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HomeAway vs Airbnb: Where to List your Rental Property?

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More and more hotel owners decide both on listing their properties on popular OTAs and having their own WordPress hotel website with online reservations at the same time. And since cross-linking of all the booking calendars has become fully automated with plugins like Hotel Booking by MotoPress, managing multiple channels of bookings for your hospitality business is now easier and more efficient than ever.

(If in doubt which option – OTAs or independent website – is better for your business, check this substantial comparison to gain some insights.)

Popular rental marketplaces allow getting bookings straight away without any marketing preps, so the desire of property owners not to miss the chance is completely understandable.

That is why in this article we decided to focus on two giants of property listing – HomeAway and Airbnb – and describe them from the host’s point of view.

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Meet MotoPress Hotel Booking Blocks for Gutenberg (Version 3.1.0 Highlights)

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If you switched over to Gutenberg, either as a plugin or the new WordPress core block-based editor, we have great news for you.

In the latest version 3.1.0, the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress shortcodes are available as Gutenberg blocks! We believe this integration will introduce more flexibility and a better UX for your routine of composing Hotel Booking-related content.

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Real-life Websites Built with WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin & Elementor

Ann Taylor in WordPress themes 2 Comments on Real-life Websites Built with WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin & Elementor

Since the introduction of the WordPress Hotel Booking & Elementor free conjunction add-on, we keep receiving positive feedback from homeowners and WordPress developers. This integration indeed made it possible to take advantage of both plugins: set up a WordPress property booking system with MotoPress and make its content look beautiful with Elementor.

So if you are looking to build a WordPress vacation rental website, you have a chance to do it with less fuss, using virtually any WordPress theme.

Just grab the template you find suitable, implement the MotoPress hotel room booking plugin WordPress offers (the setup is a half-automatic procedure), install Elementor (either free or Pro version), and, finally, tie both plugins together for visual editing, install a free Elementor integration add-on. And that’s it.

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25 Tried and Tested WordPress Blog Themes

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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

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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.

Property Reviews Addon – Basics

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

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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

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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

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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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Building a Hotel Booking WordPress Website in Gutenberg [with Palmeria Theme]

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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.
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How to Create a WordPress Multisite Network

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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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