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Address Lookup Failures On WPSLP

Posted by lcleveland in Store Locator Plus, WPSLP

If you have recently ported a WordPress site from another server or from a staging site to a production site and the address lookup in Store Locator Plus is failing — you may have an incomplete port. There are a few simple ways to tell that the WordPress configuration is incorrect. This video for our WordPress folks will help you determine if your “ported configuration” is the culprit.

Thankfully our MySLP users never have to deal with this sort of issue — but for our WordPress users that may have an incorrectly ported site, watch this:

WordPress 4.9.9 File Type Not Permitted Workaround

Posted by lcleveland in Store Locator Plus, WPSLP

WordPress 4.9.9 as well as 5.0.1 and ALL the “security patch releases” back to 3.7 now have a new CSV file management bug. Any CSV file that is uploaded is rejected by WordPress due to a security violation.

The Quick Fix

Add this to your wp-config.php file:

define(‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true);

Yes, this will effectively disable all those cool new “security features” in the latest release of WordPress but it also will get your CSV imports working again. Just remember to take this out when WordPress 4.9.10 (or 5.0.2) comes out — assuming they deem this new “security feature” a bug and patch it accordingly.

File Type Is Not Permitted – WordPress 4.9.9 and 5.0.1

Posted by lcleveland in Store Locator Plus, WPSLP

Recently updated to WordPress 4.9.9 or 5.0.1 and your CSV file imports for Store Locator Plus® stopped working? It is now fairly common to see a “file type is not permitted” error when uploading files. You can thank yet another “WordPress security feature” — also known as “backwards compatibility break”. This “update” came with absolutely no warning to plugin developers.

WordPress 4.9.9 and 5.0.1 break Store Locator Plus® Imports and thousands of other plugins.

This does not affect our Store Locator Plus® SaaS users thanks to our fully managed software stack, so they can rest easy and continue to import locations.