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Locations

A plugin for managing locations on your website. This is a general plugin and can be used for whatever locations you need managed, from restaurants to venues to parks to dealerships to, well, you get the idea. Each location is managed as its own post with freeform content, and can be assigned “Regions”. There is also a freeform taxonomy available called “Type”, which can be anything from style of food, hours, inventory – however you need to organize your locations.

An extended version of the plugin is available that makes use of the Google Maps API, and features an interactive map block.

Parent Settings

Our Locations Plugin grants you access to both our Locations Block as well as our Single Location Block so you can choose between displaying many or just one location. 

Regardless of which block you choose to use for your site, both only have parent settings making it easier to create a more unified and consistent look to your location blocks. Let’s go over the settings. Remember to access these settings, you must have the parent block selected, which should be easy enough just by clicking on the block as you don’t have child blocks to worry about.

Block Width

Blocks can be set to one of three widths in the editor: Default, Wide, or Full. Blocks will interact with adjacent blocks differently depending on their width.

Adjusting Block Width

The block width setting is found in your block context bar, which will show up above the current block that you have selected. A block that supports the block widths will show its current width icon in the context bar, and clicking it will allow you to change the width.

If you have the Top Toolbar setting selected, the block context bar will always show at the top of your page, not at the top of your block.

Default Width

The default width of your content is determined by the value set in your Customizer. You can find this setting under Styles » Widths » Content Width. This is the default width of most text-based content and most blog pages. We recommend keeping this set so that your content retains maximum readability, which most studies agree is around 50-60 characters per line.

Wide Width

Wide width content will take up 75% of the available width on the page or the default content width set on your site—whichever is larger. In effect, this makes content take up more of the available screen real estate. When used in conjunction with other wide width blocks, you can shape your webpages in many different ways.

Full Width

Full width content will always take up 100% of the available width on the page. When placed next to default or wide width content, margin will be applied to the full width block to give it some room to breath. When two full width blocks are placed next to each other, however, they will suction together and form a cohesive unit with no margin in between them.

Locations Block

Layout

Select between Grid, Cards, or Features for the layout of your locations.

Grid

Cards

Features

Text Style

The Text Style (sometimes called Headline Style) option controls the display of your text.

The Text Style (or Headline Style) will default to a different value depending on the block, but can be changed to any of the other available options. These styles are defined in your Customizer under Styles. For more information on changing your styles visit Customizing Styles.

One important thing to note is that this only changes how the headlines appear visually. The underlying html will be determined by the block that uses this features.

Button Style

Button Style applies to the look of the link of your link. Either Button or Understated. Select Hidden if you don’t want one.

Button

Understated

What to Display

Here is where you select the locations you want displayed on the frontend of your site. You can select between All Locations, By Region, By Type, or Handpicked. By Region and By Type are if you have preset categories that you have labeled your locations with (i.e you have one for the Madison Area and Northern Wisconsin or restaurants and parks). The latter three of your display options have an extra field to make your selection, just search and/or check mark the locations you wish to include.

Filtering

Filtering defaults to the Disabled option. If you have categories set that you want your users to be able to sort you can either select between By Region or By Type. The categories you select will show above your Locations Block on the frontend of your site.

Single Location Block

The Single Location Block has fewer settings than the Locations Block as can be seen to the image on the right.

Within Display Options, select what fields you want displayed for your block: Swap Order, Name, Link, Description, Address, Type, and Region

In the Location drop down, select what location you would like for your block.

For the Feature setting, select between Map or Image to show up for your Single Location Block.


Additionally you are able to select Button or Understated for your Link Style if you toggle on Link in the Display Options.

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