Addons Platform

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About

Inspiration

Inspired by several of the most requested features and most often performed customizations of the last several years, the LotOfLocales™ Addons Platform is a full-featured system that you can install to significantly boost the capabilities of the WordPress Store Locator plugin, starting in Version 2.0.

Benefits

As popularity of the WordPress Store Locator plugin's 1.xx versions grew since launch in 2008, it became clear that a more efficient system needed to be created to better serve customers' ever-changing and specific needs when hoping to improve their store locator maps on their websites or those of their clients.

An added benefit of the Addons Platform is also price. Many of these addons are derived directly from customization that cost thousands of dollars, yet you now have access to all of them, for a fraction of the price. You benefit on price, and we benefit on the ability to scale the number of users we can satisfy with new and unique feature requests -- a win / win situation on for everyone.

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Features

LotsOfLocales™ Addons Platform provides you with a growing number of free Generation 2 (G2; comes with the Addons Platform) addons & themes to save you time, provide you highly-advanced features, and impress your clients. Below is a list of some of the addons available, starting in Store Locator Version 2:

The above addons are only a few of the LotsOfLocales™ G2 addons available -- installable by 1-click via the Addons Marketplace in your WP admin dashboard. These addons also communicate with each other to make full benefit of the Addons Platform's API.

All addons available previous to Store Locator 2.0 are now called "G1" (Generation 1) addons, and can still be used, with or without the Addons Platform installed (if you purchased an addon prior to 2.0, re-download it via the emailed link of your purchase and install a slighty updated version that allows it to work with 2.0).

In addition to the 8 addons listed above, there are currently 8 additional bonus addons -- only visible to those with the Addons Platform installed: Currently, 3 are active, 1 is yet-to-be-released, and 4 more addons are in development.

Installation

  • Place `/addons-platform/` folder in your `/wp-content/uploads/sl-uploads/addons/` folder. Then, go to your pull-out dashboard where you can validate it using the activation key you receive after purchase.
  • After installation and validation, you can then go to Addons > Marketplace in order to install addons to enhance your store locator's abilities. Manage the settings under Addons > Settings.
  • In order to activate any newly installed addons, use the same activation key used to activate the Addons Platform to activate individual addons on the Addons Settings page
  • Note: in order for the activation of individual addons to work using the Addons Platform's activation key, the addons need to have been installed via the Addons Marketplace at least once for that particular activation key. This is as opposed to simply copying and pasting from a past installation that used a different activation key (via FTP for example).

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