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How to Create a Boat Rental WordPress Website for Small Business

Ann Taylor in WordPress tutorials 4 Comments on How to Create a Boat Rental WordPress Website for Small Business

If you hire out water vehicles, such as boats, kayaks, powerboats, fishing charters, yachts, canoes, and similar, a boat rental WordPress website is going to save you hours of the time of your business routine.

Needless to say, this is an irreplaceable method to increase brand awareness in your local area, automate your bookings or streamline communication with your renters.

In this post, we’re not going to tell you how to start a boat rental business, we have already covered this topic here: Starting boat charter business.

This time, however, we will help you outline the main steps of creating a WordPress website, no matter whether you’re just starting out or already have years of experience under your belt.

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Beginner Resources to Help You Start and Keep up with WordPress

Ann Taylor in Resources 5 Comments on Beginner Resources to Help You Start and Keep up with WordPress

Looking to start your WordPress journey and feeling quite perplexed? Do you want to run a blog, business website or creative portfolio on the most popular content management platform in the world? Everything is possible, in case you use these beginner WordPress resources, which help you to avoid the first confusion that starts with the wp.org or wp.com puzzle… So we are here to give you some directions.

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This Block Contains Unexpected or Invalid Content: How to Fix It in Gutenberg?

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Let’s get straight to it.

If you’re working in the block-based WordPress Gutenberg editor, you might have experienced this error after updating and saving changes in a previously used block:

“This block contains unexpected or invalid content”

This issue occurs when the current HTML structure of the block doesn’t correspond with the previously saved version in the block editor. You may not realize that the initial block markup or attributes were modified and you are using the old version of the block.

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HomeAway vs Airbnb: Where to List your Rental Property?

Valeria Kazmiruk in WordPress plugins Leave a comment on HomeAway vs Airbnb: Where to List your Rental Property?

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)

Ann Taylor in Product updates

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

Valeria Kazmiruk in WordPress themes 3 Comments on 25 Tried and Tested WordPress Blog Themes

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

Ann Taylor in WordPress plugins

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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