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Note: Another section that talks about the map markers
There is a video for custom map markers it is more then 2 years old and the label in front of the field I mentioned was called location under Markers.
On the video just be aware that when lance explains and shows the back end of SLP and where to add the marker, the heading called “experience” is now displayed in the back end as “Settings”. That verbiage was changed so as not to confuse the experience add-on with what was the end users experience that can be adjusted via settings. I have replaced most screen shots with newer verbiage but we are not shooting videos again for those.
here is the page for custom map markers with the video (you probably do not need the video but it does show where under the Map settings tab you have the locations marker settings) as mentioned, if you do not have a whole section called markers you have something else going on with your site , (only time I recall something like that being reported was if migrated WP then there are SLP tables missing.) 🙁
? You do not have a section under Settings/Map/ and a subsection at the bottom (scroll down using inside slide bar to get to the very bottom of the page) the whole last section is labeled MARKERS in bold . That is where you set the two markers Home and location. You have the latest versions of the plugin correct? The label after home marker the next one is location marker. not sure if it was called something else before but that is what it is called on my site. If you do not have a section called Markers in the back end something may be interfering with SLP.
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/map-panel-settings/
is not the same as the center location. ” The results interaction set of features provides a variety of visual cues on the location map to indicate the location a user has clicked when viewing a list of locations., providing a variety of additional options beyond the standard Info Bubble that Store Locator Plus displays when a location is clicked.”
Inspect your site and that element and it is showing it is what you have selected as an icon for the “your location” https://apa.uk.com/wp-content/plugins/store-locator-le/images/icons/bulb_AMP.png
Most likely then it is your location marker which is set under the Settings.MAP
These are the only places that use map markers, either under the MAP settings or category settings and now with premier as you mention under the results interaction setting which I am not sure you need or intended to use.
Sometimes I just get lucky (if I am persistent). I checked your site again, it looks pretty nice, I see the descriptive tag text in the results there so it appears you were successful and see the <div class=”Practitioner slp_result_table_tags”><span class=”tagtext”>Practitioner</span></div> when I inspect with the browser tools. Inspecting sites using browser tools was a valuable instruction given to me by Lance when i first started learning his plugin. But I am a casual user. I learn as much from the customer when they provide feedback, so thank you for letting me know the steps you took! Not many people use both categories and tags , but i will take a look at the docs to see if i can add more detail.
Let me test it on my site.
My results layout has the shortcode [slp_location pro_tags]
When I select on back end , the show tags on separate lines , and inspect the in style element using browser console tool in front end I see my tags for my location and the lodging, entertainment, restaurant tags I had added to that particular location show (below.) my SLP plugin style is Bobbitt
<div class=”Lodging_br__entertainment_br__restaurant slp_result_table_tags”><span class=”tagtext”>Lodging<br>entertainment<br>restaurant</span></div>
I am not an expert on CSS , not sure why the show tags isnt working on front end for you. I checked another SLP test site that was using SEO Pages the tag only seems to show in the map bubble.
So I do not know if that is what the issue is or not, will have to discuss with the developer, as he mentioned in another post Results Layouts settings and SEO pages are different.
@Mindy Good to hear that. If you have any other questions please start a new post. I am planning on closing this one as resolved since the initial tag, header for the post was Canadian postal codes and we now have wandered off subject
Have a good week
🙂
Are you using SMUSHIT or something like that that minifies? That was a reported conflict from some of our users months ago. You will need to deactivate it.
Other suggestion: go through the WP debugger or troubleshoot by shutting off all other plugins one by one to rule out conflict.
You should have a backup to restore to if anything goes awry. P.S. It is suggested as WP best practices to Update MySQL to 5.6 or higher
ok, I tested using that style and added an address for Germany and you are right it does not display correctly in the results. I tried a few different default styles. I think (pretty sure) it is because it doesn’t have an entry as ‘state” . I tried a few work arounds, I am able to fix it on my end because I have the experience add on and I can correct the results layout, but for basic SLP plugin it currently shows correctly in the map info bubble (when you click on marker) but in the results text runs the city and postal code together . A temporary and (not correct) method would be to add a state or area such as a suburb or designated area (such as neighborhood Sachsenhausen in Frankfurt considered a state/province or suburb in the field of state as text , I understand this is incorrect in most cases and , I have identified this issue to the developer and he will put it on a “to be patched” list for the next update.
Thank you for reporting this and sorry it took a while for me to isolate the issue
For general info purposes what I was also looking for was your plugin environment under info tab
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/info-tab-plugin-environment/
Plugin environment, will show the version, the add ons if any, the PHP, MYSQL version, the WP version, example what is in my info plugin environment you can always block out url if needed.
Store Locator Plus®:5.0.5
Experience:5.0.4
Power:5.0.4
Premier:5.1
Site URL:https:/
This Info Cached:1551204785
Network Active:No
WordPress Version:5.1
PHP Version:7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
MySQL Version:5.6.10
PHP Limit:256M
WordPress General Limit:128M
WordPress Admin Limit:256M
PHP Peak RAM:2 MB
PHP Post Max Size:750M
just check off under results settings. half way down the page in back end you will see a function to call out how to display them
Show tags in output use the drop down menu and select
choices are: as entered,
hidden
,on separate lines
There is a lot of info on that doc page but basically you need to decide if you are going to have a list of pages, using it like a directory (which it appears you are) or the map interface with search an address and showing results
The rules for each are different because they are fundamentally different things.
One is a JavaScript applet that talks to Google Maps and the location database.
The other is a PHP + WordPress template that lists WordPress Store Page page types.
Since you are building the more details as part of your custom seo page template You will need to try building the hyperlink for More Details using RAW data fields.
This will not work:
[storepage field=url type=hyperlink]
[storepage field=page_url type=hyperlink] ()
Instead try something like
<a target=“_self” href=“[storepage field=data.page_url type=raw]“>More Details</a> i
For general education
As far as the styling under View
The gallery styles will have some styles that provide more control over themes and settings in SLP then others.
Example the AI swarm is
Primarily CSS styling. The CSS will hide various locator elements that will change based on where the map or SEO pages have been invoked.
Selecting this style will change the following settings, make sure you have copied them to a text file first: Settings > View > Locator Layout
(Sponsored by and customized for Akamai Innovations – results driven medical marketing.)
The gallery style is just a general label, the actual plugin styles are inside the sidebar menu: If you had CSS added it would be what you added in the box under Settings/View (see screenshot for what I am referring to for instance I had selected left for green in this screenshot)
I.E these are styles that are included and each one has a description of what they effect:
Under Settings/View under Gallery
On the inside slide bar under view there are names for the various styles, i.e.
AI Swarm full
Alphaville
Bennett
Bobbitt
Brewery
default ((The default Store Locator Plus layout and CSS shipped with the latest release. This is the basic layout for the locator. It allows default browser and website themes to dictate the element styling.
Supports Premier Search Form Styling options, Experience placeholders without labels.
Resets the following settings to the initial Store Locator Plus defaults:
Locator Layout , Search Layout, Results Layout, Map Layout, Bubble Layout, Google Map Style.
Last Updated: Feb 21 2018))
If you are changing the results layout in the results layout itself it may be overridden the next time. You should save any CSS under the Settings/CSS and use a plugin style that allows for CSS such as Metropolis
when you view the various styles (from the inside slide bar) there will be a description that explains the layout results you can expect to see. (themes can override them as well)
Example” Metropolis styling attempts to overcome the vast differences in class. Takes over more of the CSS styling than usual.
This style is updated with additional rules on a regular basis whenever someone reports a misbehaving layout. Select another style, then re-select this style to reload the latest rules.
Style Guide: right pad 2em, vertical margin 1em, result line height: 1.5em
2017-Nov-23 : right pad on span.slp_result_email/fax/phone/website, single line on span.slp_result_street/street2/citystatezip/country/hours, vertical margin below country and above hours, drops Foundation float:right on div[class*=”column”]
Make sure your results settings under results layout is correct as is shown above.
did you try the WP debugging and/or changing to a basic WordPress default theme to make sure your theme is not overriding? The front end results should be the same no matter what, if you are seeing an issue check the back end your results layout as I showed above with look for the line in the results layout that has the [slp_location city_state_zip]
We really need to see your Plugin environment for version info.
Please Provide your plugin environment per posting guidelines
Mindy, you have not set up your keys correctly. Also as far as the wrong IP address, if you are using a proxy server that may generate the Ip address issue.
Please refer to the developers blog about this and how to properly set up your key.
https://www.storelocatorplus.com/api-keys-with-referer-restrictions-cannot-be-used/
He explains how to finnd your IP address etc,
What have you selected under Map markers for settings? Do you have a home marker selected , it appears that you have identified that marker as being the visitors location but it is not actually their location but is actually the location of the search returned address.
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are you using the filter by tag feature by any chance?
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/tag/allow-tag-in-url/
thanks for providing the site url that helps a lot
The category works under the WordPress taxonomy similar to pages. I double checked with lance and only the icon can be displayed, if you want text to display in thwe results layout you need to do that with tags. The tags can be the same as categories, tags are just text. Categories are not just text and they do not work exactly the same. i.e there is no shortcode to put in the results layout to display category slug.
I do not know what you mean by “marker bubbles” Do you mean the MAP INFO Bubble? or the location url control. Checking off the show icon will not display the category map marker it will show the category icon. Your categories can have both a marker and an icon. They can be the same or different. But only the icon will show.
I enabled SEO Pages on my site and it seemed to be working correctly but I do not have some of the other unique settings you have been inquiring about.
I spoke to the developer briefly today and because you have quite a few questions and you are doing some customizing with your locations , category results and SEO Pages set up we thought it might be best if you could send us an email through support email. at contact us
Just make sure you provide your plugin environment and the exact url page where you are using the WPSLP plugin.
This way we can look at everything you are trying to do at one time and see if there is a conflict with any of the settings. Make sure when you write to us you provide the url that you are using SLP on and issues you are having and what you need it to do.
.SEO Pages for Premier has had additional settings added in the past year for a customization client and the developer has written a few articles about those changes , so it would be best if we were able to look at it together . If one of these articles clears things up for you let me know so I can be sure to add it to the docs site.
https://www.storelocatorplus.com/location-page-listings-enhanced/
https://www.storelocatorplus.com/seo-pages-and-12-column-grid-support/
thx
I will need the exact url where the locator and map info “pink” bubble is showing.
Nothing has really changed with Map settings for quite some time. Also could you provide me with the Plugin environment, i.e versions so I can check against my site.
Are using SEO Pages and the Pages replaces weblink setting?
What are you using for the Plugin style under view?
I cannot see what you mean, that link goes to a suspended account. Are you referring to the home marker? Under MAP. You can actually select the home marker to be blank it is usually the second icon under map marker.
Ok, you may be able to add a line in the results layout for category and/or add the attribute as a div in css . (If you have not enabled the Experience add-on you will want to do that so you can change the layout and/or add CSS. )
I know that you can have tags show within the results layout.
I know you can have the category icon appear in the results .
there is a checkbox under Settings/Results Appearance section that is “show category icons” . if you check that off the category icon will appear within your results . On my site I have checked off to show the category icon but I have also added tags . , Tags are text and can be imported as well as work with categories.
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/results-layout-shortcodes-and-attributes/
You are not using the category selector on that site?
I was able to see your site store url it took a while to load.
You are referring to the results layout and specifically this results element on your site is not correct: <span class=”slp_result_address slp_result_citystatezip”>Mülheim45481</span>
and it should be this to display correctly
<span class=”slp_result_address slp_result_citystatezip”> [slp_location city_state_zip]</span>
which Plug In style or locator style under Settings/view are you using? I will look at it in the admin area on my site to see if it is copying correctly on my site. On our test site , I have selected the Alphaville gallery style and it is displaying properly on the front end Your theme may be overriding the layout setting I do not know, you will need to investigate a little on your end.
These documents explains how to check the styling elements and results layout on your site.
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/adjust-locator-styling/
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/results-layout-shortcodes-and-attributes/
i looked at the url but I do not see a map or store locator,
Could you provide us with your Plugin environment. There was a fix for spaces in zip itself so it could be similar situation but I need your plugin environment before bringing it to developer
See what is meant by plugin environment, screenshot of the Info plugin environment can be found under SLP/Info tab
hmm, ill have to test it, I do not use pages feature. of course with WP updates anything is possible.
i will ask developer about this when he has a few. it might be something simple like reactivating or enabling. i know seo pages are draft until you publish .
oh i see your site you have the legend, you want the icon or name of category to show next to marker as map bubble or in results boxes themselves?
you can add css rule for either. not sure off the top of my head what the exact data field name is.
you can add a legend, to display the icons or markers with the category label. there are some locator styles under view that include it and you can check off the category legend under settings/view. it is further down just above the css box under the styles under vierw
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/store-and-category-manager/
is that what you are referring to?