Store Locator Translations are needed to better localize our WordPress Store Locator plugin.

If you have translated it into a different language, make sure to email the PO translation file to info [at] viadat.com … You might even get something nice in return … How does a free Store Locator upgrade sound?

If you would like to translate, but don’t know how, here are some quick steps:

1) Download the Most Recent Translation Template:
Translation Template – As of v1.9.3

2) Download the program PoEdit:
http://www.poedit.net/download.php

3) Install PoEdit on your computer

4) Open the Store Locator Translation Template using PoEdit

*PoEdit allows you to translate individual phrases in the code, thus you should translate each phrase that appears. Once you’ve finished, and you save the PO translation file, an MO file (Machine-readable version of your human-readable PO file) will be generated. Email both files to us, and tell us what language it is. And you’re finished — simple, correct?

Countries Needed for Language Translation:
* Austria (German)
* Australia (English)
* Belgium (Dutch, French, German)
* Brazil (Portuguese)
* Canada (English, French)
* Switzerland (German, French, Italian)
* Czech Republic
* Germany
* Denmark
* Spain
* Finland
* Italy
* Japan
* Netherlands
* Norway
* New Zealand (English)
* Poland
* Russia
* Sweden
* Taiwan (Chinese [traditional])
* United Kingdom (English)
* United States (English)
* China (Chinese [simplified])
* India
* Hong Kong (English, Chinese [simplified], Chinese [traditional])
* Liechtenstein (German)
* South Korea
* Argentina (Spanish)
* Chile (Spanish)
* Mexico (Spanish)
* Portugal
* Singapore (English, Malay, Chinese [simplified], Tamil)

Go to Download Page:

WordPress Store Locator

Changelog:

New Features:

1) Locations show up on the map by default
2) Added option to show and drop-down of all cities that user can search
3) Updated Store Locator Graphical User interface
4) Added option to show or hide Credits / Google Terms bar below map
5) Added ‘Website’ link next to ‘Directions’ Link for addresses that have their URLs properly specified beginning w/’http://’

Bugfixes:

1) Header error messages under “Manage Locations” (formerly “View Locations”) tab resolved
2) Update error for individual addresses under “Manage Locations” resolved
3) Bubble conformity to images and text for each location resolved
4) Issue of not seeing starting location icon for some searches resolved

Continually working to bring you new and better features! Stay tuned.

Hope All Enjoyed Inauguration

While working on our next release, we noticed that the All-in-One-SEO Pack (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/) was fast approaching the 1 Million (1,000,000) download mark on the WordPress plugin directory.

I enjoy watching the clock strike midnight on New Year’s Eve every year, so I decided, “Why not track this and make sure to capture the transition from 999,999 to 1,000,000 for anyone who might be interested in seeing it?” Fortunately, I was able to do so (I feared it might skip from 999,998 to 1,000,001 as I refreshed the page, but fortunately, it didn’t)

A big congratulations is in order and well deserved by the the creators of this plugin (http://www.semperfiwebdesign.com/). We have certainly this plugin it on a number of our WordPress installations, and agree that it deserves the amount of downloads it has received.

Screenshots Below
(Click to enlarged images – Time of screenshots: 9:53pm & 9:54pm Central Standard Time):
(View their blog post about it)

999,999 Downloads

1,000,000 Downloads

Happy New Year to All this our New Year’s 2009 Release — Version 1.1 — with more to come.

Go to Download Page | Go to Store Locator WordPress Plugin Page

Your suggestions, emails, support and enthusiasm for this plugin are much appreciated, so keep on giving your great feedback. We’ve also been upgrading our development processes and tools, so you can expect additional updates in soon.

We’ve created a .po template that will allow for translation of this plugin into multiple languages — so far, we’ve translated it into French (.po & .mo files are included in the ‘/languages/’ directory of this plugin). To translate this plugin into another language, you can

Download the .po template file here:

Translation Template – as of v1.1

Changelog For This Release:

• Translation: French
  (In order to use a different language, make sure the place the .mo + .po file in the ‘/wp-content/plugins/store-locator/languages/’ folder and change the ‘WPLANG’ constant in the ‘wp-config.php’ file in the root wordpress folder to the language. [e.g. for French use "define('WPLANG', 'fr_FR')"]
• Ability to change the Address field label to something other than “Address” (“Zip Code” for example)
• Repositioning of links on user interface
• Ability to change the default zoom level of the store locator user interface

Finally … It’s Here!

… Without futher delay …

Go to Download Page: WordPress Store Locator