Reviewing Invoices and Payments

Posted by lcleveland in for Everything, for WordPress, Plans, Support

You can easily check your Store Locator Plus® payments for the SaaS subscriptions as well as WordPress plugins. The Premium Subscription for WordPress plugins is not the same as the SaaS Subscription.

The SaaS subscription provides access to our hosted location maps and directory platform. Our servers host the data and do all the computational work. Your website only needs a small snippet of JavaScript to render an interactive map for your visitors. This allows Store Locator Plus® to run on any web service that can serve JavaScript including Ghost, Joomla!, Shopify, Squarespace, Typo3, Weebly, Wix, and yes even WordPress.

The WordPress plugin premium subscription provides access to our primary WordPress plugins with extended features. This is for businesses running their own self-hosted WordPress sites that use plugins to add Store Locator Plus®. It requires your business to provide the WordPress hosting as well as the required map API keys where Google will bill you directly for map rendering and location lookup.

Keep in mind that these are completely separate systems and have different login locations for each service.

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Updating WP Store locator Plus Base Plug-in 2504.xxx

Posted by cici in Base Plugin, for WordPress, Power Add On, Troubleshooting

Administrators who are updating the SLP base plugin for Word Press to the latest version should NOT just upload the new zip file WITHOUT deactivating/deleting the older SLP version first. While the WP message “do you want to replace version XXX with version 2504.xx” normally would not create an issue … if you do that NOW with any 2504* release it will crash (whitescreen) the WP site.

Instead , REMOVE the existing SLP plugin (this will not delete your location data) and upload the new plugin manually. Make sure your add-ons are also deactivated and current beforehand. See How to update

Once the Store Locator Plus plug-in is current, the latest version of your add-ons can be activated.

Results Layout Shortcodes and Attributes

Posted by cici in Advanced, Our Add Ons, Professional, Results, Settings

Changing the results layout is a feature provided for Professional level accounts. Users of the self-managed WordPress plugins will find this in the Experience add on.

Default Format

The default format for the results string uses the numerical encoding for the various data elements that can be rendered.   This default string format is present in the base Store Locator Plus plugin.  You can reset  to the default at any time by deleting the entry in the Results Layout field under  Settings/Results/Appearance and saving the settings.

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Recovering From Critical Error After WordPress Plugin Updates

Posted by lcleveland in for WordPress, Troubleshooting
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This article provides information on how to recover from critical errors after a plugin update. Critical updates can occur for a variety of reasons. These errors can take your WordPress site offline until the error is resolved.

For the purpose of this article we are going to delve into an example where a Store Locator Plus® add on is running an outdated version and the base plugin is updated to an incompatible version. While newer versions of the Store Locator Plus® plugin will auto-detect incompatible add on versions and disable them automatically, there are some third party add ons that do not report version updates properly and can prevent this auto-detection from working.

Here is how to recover from these issues.

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Step 1: WordPress Store Locator Plug-in Users Need A Google API Key

Posted by lcleveland in Base Plugin, FAQ, for WordPress, Getting Started, Support

SaaS users can skip this step. Store Locator Plus® for WordPress plug-in users need a Google API key to utilize the full features available in the the plugin. WordPress administrators who are self-managing their plugin updates, security, and Google services need to setup a Google API account so they can start billing for map services. 

If you are a subscriber to  Store Locator Plus® – our SaaS directory and locator service, you can ignore this page, we’ve got it covered. Go to our Getting Started guide and move on to Step 2.

For the Store Locator Plus® for WordPress users these instructions are a general guideline. You will need to visit the Google developers page and read their User guide to obtain a new account or update your existing account. Google will bill you directly for your monthly map views and location look-ups.

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Step 3: Add A Location Map To Your Site

Posted by lcleveland in Base Plugin, for Everything, for WordPress, Getting Started, Locations, Support
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Add a location map to your site by putting the SaaS embed code or WordPress shortcode on any page. You’ll need to have an active Store Locator Plus® SaaS subscription or have the Store Locator Plus® for WordPress plugin installed and activated.

Make sure you’ve completed the initial configuration and setup steps outline in the Store Locator Plus® Getting Started article.

When a visitor goes to a page with the Store Locator Plus® map code embedded, it will show a default search form and a map centered in your country or on the “Center Map At” address you entered when configuring Store Locator Plus®. When someone searches for a zip code that is close enough to a location you entered it will show those locations on the map.

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How To : Location Categories

Posted by lcleveland in Power Add On, Professional

Assumptions

WordPress environment is setup and configured including activation of the following plugins

  • Store Locator Plus®
  • SLP Power add on

In addition map service (Google API keys) should be in place and some locations should be added to the system.

A page has been created with the [slplus] shortcode present and the map is rendering properly.

Users are logged in as a WordPress administrator (the process will be slightly different for SaaS users).

Adding Categories To Locations

Objective

Create a location category and attach it to an existing location.

User Action: Add A Location Category

  1. Click on Store Locator Plus® | Categories in the WordPress sidebar menu.
  2. In the left “Add New Category Form”…
    1. Type a category name. (Restaurant)
    2. Click Add New Category
Result

The new category should appear on the category list on the page.

Category list after adding the restaurant category.

User Action: Attach Category To Location

  1. Click on Store Locator Plus® | Locations in the WordPress sidebar menu.
  2. Click the Edit action icon on the first location.
  3. Check off the box next to “Restaurants” in the Power | Categories section of the form.
  4. Click Save.
Result

The category is assigned to the location and appears on the location table.

The location with an assigned restaurant category. This view is showing fewer columns as the Screen Options was updated to removed unused columns from the table view.

User Action: Show Category Select On Front End

  1. Click on Store Locator Plus® | Settings in the WordPress sidebar menu.
  2. Change the Category Selector setting to “Single Drop Down”.
  3. Click Save
  4. On the front end, go to the page that has the [slplus] shortcode.
Result

The search form for the map should show a category drop down.

The front end page with the [slplus] shortcode, showing the category selection filter.

User Action : Filtering Locations With Category

  1. On the front end, go to the page that has the [slplus] shortcode.
  2. Enter an address, choose a category.
  3. Click “Find Locations”.