Introducing the Cardinal Store Locator plugin for WordPress
After two years of on and off work it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Cardinal Store Locator plugin for WordPress. This plugin is built on top of my jQuery Store Locator plugin with the WordPress Settings API and offers all of the same settings via the WordPress dashboard in addition to integrating with core WordPress features such as custom post types for location data and custom taxonomies for location categories and filtering. The plugin can also still read location data via local or remote KML, XML, or JSON. It’s highly customizable, was programmed following the WordPress Coding Standards, is responsive by default, can read Snazzy Maps styling, makes use of Handlebars for simple info window and location list overrides in addition to several other features.
Cardinal Store Locator is a premium plugin but the underlying jQuery Store Locator will continue to be freely available on GitHub. The plugin is aimed at developers but it’s my hope that it will scale well. If you plan on using the built-in custom post type for your location data the plugin will work out of the box without changing any settings. Please let me know if I can answer any questions you may have about the plugin or have any feedback on it.
I have a members custom post type that has thousands of members. Each post already has the longitude and latitude of each member (using the Toolset – Wp-Types plugin). Each member belongs to one of several different “networks – a taxonomy.” I would need to use your locator plugin to first filter by network so that the stores are only showing a specific network and then perform the searches and listings that it can do. This isn’t something that I want the user to have to select – they won’t know about networks other than the one they’re looking at. Is this possible with this plugin?