Store Locator Plus® Professional subscriptions support the Google map style rules. These rules let you control the “inner style” of the map itself. You can turn off built-in Google map icons, change the width or roads, change the font size of various labels. Some styles will even change the color of the land and water bodies if you are truly looking to customize the map style to better match your brand. You will find some basic examples of these JSON settings below or you can use the Google styling wizard to create your own custom look and feel.
The February 2025 update to Store Locator Plus® includes a lot of changes to the Store Locator Plus® Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. As we work towards modernizing the user experience , changes are primarily to the user interface to pare down the legacy WordPress framework that runs our service. As part of that effort, we have changed the main menu interface including renaming some items and moving some key features to top-level positions in the sidebar menu.
This guide is intended to show you new features as well as where to find key elements of the Store Locator Plus® interface.
Note: if you are using our legacy WordPress plugins, many of the changes noted here will not apply to you. Recent events in the WordPress community along with our personal experiences with the “WordPress Plugin Directory gatekeepers” has led us to focus on improving our SaaS offering. Many new features and interface updates are likely to remain SaaS-only options.
Store Locator Plus® Information
The Info page is now attached to the top-most main menu item labelled Store Locator Plus® that is on the top left of the sidebar menu.
The Info page shows key articles from the Getting Started Documentation as well as current news about Store Locator Plus®.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Info
The previous menu location for the info page was at a second level menu under Store Locator Plus® | Info.
Legacy Menu : Store Locator Plus® | Info
Locations
The legacy version of Store Locator Plus® included a simplified user interface for managing locations and was labelled “MySLP” (the original project name we had assigned to our SaaS offering).
The menu changes for the 2025 release keeps this in the sidebar menu where it has been renamed Locations.
The locations page provides a simplified interface built in the React JavaScript framework. It provides a simpler interface for viewing basic location data and includes both a table-style list format as well as a modern cards style interface.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Locations
The old location for the Locations page was at the top-most sidebar entry and was named MySLP.
Legacy Menu : MySLP
Location Details
Location Details is where you will find the interface for performing more complex actions as well as viewing more of the location data fields in a table format. This page includes advanced location management features such as performing bulk actions — actions on multiple locations at once. You can also find tools for loading locations from another Store Locator Plus® install including legacy WordPress plugin sites or for importing a long list of locations with a CSV import. You can view up to 999 locations at a time on the table presentation as well as view and sort by various location attributes.
This interface is based on the legacy WordPress plugin with many of the features found here on the development schedule to be moved to the more modern React-based interface.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Location Details
The legacy interface included this feature as a second-tier menu under Store Locator Plus® | Locations.
Legacy Menu Store Locator Plus® | Locations
Style
The 2025 update includes a completely new interface for loading various pre-crafted locator styles for your map interfaces. This feature provides pre-defined CSS styling as well as Store Locator Plus® settings that change the entire user experience with the Store Locator Plus® maps and directories. This provides a quick way to try different interface designs on your locator installation without having to guess at various settings and CSS styles to see which works best.
Included in the 2025 update for this feature is a preview of the interface that updates whenever you load a new style. You no longer need to load a locator style then go to the Generate Embed tab to see what it looks like.
Many web designers use this features as a starting point to find a style that is close to what they are looking for, then modify the settings and CSS details to fine tune the look-and-feel for their website.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Style
Previously, this feature was found in the Store Locator Plus® | Settings page on the View tab and was labelled “locator style”.
Legacy Menu Store Locator Plus® | Settings | View
Settings
The previous second-tier menu under Store Locator Plus®/ Settings is now a top-level sidebar menu.
Various settings change the user experience for your maps and directories. Settings can be changed for search, map, and results elements to the interface.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Settings
The legacy location for Settings was previously under the Store Locator Plus® | Settings sidebar menu.
Legacy Menu Store Locator Plus® | Settings
Generate Embed
When you are ready, generate and retrieve the HTML code that will be embedded on any website or app where you want to display the Store Locator Plus® map or directory.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Generate Embed
This menu item was previously a second-tier entry at Store Locator Plus® | Generate Embed.
Legacy Menu Store Locator Plus® | Generate Embed
Options
The Options page includes various settings that impact how the Store Locator Plus® app behaves and/or displays information on background processes that may be running. This is primarily used for Enterprise level processing of locations. For enterprise users running ongoing location loading or data management processes you can see scheduled actions here. Future application management options will also appear on this page.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Options
This page was under the Store Locator Plus® | General sidebar menu, and has been renamed “Options” in the newest release.
Legacy Menu Store Locator Plus® | General
Note: Force Load JavaScript was a setting only used with WordPress plugins and was provided to support malformed themes. This option does not apply to the SaaS release and is no longer supported in the WordPress plugin.
My Profile
My Profile is where you can update your plan, change your billing details, or cancel your subscription. It shows the current limits and usage on your account, what features are available, and a history of your interaction with the SaaS platform.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : My Profile
This is unchanged from the legacy release.
Contact Us
Contact us to send a message to the Store Locator Plus® support team. When your message is sent , support will receive details about your account with your message.
Store Locator Plus® 2025 Menu Changes : Contact Us
This menu is unchanged from the legacy release, other than repositioning the location to be above the “Log Out” option.
The first parameter should match a parent slug (the 4th parameter) from the add_menu() calls.
WordPress Roles & Capabilities
WordPress roles, oddly enough, are stored for each user in the wp_user_meta table in the meta_key ‘wp_capabilities’.
Relationship definition:
role slug (Name)
capability slug – enabled by default on WP install or granted by Store Locator Plus®
The roles and capabilities within the Store Locator Plus® system include:
super (Super Admin)
manage_options
administrator (Administrator)
manage_options
manage_slp, granted by main SLP plugin
manage_slp_admin, granted by main SLP plugin
manage_slp_user, granted by main SLP plugin
subscriber (Subscriber)
read
myslp_customer (MYSLP Customer)
myslp_customer
read
WordPress Multisite Capabilities
For users on multisite there are two entries in the wp_usermeta table.
The meta_key wp_capabilities on MySLP this value has been set at a single role – ‘subscriber’. This defines the capabilities of the user on the main site on the platform, this is the master site and should only be open to system administrators.
The meta_key wp_<site_id>_capabilities on MySSLP this value has been set to the role – ‘administrator’. This sets the capabilities for the subsite, where each user should be the administrator for their own site.
Power add-on required if king the WP SLP plug-in or available with the MySLP SaaS Professional Level Plan
Add Icons to your categories under your Categories Manager. Select under Settings/View the Default with Legend below if you wish to show the icons represented for individual categories.
Under the Settings/Results check off the box to show category icons.
The label that will be displayed in front of the Search form box on your locator page can be changed under Settings/Search in the Appearance section Label. If none are set, a blank box will appear on your site. The “Address” Label you enter will appear in front of the search box. The “radius” information indicates to the site visitor that this is the radius (whatever radii you entered in the search form for radii options.
Consider this label as a help text tool for the site visitor to assist them as to what to enter in the box. Label Examples: zip code, city, street, or a combination such as address / zip code. The more detailed the better. We find address and zip code to be the most useful hint. If you leave this label blank nothing will appear in front of the search form box and your site visitors will be guessing what to enter to start their search.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Locations are added to Store Locator Plus® via the sidebar menu via the locations submenu. This option presents a list of all locations along with a menu option to add a location via a web form.
