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Directory Listings By State

Posted by lcleveland in MySLP SaaS, Store Locator Plus

Clients of the Store Locator Plus® SaaS offering have a new feature available to them — State Directory Listings of their locations. Any account that is on the Professional or Enterprise level of service has this new feature available immediately. It is our first iteration with more refinements and extensions planned in the coming months.

If you are already on the Professional or Enterprise level of service you can read the detailed instructions on how to display a list of states and get started today.

Solar Installers Directory, AWS S3 Static Hosting

Posted by lcleveland in AWS S3, Map Software, MySLP SaaS, Store Locator Plus

Check out our latest pet project, our Solar Installers Directory. Solar Installers Directory is a mobile friendly website hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket. It has full https security, Cloudfront distributed content, and virtually zero server overhead. The locations map is provided by our Store Locator Plus® SaaS service.

About S3 Hosting

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides high-availability cloud storage via their S3 service. Typically this is used to host off-site content such as backups or data that is not needed on a regular basis. Some people use it to see AWS Cloudfront, a content distribution network, to speed up their sites for images or other content. A lesser-known trick is using the S3 bucket to host a website.

While there are some limitations to what you can do, the site is static HTML + JavaScript + CSS, those last two components make “static” websites a far more viable option. Modern user experiences can be built for any business that does not need a full database-driven site. This is an exceptionally good fit for a “calling card” web presence.

Store Locator Performance Improves

Posted by lcleveland in Map Software, MySLP SaaS, Store Locator Plus, WPSLP

Store Locator Plus® was updated today with a number of improvements over the 5.2 release. Users will find that the Locations management screen is much faster when the screen options sets pagination length to more than 100 records. The update also ensures that those users that set their location list to more than 512 locations can still use the Export options available in the Professional and Enterprise level of service, or that have the Power add on installed if using the WordPress plugins.

SaaS Performance Boost

While the 5.3 release of Store Locator Plus® includes a number of performance enhancements across-the-board, our SaaS service has received some additional updates that allow us to process location and map requests a little faster. This is thanks to working with a controlled software stack where we know the exact version of WordPress, PHP, and all the libraries involved to squeeze as much performance as possible from the code.

Users should notice faster response when loading the map on a page, especially on sites with more than a few dozen locations being displayed.