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How to Link an Appointment Booking Calendar in Elementor

Adding an appointment booking calendar in Elementor is a question of a WordPress reservation plugin you use. There is no such thing as an Elementor booking plugin as it is, but there are appointment booking plugins that integrate with Elementor. Of course, for the sake of easier googling, it’s easier to call such a thing an Elementor appointment plugin.

In this Elementor appointment booking tutorial, we’ll tell you how to link an appointment booking calendar using the dedicated WP scheduler plugin by MotoPress.

This plugin is a go-to solution for any appointment and service-focused businesses. It helps you operate your services, employees and their schedules, and add a real-time service & time booking widget to your WordPress site. It’s also capable of accepting payments on the site online via different payment gateways.

Free Version

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MotoPress Plugins Are Not Available on WordPress.org (updated)

Nov 9, 2021
Getwid, Stratum and Restaurant menu plugins by MotoPress are also back! You can download them on wp.org. So far we can safely say that almost all of our most popular free plugins are restored, the Hotel Booking Lite plugin is on the way. This news lifts our spirits and we hope you can rejoice with us. We’re eternally grateful for your support.

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Why You Should Use a Top Premium WordPress Theme

“Everything about WordPress should be free” – a common misconception among the new users of WordPress.

The fact that WordPress is open-source and therefore free software has nothing to do with premium WordPress themes & templates from third-party developers. In this case, you are paying for the work done by professional developers, designers, copywriters, and support specialists.

“But what about free WordPress themes?” – you may ask. In this post, I am opening up what stands behind the WordPress free vs paid templates difference. You will learn when it’s more reasonable to choose a premium solution over a freebie or vice versa.

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15 Top-notch WordPress Menu Plugins

When people google something, they receive a list of websites to visit. But where do they stop? Nine times out of ten, the website attracts their attention with clear and good-looking navigation areas. The most useful tool, in this case, is a menu that can be made with WordPress menu plugins. It performs functional and aesthetic purposes at one stroke.

Even if you are a WordPress website owner, the default menu isn’t likely to help you reach the desired effect. That’s why you must look for the best menu plugin with the necessary features and learn how to make a menu.
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How to Create the Best Spa Website on WordPress

It’s important to stick to a niche-specific theme if you plan on opening a spa & salon website on WordPress.

Such a spa template won’t just deliver the right set of tools, it’ll also save you a lot of time on the customization routine – since it as a rule comes with loads of pre-designed blocks you might ever need.

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Build a Hotel Booking Website in WordPress: Essential Plugins

We’ve been helping thousands of hotel and vacation rental businesses build their sites on WordPress for 4+ years already.

The MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress enables website owners & developers to:

  • create a professional directory of accommodations;
  • display real-time availability calendars
  • offer guests direct bookings via a handy property finder form.

On this blog, for those who are already our clients, we share numerous tips, insights, and solutions related to the hotel site SEO, availability data synchronization to external platforms like Booking.com, and many more things on how to create hotel booking website.

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Best WordPress LMS Themes Compared

When searching for the best LMS WordPress themes, you might not even suspect that you in the first place choose among plugins.

It’s a common practice to distribute an LMS WP theme with a plugin, the former won’t be so attractive to prospects (you) otherwise.

There is a handful of learning management system LMS plugins for WordPress dedicated to creating an online learning website, some are better optimized for the realities of the online tutoring business, others are not that gam-packed with features.

A plugin is what makes you add a course material, organize lessons, add tutors, configure user registration, tailor gamification features, assign homework, and set up monetization options, while a theme is what makes it all look eye-pleasing and professional.

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Ignore Booking Rules for Manually Added Reservations since Hotel Booking 3.9.9

Since the WordPress plugin for hotel booking version 3.9.9, you get more control over the booking cancelation process and more flexibility of adding bookings to the dashboard manually as a website administrator.

These are actually very easy settings that employ a few button clicks. Let’s quickly walk you through the new configuration options.

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Clients Can Book Multiple Services since Appointment Booking Plugin 1.4.0

The most significant WordPress Appointment Booking plugin improvement that was rolled out with version 1.4.0 is the multiservice booking feature.

Compared to other scheduler plugins for WordPress you might have encountered, this feature is rather unique – it’s aimed at speeding up and simplifying the booking procedure of several services during one go for your clients.

We believe it will significantly improve the user experience of clients who need to book several services, the same or different, for different time slots.

For example, this will definitely benefit spa and wellness salons, hairdressing service providers and the like – when clients quite often need to order more than one treatment or service within one transaction.

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Customer Stories: “We Are Now in Our Third Year of Using MotoPress Hotel Booking”

Andy Ward, Spain, helps his friend to manage a portfolio of properties on the Costa del Sol via the Bright Property Management website.

Being at the intersection of technology and business, Andy shares a very interesting perspective on vacation rental websites and how they help manage real businesses.

They operate multiple amazing vacation rentals, such as villas, townhouses, penthouses, apartments and others using the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress bridged to AirBNB, HomeAway and other OTAs.

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