I’ve been trying to get back into the “coding rhythm” after a lot of distractions recently. Helping out at my son’s school swim lessons. Counseling friends and family on business matters, family matters. Business trips and other things that are very non-techie. I’ve managed to get a few things done over the [...]
20
May
A Plugin To Help Find Plugins
WordPress approved my latest plugin project this morning and the first iteration has just hit the WordPress Plugin Directory. I finally broke down and spent a day writing a plugin to help WordPress site admins and developers find quality WordPress plugins. There are plenty of good plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory. There are [...]
20
May
Daily Update: Store Locator Plus 3.11.1 / Pro Pack 3.11.1
Just got back from a weekend business trip to Atlanta and wrapped up the patches for Store Locator Plus 3.11.1. You can always find the change log at the Release Notes page, here is the summary of what was released today: Store Locator Plus 3.11.1 Fix: address without geocodes are highlighted again. The highlight bar [...]
14
May
Enhanced Map v0.8 Released
A minor patch for Enhanced Map, which in retrospect should have been labelled a patch release “3.7.11″… too late now… is out. It fixes the map settings “center map at” feature, which broke when 0.7 when the center_map_at=”<blah>” shortcode attribute was added.
13
May
Manipulating the Store Locator Plus Search Form
A request that often shows up in the forums is “how do I put the find locations button next to the search form”. This example explains how I used Store Locator Plus to tailor the map interface to our needs. The map site is built on the WordPress 3.5 Twenty Twelve Theme with [...]
12
May
What’s New : Mid-May Store Locator Plus Releases
Here is what is new for the mid-may updates of Store Locator Plus and the add-on packs. Store Locator Plus Version 3.11 Edit Latitude and Longitude Previously a Pro Pack feature, editing the latitude and longitude of an existing location is now part of the base plugin. Manage Location Interface Tweaks The rows on the [...]
09
May
Daily Update : SLP 3.11 Is In Testing
There is a lot of stuff coming for the next Store Locator Plus release including an update to Enhanced Map, Pro Pack, and Tagalong add-on packages. There have been a number of bug fixes as well as some notable internal updates that have bumped the next Store Locator Plus version from the “patch release” version [...]
07
May
Tracking Down WordPress Plugin Problems
With WordPress it is very easy to debug the activation process of a plugin and get a detailed log file of exactly what is going on. I use this method to look at activation problems with Store Locator Plus on various servers. Most often I uncover server security settings that are too strict, [...]
07
May
Daily Update, Trello, BrowserStack
The past few days I’ve been mostly working on client projects related to the plugins, helping people with their websites and server issues, and dealing with my own server issues. Along the way I’ve learned some new tricks. Tagalong 0.9 Tagalong version 0.9 is in development. I am working through some reported bugs and [...]
05
May
Daily Update & Notes : Enhanced Map / W3 Total Cache
I’ve been working mostly on support issues and paid customization work the past few days, in addition to trying to do some system admin on my own servers. You can read about those trials & tribulations on my other blog posts. This post is about product progress and some operational notes related to Store Locator [...]
04
May
WordPress Site Performance
The Charleston Software Associates web server came crashing down again this afternoon. About once-per-month the server has been going into an unresponsive state. Today I finally had enough logging turned on to track down the issue. The problem? The Apache web server was running out of memory. The server was not under [...]
03
May
Daily Update : Store Locator Plus 3.10.3
Store Locator Plus 3.10.3 A new patch was issued for Store Locator Plus that fixes the editing of the Fax number field. The 3.10.X releases up to this point were erroneously pulling in and displaying the phone number data in the fax field on the edit page. This has been addressed, restoring the edit feature [...]
02
May
Daily Update: Store Locator Plus 3.10.2
Store Locator Plus 3.10.2 Released A minor patch to Store Locator Plus, version 3.10.2, was published this morning. The patch fixes map markers that go missing if the immediately show locations radius has not been set. If your site is missing map markers after an upgrade you may want to try this patch. Future Work [...]
01
May
Daily Update: Store Locator Plus 3.10.1 / Pro Pack Download
Store Locator Plus 3.10.1 Store Locator Plus 3.10.1 was released last night as a minor patch to the 3.10 release put out on Monday. This patch fixes the missing website link in the location search results. This fixes both below-the-map results as well as the in-bubble web link. Pro Pack 3.10 Download Somehow the [...]
29
Apr
Store Locator Plus / Pro Pack 3.10
Store Locator Plus and Pro Pack version 3.10 passed testing moments ago. The new versions will be published shortly. The release notes will be published shortly with details on the changes to 3.10. The big change is that Pro Pack is no longer a license-key-enabled product. Pro Pack now requires a separate [...]
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