SEO Pages, Profile Updates, and Patches

The January 2026 update is out for the Store Locator Plus® products and services. Both the SaaS platform and the WordPress plugins have been updated with a variety of bug fixes and user experience updates. We have been testing modernizing the administrative interfaces by replacing PHP code with newer React components. Part of the process is intended to modernize the user experience which goes hand-in-hand with making the Store Locator Plus® platform faster and more stable.

My Profile Interface Progress (SaaS)

Our primary work with the updated user interface has focused on the My Profile page. This is a low impact part of the application, meaning it has near-zero risk of changing how the map and directory presentations behave as deployed on websites. It has allowed use to test implementation of new JavaScript driven React components while improving data display and user interfaces. This has been a measured test of new interfaces.

This process has been laying the groundwork for better interfaces across the application that we intend to roll out throughout the year. Eventually we expect to have a newer, faster, and more modern design not only on the administrative interface but also to make it easier to provide modern interfaces for user-facing map and directory designs with little-to-no coding experience for our user base.

SEO Pages and 12-Column Grid Support

Users of our WordPress Power plugin get some new layout control features for our Pages SEO module.   Users of our fully managed service will have to wait until later this year for our SEO page builder to be fully tested before getting that feature into our  Enterprise accounts.   MySLP users on the Power, Professional, or Enterprise accounts did get some other patches — see the end of this post.

12-Column Grid Support

Many sites, including thousands of WordPress themes, employ a common 12-Column grid layout system via the inclusion of various UI Frameworks.  Frameworks such as Foundation, Bootstrap, and Vuetify are just a few CSS + JavaScript libraries that are used to build reactive and responsive themes.

Top US Travel Cities In 2017

We’ve written articles on Google Search metrics and the Near Me phenomenon now that everyone is mobile. In the “Near Me article” we highlighted the fact that most people search for things near them when they travel. The most common “near me” search is restaurants. This is the companion article of our research on the top travel destinations in the US.

The Top US Travel Cities

Like golf, the lowest score wins. Add ranking of top 10 on all sites. If un-ranked on a site the default score is 15. Any entry must rank at least 10 or higher on one of our sampled sites to appear on the list. Destinations must be a city not a region.