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Store Locator Plus® Late February 2026 Updates

The late-February 2026 maintenance window focused on stability and cleanup across the Store Locator Plus ecosystem—especially around Locations import UI reliability, continued PSR-12/PHP 8 compatibility cleanup, and some Google Maps loading improvements.

Release window covered in this post: February 19, 2026 through February 26, 2026.


Pagination Fixes

The most important fix for this release is addressing pagination for lists of locations. A feature available to Enterprise SaaS users and Premier subscription users is the ability to page location search results. This allows for a smaller list of locations to appear on the user-facing location search and map interface with standard next page, previous page buttons. The functionality stopped working at some point in the past. This was brought to our attention by our clients and has been patched in this release.


Locations Import: Fixes for “Broken Tabs / Corrupted Admin UI”

Another important fix in this window was addressing an issue where HTML output from the Import tab could become malformed and then “bleed” into other admin panels. In practice, that could cause subsequent tabs or sections to render incorrectly or behave unpredictably.

Updates included:

  • Fix for rogue/corrupt HTML output in the Locations import UI.
  • Hardening work in Power add-on import to prevent Import tab output from impacting adjacent tabs.

If you’ve ever seen the Locations admin screen behave strangely after viewing Import, this release is aimed squarely at eliminating that fragility.


Google Maps Loading Improvements (Async + Dependency Fix)

We continued improving how Google Maps assets are enqueued and loaded—especially for admin-side usage—so maps can load more efficiently while reducing edge-case failures.

Highlights include:

  • Async script loading support for Google Maps enqueues (including appropriate URL attributes).
  • Defensive checks to ensure required keys are present before attempting to enqueue certain map assets.
  • Dependency fix related to Google Maps script loading (to prevent mis-ordered enqueues or missing prerequisites).

This is part of an ongoing effort to make map loading more consistent across WordPress admin screens and reduce the “works on one screen but not another” class of problems.


Payments / Subscription Workflow Patch (MySLP)

On the MySLP Payments side, this window included a small but important stability fix to prevent a case where subscription detail retrieval could return a WP_Error unexpectedly (stemming from return declaration/typing cleanup work).

Net effect: fewer “mysterious” failures when subscription details are being fetched and surfaced in the UI.


Compatibility & Maintenance: PSR-12 / Cleanup / Version Bumps

As usual, there were a number of housekeeping improvements that help keep the codebase modern and easier to maintain:

  • PSR-12 and typing cleanup in several components (core + Premier).
  • Removal of unused methods/properties to reduce surface area and future confusion.
  • Version bumps across multiple plugins/add-ons as part of packaging these updates.

What You Need To Do

SaaS users (dashboard.storelocatorplus.com): nothing—these updates are part of ongoing platform maintenance work.

WordPress plugin users: if you are impacted by Locations Import UI oddities or admin rendering glitches, you’ll want to update to the latest Store Locator Plus / add-on releases that include the late-February fixes.

If you run into anything unexpected (especially around Imports or Google Maps loading), contact us—those reports are extremely helpful for prioritizing the next round of stability patches.

About This Article

This article was written by an AI agent and refined by a human.

The AI agent was running the openai-codex/gpt-5.2 model with deeper context hints provide by the Store Locator Plus® Qdrant database. The database evaluates the code changes, commit notes, and R&D documentation on our internal documentation site. It generates a basic summary of what changed since the last production release.

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Resolved – Settings Being Reset After Updates

Over the past 6 months or so we’ve been working with customers to resolve an issue where updating Store Locator Plus® would reset some (not all) settings. This was especially prevalent with our WordPress plugin users. With the latest 2511.08.XX release we believe we’ve finally put this issue to rest.

For some users, when they would update the base Store Locator Plus® WordPress plugin they would lose some settings. One of the settings we noticed on one of our test boxes was the Google Maps API key being reset. The full list of possible settings that could be impacted are shown here:

broadcast_timestamp => 0
default_country => us
extended_data_tested => 0
map_language => en
next_field_id => 1
next_field_ported => 
premium_user_id => 
premium_subscription_id => 
radius_behavior => always_use
slplus_plugindir => /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/store-locator-plus/
slplus_basename => store-locator-plus/store-locator-plus.php
themes_last_updated => 0
active_style_css => div#map img {...more CSS...
admin_notice_dismissed => 0
invalid_query_message => We did not receive a valid JSONP response.
radii => 10,25,50,100,(200),500
searchlayout => ...HTML...
hide_address_entry => 0
hide_radius_selector => 0
label_radius => Within
label_search => Address / Zip
map_height => 480
map_height_units => px
map_width => 100
map_width_units => %
remove_credits => 0
maplayout => ...HTML...
initial_results_returned => 25
max_results_returned => 25
message_bad_address => Could not locate this address. Please try a different location.
message_no_results => No locations found.
instructions => Enter an address or zip code and click the find locations button.
label_hours => Hours
label_image => Image
theme => a_gallery_style
style_id => 
layout => ...HTML...
log_schedule_messages => 0
google_geocode_key => AI...HY
google_server_key => AI...HY
url_control_description => 

Store Locator Plus® Has Been Re-listed

It has been a year since Store Locator Plus® has been listed in the official WordPress plugin directory.    The previous 12 months have been quite the journey to get the plugin re-listed — but we finally made it!    Kudos to the development team for taking on the thousands of lines of code that make the Store Locator Plus® applications “go” and helping us get there.    Thanks to the customer support team for helping keep things going while the dev team was getting up to speed and addressing all the concerns noted by the folks on the WordPress Plugin Team.     It took longer than expected, but we finally have our plugin and the associated one-click updates for our install base back online.

SLP Has Been Re-Listed

Store Locator Plus® 5.13.8 for WordPress

The new release, Store Locator Plus® 5.13.8 is available for immediate download from your WordPress SLP account.    Now that we have been re-listed you can also get our plugin directly from the WordPress plugin directory.

This update includes PHP 8 compatibility (use with caution, PHP 8 is still not officially supported by WordPress) as well as numerous internal security updates.     It also patches some minor issues reported in the past year.

There are a LOT of code changes and millions of combinations of settings in Store Locator Plus®.  We’ve tested compatibility with the premium add ons from Power, Experience, and Premier but  your configuration may uncover an issue we did not discover.   If you run into issues with the latests update please let us know and we’ll address the problem as quickly as we can.

We’re Back

Our business leader and original architect of Store Locator Plus® is back at it full time.   Our tech leader has been very busy during the past two years, assisting Store Locator Plus® on a limited basis while working to get another tech startup off-the-ground.    That company is now moving to the next phase and our leader is back and is 100% focused on bring the next generation of Store Locator Plus products and services to market.

Plans are in the works to improve the user experience, improve stability and performance, and branch out to natively support more web presence platforms and web developer tool kits.    New features and services are coming to the SaaS platform, with a renewed focus on extending the reach of our software-as-a-service offering. Pricing changes are being discussed to ease the burden on small businesses.

There is a lot more coming.    Be sure to subscribe to our news feed to keep up as we work toward the next generation of products and services.

Focusing On You

One of the first changes being employed is focusing on how we can help YOU, our established customer base. We have a lot of catching up to do and are committed to getting Store Locator Plus® back to the top of the locator software and services list.    To get there we are going to need your help.

The best way to help? Communicating your needs.  What can we do better?  What features are missing or can be improved?   Or drop us a note to tell us what we’re doing right.

We promise we’ll listen and do our best to improve our services and products.

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