WordPress is the most popular content management platform on the planet, powering nearly 20% of all websites. Because of the popularity of WordPress and community around it, there are plugins and other tools to help integrate popular GIS tools such as Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMap and others. We'll take a look at some of those, learn more about what makes WordPress work, why it's so popular, and best practices for making the most of it.

1. ALL THINGS
WORDPRESS
WITH GIS

2. ABOUT
MICKEY & ALI

3. GOOGLE EARTH BLOG

5. WHERE
IT ALL
BEGAN

6. WORDPRESS
.COM vs .ORG
Limited themes
No plugins
Limited tweaking
Paid plans
No Google Analytics
Jump to self-hosted
Simplicity
Ads
Choose a theme
Add blog posts
Allow comments
Publish static pages
Push RSS feeds
Widgets
1,700+ themes
23,000+ plug-ins
Jetpack
Third-party hosting
Software updates
Ads

7. POPULARITY
• A total of 60 million sites •
• 18.9% of the top 10 million websites •
• 409m visitors and 14.4b pageviews each month •

8. WHAT IS
ALL THE HYPE
ABOUT?

9. THE COMMUNITY

10. MOBILE RESPONSIVE

11. EASILY UPDATED
CONTENT

12. SEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMIZATION

13. THEMES VS PLUGINS

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15. FINDING THEMES

16. FINDING PLUGINS

17. OUR FAVORITE PLUGINS

18. GIS IN WORDPRESS

19. GIS IN WORDPRESS

20. GIS IN WORDPRESS
Allow special file uploads (KML/KMZ, etc)
In functions.php:
// Added to extend allowed files types in Media upload
add_filter('upload_mimes', 'custom_upload_mimes');
function custom_upload_mimes ( $existing_mimes=array() ) {
$existing_mimes['kml'] = 'application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml';
$existing_mimes['kmz'] = 'application/vnd.google-earth.kmz';
return $existing_mimes;
}

21. MapPress

22. Leaflet
Maps
Marker

23. MapBox

24. Embedding
Maps

25. WORDPRESS + GIS

26. QUESTIONS?
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Ali Green and Mickey Mellen