Geolocation Blocked by a Permissions-Policy Header

If auto-locate never finds the visitor and the “Use my current location” button says permission was denied, your site probably sends a Permissions-Policy header with geolocation=(). Change it to geolocation=(self) wherever the header is set. WP Store Locator can’t override this header, but from version 3.1 it shows an alert on the Home page when…

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Customize Contact Details

The phone, fax and email in the search results and marker pop-ups are added as one block. This page shows the default block, and how to change the order, remove a line or add your own fields. The easier way: if the change is the same on every page, use the Section Editor. Load the…

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GDPR

Holds the map back until the visitor has consented to it. Why this matters Loading a map sends the visitor’s IP address to a third party — Google, Mapbox, Stadia or OpenStreetMap — before they’ve agreed to anything. GDPR treats that as personal data needing consent, so an EU-facing site usually has to ask first….

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Search

Everything about how a visitor finds a location: what the search box does, which filters sit next to it, and how the results are ordered and limited. Search method Geocode API (default) — the visitor types a place, the geocoding service turns it into coordinates, and locations are returned by distance from that point. Name…

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Map

How the map itself behaves: where it opens, how far it zooms, which controls it shows. Start location The city or country used as the map’s centre before anyone searches. Required. If auto-locating the visitor is switched off or fails, the centre of this place is used instead. If the field is left empty the…

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