WordPress Store Locator Plus Anniversary Sale

Posted by CiCi in Map Software, Store Locator Plus, WordPress, WPSLP

We are lowering the price of select add-ons to celebrate the WordPress Store Locator Plus 10 year anniversary !

Power Add-on

The Power add-on is now listed for sale at $150. This is a buy and own do it yourself add-on.

Popular features included with Power add-on

  • Import/Export your location data to csv file
  • Categorize , Tag locations
  • Reporting tools
  • Directories
  • SEO Pages
  • Location sensor

Experience Add-on

 

The Experience Add-on to our Word Press Store Locator Plus plug-in is on sale for $100! Thats a $100 savings.  This is an add-on to the Plug-in Version of Store Locator Plus

  • Change the Layout
  • Change the Look Of The Map
  • Add Location Search  buttons via Widgets
  • Add Discrete search filters by City, State more
  • Add Customize style sheets for search , map and results layouts.

Premier  Yearly Subscription

Our Premier sign up fee has been reduced as a promotional sale to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the SLP plug-in.  Sign up fee is a low $49. The renewable annual Premier subscription remains at $275.  The total price for a limited time $324.  The Premier subscription includes both the Power and Experience add-ons as well as additional features in the layouts, search criteria, including (but not limited to)

Premier customers input for new features are always welcome.

See the Premier Description for additional information

 

 

Solar Installers Directory, AWS S3 Static Hosting

Posted by lcleveland in AWS S3, Map Software, MySLP SaaS, Store Locator Plus

Check out our latest pet project, our Solar Installers Directory.   Solar Installers Directory is a mobile friendly website hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket.   It has full https security, Cloudfront distributed content, and virtually zero server overhead.    The locations map is provided by our Store Locator Plus® SaaS service.

About S3 Hosting

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides high-availability cloud storage via their S3 service.   Typically this is used to host off-site content such as backups or data that is not needed on a regular basis.    Some people use it to see AWS Cloudfront, a content distribution network, to speed up their sites for images or other content.   A lesser-known trick is using the S3 bucket to host a website.

While there are some limitations to what you can do, the site is static HTML + JavaScript + CSS, those last two components make “static” websites a far more viable option.    Modern user experiences can be built for any business that does not need a full database-driven site.    This is an exceptionally good fit for a “calling card” web presence.

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Location Page Listings Enhanced

Posted by lcleveland in Store Locator Plus, WordPress, WPSLP

One of the few features that is not currently available for our MySLP SaaS users is the dynamic location details pages that are hosted on WordPress sites.  Users that employ the Pages feature of the Power add on can link the web links for locations shown in the locator to a SEO friendly details page hosted on the website for every location in the database.

Another important feature of the Pages interface is the ability to list all pages that have been generated in a directory format via the [slp_pages] shortcode.   This list provides an easy way to show locations without requiring site visitors interact with the map interface.

More Page Listing Controls

With the 4.9.14 release of the WordPress plugins, the Power add on now provides even more control over the page listings.    When using the default “full listing” style, which shows the entire page template one-after-another, there are some new options available.

Hide The Map

Hide the map, is one such option.  Most users opt to show a map showing where the business is when a user looks at the details page.    However, loading a dozen maps stack one on top of another on a page listing slows down page rendering.    The new no_map attribute allows you to turn the map on or off as needed.

Custom CSS Classes

In prior releases web designers could style the layouts for the page listings by adding custom CSS to their WordPress theme and reference the Store Locator Plus specific classes that wrap the page list as well as the SLP classes that wrap each individual page entry.

New Pages CSS Class Overrides

In the Power 4.9.14 release users can now replace the previously “hard-coded” Store Locator Plus classes used with these HTML elements with their own class names.   This can be especially useful when using WordPress themes that are built on a standard library such as the common 12-column Grid Layouts in Foundation, Vuetify, and Bootstrap.    That means you can let the theme’s default row and column controls manage the layout for the page listings instead of writing tedious responsive CSS rule stacks just for Store Locator Plus.

Even better – you can set these CSS classes with [slp_pages] attributes.

Like our recent location editor update, this is one more step on our journey toward moving Store Locator Plus toward modern web design standards.

We’re already using this on a couple of projects and think you’ll like the new implementation.