with a reason. While one is active the location says so and stops reporting itself as open, so nobody drives to a locked door.

FOR YOUR VISITORS

A map and a list, on one screen.

Everything a visitor needs to find the nearest open location, without a page reload and without an account.

Search that suggests

The typeahead offers location names, cities, and the values of your own choice fields — not a generic list somebody else wrote.

Filters that fit

Your choice fields become filter chips. Because nothing was assumed, nothing filters by a category your organisation doesn’t use.

Sort by distance

Press the crosshair and the list reorders by how near it is. A sort, not a radius — so the closest location shows even at 40 miles.

Usable by everyone

Native controls throughout, WCAG AA contrast on every preset, and a plain list that works before JavaScript has loaded.

THEMING

It should look like your site, not like a plugin.

The stylesheet ships structure, not opinions. Colours come from your theme, so the finder inherits your palette, follows dark mode and survives high-contrast mode without anyone configuring it.

If you do want to take control, there are fifteen presets and twenty-five individual settings, and every preset colour is checked to WCAG AA contrast. Nothing uses !important, so a theme that deliberately styles the finder still wins.

NO STRINGS

Free, and free of the usual strings.

No API key

Maps use OpenStreetMap tiles and a copy of Leaflet bundled with the plugin. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to pay, no key to leak.

No tracking

No cookies, no analytics, nothing about your visitors sent anywhere. The map doesn’t even load until a visitor asks it to.

No lock-in

Uninstalling removes the plugin, not your records. Your locations and their field data stay in your database either way.

No upsell

There is no pro version and no feature held back to sell you later. It is GPL, all of it, including the parts that took the longest.

GET IT

Put your locations on a map.

Free, GPL, and maintained by people who answer their email. If it turns out to be the wrong tool for what you’re building, we’d rather tell you that than watch you install it.

Install from WordPress.org
Read the source on GitHub
Questions?

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