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Google Maps via Store Locator Plus

Store Locator Plus works with Google Maps to put a store location search on your site. Tweak the look and feel with the custom settings.

Whether you have a thousands of locations or just a handful, you can do it all from within the WordPress admin panel. No programming required. Set up an interactive Google map for your customers with a single shortcode. Categorize your stores and customize the map. You can export the results. This is a simple, quick, and easy plugin.

Store Locator Plus is an advanced system for managing multiple physical locations via a fully integrated WordPress solution. You can add details such as a store description, hours, a website address, an email address, and tags for each location and then display those locations easily on any page using a shortcode. The location search form and Google Map will automatically be displayed.

Advanced customization is available via the settings interface in the admin panel. The map can be customized via the admin panel to fit better on your site by allowing for different sizes, map types (terrain, satellite, standard views), and default location settings. The search form can be customized to show or hide a country pulldown, a city and state pulldown, and tag search fields. You can also re-label every entry field and can opt to enable pop-up email forms to help reduce spam.

Features

  • You can use it for a variety of countries, as supported by Google Maps.
  • The Store Pages add-on allows you to connect each of your locations with a WordPress page -- so you can add hours, images and more!
  • Supports international languages and character sets.
  • Allows you to use unique map icons or your own custom map icons.
  • Change default map settings via the admin panel including:
  • Map type (terrain, satellite, street, etc.)
  • Inset map show/hide
  • Starting zoom level
  • You can use miles or kilometers
  • Pulldown list of cities and/or countries on search form can be toggled on/off.
  • Bulk upload your locations via the CSV loader.
  • Location search tracking and reporting, find out what your visitors are looking for.
  • Popup email form.

Our Philosophy

Like all of our plugins, we strive to create code the runs efficiently and without bugs. We feel well-written plugins are few and far between. While there are plenty of plugins that look nice, far too many of those plugins, including the "cool shiny ones" have way to many hidden problems. We have found that over 90% of the plugins available on the WordPress plugin directory generate dozens, if not hundreds, of warnings and errors when we turn off the "hide all the problems" settings in PHP.

These hidden problems impact memory usage, fill up disk space, and reduce performance via the typical default logging settings on most web hosts. While you may not see the errors on your WordPress site, they are still being tracked. The more errors, the more disk I/O, the slower the app.

During our 20+ years of software development, we have also found that leaving "innocuous" warnings in place tends to lead to trouble further down the road. Warnings today often become errors tomorrow. Many programming languages, PHP included, continue to tighten security and close loopholes that are typically found living near all those warning messages. Some warnings are also telling you to "change this now, it will be gone tomorrow". Eventually tomorrow will come.

While our plugins may not be the prettiest on the block, we do try to make sure that all the hidden stuff you don't see is designed as well as it can be. To sum it all up, we like to write plugins that last. We hope you appreciate our work.

New! Store Pages

You can have a WordPress page for each store location on your map turning your location data into SEO friendly content. Store Pages are a special page type that is fully integrated with WordPress, but you manage them through Store Locator Plus. Store Pages also have their own taxonomy (category system) so you can manage Store Page categories without affecting the rest of your site.

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Special Requests

We do accept feature requests for all of our plugins, free ones included. The most requested features will make it into the next version.

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Pro Pack Available

The plugin has an optional Pro Pack available that adds advanced features to the Store Locator Plus product. Some of the added features include:

  • CSV Bulk Uploads - using the CSV bulk loader
  • Extended Map Settings - Control more details about how the map looks, disable the scale, the zoom, and more.
  • Extended Manage Location Features - more controls for managing locations.
  • Reporting - information on the reporting system and how it works.
  • Tag Search - how to use tag based location searches.
  • Custom Themes (Pro Pack v2.4) - easily add your own custom styles that stay in place during patches and upgrades.

Learn More about these features at the Store Locator Plus website

Upgrades

We will offer upgrade versions from time-to-time when special new features are added to the product.
If you do not purchase the upgrade you will still receive bug fixes and minor feature additions, however some of the newest features may not be available to you.

The main product will always remain fully functional and free. If you'd like to have some of the latest "bells & whistles" purchasing the upgrades is a great way to help support us and encourage us to add even more items the next time around.

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Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2012-5-17
Downloads: 11,506

Average Rating

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