Super Store Finder for WordPress
Easy to use Google Maps API Store Finder

By: Joe Iz
Demo Link: https://superstorefinder.net/superstorefinderwp
Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kuSpLTe2XI
Support: https://superstorefinder.net/support

Super Store Finder for WordPress is a fully-featured WordPress Plugin integrated with Google Maps API v3 that allows customers to locate your stores easily.

Firstly, extract (Unzip) the plugin download package. Within the download package
you’ll find the following file structure and contents:

superstorefinder-wp.zip

1. Go to Plugins > Add New

2. Under Upload, click Browse, locate superstorefinder-wp.zip in your plugin
download package and click Open.

3. Find the WordPress Plugin you wish to install.

4. Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.

5. A popup window will ask you to confirm your wish to install the Plugin.

6. If this is the first time you’ve installed a WordPress Plugin, you may need
to enter the FTP login credential information. If you’ve installed a Plugin
before, it will still have the login information. This information is available
through your web server host.

7. Click Proceed to continue with the installation. The resulting installation
screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during
the install.

8. If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it.

1. Using a FTP program, upload the plugin folder superstorefinder-wp located in
your plugin download package folder.

2. Go to Plugins screen find the newly uploaded Super Store Finder WordPress plugin
in the list.

3. Click Activate Plugin to activate it.

You can use and paste the shortcode on any WordPress Page or Post.

To add at WordPress pages, use the steps below

1. First, click on Pages > Add New

2. Paste the shortcode and click Publish

3. Click on View Page to view your store locator

To add at WordPress posts, use the steps below

1. First, click on Posts > Add New

2. Paste the shortcode and click Publish

3. Click on View Page to view your store locator

You can refer to the knowledge base articles links here on how to publish the shortcode in WP Bakery, Visual Composer and Elementor Page Builders. Other Page Builders should use the same method of publishing.

1. You can edit any WordPress template and paste the following code to display Super Store Finder on that particular section of your WordPress template

This is the landing page, refer to the following diagram which shows the navigation links and annotations.

1. To import Stores, you can first click on Download Sample CSV and you can input your own list of addresses.

2. Click Import and Geo Code to proceed to import

3. Click on Export Stores to export the stores to a CSV file.

1. Firstly, click on Add a Store

2. Enter Store Details such as Name, Categories/Tags, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, etc

3. Click on Save this Store

Notice: You can drag and drop the marker or enter lat and long manually

4. You can also upload beautiful images for your store locator with zoom feature included

5. You can embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, etc by copypasting the embed code from respective video provider

* If you’re upgrading from below patch 1.7, use these steps here.

* You will need to  paste the embed code, example as below

1. Firstly, click on Stores

2. Click on the Edit Icon for a particular store

3. Edit the Store Details

4. Click on Save

1. Firstly, click on Stores

2. To delete single store, click on the Delete Icon

3. To delete multiple stores, select stores from the checkboxes and click on the Delete button

4. Click OK to confirm deletion

1. To add tag, firstly, click on Stores

2. Select multiple stores using checkboxes

3. Enter tags separated by commas

4. Click on the Add Tag button

5. To remove tags, simply select multiple stores and click on Remove Tag button

Map Settings

1. Click on Settings

2. Choose Default Map Settings and click Save Settings

a. Geo Location – Will detect your visitor location and display nearby stores

b. Show All Stores – Upon loading the map, it will show all stores available

c. Show Specific Location – You will need to enter the Default Location and it will load the location upon loading the map

Map Layouts

You can choose the layout of your store locator from Standard, Left and Right which can be selected via admin settings page.

Standard Layout

Left Layout

Right Layout

1. Create a custom Google Maps Style code or you can visit http://snazzymaps.com to get huge libraries of custom map styles

2. At the admin, go to Super Store Finder > Settings and paste it under Map Custom Code field

3. Save settings and refresh the page.

4. You’re done!

1. You can upload custom marker and custom marker active icons

2. Be sure to set the show or hide labels settings to show and hide the labels on the markers (A, B, C, etc) by setting the Labeled Marker setting

Free Map Markers available for download here.

3. If you set Labeled Marker to Yes, to change the letter/numeric color on the map, you can use the setting below.

* You can also change the letter to numeric only by referring to this knowledge base article here.

1. Click on Settings

2. Select Styles and Colors

3. Click on Save Settings

* Click Image for Larger View

1. Click on Settings

2. Customize the Labels and Captions

3. Click on Save Settings

1. You can manage regions by clicking on the Regions link

1. If you’ve set map settings at admin as Geo Location

2. When your customers visit the store locator, user will be prompted to allow access by Google

1. Key in the search location and press Enter on your keyboard

1. Click on Show All link to view all stores

2. From the admin webmasters can set to show all stores upon map loads (Refer to 6.1 Configuring Map Settings)

1. Click on Get Directions to view the route from one location to another and check the distance from origin to destination

1. Click on the category/tag

2. Click on the Select button

3. From the admin, go to Stores, from here you can set the categories (Refer to 5.1, tagging and categorizing stores)

1. Click on the Street View to get up close and personal to the store location that they’re planning to visit

1. Users can navigate to available Regions set by administrator. It’s like a shortcut to Point of Interest (POI)

2. To manage regions, refer to 7.1 Customizing Regions

1. Available information set at admin will be shown in the info window such as Address, Email, Website, Telephone, etc

2. You can set these information from 4.1 Adding Stores or 4.2 Editing Stores

3. You can add external link or enable contact form for individual stores

Notice: Please take note that the WordPress version of the store locator add-on item labels are in orange

as below:

1. You are able to extend your store locator features by using add-ons.

2. For instance, you can have marker clusterer and multi category features enabled for your store locator

3. In order to use the add-ons, go to Super Store Finder > Add-ons

5. Browse and choose your add-on file, then click on Upload

6. Your add-on will be turned on by default, you can have the option to turn it off.

7. For distance radius addon, you can customized the settings as per screenshot below:

8. For social store locator – reviews & ratings add-on, you can manage user ratings and change settings (public ratings or WP members / users rating which requires sign in / sign up)

9. If you do not wish to use the add-on, you can delete it by click on the Delete icon.

1. At WordPress Admin, go to Plugins page

2. Browse and choose the add-on zip file ssf-google-reviews.zip and Upload Plugin

3. Activate Super Store Finder Google Reviews Addon plugin

4. Go to SSF Google Reviews Welcome Page to get started

5. Create Google API key with Places API which is solely used for this plugin. (Refer instructions here)
(Important Notice: You cannot reuse Super Store Finder Google API key as it has different settings)

6. Paste your API key at SSF Google Reviews > Settings page.

* You can also set Miscellaneous settings such as the option to show or hide User Total Ratings, Website links, Google Logo, etc at the same settings page.

7. You’re done! (Refresh the store locator page and you should see that Google Ratings will be displayed)

8. To disable the Google Ratings, simply disable the SSF Google Reviews Plugin from WP admin > Plugins page.

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