# Visual map of users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-map-of-users/44020
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 10, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-map-of-users/44020 "2016-05-10T23:13:33Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-map-of-users/44020/8 "2016-12-22T08:06:49Z")

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I was asked to do something like this today. A fairly easy way to do it is to create the map of users on a WordPress site with an exising map plugin, and then use a custom onebox to embed it on your forum. I wrote a couple of functions in WordPress to add markers and some basic user-info to a map when the user fills out a ‘location’ field on their WordPress profile. I copied a onebox plugin that @fefrei posted on here yesterday to embed the map on the a forum.

With some changes that are being added to the wp-discourse plugin by @iamntz, it will soon be possible to use Discourse as an SSO provider for a WordPress site. Using that, it could be possible to set something up where one WordPress site provides a service like this to a number of forums.

This particular map plugin is quite good. It can potentially provide a lot of information.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/a/ca9824552027e1f024e2872d47ace8cd398552f0.png)

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