Starting 2023 with a renewed push on Store Locator Plus® updates, starting with patching some minor warnings and bugs reported by users. One of the updates is a preemptive patch for Cluster Map Markers. Multiple updates are anticipated over the coming weeks. If you have a feature request or bug to report please let us know via the Contact Form. This week there are two minor updates coming your way.
The October 2022 update of Store Locator Plus® is now out for both the SaaS platform and the self-managed installations for WordPress plugins. The current release continues down the path of updating the user controls dashboard with newer React-based components. While the user experience (UX) updates are relatively minor with this October update, the underlying technology has set the foundation to begin replacing major interface elements with a modern interface.
The new Material UI on React design will allow Store Locator Plus® to catch up to modern design standards and pave the way for not only a better interface on the dashboard but lead to more advanced designs on the published location maps and eventually produce advanced directory style listings from your locations.
Some of the changes you’ll notice in this release include a new title bar, simplified menu system, and context-sensitive documentation links on each primary Store Locator Plus® dashboard page.
Store Locator Plus® has been updated for the early August 2022 release. This impacts both the WordPress plugins and the SaaS product. Users of the WordPress plugins will need to download and update to the latest releases. SaaS users will see these updates automatically.
A patch has been put into place on the JavaScript core method that reduces network I/O from REST API calls when rendering map labels. The pre-patched version would consider various labels as not being set if a user was setting a label to an empty string. This created a REST API call for every location that was being displayed to fetch new label information. This patch reduces those calls to a single REST API request per page render versus per-location rendered.
This release patches search form name labels and the name placeholder. These settings were not being honored. The functionality has been restored.
The map search form “Hide Address Entry” has been patched to hide ONLY the address input box, not the entire search form.
The changes noted above can be found in the following update.
Store Locator Plus® (SaaS Edition) : 2022.08.08
Store Locator Plus® for WordPress: 5.14.X
Store Locator Plus® for WP : Experience: 5.14.X
