Issues this Update Fixes: – PHP 7.0+ & PHP 7.2+ compatibility both for base plugin and addons – Geocoding improvements reported by a number of users (no more red or pink-highlighted locations in admin location management) **Upgrade now, avoid any current/future compatibility issues as sites upgrade to PHP 7.0+ ** **Helpful Note: Updating to Store…
New Year, Resolved Issues — Update WordPress Store Locator Greetings to all — Happy New Year — hope that 2016 is off to a great start. This is a quick but informative message to update WordPress Store Locator to at least v3.85 or later in order to make sure not to experience conflicts with WordPress…
Custom Post Types / Statuses / Page Builders As WordPress becomes more advanced, so do the techniques employed by theme & plugin authors. To keep in step, noticed that custom post types, statuses, and page builders were sometimes causing some users’ maps not to show up at times by preventing the WordPress Store Locator‘s javascript…
Location Pages Users: Save Template File (location-template.php) Before Updating If It’s Been Modified If you have already made modifications to your ‘location-template.php’ file, save a copy of it to your computer before updating to Location Pages v1.1, released today. It will become ‘location-sample-template.php’ moving forward and will be used as a default template for first-time…
Using FTP Not everyone using the WordPress Store Locator plugin & its addons are highly technical — and that’s okay. WordPress is an online publishing tool that makes life very easy for both highly-technical developers and non-technical users alike. Likewise, the aim has always been to create a Store Locator that also follows in the…
Blank Store Locator Admin Area Fix The latest version of the WordPress Store Locator (version 2.13) addresses a blank admin area experienced by a select few of you when trying to access your Store Locator’s admin. Seemed to be caused by having certain functionality unavailable or turned off on your server (cURL or file_get_contents), but…
Update to Store Locator v2! Important! It is mandatory that you update to v2 of the WordPress Store Locator, because it uses Google Maps API v3. Older Store Locator versions use Google Maps API v2, which is being shut off soon. Older Versions Will Not Geocode Your Locations Anymore In fact, Google Geocoding API v2…
New Map Interface Options Versions 2.3 & 2.4 have introduced options for updating the message seen by your website visitors if: No locations are found during a Store Locator search The initially searched location doesn’t exist Additionally, for those choosing to load locations by default, you can now determine whether to show both the map…
Good Feedback & New Addons Debuting It has now been a little over a month since the release of Store Locator v2.0, and it can be certainly said that it was a good month in terms of feedback from you, downloads, and sales of addons. Great to see how these products are helping users to…
Update to Store Locator v2.1 Important: Make sure to update today to Store Locator v2.1 (you can do so from your ‘Plugins’ admin page, or download the latest here). Details It has improved transitioning into using Store Locator v2 for all users (both those of you currently using Store Locator v1 and those who are…
Greetings All Good to be back with WordPress Store Locator Version 2.0 — LotsOfLocales™. A great deal of work and feedback from many of you went into this product after learning many lessons since our launch date back in December 2008 — five years have certainly flown by. 100,000+ Downloads Additionally, the Store Locator plugin…
Fixes Made many fixes in version 1.2.33 of the Store Locator plugin for the many of you that have been experiencing trouble with gray / blank maps. It should be 100% fixed now, if you find otherwise, say so here in the comments! Otherwise enjoy. More fixes coming, hoping to speed up development during the…