Plugins or REST API?
Pick the path that matches your team and your customization needs.
| Plugins | REST API | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first map | Minutes (copy-paste shortcode or script tag). | Hours to days (call API, render data, build UI). |
| Customization | Limited to the documented options (color, language, map style). | Full — you control rendering end-to-end. |
| Stack | WordPress, iframe, plain HTML/JS. | Anything that can make an HTTPS request. |
| Where the key lives | Client-side (HTML source). Lock it to your domains. | Server-side. Never ship it to the browser. |
| Best for | Real-estate listing pages, marketing sites, WordPress blogs. | Custom map UIs, bulk scoring, server-side rendering, analytics pipelines. |
| Start here | Plugins overview | REST API overview |
You can mix them
Plenty of integrations use the JS Map plugin for the listing-detail page and the REST API for batch scoring or content generation pipelines — same license key, two different uses.