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WordPress PHP 8.1 Compatibility August 2022

We have received a couple of reports about Store Locator Plus® for WordPress not working with PHP 8.1.  The  WordPress PHP 8.1 compatibility is officially listed as “not compatible” in January 2022 and remains that way today (August 20th, 2022).   There is no official release date for WordPress on PHP 8.0 or PHP 8.1 at this time.

Officially WordPress supports PHP 7.4.  As such, Store Locator Plus® for WordPress is only officially supported on PHP 7.4.

Users of the Store Locator Plus® SaaS service don’t have to worry about this. We’ve taken care of ensuring the location service is running on a stable platform

WordPress PHP 8.0 Status

However, we have tested WordPress on PHP 8.0 along with the latest release of theStore Locator Plus® for WordPress plugin.  It does appear to be working normally without notable warnings or errors.   While not officially supported, we do believe you can run WordPress and Store Locator Plus® for WordPress on PHP 8.0 without any issues.   With that in mind, we are providing support and patching services for the Store Locator Plus® for WordPress with PHP 8.0 installations.

Store Locator Plus® Patches Search Form Name Label

Store Locator Plus® Release Notes
SaaS 2022.08.08 / WordPress 5.14

Store Locator Plus® has been updated for the early August 2022 release.   This impacts both the WordPress plugins and the SaaS product.     Users of the WordPress plugins will need to download and update to the latest releases.   SaaS users will see these updates automatically.

MySLP SaaS All Levels

A patch has been put into place on the JavaScript core method that reduces network I/O from REST API calls when rendering map labels.    The pre-patched version would consider various labels as not being set if a user was setting a label to an empty string.  This created a REST API call for every location that was being displayed to fetch new label information.  This patch reduces those calls to a single REST API request per page render versus per-location rendered.

MySLP SaaS Professional and Enterprise Updates

This release patches search form name labels and the name placeholder.   These settings were not being honored.  The functionality has been restored.

The map search form “Hide Address Entry” has been patched to hide ONLY the address input box, not the entire search form.

Version Info

The changes noted above can be found in the following update.

Store Locator Plus® (SaaS Edition) : 2022.08.08
Store Locator Plus® for WordPress: 5.14.X
Store Locator Plus® for WP : Experience: 5.14.X

WordPress Store Locator Plus Anniversary Sale

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