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A New Location Management Interface

Posted by lcleveland in Release Notes, SaaS, Store Locator Plus

Our user interface overhaul of Store Locator Plus® continues with a new location management interface. We’ve finally replaced the 1980s style location management interface Store Locator Plus® inherited from WordPress. The old PHP, HTML, and JavaScript table has been replaced with a modern React alternative. The new location management interface comes with all kinds of new ways to organize, sort, and filter your existing location data.

The new location management interface is available for both our WordPress and our SaaS users. SaaS users don’t need to do anything to get the new updates, they will be available next time you login to your SaaS account. WordPress users will need to upgrade their existing plugins to the latest release to get these new features.

Filter Locations

Complex location filters coming in the August 2026 release of SLP.

Complex filters can be built on locations. All of the filters we had with the previous filters drop down menu are still available, plus dozens of additional options.

The filters apply across the entire data set with response times that are vastly improved over the prior versions. Large sets of locations can now be filtered with ease.

Built a wide variety of logic combinations for any location data field.

Data matching options include:

contains | does not contain
equals | does not equal
starts with
ends with
is empty | is not empty
is any of

All fields can be combined with AND or OR logic to display specific locatio

Improved Quick Search

Searching across all fields for the 2059 text (found it in the latitude field in this example).

We’ve completely retooled the quick search feature in the new location management interface..

It still searches across multiple fields, but it now searches across all text fields in the location set not only the name and primary address fields. And it is fast. Much faster than past iterations.

Change The Column Layout

The name column pinned to the left, the other data scrolls under it.

A myriad of options are now available for how you see your data on the locations list.

Sort columns in any combination.
Drag columns to reorder them.
Pin columns to the left or right of the table.
Hide columns.

The best part is Store Locator Plus® remembers your customization between sessions. No more re-sorting or changing column layouts every time you log back in or visit a different page. We’ve added a notification with an easy reset button in case you ever need to quickly get back to the default

Change The Row Density

While more row management options (like grouping, ordering, etc.) are coming – for now we’ve given the basic option to set the height of the display with several row density options available: Compact, Standard, and Comfortable.

August ’26 Locator Style Refresh

Posted by lcleveland in Map Software, Release Notes, SaaS, Store Locator Plus

We’ve been working on refreshing the existing Locator Styles as part of our 2026 user interface design refresh. Locator Styles provide preset user interface designs for the public-facing side of Store Locator Plus®. The styles provide an easy way to generate a new look for what your customers see on your website when looking for places you sell your wares or provide services.

Our Locator Styles worked well when they were crafted five or six years ago, but they need a refresh to meet today’s interface design standards. We’ve started working through our catalog of pre-defined styles with refreshes that work better with modern themes on WordPress, Wix, Weebly, Shopify and other web presence solutions. The first round of refreshes it meant to upgrade the most popular styles while provide as much backwards compatibility with older web themes.

The good news it that the updated styles are not implemented automatically even if your Store Locator Plus® installation is using one of the Locator Styles we have updated. To try out the revised version of a style you need to select a new style and activate it via the Style Manager in Store Locator Plus® or reload the style if it is already active on your site. With activating a new style or reloading the current style no changes will be made to your installation.

Our revisions for early August 2026 include the Default, Bobbitt, and Bennet locator styles. These updates are now online for most users.

Default Locator Style

The Default locator style is the style that is the default layout everyone starts with. This is designed to change multiple settings back to their initial configuration and provide generic styling that inherits or works alongside multiple web presence themes.

This is the basic layout for Store Locator Plus®. It allows default browser and website themes to dictate the element styling. It has settings that take advantage of Enterprise and Professional level features.

Subscription	Settings Changed
Advanced	CSS settings, General locator layout Search layout, Search category dropdown style Results layout Map layout, Map info bubble layout
Professional	plus… Location categories Search form style, Search by name, Category selection Results header, Prevent result listing wrap, Paginate results, Show country hours and phone, Category icons on results Map styling, hide home marker, map width, map height
Enterprise	plus… Search box placeholder text Map cluster markers, Google map style, map loading indicator

Bennett Locator Style

The Bennett locator style was created years ago for a client with a specific user interface design requested to blend with their website.

Search: Designed to search by category, city, state, tags or the dealer name versus the standard address or zip centric search.
Presents the category options as clickable buttons. City and State selectors are via a drop down selection. Tag search and dealer name is a text input.
Displays a reset search button to back to the original search with no filters.

Results: Presented as a 4-column design with name, country, phone, and website as the primary output.
Gray highlight on hover over location.
Light yellow highlight for featured locations.

This theme has been designed to work best with Enterprise subscriptions as it uses cluster markers, table layouts, and scroll map into view features. Category buttons, column result layouts, and other elements require Professional or Enterprise subscriptions.

Bobbitt Locator Style

The Bobbitt style was another customer request.

A yellow color scheme with a simplified search interface.
Does NOT show an address search.
Focus is on searching by name (if enabled), tags, categories, city, and state.

Results layout shows only the name, address and directions.

Location details are in the map info bubble.

This theme has been designed to work best with Enterprise subscriptions as it uses category search, tag search, city search, and state search features.

More updates are planned for our two-dozen-plus locator styles throughout the remainder of the year. We are also working on creating more advanced interactive styles that go beyond simple layout and styling. Check the Style menu and click the “New…Old” button on the top right of the style stack to see what updates we’ve released most recently.

Note: WordPress users will want to backup their installation to ensure they can recover any settings that may be changed when trying out new styles. SaaS users can review the Settings History to review what was changed and copy settings back as needed. We are working on a “restore previous setting” feature in Settings History to make this easier in the future. Contact us if you need assistance restoring your SaaS styling.

New Map Views Report

Posted by lcleveland in Google Maps, Map Software, Store Locator, Store Locator Plus

Our June 2026 update to the Store Locator Plus® SaaS platform includes our first foray into reporting and graphs. It is a very small step in that direction, but an important step that implements the next iteration of our move toward modern React-based user interfaces throughout our product line up. Our intention is to continue to capture more data about YOUR customer interactions with the Store Locator Plus® maps and expose that data to you in order to provide additional insight for your business.

Now that we have a functional framework for updating the dashboard interfaces we can turn our attention to improving our service in other vectors, starting with customer insight reporting. In the past customer interaction reporting was available to our Professional and Enterprise plans only. Moving forward we will continue to add access to interaction metrics for all SaaS customers.

To access the new views report , login to your SaaS account via https://dashboard.storelocatorplus.com/ and go to My Profile. Under My Profile click on Site Info. Look for the View History button in the Map Views card on the dashboard.

The new report shows a monthly trend of map views.

Columns marked with red highlight months where your map views exceed your plan limit.
The dashed line shows your plan limit.
Beneath the graph is a data table showing the total views, overage (if any) and additional charges for the SaaS service if you are over your limit.

With the initial implementation we are estimating map views based on historical data. Some accounts will not have data before January 2026. Starting in June 2026 the map views are being tracked more closely and will represent actual views. Past data would sometimes under-report views due to inconsistent card processing at Stripe which triggers the map view count on the day your subscription renews.

We will continue to refine the data collection and reporting process and will have updated versions of this report as well as new features coming out soon. Please share your thoughts and feedback as well as new feature requests via the Contact Us form on your Store Locator Plus® dashboard.

If you are still managing your own Store Locator Plus® location maps and directories with our WordPress plugin collection, ask us how you can migrate to the SaaS version and take advantage of the new metric reports and map interfaces we have planned.