Store Locator Plus® July 2026 Updates: Faster Location Management and Cleaner Admin Tools

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

Work continues to modernize the Store Locator Plus® user experience. The latest round of updates focused primarily on the Location Management table header. Location management updates include an improved tab bar along with improved bulk actions, filter, and search components.

These updates were made in preparation for a complete rework of the locations management table. The reworked table will significantly improve location searches, filters, and other tools that assist our clients with location lists that include hundreds or thousands of locations. Those releases are expected in our Summer 2026 update.

Manage Location Interface Updates

July 2026 location management action bar UX improvements (all users).

The latest Store Locator Plus® updates continue the work of modernizing the location management experience for SaaS customers and WordPress plugin users. This release window focused on the Manage Locations screen, especially the tools store owners use every day: bulk actions, search, filters, category updates, import/export workflows, and clearer in-admin feedback.

The updated tag locations modal (Professional and Enterprise users).

For customers with large location directories, the biggest improvement is a more responsive and easier-to-use admin workflow. The location list controls are being moved into the newer React-based interface, giving the page a cleaner layout while preserving the existing Store Locator Plus behavior that site owners already rely on.

SaaS Updates

The hosted Store Locator Plus® dashboard received shared interface updates that improve button styling and visual consistency across React-based admin screens. These refinements help keep action buttons readable and consistent even on screens that still include older WordPress admin styling.

The SaaS dashboard components were rebuilt against the updated shared interface library. This is mostly behind-the-scenes work, but it supports a more consistent customer dashboard as more account, profile, and location management screens move to the newer interface framework.

Testing and development environments were also updated for newer WordPress compatibility, helping keep the hosted platform aligned with upcoming WordPress changes.

WordPress Plugin Updates

The Store Locator Plus® base plugin updates in this window focused heavily on the Manage Locations screen. The bulk actions, search box, and location filter controls have moved into React-based components while still using the existing backend processing paths. That keeps the customer-facing behavior stable while improving the admin interface.

The Power add-on was updated to work with the new React location management controls. Location filters, import processing, export behavior, hosted CSV options, and category-related actions were adjusted so they continue to work cleanly with the updated admin layout.

The Experience add-on received compatibility updates for the revised bulk action wording and location management controls.

The Premier add-on received a settings message clarification, making the Premier Options guidance easier to understand in the WordPress admin.

For WordPress plugin users, the relevant versions from this release window are Store Locator Plus® 2607.11.01, Power 2607.11.01, Experience 2607.04.01, and Premier 2606.26.01. The Store Locator Plus® base plugin now requires PHP 8.2 or newer.

Admin and Interface Refinements

The Manage Locations screen has a cleaner action bar with modernized bulk action controls. Tagging and categorizing locations now use clearer modal and drawer interfaces, with improved action button layout and better feedback while processing.

Search has been moved into the new header area and continues to use the established Store Locator Plus search behavior. This keeps the workflow familiar while reducing older PHP-generated interface code.

The updated location filter notification interface.

Filters now use a slide-out drawer and active filter indicators. When a filter is applied, the active filter state is shown more clearly so administrators can see what is limiting the current list. Property filters can show details such as name, ZIP/postal code, state, country, and category selections.

The updated location filter interface (Professional and Enterprise accounts).

Filtered searches that return no matching locations now keep the action bar available. This is important because it lets administrators adjust or clear filters instead of getting stuck on an empty result view.

Bulk action progress feedback has also been improved. Actions now show clearer processing indicators, and apply buttons are disabled when they cannot safely act on the current result set.

Fixes and Stability Improvements

Several older location management scripts and unused admin UI paths were removed after the new React controls replaced them. This reduces duplicate logic and lowers the chance of old interface code interfering with current behavior.

Power import handling was updated so import-related scripts load when the Locations tab is available, not only after a specific tab click. This makes import workflows more reliable in the updated admin interface.

A Power categorization issue that could interfere with other JavaScript on the Manage Locations screen was fixed.

The updated Categorize locations interface (Professional and Enterprise accounts).

Unused JavaScript libraries and older table sorting assets were removed from Power where WordPress core or the newer interface no longer needs them.

The Store Locator Plus® base plugin and related add-ons received maintenance cleanup, including PHP compatibility updates, PSR-12 cleanup, dependency simplification, and removal of unused generated assets.

What You Need To Do

Store Locator Plus® SaaS customers do not need to install anything. The hosted service is updated automatically.

WordPress plugin users should update the Store Locator Plus® base plugin and any active add-ons together. If you use Power, Experience, or Premier, update those add-ons at the same time as the base plugin to keep the Manage Locations tools aligned.

Before updating a production WordPress site, confirm that your hosting account is running PHP 8.2 or newer. If your site is still on an older PHP version, update PHP first or ask your hosting provider to move the site to a current PHP release.

As always, test updates on a staging copy first if your site has custom integrations, large location imports, or custom admin workflows.

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.

Store Locator Plus® May Updates

Posted by lcleveland in Google Maps, Map Software, MySLP SaaS, Release Notes, Store Locator, Store Locator Plus, WPSLP

Several minor updates have been made to the Store Locator Plus® application that was released this week. As always, our SaaS platform users do not need to do anything to receive the updates.

WordPress users will need to manually download and install the Store Locator Plus® base plugin to get updates since the WordPress plugin directory is not properly distributing updates at this time. Once upgrading to the latest version, the main Store Locator Plus® plugin will route directly to our update servers and start receiving inline updates (no manual download zip file, activate process).

The following items are included in this update…

Store Locator Plus® WordPress Plugin Updates

As noted in the opening of this article, the main Store Locator Plus® plugin for WordPress now pulls updated directly from our official update server. If you are on a version older than 2604.06.01, you will need to login to your our WordPress plugin store and manually download then install the new version. Note: Our SaaS platform users do NOT need to do this, head on over to the Store Locator Plus® Dashboard and login.

Make sure your .zip file does NOT have a different name as that can confuse WordPress. The file name should be store-locator-plus.zip. If you end up with store-locator-plus-2.zip (or any other version), WordPress will install multiple copies of the plugin as it assumes the prefix before the .zip extension is a unique plugin name. Not our design, that is legacy WordPress for you.

Another reason to think about replacing your self-managed WordPress plugin install with our fully managed SaaS version. (As an added incentive – we have more features coming to SaaS only with plans for better user interaction reports coming for all plan levels , joining our Settings History feature that was added for all SaaS users in Q4 2025.)

Google Map Domains (Country Codes)

In one of our recent updates, we extended the list of country codes that are supported to match the full list of 100+ countries available on Google Maps today. Two things happened with that update which we missed on release which are now fixed.

First – our Map Domain (country) selection was ordered by country codes (the 2-letter code assigned to each country) which did NOT match the order of the text displayed on the drop down menu. That meant that “United Kingdom” with a NEW country code of “gb” appeared in the middle of the “Gs” on our list. That’s not right! Easy fix to sort our dropdown list by displayed text not country codes. This was a non-functional change but makes the user experience work as expected.

Speaking of United Kingdom, apparently in the ancient history of the Google Map Domains there was an alternative country code of “uk” versus the standardized code of “gb”. Apparently Google Maps stopped supporting “uk” as a country code, which meant that any of our users that had “United Kingdom” selected as their map domain started having issues. Their country code of “uk” was not longer found, and Google did the obvious thing… use the first country code on the list of “Ascension Islands” to try to show the map and addresses. In the most recent update, Store Locator Plus® will automatically convert anyone with the “uk” code to the “gb” code on first launch of the plugin. SaaS user accounts have already been recitified.

Google Maps Latitude/Longitude Links

Another minor update related to Google and the map interface is the link in Location Details. Under each location is the latitude and longitude of the location. Google changed their map search URL which resulted in those links bringing up a 404 page. This has been resolved and once again show the location on a separate Google Maps window. This allows for a quick sanity check that the encoded latitude and longitude align with the Google Maps public service.

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