Free Interactive Maps Widget

Interactive Maps from Common Ninja is a colour-coded regional map, not a street map. It draws a country or the world as clickable regions (states, counties, provinces) and lets you colour each one by category, add a tooltip with an image and text, link a region to another page and show a legend. Common Ninja lists several hundred country and world maps to choose from. It is an embeddable widget hosted on Common Ninja's platform rather than native Squarespace code: you set it up in their editor, choose a design skin, adjust colours and fonts or add custom CSS, then paste one embed snippet into a Squarespace page.

Who it suits

Anyone who needs to show where something applies rather than where something is: a service company listing the counties it covers, a distributor with regional territories, a charity showing project areas, a school with catchment zones, or a blogger presenting data by state. The free plan lets you build and publish one map with no time limit.

One honest caveat

If what you actually want is pins on a Google map with addresses and directions, this is the wrong widget; Common Ninja's Google Maps Widget does that. This one is for shading regions. The free plan is limited to one widget with fewer features, and the map loads from Common Ninja's servers, so a lapsed paid plan drops it back to the free tier and switches premium features off.

Installation

Build the map in Common Ninja's editor, copy the embed snippet and paste it into a Squarespace code block. Edits made in the editor update on your site automatically.

Related guide: for pin-based maps and locators, see how the alternatives compare in our best store locator plugins for Squarespace roundup.