Shortcode - Text list of locations

[wpscholar]

Add ability to display a text list of locations, including address details, via shortcode.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/location-listing-view?replies=18

[jcmrs]

With both Google and Bing focusing increasingly on validating embedded structured data versus visible "on page" data, it's becoming a lot more important to make good and proper use of such things. A well structured location page with citations and relations both linked (meta) and visible (on page) is a brilliant and important thing, but very often parts of that page are used elsewhere on a site.

For example, the map, or the address of a location, etc. Keeping all of it everywhere (for example, in a footer) easily becomes sanctionable repeatable content. Hence the idea of being able to reuse what already is created in a well structured manner by Stellar Places in a manner which is selective and as inclusive as deemed useful.

On top of that, not every location a business operates equates to or qualifies as a Google / Bing / Yandex business page. Even with Google recently decoupling My Business from G+, a business location is not the same as a business office. Representing them as the same can however result in drama with search providers, for example having to revalidate My Business locations or being unable to validate brand pages.

Either way, expanding on Stellar Places shortcodes to make flexible use of what Stellar Places already does & contains struck me as an interesting idea. For example a list of locations, with a variable for including this or that field.