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I looked at your site and do not know what you are trying to do. One store did not have a page setup when I clicked on the link website it showed none found, the others redirected to their website. if you want them to appear as SEO pages you must have the power add-on and have Enable Pages turned on.
You must provide your plugin environment , i.e versions and add-ons that you are using. each time you have posted we have requested this information and you have yet to provide the information as requested. Back up your site and use a staging site to test and load. Check to make sure your PHP is version 5.4 or higher…etc. etc.
Any and every postal code in the world is supported. Do you have a Google MAPS JAVASCRIPT API key ?with geocoding API enabled?
Google requires every site using Google Maps to now have an API key with billing enabled. They have been announcing the requirement since the spring. We posted news feeds (since May of this year) and also documentation informing the users of SLP plugin that they would need to obtain the key.
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/getting-started/
News feed about Google API and pricing
Required as of June 2018 all sites to have Google MAPS API key and Geocoding API enabled
That is the way the Google Maps API works these days even in their own Commercial Google Maps. They have added many APIs including Places and as a result, with their money driven preferences they will show everything that begins with a number. Including street numbers that could be in a different state. Also 4 number postal codes are nout unique. This has been an issue for years when people would only search by 4 numbers and report that Google was returning results in a different country.
It is nothing that SLP does. All searches go through the Google MAP API and there are even occasional different results between their commercial proprietary results and what is returned via third party APIS.. You can find these subjects in any browser all the way back to 2009 and in stackoverflow for developers.
We have some tools to work around it such as show address guesses, show Google influenced guesses, and additional features to help your customers with their search as part of premier subscription.
Or discrete search which is available with Experience add-on. Allowing for dropdown search by Country etc.
Are you manually updating or auto updating?
See Lances news feed about the update process and settings being lost depending on the order the updates are done. He has provided instructions and a You tube video.
Hopefully that will resolve your issue going forward.
I am sorry but I do not know what you are referring to.
Please provide your plugin environment. if you are trying to use SEO Pages please follow the guidelines in documentation. Use search Words SEO Pages.
You cannot display two totally different maps on the same WP page
Do you have a Google API?
I cannot help you without more info. What is your site url?
Please refer to the Posting guidelines, we need
Plugin environment, we need your site URL.
To Only display map with no search form on one of the pages ….use shortcode to hide search elements
See shortcodes here
Then You would want to use the ignore radius, and /or use the drop down or discrete search.
Or you may want to use the Country influence guess
If you are using location sensor then turn that off. Or if you always want that store to show up, set it as featured, or you could rank it higher then the other location There are a few options of how to go about it for your specific situation.
The way you are describing how you want the search and results to appear is not how the location boundaries work, the location boundary :binds” the search to only your locations in the SLP data base but you still need to select the proper settings under the search, results.
As far as when the location boundary is fixed, apologize but we had been evacuated due to hurricane and the developer is behind his schedule as a result
Refer to the documentation about Legacy Addons
Please provide your Plugin environment etc.
I am in an evacuated area and cannot access your account. Please refer to the above Posting in Forums guidelines
You would need to contact Google Support. You have set limits, that much is apparent by your screen shots.
The other problem, Google is messing around with their Geolocation algorithms. Even in their own “proprietary” commercial Google MAPS. When you search the google Maps and just put in a number and do not add text such as Zipcode or a state or something more specific , goggle returns the message as you are seeing, could not find address.
It is unfortunate, in their zealous endeavor to get people to sign up and pay for more and more APIS, such as “Places” they are no longer automatically associating a number as being a zip code. Suggest you add instructions in your search element to add more then just a zip code for best results.
Premier has a feature called Show Google / Show address guesses that may help. I cannot guarantee Google wont change their algorithms again. The developer added features (to premier or to MYSLP) to work with google and to try and compensate
Yes. Google announced in May of this year, no more grandfathered sites. Refer to the numerous news feeds, here and June . Obtain Google API key enable both Maps Javascript API and geocoding api and add billing. Refer to our documentation or Googles
1) Follow those pop up buttons where it asks if you are owner of the site and add the billing and keys. Google explains what is needed when you open those pop ups
2) Alternatively you might want to consider the MYSLP service. MySLP takes care of the API and updates SLP. It is subscription based plan. You would need a plan for each site. Plans start as low as $5 a month, depending on number of locations and views.
Thanks for letting us know
When you import select skip under Location/Import/ duplicate handling. See documentation
Please view documentation with keyword such as search layout.
You can also try various SLP plugin styles. If you need to change layouts more then what is available you can choose to purchase the experience add-on to change layouts. See What to buy for more ideas oif what you can do with the Plugin or the MySLP plans
I am not sure what you mean about “Manually adding the API key” How else would you be adding it? it is a simple copy and paste in the correct field to SLP as shown in the docs. Getting an API
are you using a form in some other project or via another plugin?
Where are you adding the Maps Javascript API?
If you use the Inspect under the browser developer tools and click on the error js99, it shows under the index where the error is and under Wordfence… ( I deleted the id that I saw in there) …Is wordfence blocking the communication to Google? Or Has the owner of the API key restricting the # ofMap loads and using a development API? Or are you using Wordfence to add the Maps Javascript APi .? See the error message on your site in the index, it points to”js:99 You have included the Google Maps JavaScript API multiple times on this page. This may cause unexpected errors.
Ug @ js:99
https://www.electrical-wholesaler.com.au/?wordfence
If you believe you are using the correct API and have set it up correctly and have associated a billing account and not set up any limitations then you will have to contact Google Support.
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/general-settings/
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/google-geocoding-browser-keys/
Once you have your API keys straightened out, you may want to consider other ways to minimize the impact if costs are a concern to you (or security) Suggestions in the authors news feed here
Since I do not know what features you are using, (You did not provide the screenshot of your plugin environment requested in posting guidelines) i can only make general suggestions and not advise you on best way forward.
Google algorithms are getting more and more restrictive or invasive, don’t know which. Now even their own commercial “Proprietary” maps that run on their own Algorithms will not let you search by zip code and return correct zip codes if you have never searched there before. They are telling you to “add a place” (maybe they want o sell more of their PLACE APIs which of course charges you an even higher rate per use) or they return a street address for options to choose from and they say “Add more info like the text zip code” We can only tell our customers to add labels in search forms or as responses to add more defining info, like state etc instead just a number.
we have added features to Premier to counter act this, such as show Google guesses but there are only so many ways to try and circumvent their algortihms.
Thanks for understanding and for your patience
Im sorry, we thought it was zoom and had an update in 4.9.19, but someone mentioned it still persisted, got the developer to delve in deeper and it was a bug it was fixed in Power 4.9.20 (red face)
Sorry. there have been so many changes with Google APIs lately and so many people not adding the geocoder API..it has been the go to answer.
Please accept my apologies…
Jim, I provided another info about the SEO Page and the Fallback info on the Split page
Ok, we understand, same thing happens to our site when Woocommerce updates it seems.
You should always make sure you have a recent backup prior to updating, or update on a staging site first if you have concerns. Some best practices, which we are sure most developers and site owners follow have been outlined in the below doc.
https://docs.storelocatorplus.com/blog/upgrading-store-locator-plus/
When you post could you please provide the Plugin environment?
P,S I went to your site and showed me the locations zoomed around my area in SC. But only AFTER I accepted “allow” the popup window that said Bodycote wants to know your location.
Before I accepted it showed all your map locations around where I gather your center map at is in Europe. As documented, yes the fallback if cleared out will auto set to where the center Map is for your Map (see docs here). The fallback is there for when the Google server is “busy” or offline and not able to geocode or “call” to load your locations. If you reset to blank it will fill in with the Center latitude/longitude of the map domain you have chosen. You can have a different Lat/long fallback then your map domain or the center map if you so choose. If you do not add anything it will automatically fill with one of the two options described.
When I went to one of the More details pages and the SEO page opened up , these errors came back, again using the browser tools inspect element under console: I will ask the SLP developer about the cslmap.build_map
Uncaught TypeError: cslmap.build_map is not a function
at slp-power_userinterface.min-1536159478.js:1
2secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:469 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘2’ of null
at getLocation (secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:469)
at _getOrigin (secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:717)
at _window_onMessage (secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:721)
@ jim
Please do not glom onto another persons post. The issue was resolved for the original poster. People have different themes, site configuration and other plugins, in your case you have a cacheing plugin, also if ANYTHING breaks the syntax, javascript fints, it can break or effect SLP will split this topic. Looking at your site using browser developer tools under console immediately returns this error
Uncaught ReferenceError: addToHomescreen is not defined
at locations:2282
addtohomescreen.js:2 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token :
3secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:469 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘2’ of null
at getLocation (secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:469)
at _getOrigin (secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:717)
at _window_onMessage (secureAnonymousFramework?v=1.0.338-1429&lang=en_US:721)
Do Not use Boundaries Influence guesses, as mentioned it is a bug and it hasn’t been fixed as yet. I will let you know, or we will email you when it is fixed. if you cannot reset it, use SLP janitor and find the boundaries option under the premier portion and reset. I just had to do that on my test site after testing out your issue.
There is another option, it is Country Influences Guess
When checked use the selected Map Domain to influence how Google guesses what the user meant when entering a search address. I use this for instance on a test page for Around Australia, on that page I have the shortcode as [SLPLUS center_map_at=”Brisbane” append_to_search=”Australia” initial_radius=”1000″]. But I have my Map domain and center map at in the back end as US. If I did not add the shortcode it would always load the US center at map first instead of the Australia Map since my backend is set to use the US Map domain
As far as setting country. there are a few different ways. You can use the Append feature or a shortcode to redirect to the country page. (see docs for various shortcodes)
You can have a map page with results that only shows x country,,,for instance `
[SLPLUS map_region=”cr” center_map_at=”San Jose,Costa Rica” initial_radius=”1000″ append_to_search=”Costa Rica”]`
I am not sure I fully understand how you are building the site but you can do it a variety of ways depending on the results you are trying to achieve. You can add the Search by Country widget , it will redirect the map. Or have a discrete search in a dropdown
Or have a Countries directory
You can add a shortcode to list international directory
Hi Shaun,
You have a couple of different issues, but the one that might solve a lot of them has to do with Javascript errors. A greyed out map indicates that you have Javascript errors. I see on that site that under Ajax/googlejavascript it is running 1.11…..that could be an issue
Also, if your theme or any other plugin has outdated Javascript it will interfere with SLP working properly. See Troubleshooting docs about that specific issue here
WordPress mandated they would not support anything below version 1.12, that was done quite a while ago. maybe WP version 4.4, you would need to look at WP support and codex.
As far as running ProPack version 3 with a SLP version 4. How is that working? 2 years ago we wrote a blog about it, I do not think that version had an export capability. either way, you need to fix that site with updates (best way to do it is to get a staging site, make sure you use something like JetPack ) You should be able to copy any CSS over to a folder on your server or computer if you need it later.
here is a link that tells you how to do the updates etc.and best practices. , there have been a ton of security updates in WP and SLP followed suit.
The best bet is to clone or set up a staging site to do your updates on.
I do not know what type of customization you are referring to. (theme? other plugins? ) I was able to get the map to load and refresh on that site when I declined allow site to know my location, but it took a minute…one reason might be because it takes so much time to draw the map due to the thousands of map markers loading. This might be a perfect place to use Cluster Map markers when you do get the site updated and current so that you can use premier on it.
That site url does have lots of errors and warnings such as: ReferenceError: stLight is not defined[Learn More] dealers:160:1
TypeError: document.getElementsByClassName(…)[0] is undefined[Learn More] dealers:647:12
As far as Google ID , private key etc in old versions, that had nothing to do with API keys. That was for Google Business licenses, and there is no need for you to have one of those. Because you have such an old version of SLP, that version was released in 2015 , it dated back before June of 2016. ,June 22 2016 was the magical date that Google determined any new sites would need to have a Maps Javascript key, . Therefore the back end of that version of SLP may not have had a field called Browser server key. I cannot support that version nor go back in time to see what it looks like since I do not want to load that old a version, it might not be compatible with my configurations and could have security issues…Before 2016, Google did not require API keys for a site to load the map. There probably was a place to add a Google Business Lic. id, SLP had an OEM license and Google was pushing people to buy a $25K a year license or to buy those business lic plans , now they have decided to just push the billing to every single site that loads Google MAPS and requires them to have a key with a billing account. They may not have caught up with everyone yet, I noticed your site just shows a warning now.
2) Premier subscription gives you additional features and functionality that is not available directly with individual add-ons. It also puts you in line for answers before others. It does not provide Consulting or WP development, we will of course provide you the resource documents and advice but Premier is really meant for developers with advanced technical knowledge of WP and CSS.
Currently our developer is fully committed on a few projects and he is not taking on any custom work. We can refer you to obtain a Cybersprocket retainer . There is a link for consulting on our home page that will take you to the Cybersprocket page.
Hi Nick,
I have reported this as a bug to the developer. He will need to fix it and Update a new version of EXP and maybe Premier. ETA to have this fixed might be next week because of backlog with the holiday etc.
In the future if you could provide us with the versions you are using, i.e. your Plugin environment that will help us determine if it is a recent update.
Thanks for reporting this.
Patched in Power 4.9.20, SLP is on 4.9.19.
You may post in the Premier forums, I double checked your status and it is enabled for you.