{"id":2490,"date":"2026-10-20T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/change-map-marker-icon\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:38:59","slug":"change-map-marker-icon","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/change-map-marker-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the map marker icon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GeoDirectory map markers come from your categories, so each category can have its own marker. A listing in several categories uses the marker of its default category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change the marker for a category<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Go to Places > Categories (or the categories of your other post type) and edit the category.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Upload a new image in Map Icon. Use a small image, around the size of a map pin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Update the category.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    If you don’t upload a Map Icon, GeoDirectory makes a marker from the category’s Category Icon and Category Color. To use that generated marker again, remove the uploaded Map Icon, pick an icon and colour, and update the category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Change the default marker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Listings whose category has no marker use the default marker icon. Change it in GeoDirectory > Settings > General under Map Settings, in the “Default marker icon” setting. It is an advanced setting, so click Show Advanced if you don’t see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If the old marker still shows after a change, clear your site and browser cache and reload the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    More on category settings is in create a category<\/a>. If you use marker clustering, the cluster images are set separately, see how to change the marker cluster images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    GeoDirectory map markers come from your categories, so each category can have its own marker. A listing in several categories uses the marker of its default category. Change the marker for a category If you don’t upload a Map Icon, GeoDirectory makes a marker from the category’s Category Icon and Category Color. To use that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[211,432],"class_list":["post-2490","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more","gd_placecategory-how-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2490\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}