Baxtersweb Maps
Create dynamic OpenStreetMap route displays from ACF map markers and optional points of interest saved on posts, pages, or custom post type entries.
Screenshots
Interactive OpenStreetMap route with connected stops.
Guided Baxtersweb Maps setup screen.
One-click ACF route field creation.
Adding route points using the visual map picker.
Customise route appearance from the settings page.
Display maps anywhere using a simple shortcode.
Overview
Baxtersweb Maps is a lightweight WordPress plugin for creating interactive route maps directly from your website content. Built for ACF-powered websites, it turns structured repeater fields into beautiful OpenStreetMap routes with multiple stops, numbered markers, and connected paths — without needing a Google Maps API key. Whether you’re building travel itineraries, safari routes, office locations, event journeys, or any content with multiple points of interest, Easy Route Map keeps your route data organised inside WordPress while displaying it in a clean, responsive map layout.
Changelog (Recent)
1.1.11
- Updated name and readme.
1.1.10
- Fixed per-POI background colours from ACF fields, including shorthand and values entered without a leading hash.
- POI clusters now retain a shared custom colour when all grouped POIs use the same colour.
1.1.9
- Existing saved road routes remain available when the API key is removed.
- Maps without saved road geometry are calculated when a valid API key is connected.
- Added routing lifecycle guidance beneath the API key field.
- Fixed the final Plugin Check translator-comment finding.
1.1.7
- Fixed global POI background colours on preview and frontend markers.
- Clearing an API key removes cached road geometry and restores fallback lines.
- Route visibility and marker sequence update immediately in the style preview.
- Adjusted marker B’s preview popup position.
1.1.6
- Retries rural route points with a bounded 2 km road-snapping radius when the default 350 metre search fails.
- Keeps the exact marker location while routing to the nearest mapped drivable road within that limit.
1.1.4
- Fixed road-following routes being calculated but not displayed when cached geometry was missing.
- Moved route display and route colour into the Styles tab.
- Renamed Markers & POIs to Styles.
- Improved the admin preview popup position and zoom.
1.1.4
- Added a persistent openrouteservice connection status below the API key.
- Replaced the separate save and test controls with Save & Test API.
- Fixed existing maps remaining on dashed fallback lines after connecting the routing API.
- Opens a route marker popup automatically in the admin preview.
- Updated documentation and demo links.
- Improved translation readiness for frontend and admin JavaScript strings.
- Updated external-service documentation for WordPress.org review.
1.0.6
- Moved the settings screen under Tools.
- Bundled Leaflet locally instead of loading it from a CDN.
- Replaced POI icon markers with clean text-label markers.
- Added ACF Pro requirement wording.
- Added route marker text colour setting.
- Changed route markers to letter labels.
- Improved duplicate map marker handling.
- Added clearer template and loop shortcode guidance.
- Added Advanced Views Layout shortcode example.
- Added external service disclosure for map tiles and OSRM routing.
- Improved Plugin Check compatibility around nonces, sanitisation, direct file access, and translator comments.