Title: Nearby Places Search
Author: Dipankar Biswas
Published: <strong>15 June 2017</strong>
Last modified: 15 June 2017

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Search plugins

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest three major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Nearby Places Search

 By [Dipankar Biswas](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dipankardipu123/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nearby-places-search.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/nearby-places-search/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/nearby-places-search/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nearby-places-search/)

## Description

Nearby Places Search: This Plugin integrates with the Google Places and GMap.

Shows a list of places of a certain type and configurable from the back-end
 settings
within the specified radius for specified location.

### Requirement

Google Maps API Key.

### Shortcode

Shortcode : [nearby_places_search_code]

### Usage

 1. In path (wp-admin/options-general.php?page=searchsettings) configure the search
    settings for
     places.
 2. You can change the type of place, the center point and the radius from the
     center
    point in the configuration page.
 3. Copy the shortcode [nearby_places_search_code],Paste the Shortcode into Your Page,
    Post or any custom post type.

### Configuration Settings

 1. Location Types – Location Type is restricted to select only one value.
     See https://
    developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types for supported types.
    Default values set as: Atm|Bank|Hospital|Park|Restaurant|School
 2. Google API Authentication Method – ‘API Key’ or ‘Google Maps API for Work’
     As 
    per method selection add ‘Google Maps API Key’.
 3. Location – The latitude/longitude around which to retrieve the information
     of 
    place. This must be specified as latitude,longitude. Default value set to 18.5204,
    73.8567 (Pune, Maharashtra, India).
 4. Radius – Defines the distance (in meters) within which to return place
     results.
    The maximum allowed radius is 50000 meters. Default set to 1000 meter.

Note : Default configuration value define at ‘config/nearby_places_search_config.
php’

### Reference link

https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search#PlaceSearchRequests

## Screenshots

[⌊Admin Search Settings configuration page.⌉⌊Admin Search Settings configuration
page.⌉[

Admin Search Settings configuration page.

[⌊Frontend Search page.⌉⌊Frontend Search page.⌉[

Frontend Search page.

## Installation

#### To Install:

 1. Download and unzip the files into a folder on your hard drive.
 2. Upload the `/nearby_places_search/` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` folder
    on your site.
 3. Activate this plugin from `/wp-admin/plugins.php` page.
 4. After activation done copy the shortcode [nearby_places_search_code],Paste the 
    Shortcode into Your Page or Post.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

#### To Install:

 1. Download and unzip the files into a folder on your hard drive.
 2. Upload the `/nearby_places_search/` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` folder
    on your site.
 3. Activate this plugin from `/wp-admin/plugins.php` page.
 4. After activation done copy the shortcode [nearby_places_search_code],Paste the 
    Shortcode into Your Page or Post.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors and Developers

“Nearby Places Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Dipankar Biswas ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dipankardipu123/)

[Translate “Nearby Places Search” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/nearby-places-search)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nearby-places-search/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/nearby-places-search/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/nearby-places-search/)
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## Meta

 *  Version **1**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Tested up to **4.7.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nearby-places-search/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[google map shortcode](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-map-shortcode/)
   [location](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/location/)[radius](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/radius/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/nearby-places-search/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Dipankar Biswas ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dipankardipu123/)

## Support

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