Google Caching Option?

  • Hi – I’m re-doing a store locator site with 467 locations and evaluating WP Store Locator. When we launched our site (flooring-professionals.com) – we immediately hit the max number of inquiries for Google Maps and had to find a workaround to prevent each search from generating another hit on Google. We ended up caching the store locations and that worked great… the only time we need to renew the cache is when we get a new dealer… so perhaps once or twice a month.

    Does your plugin offer any caching mechanism?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-store-locator/

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  • Plugin Author Tijmen Smit

    (@tijmensmit)

    I don’t know how the other store locator works ( can you share the name of the current plugin? ), but with mine a single request is made to the JavaScript API to get the coordinates for the provided address for each search. The limit for this is pretty high:

    Free until exceeding 25,000 map loads per 24 hours for 90 consecutive days

    The returned coordinates are not cached. What is cached are the returned results if you enable the autoload option, but this requires zero request to the Geocode API.

    If you do somehow reach the limit, then have to enable billing.

    After exceeding the free usage limits, billing at $0.50 USD / 1000 additional requests, up to 1,000,000 per 24 hours.

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