PlacePress
PlacePress is an open-source WordPress plugin for creating location and tour post types, structured maps, tour stops, and custom taxonomies. It is designed for public historians, urbanists, and other humanities researchers building map-based digital projects.
Overview
8 featuresPlacePress is a Diagramming & whiteboards project. It focuses on creating structured maps and digital tours for historical, urban, and humanities research projects. It is built as an open-source project for public historians, urbanists, and humanities researchers. The project is open source (Open Source). It runs on the web, and it can be self-hosted.
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities builds and maintains PlacePress, and it first shipped in 2019. Among its 8 catalogued features are location post types, tour post types, and global maps. The interface is available in English and Urdu.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Location post types
- Tour post types
- Global maps
- Location maps
- Tour stop blocks
- Custom taxonomies
- Map blocks
- WordPress integration
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Trust & compliance
Indexing history
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Frequently asked questions about PlacePress
- What does PlacePress do?
- PlacePress focuses on creating structured maps and digital tours for historical, urban, and humanities research projects. It is catalogued under Diagramming & whiteboards on PulseGate.
- Who should use PlacePress?
- PlacePress is an open-source project built for public historians, urbanists, and humanities researchers.
- Is PlacePress free?
- Yes — PlacePress is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.
- What platforms does PlacePress run on?
- PlacePress runs on the web. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is PlacePress still active?
- Unverified. PlacePress has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
- What are alternatives to PlacePress?
- Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Locatepress, MapPress, and ArtistPress.LocatepressMapPressArtistPress
- Who develops PlacePress?
- PlacePress is developed by Center for Public History + Digital Humanities.
- How long has PlacePress been around?
- PlacePress first shipped in 2019.
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