As mentioned in the first post in this series, I’m going to be talking about a few of the different Google Maps APIs and how we can integrate them into our WordPress projects.
Rather than actually build a plugin that covers this material, I’m going to be creating a template to demonstrate some of this functionality. Though I’m a strong advocate for separating functionality and presentation, the work required to get a plugin up and running requires a lot of boilerplate code.
That isn’t inherently a bad thing, but I thought it’d be a chance of pace to simply introduce a template and then begin adding the necessary code from there (and making any changes to functions.php
from there).
At the end of the series, we can then take a look and see how to abstract all of the work that we’ve done into a child theme to use.