WordPress was initially created to serve solely as a blogging platform, so despite the fact that today it can be a home for every imaginable type of website, WordPress users still have a good reason to expect this CMS to provide them with everything necessary for the first-class blogging sites.
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New! Property Reviews Addon for the WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin
We are happy to announce that we’ve broadened the bundle of extra tools for the hotel room booking plugin WordPress offers! Today we are introducing the release of a dedicated property reviews system: Hotel Booking Reviews extension.
It’s not a secret that real guest reviews always help prospects pick the right property, directly influencing the decision to choose one place over another. Let alone the fact it’s a real tool to measure guest satisfaction and develop your service improvement strategies.
We’ve managed to make such an important piece of software really simple in setup & operation for MotoPress users – our new add-on offers several-clicks integration with your existing properties.
Basically, this extension automatically generates a standard review form and a five-star rating system for all accommodation types you already created with the MotoPress plugin. It’ll allow past guests to share travel experiences from your hotel rooms, villas, cabins, and other accommodations publicly on your website; plus, evaluate accommodation by different criteria using a popular five-star scale. An aggregate rating from all reviews will automatically produce an average property rating, up to five stars.
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Request Balance Payments with Our New WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin Add-on
Updated on May 22, 2019
The lineup of ancillary tools developed for the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin is now richer! Meet the new extension that will enable you to send automated balance due requests directly to your guests: Hotel Booking Payment Request add-on.
It was developed to help you get things from A to B by requesting and collecting rental payments without manual control – that is, automatically.
It doesn’t matter whether you charge deposit payments or not, this extension covers all booking confirmation mode scenarios providing you with a real hands-off experience. You’ll also be happy to hear the plugin is absolutely straightforward and easy to operate.
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Gutenberg Integration: 35+ Popular Gutenberg-compatible WordPress Plugins
Despite (and along with) all twists, conspiracy theories, and controversies, WordPress 5.0 was definitely the biggest update ever. As a WordPress user, you probably already try to compose content with Gutenberg or, on contrary, remain in the good old Classic editor.
The interesting fact is that currently you are not forced to choose only one alternative. If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 5.0 yet, you can still play around with the Gutenberg plugin. If you did jump to the new version, the Classic editor is still supported. Moreover, there are many plugins that offer Gutenberg integration to enable you to get the most out of both editors at the same time (e.g. TinyMCE Advanced). The number of plugins designed specifically to extend the functionality of Gutenberg is growing.
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How to Sync HomeAway Calendars with WordPress Vacation Rentals
If you use WordPress to take vacation rentals bookings (or just plan to), congrats! You’ve chosen a really cost-effective and scalable content management system to run a rental property business website on.
At the same time, WordPress PMS and property booking plugins don’t generally charge pay-per-booking fees, pay-per-listing commission, percent per each transaction or what have you using proprietary reservation software.
However, to generate more exposure to global audiences, you can’t ignore popular travel platforms. Luckily, operating a brand property WordPress website and taking online reservations through it doesn’t mean ditching OTAs, including HomeAway.
So how do you set up WordPress HomeAway integration?
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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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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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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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