Client: MyFitQuests
Industry: Health & Fitness
Services Provided: Custom WordPress Development, Google Maps API Integration, Strava API Integration
Plugin Used: Strava’s API and the Advanced Google Maps Plugin for WordPress
🎯 The Vision
When the team behind MyFitQuests approached us, they came with a bold mission:
“Fitness should feel like an adventure, not a chore.”
They envisioned an interactive platform that motivates users by turning their real-life fitness activities into epic virtual quests. But to bring this gamified experience to life, they needed a seamless way to sync live fitness data and display it in an engaging, visual format.
That’s where the team at weplugins stepped in.
🧩 The Challenge
MyFitQuests needed more than just a membership or activity tracker. They wanted a visually engaging quest system with milestones on a real-world map, Integration with Strava, the world’s leading fitness tracking app with real-time activity syncing, allowing users to track progress on Google Maps.
They also want custom map markers with user avatars and Street View snapshots. A social sharing component to let users celebrate milestones, all while keeping the experience smooth, motivational, and fun.
🔧 Our Solution
To bring this vision to life, our development team at WePlugins engineered a powerful integration between Strava’s API and the Advanced Google Maps Plugin for WordPress.
Here’s what we delivered:
✅ Quest Enrollment System – Users can join fitness “quests” after becoming a member.
✅ Strava & Google Maps Integration – Once users start logging their physical activities (walks, runs, cycling, etc.) in Strava App, their progress gets reflected automatically on the google maps generated by our plugin. We built a custom solution to display every participating user’s profile picture as a marker along the quest route.
✅ Live Milestone Unlocking – As users log more activities, they automatically unlock milestones along the route, staying motivated at every stage.
✅ Smooth User Avatar Animation – We implemented smooth animated movement of marker avatars along the quest path to visually showcase user’s progress & make the user experience highly immersive.
✅ Street View Capture – Upon reaching a milestone, users are congratulated by the system and can take a screenshot in Google Street View of their avatar, which they can share proudly on social media.
🌟 The Impact
A highly engaging, gamified fitness experience that keeps users coming back for more. myfitquests.com now offers a unique community-driven experience where users feel part of a larger adventure, encouraging consistency and motivation in their fitness journey.
❤️ See what the Founder has to say!
We developed this System with help of :
✅ Strava API for real-time fitness tracking.
✅ Google Maps API for route and marker rendering.
✅ Strava’s API and the Advanced Google Maps Plugin for WordPress plugin for core mapping infrastructure.
✅ Utilising Google’s New Directions & Places API for amazing experience.
✅ Smooth animation of user avatars on the map along the quest route.
✅ Street View Integration for users for social media sharing.
What we have to say!
We’re proud to showcase above client testimonial highlighting the real impact of our work. At WePlugins, we specialize in integrating Google Maps with a wide range of platforms—including CRMs, Social Media Apps, Cloud Services & Data Storage solutions like Airtable — or virtually any third-party service you can think of.
Our powerful and highly customizable WordPress plugin, Advanced Google Maps Plugin for WordPress, is designed to be the most flexible and extensible maps plugin ever made for WordPress. It allows businesses to bring their ideas to life with seamless mapping solutions tailored to their specific needs.
Whether it’s custom plugin development or end-to-end WordPress projects—simple or complex, our expert team is here to help turn your entrepreneurial vision into reality.
If you’re looking for custom WordPress development or need enhancements to your existing setup, feel free to reach out to us at info@flippercode.com. We’ll get in touch with you as soon as possible!
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