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Actively maintained Tested with WP 7.1 #4 in floor plan

PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder

Best WordPress interactive image map plugin to create responsive SVG maps, floor plans, soundboards, shoppable lookbooks with hotspots & audio guides

Active installs50+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d632▲ +13.9% vs prev. 30d
Rating5/53 reviews
Health score79/100Good
All-time downloads3.6KSince May 2024
Support resolved1 / 1100% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 6.0PHP 7.4+
Downloads · 7d170▼ -11% week over week
Our verdict

Solid choice

PicPoints is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 50+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 days ago, and scores 79/100 on our health check.

  • Actively developed — last update 2 days ago
  • Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
  • Small user base (50+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

173552Jun 28Aug 11Sep 25
Yesterday39
Daily average (1y)8
Peak day80Jun 4, 2026
Last 12 months3K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where PicPoints stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
floor plan #12 160 Best floor plan plugins →
hotspots #18 230 Best hotspots plugins →
imagemap #3 4 Best imagemap plugins →
interactive map #36 793 Best interactive map plugins →
svg map #18 480 Best svg map plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.1947.3%
  • 1.1730.9%
  • 1.2021.8%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 3 reviews

  • 5★100.0%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★0.00%

About PicPoints

From the official readme · v1.20.0

Description

🏆 The Best Interactive Image Map and Audio Soundboard Builder Plugin for WordPress

Showcases | Documentation | Upgrade to Pro

PicPoints is the most advanced, developer-friendly interactive image map and floor plan builder for WordPress. Built for extreme performance and modern web standards, this hotspot plugin handles hundreds of interactive elements effortlessly without lagging your website.

Unlike traditional image mapping tools that break during WordPress theme updates, PicPoints renders entirely inside an isolated Shadow DOM. This guarantees 100% CSS and JS isolation, your theme’s styles will never break your interactive maps, and your maps will never slow down your site page speed.

🔥 Live Demos:

  • Market Mall – interactive map for shopping malls and retail centers.
  • Real Estate Map – interactive map solution for property and real estate listings.
  • Human Body Muscle Diagram – interactive anatomy diagram showcasing human muscles.
  • Product Explainer – interactive image wrapper for detailed product features and explanations.
  • Stadium Map – interactive seating chart and layout map for stadiums or arenas.
  • Camera Gear Kit – interactive breakdown map for photography gear and equipment kits.
  • The Odyssey – interactive map of the epic 10-year journey.
  • Online Storytelling – digital storytelling that tells a story of a small craft workshop
  • Audio Map – interactive online soundboard of African animals

Whether you need to build a multi-story real estate floor plan, an interactive product anatomy showcase, a shoppable e-commerce lookbook, or a vector-accurate event seating chart, PicPoints provides a Figma-like SVG vector editor right inside your WordPress dashboard.

Draw complex clickable image shapes with pixel-perfect accuracy using native Bezier curves, group layers, and create rich-content popups and tooltips in minutes.

🚀 Key Features of PicPoints Interactive Map Plugin:

  • Isolated Shadow DOM Architecture: Zero CSS conflicts with your WP theme. 100% visual consistency on any website.
  • High-Performance Image Mapping: Hardcore optimization tested with up to 1,000 active vector shapes on a single canvas.
  • Pro-Grade SVG Vector Editor: Draw ellipses, rectangles, markers, and custom polygons with smooth Bezier curves.
  • Multi-Scene & Multi-Level Floor Plans: Perfect for real estate marketing (Floor 1, Floor 2, Floor 3) and complex architectural blueprints.
  • Figma-Like Layer Management: Group, rename, and organize your vector shapes, pointers, and markers hierarchically.
  • Fully Responsive Clickable Images: Adapts flawlessly to mobile devices, tablets, and desktops with smart touch and zoom controls.
  • Rich Tooltips & Hotspot Popups: Trigger automated tooltips on hover or open rich-media popups (images, text, WooCommerce products, iframes) on click.
  • Audio Map & Image Soundboard Builder: Add audio files to hotspots, trigger sound effects, music, or voiceovers on click to create a custom online soundboard.

🔥 Features

PicPoints Free is the perfect interactive image map tool for small projects and testing. PicPoints Pro unlocks the full potential for professional web development agencies, e-commerce stores, and realtors.

PicPoints Free – General Features
✅ Unlimited Maps
⚡ Number of scenes (levels) per map: Max 3
⚡ Number of interactive layers/markers per scene: Max 10
✅ Markers: non-scalable pins (icon + text or image) with custom anchor point positioning.
✅ SVG Layers: rectangles, ellipses, images, text (with left/center/right alignment), and polygons.
✅ Smart Undo/Redo History: full history stack to undo/redo changes for scenes & layers.
✅ Mobile Responsive: perfect adaptation to any screen size.
✅ Touch Gestures: supports mobile pan & pinch multi-touch zooming.
✅ Standard Tooltips & Popups (Auto-close enabled)
✅ Flexible tooltip positions: top, bottom, left, right, center, follow
✅ Strict Pan & Zoom behavior
✅ Change viewport & scene background, can be color or image

PicPoints Free – Widgets
✅ Scene Title
✅ Scene Navigation Dots
✅ Scene Navigation Switcher
✅ Fullscreen Toggle
✅ Fit to Screen Action
✅ Zoom Controls (+/-)

PicPoints Pro includes everything from Free, plus:
✅✨ Unlimited Maps, Scenes, and Layers for enterprise-scale projects.
✅✨ Import layers from SVG import <g> and <path> vector elements from Illustrator or Inkscape with automatic layer tree and partial style retention.
✅✨ Auto-Load toggle map auto-loading on/off or configure a custom delay timer to optimize website page load speed.
✅✨ Greeting dialog show message before map load.
✅✨ Bulk Attribute Editing select multiple layers or groups at once to edit, update, or assign common custom metadata.
✅✨ Advanced Handlebars Templates use classic Handlebars logic ({{variable}}, {{#if}}, {{#each}}) inside Tooltips and Popups to build highly dynamic, data-driven layouts without coding.
✅✨ Physics-Based Canvas Bounce advanced configurations for a smooth viewport experience.
✅✨ Custom JS & CSS Sections per map and per element for infinite extensibility.
✅✨ Developer API Access to connect your interactive maps with external CRM, WooCommerce, or custom databases.
✅✨ Priority email support for agencies and businesses that need fast help.

Note: The undo/redo history covers all scene or layer movements and visual style modifications. Rich content formatting changes inside tooltips and popups bypass the history stack.

🚀 Compatibility

Not all themes and plugins are built the same way, so PicPoints is designed with extra compatibility in mind.​ PicPoints works seamlessly with modern WordPress themes and popular page builders that support standard blocks and shortcodes.

PAGE BUILDERS
* Gutenberg – modern built-in WordPress block editor
* Classic Editor – classic built-in WordPress editor
* Elementor – leading website builder platform on WordPress
* WP Bakery – create any layout with intuitive way
* Beaver – page builder you can trust with your business
* Bricks – amazing block editor with many templates
* Brizy – next-gen website builder that anyone can use
* and more…

🎓 Use Cases

PicPoints serves as a lightweight, modern, and high-performance alternative to established WordPress interactive mapping plugins like Mapplic, ImageMap Pro, MapSVG, WP Draw Attention, Image Hotspot by DevVN, and Vision.

With PicPoints, you can easily visually outline complex geometries, group interactive elements, and embed shoppable lookbooks or interactive architecture maps via a simple shortcode.

The plugin balances intuitive usability for non-technical users with rich customization and advanced Developer APIs for design agencies, making it the ultimate tool for boosting on-site conversion and spatial user engagement without slowing down your WordPress website.

🎯 PERFECT FOR:
• Travel bloggers creating an interactive audio tour or geographic guide.
• Educators building clickable audio maps for students.
• Web creators making a custom free online sound board or audio guide system.
• E-commerce stores showcasing interactive product blueprints.

💼 GDPR & Privacy

  • We do not collect or store any information about our visitors or users without their consent.
  • We also do not transfer any data to external servers without users’ consent.

🔥 Check out our other WordPress Plugins

HappyVR – virtual tour builder and 360 panorama viewer for WordPress
MediaCommander – bring folders to media, posts, and pages
NinjaDraw – create diagrams, sketches & visual workflows
Post Order Master – free drag & drop hierarchy manager

Support

Found an issue or have a feature request? Head over to our support forum or drop us an email for assistance. We’re here to help you create stunning floor plans and image maps with ease!

Installation

  1. Upload the picpoints folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin directly through the WordPress plugins screen.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  3. Look for the “PicPoints” menu item in your WordPress dashboard left sidebar to start building.
  4. Copy the generated shortcode [picpoints id="..."] and paste it into any page, post, or widget area.

Frequently asked questions

I installed the plugin, what’s next?

Once you’ve installed the plugin, you can start creating your first interactive map right away. Just open the PicPoints menu in your WordPress dashboard, create a new scene, setup canvas background and begin adding interactive markers and shapes. Your map will be ready to embed on any page in minutes.

Does PicPoints work with page builders?

Without a doubt, PicPoints works with most popular web page builders such as Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, WP Bakery, Brizy, Blocks, and many others.

Where is the developer version hosted?

The developer version is available here.

Will this plugin slow down my page load speed?

No. PicPoints is built with performance in mind. Thanks to lightweight vector rendering and modular architecture, it can handle over a thousand active elements without visible performance drops or layout shifting.

Will my theme’s CSS break the maps layout?

Never. PicPoints utilizes Shadow DOM encapsulating technology. It encapsulates all styles inside a shadow tree, meaning your active theme cannot inject or override the CSS of your interactive maps.

Can I link markers to WooCommerce products?

Yes! You can use rich-text popups to insert product links, images, and prices. With the Pro version, you can use the custom JS/API section to create deep integration like “Add to Cart” directly from the image hotspot.

Changelog

1.20.0

  • Added: Gutenberg block “PicPoints Embed” and a live preview right in the block editor
  • Added: Standalone embed endpoint for every map (pretty permalink /picpoints/embed/{id}/ and plain ?picpoints_embed={id}), enabled by the “Embed” toggle on the Share panel
  • Added: Initial scene support, load a specific scene via the sceneid shortcode attribute, the block settings, or the #scene= URL hash

1.19.0

  • Added: Rename scenes and layers by double-clicking their names in the left panel
  • Added: Copy and paste layers via the clipboard in the layers panel
  • Fixed: Global event listeners and the resize observer are now released when a map is destroyed, preventing memory leaks on pages that create and remove multiple maps
  • Fixed: Pressing the Space key no longer blocks page scrolling before the map has started or after it has been destroyed
  • Fixed: Configuring a viewport background without an image no longer causes a JavaScript error

1.18.0

  • Changed: Improved the upgrade admin notice with detailed Lite version limitations
  • Changed: Refined CSS styles for markers

1.17.3

  • Changed: Unlimited maps on the free plan, the 3-map limit has been removed

1.17.2

  • Fixed: Saving map status could fail and return an HTML page instead of JSON, map status updates now use POST
  • Fixed: The admin map list returned a 404 error when WordPress permalinks were set to Plain

1.17.1

  • Changed: Refined CSS styles for markers

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot
PicPoints – Interactive Image Map & Hotspot Builder screenshot

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FAQ

PicPoints: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 26, 2026

Is PicPoints free?

Yes. PicPoints is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is PicPoints safe to use in 2026?

PicPoints is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 50+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 days ago, and scores 79/100 on our health check.

How many websites use PicPoints?

PicPoints is active on 50+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 3,555 times since it launched in May 2024. It was downloaded 632 times in the last 30 days.

Does PicPoints work with WordPress 7.1?

Yes. The developer has tested PicPoints up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer.

What PHP version does PicPoints need?

PicPoints requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was PicPoints last updated?

The latest version, 1.20.0, was released on September 24, 2026 (2 days ago).

Who makes PicPoints?

PicPoints is developed and maintained by Yalogica.

What are the best alternatives to PicPoints?

The most popular alternatives to PicPoints are Interactive Image Map Plugin (20K+ installs), Vision (2K+ installs) and Image Map Connect (100+ installs).

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