Details for the Advanced level SaaS service. Many features are present in the Store Locator Plus® for WordPress plugin.
Store Locator Plus allows you to set a custom marker for all of your locations.
Start by uploading the marker to a web accessible location.
Go to Media / Add New in the WordPress admin panel.
Upload your marker.
View the attachment details for the newly uploaded marker and copy the URL.
The [slp_search_element] shortcode is only processed within the Search Layout setting. It is used to display user input elements on the search form.
Attributes are the keywords that appear after the opening [slp_search_element and before the closing ].
Default attributes include:
Output a form button. <slug> should be an input supported by the base plugin or an add on such as:
Output the Find Locations button.
[slp_search_element button="submit"]
Output a dropdown selector with a preceding label for the specified input. <slug> should be an input supported by the base plugin or an add on such as:
Output a dropdown of radius selections based on the Experience / Search / Radii Options setting.
Outputs the specified value. Used by some add ons to add a specific [slp_search_element] output.
Output a input selector with a preceding label for the specified input. <slug> should be an input supported by the base plugin or an add on such as:
Output a the address/zip-code input box.
Processed by the SLP_UI class via add_shortcode in create string_SearchForm() which calls crease_SearchElement().
Filter shortcode_slp_searchelement is used to manipulate attributes. Many add ons use this to render specific output using attribute ‘hard_coded_value’ => ‘xyz’ to output a specific value.
Store Locator Plus includes a default set of data fields that is included with every installation as well as extended fields provided by add-on packs.
For data fields, including those added with the Power add-on, you can output the data in the map info bubble or results layout, by using the following shortcode:
[slp_location data.<field_slug>]
For example:
[slp_location data.contact]
[slp_location data.facebook_custom_url] (for someone that added a field named Facebook Custom URL).
Both the default data and extended data can be displayed in the search results, (for SEO Pages some fields will be [storepage field=contact] for SEO-friendly details pages. Most of the tools provided by the various add-on packs work best when using the field slug. The slug is a unique name for the field that is similar-to, but not exactly the same as, the field name.
The slugs are used in the add-on packs such as the layout strings from the Experience Add On in as well as the column headers for CSV Import in the Power Add On.
Slug: id Data field: sl_id Type: integer (auto-assigned)
Slug: store Data field: sl_store Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: address Data field: sl_address Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: address2 Data field: sl_address2 Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: city Data field: sl_city Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: state Data field: sl_state Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: zip Data field: sl_zip Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: country Data field: sl_country Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: latitude Data field: sl_latitude Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: longitude Data field: sl_longitude Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: tags Data field: sl_tags Type: Text up to 4096 characters
The Pro Pack tags field. Requires Pro Pack for full functionality.
Slug: description Data field: sl_description Type: Long text, as determined by your MySQL settings. More than 4096 characters.
Slug: email Data field: sl_email Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: url Data field: sl_url Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: hours Data field: sl_hours Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: phone Data field: sl_phone Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: fax Data field: sl_fax Type: string up to 255 characters
Slug: image Data field: sl_image Type: string up to 255 characters
An fully qualified image URL, http:: with a full domain.
Slug: private Data field: sl_private Type: A single character string.
May be used in the future as a 1|0 value to determine if a location is to only appear on the admin interface and not front end searches.
Slug: neat_title Data field: sl_neat_title Type: string up to 255 characters
May be used in the future as an alternate store name or subtitle.
Slug: linked_postid Data field: sl_linked_postid Type: integer, auto-assigned
The ID of the related store_page entry where extra taxonomy data and other location data is stored. Used with Store Pages and Tagalong. Should not be modified.
Slug: pages_url Data field: sl_pages_url Type: string up to 255 characters
The relative URL for the Store Pages linked post ID. Provides a processing shortcut for the Store Pages add-on pack.
Slug: pages_on Data field: sl_pages_on Type: a single 1|0 character
Used with Store Pages to determine which locations have been populated with Store Pages template content.
Slug: option_value Data field: sl_option_value Type: text up to 4096 characters
A serialized JSON data object which can store extra location data. Slower and less direct than extended data fields.
Slug: lastupdated Data field: sl_lastupdated Type: timestamp
A date and time MySQL timestamp indicating the last time the main data for the location was updated.
Slug: initial_distance Data field: sl_initial_distance Type: A float.
The initial distance calculated between your center map latitude/longitude and the location.
These fields appear in the extended data table, slp_extendo. The field metadata, used to manage the slp_extendo table, is store din the slp_extendo_meta table.
Identifier a unique location identifier from an external database that can be used to update existing locations in Store Locator Plus
Contact
First Name
Last Name
Title
Department
Training
Facility Type
Office Phone
Mobile Phone
Contact Fax
Contact Email
Office Hours – long formatted text
Contact Address – long formatted text
Notes – long formatted text
Featured – valid values are “1” for featured and “0” (zero).
Rank – an integer from 1 (highest rank/top of list) to 999999. 0 = no rank.
Power categories utilize the built-in WordPress custom taxonomy system. Standard WordPress category IDs are kept in the term_relationships and term_taxonomy tables. The relationship between locations and categories is managed via the slp_tagalong table that maps the Store Locator Plus id field to the WordPress Taxonomy term_id.
Table: slp_tagalong field: sl_id = the store id field: term_id = the WordPress taxonomy id
A. A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. In other words, a Shortcode = shortcut.
All those little location markers on the map that Google just made FAR more prevalent in their latest update? Those are what they call map icons. They are also clickable which means all those locations will pop up a map bubble even if they are not YOUR Locations for your business. Premier Add On v 4.7.1 or higher for Store Locator Plus or MySLP/Enterprise lets you disable the “clickability” on the map icons.
Included in MySLP Professional and WPSLP Experience.
Find it under Settings | Results | Results Interaction
When the Use Dial Link for Phone Setting is checked it will make the phone number in your locations results clickable to auto dial by adding a tel: based hyperlink.
The dial-ready hyperlink will be used wherever the [slp_location] shortcode is used. This includes the results under the map, directory landing pages, and in Store Pages if the [slp_location] shortcode is used instead of the [storepage field=”phone”] shortcode.
Use along with the Phone Extension Delimiter setting to handle pauses for extensions.
Formerly labelled: Make a Dial Link Phone number (clickable)
Settings that impact how JavaScript works on your site. Note, if you subscribe to the MySLP SaaS, you will not see a General tab. With the MySLP we take care of this for you! The My Store Locator Plus service is a fully-managed application that works with any website or mobile development platform.
reflects the jQuery version that is currently used with the Store Locator Plus version you are using. The SLP jQuery versions are in compliance with the WordPress minimal version requirements.
This settings forces the Store Locator Plus JavaScript (slp.js) to be loaded when your WordPress Theme header is loaded. This is NOT the way to go. It is recommended that you turn OFF “Force Load JavaScript” and instead contact your theme author. See Troubleshooting for more information
Store Locator Plus has a checkbox under the General /User Interface tab called Force Load Javascript
Having this checked forces the JavaScript for Store Locator Plus to load in the header of EVERY page on your site. This can slow down your site and will disable various Store Locator Plus features. If you need to do this to make SLP work you should ask your theme author to add proper wp_footer() support to their code, or switch to a theme that behaves properly.
If you see the word Experience in the SLP back end you are not using the latest version of SLP. As of version 4.7.9 the menu tab formerly named “Experience” is now named Settings in Store Locator Plus . This change was made because of the confusion people had with the name in the menu and the Experience add-on. The settings under this tab determine how the front end, that part of the plugin your site visitors interact with, looks and behaves. The settings under this tab change how the plugin appears to the site visitor and what functionality is available to the site visitor. Some of the attributes set here can be overridden via shortcode attributes with the Experience Add-on.
Additional Results Interaction features are available with the MySLP/Enterprise or WPSLP Premier Add On. The results interaction set of features provides a variety of visual cues on the location map to indicate the location a user has clicked when viewing a list of locations., providing a variety of additional options beyond the standard Info Bubble that Store Locator Plus displays when a location is clicked.
Use the Experience add-on to completely disable the Info Bubble under the map and only use these interactive result indicators. When a visitor to your site clicks on the results marker they will see additional information such as description you have entered for that location, in addition to the fields that are populated for the location.
