You can change the style of the maps using Google Map custom styles – a site like Snazzy Maps is a good place to start : http://snazzymaps.com/. Once you’ve got a style you’re happy with you can just copy and paste the style code into the styles box in Settings->Map List Pro.
You can set a marker for each category, or a specific marker for each location. There are 100’s of different icons ready to use. Adding your own markers You can also add your own markers by creating a folder in the markers folder (/images/pins) and dropping them in there. These will then appear in the marker chooser.
By default WordPress uses your post template for the location detail page (because locations in Map List Pro are custom posts), but you can override this easily. If you go into the root of your theme and make a copy of your page.php (or whatever template file you’d like to use) and name it single-maplist.php you…
The height of the map is set with this piece of css in css/maplistprocore.css: .prettyMapList .mapHolder {height:350px;} Most theme’s have a space to add custom css into. Add something like the following to your site to override it: body .prettyMapList .mapHolder {height:550px;}
You can create your own styles for Map List Pro easily – the plugin has been designed so that future updates will not remove your styles.Just create a /prettymapstyles/ folder in your active theme directory and copy one of the existing css files into it. This will then show in the Map List Pro settings…