Subdivisions settings section to customize your map with live examples

Subdivisions map settings

Where to find the “Subdivision” panel: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab and click over Subdivision name in order to open its settings panel.


Subdivisions’ section settings

Every map downloaded from this site has a real intuitive settings’ page within your WordPress dashboard. You get three tabs and three sections:

  1. Main settings
  2. Subdivisions
  3. Markers

In case you need to customize single subdivisions of the map, this is the guide for you.
You will discover how apply actions ( add a link, show label content over the map, toggle elements of your page ), change colors, apply the hover over color set in main settings, export and import subdivisions’ settings.


Actions when clicking on sudbivisions

You can decide what action will be performed when user clicks on a subdivision. Actually you can open a link, display label content over the map itself or toggle elements inside your page.


Where to find the “Open link” action: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab, expand one subdivision and select “Open link” from select menu ( default behavior ). Then in the “link” field add a link that will be opened once user clicks on the subdivision.

This action opens a link when user clicks on one of the subdivisions. Select the Open link action from the select menu ( default setting ) and fill the Link field next to it with the link you want the user opens when clicking on the subdivision.

Click on the Alaska state to open the page on Wikipedia.

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Display label content onto map

Where to find the “Open label content onto default card” action: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab, expand one subdivision and select “Open label content onto default card” in the select menu to show label content over the map when user click on the subdivision.

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south; and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. With a total of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of inland waterways, Alabama has among the most of any state.
More info about Alabama on Wikipedia
thanks to Nathan Anderson
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This action displays the content ( plain text or html ) of the label textarea when user clicks on one of the choosen subdivisions. Click on Alabama state to see how it works.

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Toggle elements of your page

Where to find the “Show custom tag” action: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab, expand one subdivision and select “Show custom tag” from the select menu. Then in the “Show following tag” field add the #id of the element to toggle within your page. This allows user to toggle elements inside your page when clicking on this subdivision.

This action gives you the chance to toggle ( show/hide ) elements inside your page. See the example provided in how to create a modal effect. there is a live example with html and css code you can copy and use within your website!


Change subdivisions’ color

Use the color button to pick up the right color for you!

Default value: transparent ( map color applied ).

Pick the perfect color for your subdivision from the color-picker button. Choose from infinite colors.

Assign different colors to each subdivision.

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Apply the hover over color status

Where to find the “Activate Mouse Over background” feature: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab, expand one subdivision and tick the “Activate Mouse Over background” checkbox. This will change subdivision’s color when user hovers over with the mouse.

Default value: unchecked.

By ticking the Activate Mouse Over Background checkbox you make the subdivision color change when user hovers over it. The background color is the same for all subdivisions and can be set in main settings section.

Move your mouse over “Alabama” state to see how the subdvision’s color changes.

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Export and import settings

In case you need to backup all subdivisions settings, just go to the bottom of the Subdivisions’ settings section and click on “Export settings“: this will create and let you download a cvs file with all settings.

You can then use that exported file to: create an identical new instance of the same map in other posts/pages or domains or just for backup purposes.

Where to find the “Export Subdivisions” feature: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab and search for the “Export Subdivisions” button. This will export all settings into a cvs file.

Once you’ve exported your settings, you can then import into any other map with the same subdivisions ( so even with different projection format ) and have your settings back in just 2 clicks! Just click on “Select Subdivision file” under “Import settings” section, upload the exported settings file ( cvs format ) and then click on the “Import Subdivisions settings” button.

Just wait till the message will advise you the process is completed.
See below example: we have exported settings from an Albers projection-like USA map ( same in home page ) and imported into a Mercator projection-like USA map. All settings will be imported: colors, action etc…

Where to find the “Import” settings feature: Navigate to map “Subdivisions” settings tab and search for the “Select Subdivision File” button. Clone maps’ subdivisions setting in just 2 clicks. Remember to update the post once done to save new settings.

And here the result:

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Download settings for this map for free and use it for your brand new maps ( remember to unzip it once downloaded onto your computer before importing it )!

When importing a Subdivisions settings file, remember to update the page in order to save the new settings. In case you do not want anymore the new settings, just use the grey button on the right saying: “Restore old values”.

If you do not want the new settings anymore, just click on the grey button to discard the new imported settings.