CartoPress

A CartoDB Client for WordPress

CartoPress is a plugin for WordPress that links CartoDB, an open-source and API-driven web-mapping platform, to the world's most popular content management system.

One of a kind: While there are multitudes of other plugins providing mapping support, most are exclusively Google Maps-based instead of based on open-source solutions such as Leaflet; few are focused on geo-referencing your WordPress content; and CartoPress is the first to specifically target CartoDB.

Your data, your maps, no hassle: CartoPress was built to provide the ability to turn your WordPress-based site into a geo-CMS using the CartoDB platform, allowing you to design dynamic interactive maps and geo-spatial appliations from your existing WordPress data. While CartoPress allows you to add robust geolocation to your WordPress posts, pages and media, CartoDB brings infinite possibilites of mapping and visualization. CartoPress makes use of CartoDB's powerful APIs to act as a bridge, enabling you to easily import your WordPress data directly into your CartoDB account. Add or update points on your map simply by adding or updating a post!

KEY FEATURES

• Georeferece your posts, pages and media attachments using the built-in CartoPress geocoder
• Automatically sync Post Title, Summary Description, Permalink, Post Date, and all Geo Data to your CartoDB dataset
• Intuitive interface allows you to easily configure settings to sync Post Content, Featured Image, Taxonomies, Author, and Custom Fields to your CartoDB dataset
• Streamlined processes will automatically insert new posts, pages and media to your maps
• Provides the ability to manually input and edit and delete geodata, optionally choose to not sync data on a case-by-case basis
• Add a custom summary description to your post to display in your map's infowindow

BENEFITS OF CARTODB

• Use CartoDB's intuitive visual editor to quickly and easily spatialize your WordPress data with wizards to make simple, clustered, choropleth and categorized maps, density and heat maps, time-based torque maps and more
• Customize your map's styling using CartoCSS, an end-user-friendly styling language based on CSS; choose from a variety of built-in basemaps or use your own custom basemap
• Create custom views based on your data using built-in SQL support
• Enhance your map by adding additional layers from the CartoDB dataset library or your own source
• Easily publish maps simply by sharing a link, embedding directly on your site, or build a custom geo-spatial application from your WordPress data using the cartodb.js API
• Use CartoDB to export your data into various geo datatypes including SHP, KML, GeoJSON, CSV and SVG
• CartoDB is an open-source platform and offers a free account providing a wide range of abilities for individual users, while upgraded accounts offer enterprise-ready solutions

GETTING STARTED

Installation is as simple as any other WordPress plugin. Just upload the zip file to the plugins directory in your WordPress distribution and ACTIVATE! The recent stable release should be located in the WordPress plugins directory, while this GitHub repository will be used for development purposes.

CartoPress requires at least a free CartoDB account. Once your have your account created, all you need is your API Key and your username to get started. CartoPress can automatically generate your CartoDB table and add all the required field sets - linking the two platforms with ease.

Check out the CartoPress documentation for instruction on basic setup and usage and information for developers. Check out CartoDB's documentation for information on using the CartoDB editor, styling and publishing maps.

INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS

CartoPress requires at least WordPress 4.3.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTING

Since this is our first ever WordPress plugin, we would love all the help we can get! Our aim is to make to CartoPress as extendable as possible for developers and ideas for improving the existing codebase or adding new features will definitely be taken to heart.

See the documentation for notes on how CartoPress works and accessing the PHP API generated documentation

Please use the GitHub issue reporting tool to report bugs in the existing build and request additional features or enhancements.

Please see our todo list to see what we have planned for future releases. CartoPress uses GPLv2 so feel free to use as you wish!