WPSSO Place and Local SEO Markup (Premium)

Let Facebook, Pinterest and Google know about your places and locations:

Add Facebook / Open Graph location, Pinterest Rich Pin place and Google Local Business / Local SEO markup.

Provides place and location information for WPSSO Core and its add-ons:

The WPSSO Core plugin can use place information for Facebook / Open Graph location, Pinterest Rich Pin place and Local SEO meta tags.

The WPSSO Organization add-on can assign places to organizations (ie. content publisher, event organizer, etc.).

The WPSSO Schema JSON-LD Markup add-on can use place information for the Schema Event location, Schema Job Posting location, and the Schema Place type (and its sub-types) for post / page content about specific places and locations.

WPSSO PLM Standard Features

• Extends the features of the WPSSO Core plugin.

• Provides place / location information to WPSSO Core, the WPSSO ORG add-on, and the WPSSO JSON add-on.

• Manage one or more places:

  • Place Schema Type
  • Place Name
  • Place Alternate Name
  • Place Description
  • Street Address
  • P.O. Box Number
  • City
  • State / Province
  • Zip / Postal Code
  • Country
  • Telephone
  • Place Latitude
  • Place Longitude
  • Place Altitude
  • Google Place ID
  • Place Image ID
  • or Place Image URL
  • Place Timezone
  • Open Days / Hours
  • Closes Mid-Day
  • Seasonal Dates
  • Local Business:
    • Service Radius
    • Currencies Accepted
    • Payment Accepted
    • Price Range
  • Food Establishment:
    • Accepts Reservations
    • Serves Cuisine
    • Food Menu URL
    • Order Action URL(s)

WPSSO PLM Premium Features

The Standard version is designed to satisfy the requirements of most standard WordPress sites / blogs. If your site includes posts / pages about specific places, then you may want the Premium version to select specific places for your post / page content. You may also want to activate the WPSSO Schema JSON-LD Markup add-on to express place information as Schema Place markup in JSON-LD format.

• Includes a Schema Place tab in the Document SSO metabox to select an existing place, or customize place information, for post / page content about specific places and locations.

WPSSO Core Plugin Required

WPSSO Place and Local SEO Markup (aka WPSSO PLM) is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin.

WPSSO Core and its add-ons make sure your content looks best on social sites and in search results, no matter how webpages are shared, re-shared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

Install and Uninstall

• Install the WPSSO Place and Local SEO Markup add-on.
• Uninstall the WPSSO Place and Local SEO Markup add-on.

1. 

   The WPSSO PLM settings page includes options to manage location addresses, geo location, business hours, service radius, price and currency information, restaurant menu URL, and more.

2. 

   When editing a post/page, the Schema Place tab provides additional options to manage location addresses, geo location, business hours, service radius, price and currency information, and more (Premium add-on).

Version Numbering

Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]

• {major} = Major structural code changes / re-writes or incompatible API changes.
• {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
• {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
• {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).

Standard Version Repositories

• GitHub
• WordPress.org

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 5.2.1 (2020/12/22)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed the 'WpssoPlmFiltersUpgrade->filter_upgraded_md_options' filter that incorrectly cleared post, term, and user metadata options on upgrade.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v4.5.
  • WPSSO Core v8.18.0.

Version 5.2.0 (2020/12/04)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Included the $addon argument for library class constructors.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v4.5.
  • WPSSO Core v8.16.0.

Version 5.1.1 (2020/11/23)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Refactored the WpssoPlmPlace::get_id() method to include the place ID.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v5.6.
  • WordPress v4.4.
  • WPSSO Core v8.13.0.

Version 5.0.0 (2020/10/26)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • Added a new "Place Timezone" option.
  • Added 'None' as a possible selection for the "Open Days / Hours" value.
  • Removed the checkbox option for the "Open Days / Hours" weekdays.
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed saving of the "Place Name" option value for non-default locale.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v5.6.
  • WordPress v4.4.
  • WPSSO Core v8.9.0.