Add, edit and place stores

Your stores are saved in the block itself, so you add and change them right in the block editor.

Add a store

1. Select the Store Locator block. The Stores panel in the sidebar lists your stores.
2. Press Add store.
3. Fill in the fields you need: Name, Address, Town or city, Postcode, Country, Phone, Email, Website and Opening hours.
4. Under Place on the map, press Find on map.
5. Press All stores to go back to the list.

Opening hours is shown as you write it, one line per row, for example Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00 on one line and Sat 10:00–16:00 on the next.

Put a store in the right place

• Find on map looks up the address on OpenStreetMap. If the street is not found, it tries again without the postcode, then the town alone, and tells you so: the pin is then in the middle of the town, so drag it into place.
• Drag the orange pin on the map to move the store being edited.
• A store with no place yet: click the map where the store is.
• Or type the coordinates in Latitude and Longitude (for example 51.4545 and -2.5879).

Only the store you are editing has an orange pin you can drag. Click any other marker on the map in the editor to open that store.

Add a picture

Under Image, press Choose image and pick a photo from the Media Library. It shows as a small square next to the store in the list. Remove image takes it away.

Order and delete

• The page lists the stores in the order of the Stores panel. Use the Move up and Move down arrows to change it. When a visitor searches, the stores are sorted by distance instead.
• With more than 8 stores, a Search the stores field helps you find one in the panel.
• To remove a store, open it and press Delete store.

What visitors see

Each store shows its name, address, opening hours, and its phone, email and website as links. A press on a phone number starts a call on phones. A click on a store in the list opens it on the map, and a click on a marker shows the store in the list.

Good to know

• A store needs at least a name, an address or a town to show. It is on the map only when it has both a latitude and a longitude.
• In the Stores panel, a store without a place is marked Not on the map.
• An email or website that is not a valid address is not shown on the page; the form says Not shown on the page: this is not a valid address.
• One block holds up to 500 stores. For more, add a second Store Locator block, for example one per country.

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