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Building a Hotel Booking WordPress Website in Gutenberg

Palmeria is a free WordPress Booking theme designed for small hotels, vacation rentals, cabins, chalets, spa resorts, and similar businesses involved in the lodging industry. And you know what, it’s not just another pretty enough free theme for the hotel booking WordPress website.

Palmeria has been crafted by MotoPress – the team with a two-year experience of learning the needs of homeowners and hoteliers, honing the hotel booking functionality and creating diverse WordPress solutions for long and short-term rentals.

To be more precise, Palmeria is a great addition to the MotoPress’ collection of rental property themes for any need and taste. Hence, its design and functionality deploy much more scalability and flexibility than any other average hotel booking theme. Time to back up my claim!

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How to Create a WordPress Multisite Network

If you need to create a network of separate sites within a single WordPress installation, you can’t get along without Multisite.

Here at MotoPress, we regularly use Multisite – primarily for building demos and dashboard trials for our themes and plugins. Since all MotoPress demos are created with the WordPress Demo Builder plugin (a much faster way than building them in house from scratch), the Multisite network is compulsory.

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18+ WordPress Scheduling Plugins For Timetables & Appointments

Online presence is one of the key factors of business success in today’s digital era. Moreover, the majority of customers often check the online reputation of the business before making an actual purchase or visiting the company’s office. Enabling your website users not only to gain general info on your company but to also obtain a detailed list of your services or timetable of the events you hold online would be a solid argument in your favor, consequently, you definitely need a good WordPress scheduling plugin.

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WordPress 5.0 Finally Released: Meet Gutenberg!

It’s official now: the much-anticipated WordPress 5.0 with a new Gutenberg block editor in core has just been released!

Gutenberg’s uncommon block-based approach to content management definitely opens a new era in WordPress and sparks the interest of developers and users.

Let’s figure out what does the new default WordPress block editor brings us and what’s so special about it.

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AMP for WordPress Plugin Review: Dominant Technology for Mobile-first Web

Using a pontifical tone of narrators at the school conferences, I should proclaim: your visibility in Google’s mobile search results, click-trough rates, user engagement and conversions hugely depend on AMP. If you are new to the term, it’s an acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages project – a Google’s initiative for mobile-first web.

In plain words, AMP Project represents technology, which offers the highest website loading performance on mobile devices. Its main aim is to simplify the life of publishers, consumers, users, advertisers, creators, entrepreneurs and other web citizens by serving simplified content versions across mobile devices for the sake of speed and usability.

As a bonus, Google may reward AMP-enabled websites with higher rankings thanks to faster load times, longer sessions, more page views, better UX, to name a few. Billions of AMP pages exist today.

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How to Check Your WordPress Hotel Website with Security Ninja Plugin

The perfect UX, speed, and security are three pillars of a healthy WordPress website. In this post, we’ll be talking about one of them, – security.

I believe I won’t exaggerate by saying that you should be totally obsessed with website security. In particular, if you accept online hotel booking payments, looking for ways to improve the guest experience, and trivially, want to sleep easily at night, you should start taking care of the website security.

But if you don’t know where to start, start with a diagnostic test.

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MotoPress Hotel Booking & Divi Theme Integration: Download Free Add-on

If you belong to the ‘Divi Nation’ and plan to implement the WordPress hotel booking system by MotoPress, we’ve got awesome news for you!

MotoPress devs found the way to simplify the Divi theme customization process with regard to content generated by the Hotel Booking plugin. All you need to do to make your Divi & MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin workflow more easy-going is to download this lightweight free add-on from the official WordPress repository:

Download For Free: Hotel Booking & Divi Theme Plugin Integration

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WordPress Twenty Nineteen Demo: Testing Beta Version

As you already know, WordPress 5.0 is due for release on November, 19th, 2018. The new block-based Gutenberg editor and the Twenty Nineteen WordPress default theme, which is fully based on Gutenberg, are just around the corner – they are planned to be included in the major release.

However, as Allan Cole stated recently, Twenty Nineteen remains a work in progress and it might not be ready to be rolled out along with WordPress 5.0.

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Best Free WordPress Themes. Proving Examples that They Exist

Today WordPress users are faced with, I’d go as far as saying, the overchoice of decent free themes. Moreover, before being added to the official WordPress.org theme storage, all the templates are carefully examined by the WordPress quality assessment team. That is why we can now be sure that any template, available for free installation, is compliant with at least a basic acceptable level of quality.

So, at this juncture, we have a little left to do: choose a template that offers the widest choice of tools and stays in line with our objectives of website creation.

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20+ Ways to Increase Vacation Rental WordPress Website Traffic

MotoPress has been serving hundreds of vacation rental homeowners and hoteliers during the past 4 years, since the first release of the WordPress reservation system for rental properties. Throughout this journey, we’ve learned lots of SEO and marketing techniques for vacation rental owners – both plain simple, and complex.

So… If you are using any of our custom-crafted hotel & property rental WordPress themes or the reservation plugin alone, we are going to share those tips with you!

They are also well suited for the owners of any property management WordPress theme, so feel free to dig deeper.

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