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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18+ WordPress Scheduling Plugins For Timetables & Appointments

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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If you belong to the ‘Divi Nation’ and plan to implement the booking hotel plugin WordPress 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

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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

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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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