From a single hall to a fairground
One plan for one hall, a site plan with clickable buildings or four halls on a real city map: the interactive hall plan grows with your event. Visitors search for exhibitors, filter for restrooms or food and switch floors with a tap.
All plans on this page were drawn in the hall plan designer and run with the plugin's original scripts. Events, exhibitors and halls are fictional.
Map mode “Hybrid”: site plan with clickable buildings
One plan, three scales
You choose the map mode per event. The plans themselves remain SVG files – uploaded or drawn in the designer. Switch between the three examples and try search, quick filters and floor selection.
Zoom with the mouse wheel or two fingers, double-tap to zoom in, drag to pan.
Classic
One or more halls as tabs, up to three as buttons, four or more as a dropdown. For town halls, hotels, cultural centres.
Campus
A site plan as the overview. Clicking a building opens its floor plan, a bar leads back to the overview.
Fairground
All halls sit true to scale on a city map. The floor selector switches all halls to the same level at once.
Full screen & app
Every plan also opens as its own full-screen page, optionally with a bottom navigation bar like an app – set up together with the calendar.
Drawn in WordPress
The three examples above were made in the hall plan designer. Open them here in the admin: floors top left, tools on the left, properties on the right. Drag, rotate, rename – and after “Save” the plan above shows the new state.
Requirement: Event Exhibitor Manager 1.5.0 or newer. The add-on draws the finished map – it can’t be used to sell or book booth space.
What you can draw
Nine layers keep the plan tidy: from the underlay through rooms, walls and booths to info cards and location points. Every layer can be hidden or locked.
Rooms & areas
Rounded rectangle, circle and oval, triangle, semicircle or a free polygon with curved edges. Rooms become locations, areas mark zones such as a food court or lounge.
Booths with logo
Whole rows in one go. Each booth shows just the number, number and exhibitor name, the logo, or name and logo – logo and name come from the exhibitor.
Walls, doors, exits
Walls with any number of bends, single doors, double doors or passages, emergency exits marked in green.
Stairs & elevators
Stairs and elevators link floors. Clicking them offers visitors “Switch to …” – areas can lead to another floor or map, too.
Paths & arrows
Wide walkways with rounded ends for grounds and parks, lines with an arrowhead at one or both ends for routes and one-way rules.
69 symbols
56 pictograms from restroom, first aid and cloakroom to stage, bus and charging station, plus 13 site objects such as trees, fountains, benches and fences.
Info cards with banner
A card over the whole hall shows its name and topics, with a notice such as “Reading 11:00” above it. When zooming in it fades out and reveals the booths; a click zooms in or opens the hall’s plan.
Location points with QR code
Invisible points in the plan, each with its own QR code as PNG or SVG. Whoever scans it sees “You are here” with the viewing direction.
Buildings & floors
Every floor carries its building and its level – the event takes over both when saving. Rooms or areas in the site plan become building links for the campus.
Nine layers
Underlay, drawing, rooms & areas, walls & stairs, booths, texts, symbols & images, location points and info cards – each can be shown or hidden.
Floor plan as underlay
Load the architect's PNG, JPG or PDF, calibrate it on a known distance and draw on top. An SVG from a graphics program becomes editable directly.
Export
Each floor as PNG or as SVG at a scale of 1:100 for the print shop, print or save as PDF, plus the booth list as CSV.
Visitors find their way
Once you switch the search on, the magnifier at the top right of the plan opens a search field for exhibitors and places, with the quick filters below. You decide in the settings or per shortcode which filters appear and which exhibitor types or categories they also show. On the full-screen map the search is always on.
- Restrooms
- Food & Drinks
- Info & Service
- Building
- First Aid
- Accessible
- Travel & Parking
- Shops & Lounges
- Event & Program
Search across all floors
Results with logo, booth number and location. A click switches to the plan of the booth and highlights it. Whatever a quick filter doesn’t find on the current floor is listed under “Available on other floors”.
Floor selector like an elevator
Three styles per event: buttons, dropdown or a vertical bar with the floor numbers, e.g. 2, 1, 0, −1. The fairground always uses the bar.
Transitions with a notice
Tap stairs, an elevator or a passage: a notice names the destination and switches the floor or plan on request.
“You are here”
A QR code at the entrance opens the plan right there – with a marker, viewing direction and a bar naming the point.
Fit the halls, choose the map
In the event you choose the grounds: one of 58 presets of well-known fairgrounds in ten regions of the world, or your own coordinates with zoom level and rotation. You then fit each hall in a window over the map – move, width in metres, rotation, opacity. A fit can be copied from another hall.
- OpenStreetMap
- Esri Light Gray Canvas
- Esri World Street Map
- CARTO Positron (key)
- MapTiler (key)
- Mapbox (key)
Ask first, then load
Before map tiles come from the provider, the plugin asks visitors – switched on by default. “Do not ask again” remembers the answer, a button in the plan reopens the question. Whoever declines sees the halls without a map background. The provider’s attribution appears in the plan automatically.
In this demo the tiles load directly from openstreetmap.org after consent. “Reset demo” at the top forgets the answer.
Which display mode fits?
All three use the same exhibitors, booth numbers and features. The difference is the scale.
| Classic | Campus (hybrid) | Fairground (geo) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suits | A hall, a hotel, a cultural centre | Castle, university, open-air site with several buildings | Large fair with several halls and floors |
| Starts with | First plan in the list | Site plan as overview | All halls of floor 0 on the map |
| Switching | Buttons, dropdown or floor bar | Click a building, bar “Back to Campus Overview” | One floor bar for all halls |
| Background | Just the plan | Just the plan | Map tiles from a map service |
| Consent | Not needed | Not needed | Asked before the map loads |
| In the example | Culture Hall with annex | Castle with two floors, coach house, orangery | Four halls on the Theresienwiese |
Frequently asked questions
Do I need the hall plan designer for campus and fairground?
No. The three display modes are part of Event Exhibitor Manager and also work with uploaded SVG plans. The designer makes it easier: you set building links, floor links, info cards and location points there with a click.
Is data sent to a map service on the fairground?
Only after consent. By default the plugin asks visitors before it loads map tiles from the chosen provider. If they decline, they see the halls without a map background. The question can be switched off in the settings, for example if your cookie solution handles it.
How many floors can a plan have?
As many as the building has. In the event, floors −3 to 8 are offered for each map, and “+ Custom floor…” takes any other whole number. For plans from the designer, the floor’s level is enough. The floor selector only shows floors that exist; on the fairground all halls of a floor appear together.
What does a QR code at a location point show?
It opens the hall plan of the current event at that spot and marks it with “You are here”. If you take the plan over as a template for next year, the codes stay valid and lead to the new event. Scans are counted, the designer shows the number per point.