Agile Store Locator makes it possible for users to load a parameter using a query string. Thereby, directing their customers to the store locator with a specific parameter preselected. For example, there could be a link that takes your customer to the store locator with the address “ California” pre-selected.
While it may seem like a small detail. Eventually, customers will appreciate how much time and effort they are saved (no matter how small) by directly loading the store locator with a certain parameter.
How Does it Work? #
A query string (added) at the end of the store locator URL takes the customer to the store.
Furthermore, the Parameters to pre-select include:
- Category – “category”
- Brand – “brand”
- Address -”addr”
The query string added at the end of the URL is: “?sl-category=x”
Where “x” represents the parameter ID ( the parameter ID can be alphabetic or numeric; depending on the parameter selected). In addition, the term “category” can be replaced with “brand” or “addr”.
For example, if a user wants to direct a customer to the store locator with “California” pre-selected as the address then the following query string is added at the end of the URL:
https://your-site.com/store-locator/?sl-addr=californiaSimilarly, for the categories, it will be like this, where 4 is the category to be selected on the load, multiple categories can also be passed comma separated.
https://your-site.com/store-locator/?sl-category=4For the brand, you need to provide the brand ID as the query parameter to pre-select it.
https://your-site.com/store-locator/?sl-brand=5For the specialty, you have to provide the specialty id as the query parameter to pre-select it.
https://your-site.com/store-locator/?sl-special=5An example of sl-addr, the overall URL will look like this:
http://demosite.com/index.php/store-locator/?sl-addr=california
If you are looking to filter through address-related fields such as city, state, postal_code, you can refer to the document about filtering data through the shortcode attributes.