Our August 2026 user experience updates continue for Store Locator Plus® with a new Cards viewing mode for Locations. The Cards view provides a vertical scrolling column of location cards. This provides a quick view of the location data alongside a map preview to help ensure the location is where you expect it to be.
This feature replaces the SaaS-only Card listing that was in need of a refresh. We opted to include this in the WordPress plugin as well, but be aware this view can use up Google API charges when viewing this mode for users of the WordPress plugin. For the SaaS users, there are no additional charges.
Location Cards Features
Filter Locations The location cards view provides a filter interface that allows for stacked filter selections to limit the cards that are displayed.
Search Locations The search feature is a multi-field text search that matches full or partial text across multiple location fields.
Both feature mimic the functionality of the new Location List table view that went into production last month.
Location Cards Fitler
Getting the Location Cards
Store Locator Plus® SaaS users will automatically see the new Cards view under the Locations page later this month.
WordPress plugin users will need to update to the latest Store Locator Plus® plugin. Look for the plugin version at or above v2608.04.XX for this new feature. If you’ve not updated the plugin recently you may need to update any associated add on plugins including Power, Experience, and Premier plugins. Keep in mind that all plugins require your WordPress server to be running PHP 8.2 or higher.
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
The revised quick search feature.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
A menu of new column layouts.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
Row density options.
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.
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.
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
plus… Search box placeholder text Map cluster markers, Google map style, map loading indicator
Bennett Locator Style
Bennett locator style, August 2026 revisions as seen in SaaS Preview mode
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.
