Store Locator Plus® Late February 2026 Updates
The late-February 2026 maintenance window focused on stability and cleanup across the Store Locator Plus ecosystem—especially around Locations import UI reliability, continued PSR-12/PHP 8 compatibility cleanup, and some Google Maps loading improvements.
Release window covered in this post: February 19, 2026 through February 26, 2026.
Pagination Fixes
The most important fix for this release is addressing pagination for lists of locations. A feature available to Enterprise SaaS users and Premier subscription users is the ability to page location search results. This allows for a smaller list of locations to appear on the user-facing location search and map interface with standard next page, previous page buttons. The functionality stopped working at some point in the past. This was brought to our attention by our clients and has been patched in this release.
Locations Import: Fixes for “Broken Tabs / Corrupted Admin UI”
Another important fix in this window was addressing an issue where HTML output from the Import tab could become malformed and then “bleed” into other admin panels. In practice, that could cause subsequent tabs or sections to render incorrectly or behave unpredictably.
Updates included:
- Fix for rogue/corrupt HTML output in the Locations import UI.
- Hardening work in Power add-on import to prevent Import tab output from impacting adjacent tabs.
If you’ve ever seen the Locations admin screen behave strangely after viewing Import, this release is aimed squarely at eliminating that fragility.
Google Maps Loading Improvements (Async + Dependency Fix)
We continued improving how Google Maps assets are enqueued and loaded—especially for admin-side usage—so maps can load more efficiently while reducing edge-case failures.
Highlights include:
- Async script loading support for Google Maps enqueues (including appropriate URL attributes).
- Defensive checks to ensure required keys are present before attempting to enqueue certain map assets.
- Dependency fix related to Google Maps script loading (to prevent mis-ordered enqueues or missing prerequisites).
This is part of an ongoing effort to make map loading more consistent across WordPress admin screens and reduce the “works on one screen but not another” class of problems.
Payments / Subscription Workflow Patch (MySLP)
On the MySLP Payments side, this window included a small but important stability fix to prevent a case where subscription detail retrieval could return a WP_Error unexpectedly (stemming from return declaration/typing cleanup work).
Net effect: fewer “mysterious” failures when subscription details are being fetched and surfaced in the UI.
Compatibility & Maintenance: PSR-12 / Cleanup / Version Bumps
As usual, there were a number of housekeeping improvements that help keep the codebase modern and easier to maintain:
- PSR-12 and typing cleanup in several components (core + Premier).
- Removal of unused methods/properties to reduce surface area and future confusion.
- Version bumps across multiple plugins/add-ons as part of packaging these updates.
What You Need To Do
SaaS users (dashboard.storelocatorplus.com): nothing—these updates are part of ongoing platform maintenance work.
WordPress plugin users: if you are impacted by Locations Import UI oddities or admin rendering glitches, you’ll want to update to the latest Store Locator Plus / add-on releases that include the late-February fixes.
If you run into anything unexpected (especially around Imports or Google Maps loading), contact us—those reports are extremely helpful for prioritizing the next round of stability patches.
About This Article
This article was written by an AI agent and refined by a human.
The AI agent was running the openai-codex/gpt-5.2 model with deeper context hints provide by the Store Locator Plus® Qdrant database. The database evaluates the code changes, commit notes, and R&D documentation on our internal documentation site. It generates a basic summary of what changed since the last production release.
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