Legacy Third Party Add-Ons Deactivation

Posted by CiCi in Store Locator Plus, Uncategorized, WPSLP

This report does not impact users of the My Store Locator Plus managed locator service.

The WP Store Locator Plus version release 4.9.15 update will throw fatal errors with third party add-ons if you are using DeBaat User Managed locations (UML) or DeBaat Social Media Extender (SME). We are working on the Store Locator Plus 4.9.16 release to prevent the “white screen” and auto-deactivate the outdated add-ons.

Resolving SLP 4.9.15 White Screen

This issue only seems to impact third-party add ons including Social Media Extender and User Managed Locations. It MAY impact Gravity Forms add ons as well.

To resolve this issue you need to determine how important those add-ons are to you.

SEO Pages and 12-Column Grid Support

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

Users of our WordPress Power plugin get some new layout control features for our Pages SEO module. Users of our fully managed service will have to wait until later this year for our SEO page builder to be fully tested before getting that feature into our Enterprise accounts. MySLP users on the Power, Professional, or Enterprise accounts did get some other patches — see the end of this post.

12-Column Grid Support

Many sites, including thousands of WordPress themes, employ a common 12-Column grid layout system via the inclusion of various UI Frameworks. Frameworks such as Foundation, Bootstrap, and Vuetify are just a few CSS + JavaScript libraries that are used to build reactive and responsive themes.

Google API Key Changes for WordPress Plugins

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

Updates to the Store Locator Plus WordPress plugin version 4.9.15, released today, includes patches to the Google API Key management.

Let’s start by letting users of our fully managed MySLP SaaS service know that you don’t have to worry about any of this. You can skip this entire article.

Google API Keys

For our SLP WordPress plugin users there has been a notable change in the management of Google API Keys.

We now support a Geocoding Key and a Browser Key. The Browser key is used to display the map and handle user-input addresses during a location search. The Geocoding key is used on your WordPress server to geocoding locations you’ve entered via the Google API.