MEC Advanced Map Addon

The MEC Advanced Map Addon is a professional extension developed by Webnus for the Modern Events Calendar (MEC) ecosystem on WordPress. Its purpose is to transform the way visitors discover and explore events through interactive maps, integrating both Google Maps and OpenStreetMap to offer a clear, visual, and conversion-oriented geographic search experience.

This addon is aimed at event organizers, agencies, activity directories, and any website that manages an event calendar and needs to display locations intuitively. With it, administrators can present multiple events on the same map with clear, customizable markers, making it easy for users to quickly identify events near their location.

Among its most notable features is advanced filtering by region, city, or street, as well as geolocation support so visitors can automatically discover nearby events. The plugin allows you to customize map styles, zoom levels, and marker behavior, and also offers the option to cluster markers to avoid visual clutter when there are many events in the same area.

Other relevant capabilities include displaying filters and events alongside the map in a new side-view format, navigation with previous/next buttons based on geographic coordinates, search across all address fields, and the ability to show additional locations on the individual event page. It also allows you to set a default location simply by dragging the map, and integrate address fields into frontend event submission forms.

The addon offers a direct view in Google Maps with the list of events for a specific location, as well as displaying the location perimeter via OpenStreetMap. Mouse wheel zoom and selectable zoom levels for individual event maps and shortcodes complete a set of tools designed to maximize usability.

In short, the MEC Advanced Map Addon is the ideal solution for those looking to elevate the location-based event discovery experience, improving user interaction and making it easier for attendees to find exactly what they are looking for, regardless of the size of the event directory.