We are very pleased to announce that we have released version 4 of WP Travel plugin adopting the React Framework. Our previous version worked fine, however, we have decided to move to react framework to enhance the quality of WP Travel plugin further.
As for now, we have worked on the individual trip section and some part of the frontend. Our ultimate goal will be running our entire WP Travel plugin in React Frame Work.
There will be not much difference from the user point of view, however, we have made some changes in the booking section. Now the available dates will be displayed via a calendar.
Basically we have made the changes in the trip edit section so, this documentation includes the explanation for the Trips edit section.
WP Travel plugin is an easy to use and awesome plugin that you can use with any travel site. With WP travel you can simply add as many trips as you wish. Besides this plugin provides various kind of feature, setting which makes this plugin more attractive.
The compatibility of the plugin is also one of the features. It can also be modified very easily through custom templates and filters.
Not to forget, WP travel is becoming popular day by day due to its frequent update with amazing additional feature and the support from the development team.
WP Travel is a very easy to use a plugin, with very simple and understandable settings. These settings and features can be set up with ease and without any hassle. With it’s recent update, WP Travel now offers more organized way for it’s user to create the trips with the well separation of the tabs as :
A simple walk-through of each feature of the plugin has been provided in detail.
After the activation of the plugin, you will find two tabs in your dashboard, menu on the dashboard :
WP Travel
Trips
Under the WP Travel option there are 7 tabs and under the Trips option there are 6 tabs.
This organized separation of the menus creates a easy and clean environment for you to create trips and assign the trips with the settings of your choice.
Under General Setting section, you will be able to see following fields.
General Settings:
Currency: This enables you to enter the currency type as per your requirement.
Currency Position: This option let’s you to manage the currency placement.
Thousand Separator: This option allows you to set the thousand separators of displayed prices.
Decimal separator: This option allows you to set the Decimal separator of displayed prices.
Number of decimals: This option allows you to set the Number of decimal of displayed prices.
Maps:
Select Map: This option allows you to select the map type. By default, you will be able to set the google map.
API Key: You have to enter the API key here to generate the map at the location section.
Zoom level: This option allows you to set the zooming level of the maps.
Checkout Process:
Cart Page: This option enables you to choose the page to use as cart page for trip bookings.
Checkout Page: This option enables you to choose the page to use as checkout page for booking.
Dashboard Page: This option enables you to choose the page to use as a user dashboard.
This amazing new feature is added to the version 1.2.3 of the WP Travel. It represents a fully customizable mechanism that the user needs to go through to book the trips.
Features of checkout processes:
One of the most important feature of the checkout process is a clear indication of the steps/progress throughout the entire checkout process
Setting up checkout processes
To enable the checkout process you don’t need to add any sorts of the extra plugin. The feature is bundled within the plugin itself.
After activating the version 1.2.3 of the wp travel for the checkout process, the first thing you need to do is assign the “WP Travel Cart” and “WP Travel Checkout page” in option“Cart Page” and“Checkout Page” respectively by going to Admin Panel > WP Travel > Settings > General.
Note: Upon installation of the WP Travel version 1.2.3, the plugin creates the pages “WP Travel Cart “and “WP Travel Check out” by default.
But in case if the default pages are not working for you then you can create the pages by yourself from Admin panel > Pages > Add New by including the shortcode for checkout page and cart page.
Shortcode to add while creating the pages :
Cart Page : [wp_travel_cart]
Checkout Page : [wp_travel_checkout]
Work Flow:
The flow of the checkout process starts by clicking on big Red“ Book Now” button.
Step 1: The workflow begins with clicking on“Book Now” button. After clicking on Book now button a table will appear again with the book now button.
Step 2: Click on“Book now” button then you will reach the cart page. From here you will be able to adjust the no. of pax. After making the adjustment of pax, click on Proceed to Checkout.
Step 3: Finally you will reach the checkout page where the booking form is available for booking the trips.
From here you will be able to choose the different payment methods for final payment. The default payment is Standard PayPal.
Payment Systems:
Standard PayPal: Available within the plugin.
PayPal Express Checkout: Addons
Strips Checkout: Addons
What if you don’t like to go through cart process?
Well if you do not like to use the cart feature and simply want the previous layout then there is nothing to worry about.
We have added the filter using which you can get the previous layout i.e. remove the cart feature.
Please follow below given steps for this.
Step 1: Create the child theme.
Step 2: After successfully activating the child theme, in your child theme’s functions.php file add below-given code.
function wp_travel_load_previous_layout(){
return false;
}
add_filter('wp_travel_enable_checkout','wp_travel_load_previous_layout' );
Under the trips section, you will be able to see the following field.
Hide related trips: This option will allow to hide/Show related trips in the single trip page.
Enable Multiple Travelers: This is an exciting feature added to the WP Travel version(1.7.5) which allow you to enable/disable the filed to add the information for the multiple travelers in the checkout page.
Under Email section, you will be able to see the settings of the Email templates. The email template is an exclusive feature which is released with the version 1.2.2 of the WP Travel
Booking Email Template:
Admin Email Template Options:
Send Booking mail to admin: This option allows the user to enable/disable the option “Send Booking mail to admin”
Booking Email Subject: This option allows the user to enter the booking email subject.
Booking Email Title: This option allows the user to enter the booking email Title.
Booking Email Header Color: This option allows the user to choose the color of Booking Email Header.
Email Content: This option includes the default template but you can adjust the formatting template yourself according to your requirement.
Client Email Template Options:
Booking Client Email Subject: This option allows the user to enter the booking email subject.
Booking Email Title: This option allows the user to enter the booking email Title.
Booking Email Header Color: This option allows the user to choose the color of Booking Email Header
Email Content: This option includes the default template but you can adjust the formatting template yourself according to your requirement.
Payment Email Template:
Admin Email Template Options:
Payment Email Subject: This option allows the user to enter the booking email subject.
Payment Email Title: This option allows the user to enter the booking email Title.
Payment Email Header Color: This option allows the user to choose the color of Booking Email Header.
Email Content: This option includes the default template but you can adjust the formatting template yourself according to your requirement.
Client Email Template Options:
Payment Email Subject: This option allows the user to enter the booking email subject.
Payment Email Title: This option allows the user to enter the booking email Title.
Payment Email Header Color: This option allows the user to choose the color of Booking Email Header
Email Content: This option includes the default template but you can adjust the formatting template yourself according to your requirement.
Enquiry Email Template:
Admin Email Template Options:
Enquiry Email Subject: This option allows the user to enter the booking email subject.
Enquiry Email Title: This option allows the user to enter the booking email Title.
Enquiry Email Header Color: This option allows the user to choose the color of Booking Email Header.
Enquiry Content: This option includes the default template but you can adjust the formatting template yourself according to your requirement.
Tab “Account Section” is the fourth tab under settings tab where you can reach by going to , Admin Panel > WP Travel > Setting > Account Settings which gives you the options to decide if you require login before booking, option to generate username from email automatically, generate password and enable/disable customer registration.
Create customers on a booking will allow recording the user account after making the booking even though they do not register the account before booking by themeself.
This is the new section that is added with the release of WP Travel version 1.1.2. Under Tabs section, you will be able to see the list of tabs that are displayed in the frontend of individual Trips as seen in the screenshot below.
What is this option for?
Sort the tabs: If you are not happy with the listing of the tabs at the frontend then you can sort it from here. You can rearrange the tabs where ever you like simply by dragging the tabs up and down.
Rename the tabs: You can even rename the tabs if you like.
Display: In case if you did not want the particular tab to display then you can simply uncheck the “Display” option.
Note: This is the global setting. This setting will be applied to the individual trips only if they check the option “Use Global Tabs Layout” by going to Tabs section of the individual trips
Under Payment section, you will be able to see different settings of the payment options that are available within the plugin as seen in the screenshot below.
The first section under the payment tab is payment settings. This section particularly deals with the feature “Partial payment” of the payment option. The option available are explaind below:
Payment Settings:
You can manage the payment setting by going to Admin Panel > Trips > Settings > Payment:
Available Options in Payment Settings:
Partial Payment: If you want your customer to facilitate the partial payment then you can enable this option. Enabling this user will be able to make the partial payment of the package they have chosen.
Minimum Payment amount: This option allows you to adjust minimum percent of the amount to pay while booking.
TAX Options:
The third section under the payment tab is tax option. This is the brand new and amazing feature that is released with the version 1.2.2 of WP Travel.
You can find the tax settings in the Tax Options section. Below we present all options step by step.
Enable Tax for Trip Price: This option allows the user to enable/disable the tax for the trip price.
Trip prices entered with tax:
Yes, I will enter trip prices inclusive of tax: The trips will include tax according to defined rate i.e the final price of the trip is shown including the trips.
No, I will enter trip prices exclusive of tax: The trips will not include tax. During checkout, the prices will be increased by tax according to the defined rate.
Tax Percentage: This option allows the user to enter the tax percent that they want to set for the trip price.
Note: With the release of version 2.2.1 of WP Travel, Standard Paypal has been merged within the plugin so you do not have to install/ activate the standard PayPal plugin separately.
The second section under the payment tab is standard paypal.
WP Travel Standard PayPal was add-ons for WP Travel but due to lots of request form users to merge this in WP Travel core, we have added this addon in plugin core so that there will be no hassle for a payment gateway. Standard PayPal is a wonderful addition to the WP Travel Plugin. Integrating with PayPal offers your customer’s simple ways to pay for the booking that is being made also and in addition, you can view the payment stat made by users on the backend.
Standard PayPal will undoubtedly enhance the WP Travel plugin.
Available Options:
Enable PayPal: This option allows enable/disable the PayPal option on the frontend.
PayPal Email: This field enables you to enter the email.
Note: New form field added in Booking form for full payment mode or partial payment mode. To edit payment mode refer to Admin Side.
The Application process:
Booking Works with the PayPal payment gateway. To enable PayPal as your payment processor first, you will need a PayPal account. If you do not already have one, you can sign up here: https://www.paypal.com/home.
Go through the registration process and then come back to your site.
Client Side
Booking Options:
There are basically two types of Booking Options. They are:
Booking with Payment.
Booking Only
Booking with Payment:
To enable the booking with payment options at the front end, at first you have to enable the option “Enable Paypal” by going to Admin panel > Trips > Settings > Payments.
Under this option, there are two modes of booking.
Full Payment: If you desire to go with Full payment then you can simply choose the option “Full Payment” and click on booking button. Clicking on booking button will lead you to PayPal home page. After making the required payment you can return to merchant and if you want, you can even make the booking further.
Partial Payment: If you desire to go with partial payment then you can simply choose the option “Partial Payment” and click on booking button.
Booking Only:
This is simply a booking made without the payment. After making the booking you get an email that includes you’re booking detail.
Note: After making the booking you will get an email which includes the detail about your booking info.
Admin Side
The Admin will be able to view the lists and the booking detail that is made by the clients. If required, the admin has the authority to change the booking detail made by the client as well.
Booking listing :
The Booking listing page consists of the following information.
Contact name: It is the name of the person under which the booking is made using booking form.
Status: This column lists your booking status.
Payment: This column lists the type of payment you have made i.e. either Full Payment or Partial Payment.
Booking Date: This column displays the booking published date.
This is a brand new and exciting feature released with the WP Travel version (1.3.2).
With this new and fresh feature, the user will be able to add multiple trip facts/ information about the trips.
Steps For using the Trip Facts:
How to enable Trip facts?
You can enable the trip facts by going to Admin Panel -> WP Travel -> Settings -> Facts.
How to add new trip facts?
In order to add new trip facts, the user just needs to click on ” Add new” buttons. Clicking on the “Add new” button will make the filed appear where you need to enter the field name, select field Type and enter icon classes.
Available Options:
Field Name: This option enables you to enter the trip facts name.
Field Type: This option enables you to choose the filed type i.e. whether it is single select, multiple select or plain text.
Icon class: This filed enables you to enter the icon class. eg: fa-plane.
Note: You can as many trips as you like with “Add new” button.
How to add these trips facts to individual trips?
After adding the required number of trips facts from the Settings -> Facts, go to individual trips to add the facts that is required for the trips.
From the individual trip edit screen go to “Facts” tabs. Here you will find ” Add new” button, just click on this button and add the required facts for the trips that is added from the Settings -> Facts.
These facts are sortable i.e you can reposition them by dragging up and down according to your preferences.
Frontend display:
Display trip Facts using the shortcode:
What makes the release of the version (1.3.2) even more interesting is that you can even display the facts using the shortcode.
Under Misc. Options section, you will be able to see the following field.
Enable Trip Enquiry: This option allows you to enable/disable the trip enquiry.
GDPR:
It is a privacy policy which is added to each form in the plugin like “Enquiry” and “Booking form“.You cannot submit the form without checking the button for the privacy policy if you have enabled the feature.
Enquiry form.
Booking form:
Features:
You can edit the message for the privacy policy by going to Trips > Settings > Misc. Options > GDPR Message :
Disable the GDPR feature:
If you want to disable the feature then you can do so by deleting all the content inside the box of “GDPR Message“.
System information displays all the information related to the system. You can find the system Information in Trips > Settings.
It is helpful if you require the info about the system that is currently running.
Note: You can send the information by downloading the file by clicking on the button “Export to CSV“. After clicking on the button you will get the excel file that includes the detail of your system.
You can send thus received file in our official email address which will be provided to you through the forum.
Creating a new trip is quite an easy task. After activation of the plugin, you get the menu “Trips” in the Admin Panel. Under “Trips” menu you will find the option “New Trip”.
Prices & Dates section allows you to add prices and dates for the trip through Prices and Dates tabs respectively.
Under Prices tab you will find Add Price option with which you can add price for the trip. When you click Add Price option you will find different options which has been listed below:
Pricing Name: This option allows you to add pricing name for the trip.
Min Pax: This option allows you to add minimum number of the people which has to be added while making booking of trip.
Max pax: This option allows to add maximun number of people which can be added while making booking of trip.
Price Categories: Under Price Categories section you will be able to add price for the trip under different category (you can choose category) as per your requirement.
Also, you can add category as per your requirement by going to Admin Panel > Trips > Pricing Category so that the categories you have added will be listed under Price Categories section.
When you click Add Category option, various options will be available which are listed below:
Category: This option allows you to select category among the categories you have added.
Price Per: This option allows you to select either to set price per person or group.
Price: This option allows you to add price(amount).
Enable Sale: This option allows you to enable sale if you want to provide discount to customer. When you enable this option, you will be able to add sale price.
Default Pax: This option allows you to add number of default pax.
Trip Extras : This option allows you to add extra items to the trip.
After setting the sections available under prices tab, you have to save changes before going to Dates tab.
You can add multiple pricing option for the trip using Add Price button.
Also, you can remove pricing option which you have added using Remove Price button. Likewise you can remove category section under price categories which you have added using Remove Category button.
Under Dates tab, you will find option either to enable Fixed Departure option or Trip Duration option.
If you want to add trip duration for the trip then you can add duration through Trip Duration section.
Also, if you want to add fixed departure date then you can enable Enable Fixed Departure option under which Add date option will be availabe.
When you click Add date option, different options will be available which are listed below:
Date Label: This option allows you to add label for date.
Select pricing options: This option allows you to select pricing option you have added under Prices tab.
Starting Date: This option allows you to add departure date which will be displayed in frontend section(calender) as available date for booking of trip.
End Date: This option allows you to add ending date.
You can add multiple departure dates for the trip using Add Date button.
Also, you can remove date which you have added using Remove Date button.
This is the facts section. Under this section, you will get the option to manage the facts option.
User will be able to add multiple trip facts/ information about the trips.
Steps For using the Trip Facts:
How to enable Trip facts?
You can enable the trip facts by going to Admin Panel -> WP Travel -> Settings -> Facts.
How to add new trip facts?
In order to add new trip facts, the user just needs to click on ” Add new” buttons. Clicking on the “Add new” button will make the filed appear where you need to enter the field name, select field Type and enter icon classes.
Available Options:
Field Name: This option enables you to enter the trip facts name.
Field Type: This option enables you to choose the filed type i.e. whether it is single select, multiple select or plain text.
Icon class: This filed enables you to enter the icon class. eg: fa-plane.
Note: You can as many trips as you like with “Add new” button.
How to add these trips facts to individual trips?
After adding the required number of trips facts from the Settings -> Facts, go to individual trips to add the facts that is required for the trips.
From the individual trip edit screen go to “Facts” tabs. Here you will find ” Add new” button, just click on this button and add the required facts for the trips that is added from the Settings -> Facts.
These facts are sortable i.e you can reposition them by dragging up and down according to your preferences.
Display trip Facts using the shortcode:
What makes the release of the version (1.3.2) even more interesting is that you can even display the facts using the shortcode.
This is the location section. Under this section, you will get the option to manage/add the location.
The Destinations section under the Trip Type section in the dashboard menu lets you add the new destination to the list. It allows you to add the destination and the newly added destination will be listed on the right-hand side of the page.
You can add the destination from the location tab of individual trips as well.
What’s new in Version 4?
With the WP Travel version 4, user will be able to display the maps without the API keys. If you do not have the API keys then there is nothig to worry about as you can display the maps at the frontnd by entering the location only.
For this, you need to go to the Location tab of the individual trip and search for your location.
Other map options like Here Map, Mapquest can also be used to display the maps.
This is the cart & Checkout section. Under this section, you will get the option to manage the cart and checkout option.
This option will only available after the activation of the WP Travel Pro or WP Travel Utilities. After the activation of the required plugin you will get the tab “Cart & Checkout” in WP Travel > Settings.
Trip Specific Info Content:
This feature allows you to add the Trip Specific info in the checkout page for the trip.
Available option:
Checkout Information Label: This option allows you to add the label for checkout information:
Checkout Information: This option allows you to add information.
This is the inventory section. Under this section, you will get the option to manage the inventory option. This option will only be available after the activation of WP Travel Pro/WP Travel Utilities plugin.
Available options are explained below:
Enable Trip Inventory: This option allows you to enable/disable the inventory feature for the trip.
Status Message Format: You can edit the format of displaying the status in status column of the trip.
Pax Limit: There are two options available to set the pax limit.
Use Group Size value: If you chose this option then the trip uses the group size that is entered from the Date And Prices tab.
Custom Value: This option enables you to enter your custom value to set the no of pax.
Max Pax no: This option allows you to enter the max no of pax for the trip.
Out Of Stock option: This is the most requested feature which is now available in the WP Travel Addon. If the trip is booked up to the max no of pax that you have defined then this feature will allow you to either add enquiry form or display the Sold out message.
If you are willing to go back to version 3 after the update to WP Travel Version 4, you do not have to worry at all. You can go back to the previous version any time you like.
For this you need to go to Admin Panel > WP Travel > Settings > General and disable the “Switch to V4” option.
Tab “Account Section” is the fourth tab under settings tab where you can reach by going to , Admin Panel > WP Travel > Setting > Account Settings which gives you the options to decide if you require login before booking, option to generate username from email automatically, generate password and enable/disable customer registration.
If disabled the options at left as shown in the above screenshot, you don’t require to log in for booking the trips. Enabling this option requires Customer login before booking.
Enabling this option will enable the registration on My Account page. “My Account page” is by default created b the plugin itself.
Account Creation:
If you disable both of this option then you will get the link in your email that will lead you to the page from where you need to enter the username, password and email.
If you enable both of this option then you will automatically get the username and password in your email so you just need to enter email only while creating the new account.
Before being allowed to enter into the user dashboard, you will be asked to login. The login screen for the user dashboard asks for a username and password. If you already have one then you can follow below given steps:
To login to the WordPress Admin:
Enter your Username and Password
Click the Remember
Click the Log In button to get access to the user dashboard.
Lost Password???
If you forget your password, you can click on Forget Passoword to get new password?
After clicking on“Forget Password” you will be redirected to the page where you have to enter the email and click on“RESET PASSWORD” to receive the email.
Follow the on-screen instructions in the email to reset your password.
Once you have successfully logged in, you will get access to WP Travel Dashboard.
What if you don’t have the account??
If you do not have the account already then you have to create one. To create the account click on
“Create an Account”.
How to create the account?
To create the account enter the username, Email andPassword and then click on Register button.
Finally after creating the account go to login dashboard and login.
After successful login, you will reach the user dashboards where you will find five different menus.
Dashboard:
In this section, you will find the list of trips that you have booked using your account. Here the trips that you recently booked will be displayed at the top. Also, only five recent trips theta you book will be displayed.
If you click on“Book some trips now” you will reach to the trip archive page where you find the lists of trips from where you can book your desired trips.
My Bookings:
This tab will list the booking that you have made using your account. This tab will also list the detail of the booking including mode and the payments. In the latest update “WP Travel Version 1.8.0” you will also find a button to view the details
“Detail” button will allow you to view the details of information that you have entered while booking the trip.
Address:
This will display your address that you have entered through“Address tab”.
Note: The data you have entered here will be automatically saved in the booking form at the checkout page if you are logged in.
Account Info:
This will display your account info that you have entered through“Account tab”
If you wish to change the password for your account then enable “Change password” option and fill up the password field and save the changes.
Logout:
From this tab you can log out from your dashboard.
This feature helps you to see/list the booking that is made by the customer in the Admin Panel itself.
If there is no any booking made then nothing will be displayed here.
Features:
View All Booking: If you click on “View All Booking” button, you will be redirected to the booking list.
View Booking Details: With the recent version of WP Travel Version 1.8.0 , you can view the booking details from Admin Panel as well.
Draggable: If you do not like to display the booking widget in particular location then you can drag it somewhere else and display.
Turn off the widget: If you don’t want to display the booking widget in the Admin Panel then you can turn it off by going to Admin Panel > Screen Options.
“Coupons” tab is the second tab under WP Travel tab which is a great way to offer discounts and rewards to your customer so whether you are implementing a discount or a special offer use WP Travel Coupons to get a discount on the booked trips. Percentage or fixed amount off in the coupons are applied for the trips.
You can view the lists of coupon that you have added from WP Travel > Coupons.
This list, in general, summarizes all the information about coupons like:
Coupon code: Displays the coupon codes corresponding to the coupons.
Discount value: Displays the value that you have entered in coupon value filed.
Max Uses: Display the no of time a coupon can be used.
Usage Count: Display the no of times the coupon is being used.
Expiration Date: Displays the expiration date of the coupon.
Coupon Status: Displays the current status of the coupon.
Note: If you try to create the coupon with same code then the plugin will let you publish the coupon but the coupon that was previously created will be applied if the code is used.
Basically, a taxonomy is a way to grouping things together. Similarly, with WP travel plugin user will be able to group the trips according to Trips Type, Destinations, Keywords, Activities.
This is the third menu item that appears below Trips icon.
The Trip Type section under the New Trip section in the dashboard menu lets you add new trip type on the list. It allows you to enter the trip type and the newly added trip type will be listed on the right-hand side of the page.
You can add the trip type from the individual trip edit screen as well.
This is the fourth menu item that appears below Trips icon.
The Destinations section under the Trip Type section in the dashboard menu lets you add the new destination to the list. It allows you to add the destination and the newly added destination will be listed on the right-hand side of the page.
You can add the destination from the location tab of individual trips as well.
This is the Fifth menu item that appears under Trips icon
The Keyword section under the Destinations section in the dashboard menu lets you add new Keyword to the list. It allows you to add the keyword and the newly added keyword will be listed on the right-hand side of the page.
You can assign the keyword to the individual trip post by going in individual trip post edit screen.
The process of adding the Keyword and assigning them to the trips is same as you add the category and assign them.
This is the sixth menu item that appears below All Trips icon.
The Activities section under the Destinations section in the dashboard menu lets you add new activities to the list. It allows you to add the activities and the newly added activities will be listed on the right-hand side of the page.
You can assign the activities to the individual trips post by going in individual trip post edit screen.
It is added in the plugin so that you can add activities related to the trips. The process to add the activities is same as you add the category.
If you would want to add an extra piece of information for an individual pricing option then you can add the information through “Trip Extras“.
Steps to add the Extras in the trips.
1: Go to Admin Panel > Trips > Trip Extras and add the extras.
2. After this go to individual Trips > Dates And Prices and add the pricing option. Here you see the option “Tour Extras“. Finally, select the extras that you have added from the “Trips Extras” menu.
This info will be displayed in the Front-end as shown below:
The blue tick means the extras is added to this pricing. What’s interesting is, with the pro version of Trips Extras you can even add the price.
The graph here will represent the booking made on different dates. Here you can view the booking chart by filtering according to the Country, itinerary and Dates interval.
The graph here will represent the payment made for various booking on different dates. You can even filter the payment according to date interval, country and Trips.
After the activation of the WP Travel Plugin, Four different widgets will be listed in Appearance > Widget area.
WP Travel Search:
WP Travel Search is the widget which you can place in any widget area. With WP Travel Search you will be able to search itineraries.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget section.
After placing the required widget you will see the search section as given below at the frontend.
Front-end Sections :
Search: Enter the keyword to search your requires itinerary.
Trip Type: Select the trip type that you want to search.
Location: Select the locations that you want to search.
All the locations and trip type that is entered through plugin section will be listed in the drop-down.
Note: If the location mismatch with the trip Type or any miscombination will lead to 404 page.
For eg: If you have the trip type: Wildlife safari and location: Africa but you search as Trip Type: Wildlife safari and location: Asia, it will lead you to 404 page.
WP Travel Featured Type:
WP Travel Featured Type is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin. This widget will list the trip type that is marked as featured on the backend. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of the featured trip at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
WP Travel Trips by Location:
WP travel trips by location is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin. This widget will list the trip type by location. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Options :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of the featured trip at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
Select Location: With this option, you will be able to display the trips according to the locations.
WP Travel Trips by Type:
WP travel trips by type is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin. This widget will list the trip type by its type. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Options :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of the featured trip at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
Select Trip Type: With this option, you will be able to display the trips according to the trip type.
WP Travel Sales Widget:
WP Travel sales widget is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin (version 1.2.0). This widget will list the trips that is with the sale price. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of trip with sales feature at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
WP Travel Filters Widget:
WP Travel Filter widget is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin (version 1.2.1). This widget will help to filter the trips according to trips, locations etc. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
Enable Filters: Under this option, you will find the list of option according to which you can filter the trips.
Keyword Search: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the keyword entered.
Trips Type Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the trips type entered.
Trip Location Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the trip’s location entered.
Price Orderby Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the price order.
Price Range Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the price range.
Trips Dates Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the Trips date.
With the release of version 1.2.1 of WP Travel, we have added a new widget area i.e. Archive page widget area. This widget area appears in the trips listing page.
You can add the widget of your choice in this widget area.
WP Travel Search is the widget which you can place in any widget area. With WP Travel Search you will be able to search itineraries.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget section.
After placing the required widget you will see the search section as given below at the frontend.
Front-end Sections :
Search: Enter the keyword to search your requires itinerary.
Trip Type: Select the trip type that you want to search.
Location: Select the locations that you want to search.
All the locations and trip type that is entered through plugin section will be listed in the drop-down.
Note: If the location mismatch with the trip Type or any mis combination will lead to 404 page.
For eg: If you have the trip type: Wildlife safari and location: Africa but you search as Trip Type: Wildlife safari and location: Asia, it will lead you to 404 page.
WP Travel Featured Type is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin. This widget will list the trip type that is marked as featured on the backend. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of the featured trip at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
WP travel trips by location is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin. This widget will list the trip type by location. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Options :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of the featured trip at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
Select Location: With this option, you will be able to display the trips according to the locations.
WP travel trips by type is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin. This widget will list the trip type by its type. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Options :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of the featured trip at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
Select Trip Type: With this option, you will be able to display the trips according to the trip type.
WP Travel sales widget is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin (version 1.2.0). This widget will list the trips that is with the sale price. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
No. of trip to show: With this option, you can manage to display the no of trip with sales feature at the frontend.
View Mode: This option allows you to change the view mode i.e either Grid view / List view.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
WP Travel Filter widget is the widget which comes with the latest release of the WP travel plugin (version 1.2.1). This widget will help to filter the trips according to trips, locations etc. You can place this widget in any widget area of the theme.
Available Option :
Title: This option allows you to change the title of the widget.
Hide title: This allows you to enable/disable the title of the widget.
Enable Filters: Under this option you will find the list of option according to which you can filter the trips.
Keyword Search: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the keyword entered.
Trip Facts: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the facts entered.
Trips Type Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the trips type entered.
Trip Location Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the trip’s location entered.
Price Orderby Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the price order.
Price Range Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the price range.
Trips Dates Filter: Enabling this option lets you filter the trips according to the Trips date.
Note:The maximum no of itineraries that a plugin can display by default is20. But you can show more no of trips by passing the limit parameter.
[WP_TRAVEL_ITINERARIES limit=20]
You can add the Shortcode either in page/ post. With the addition of the shortcode, you will be able to view the Itinerary’s in page/post, depending on where you have to use the shortcode.
There is two special feature that you can manage using Shortcode.
Limit the no of the itinerary to display.
Display the itinerary according to the type.
featured
itinerary_types
travel_locations
Limit :
Using shortcode you can limit the no of the itinerary to display at the front end.
Eg :
[WP_TRAVEL_ITINERARIES limit=1]
Using this Shortcode you can limit the no. of the itinerary to 1 i.e you will be able to display only one itinerary at the front end.
Note: The default value of the limit is set to 20.
Type :
Basically, there are 3 different types according to which you can display the itinerary.
type=featured
Eg :
[WP_TRAVEL_ITINERARIES type=featured]
If you include the featured type in shortcode all the itinerary that is marked as featured is displayed at the front end.
type=itinerary_types
If you include the itinerary_types in the shortcode , you have had to enter the id or the slug of trip Type. Only then the itinerary associated with that trip type will be displayed at the front end.
If you include the travel_locations in the shortcode , you have had to enter the id or the slug of Locations. Only then the itinerary associated with that location will be displayed at the front end.
Note: Not just ID but you can control the display using the Slug attribute. i.e in place of ID, you can place “slug=” name for itinerary_types and travel_locations.
Display the trip type according to the location:
If you wish to display a trip type of a certain location then you can do so by adding the shortcode as given below:
Shortcode to display the trips according to the activites.
With the WP Travel version, 4.2.0, we have added the shortcode using which you will be able to display the trips based on the activities assigned to that trip.
Based on slug:
[wp_travel_itineraries type="activity" slug="Activity"]
Based on ID:
[wp_travel_itineraries type="activity" id="12"]
The plugin WP Travel is made translation ready for the release of version 1.0.3.
Here is the list of steps that you need to follow for the translation.
In your plugin file you can find the .pot file in wp-travel > i18n > languages >wp-travel.pot . Using this file you can translate to any language you want.
Download software like Poedit.
Launch poedit application.
Choose “Create a new translation” option in the application Screenshot :
Find strings to translate from the list and provide translation string in Translation Box.
Save the translation
Place the .po and .mo file generated by the software inside wp-content > language by creating the folder naming it wp-travel.
Note: You need to add the prefix wp-travel in .mo file.
Example:
For Nepali translation, rename .mo file that is generated from the Poedit software to “wp-travel-ne_NP.mo“.
Finally, in your Admin Dashboard > Settings > General > languages, make sure the desired language is chosen and save your settings.
Translation using the Loco Translate plugin:
If you are using the Loco translate plugin then for the translation, please follow the steps mention in the link below:
WP Travel plugin is 100% compatible with the WPML plugin. Now the string from the setting section is also made translation ready with the recent version of the plugin.
There are multiple of setting collected from feedback by multiple users and some of them are already implemented in the plugin which will help to customize plugin for users easily and some of them are listed in the documentation.
For setting the tabs format Globally follow the Step by process:
Hover or click on the Trips Menu from the dashboard, you will see the Listing as of the below Image. Click on Setting link.
Once you are in setting page of Trips you will see the vertical tab listing which includes Tabs click on it to move ahead to the Global Tab Setting Section.
You will find 4 column ( Sorting, Global Trip Title, Custom Trip Title and Display ).
Sorting
You can arrange your Tabs for all single Itinerary from here. Just drag the desired label from the Sorting column which contains handler to place it upward or downward. The change made here will be implemented in Single Trip which will reduce your time if you want a consistency ordering of the Tabs displayed in the single trip page in Front End Section.
Global Trip Title
These columns contain the title set by the Developer while developing the plugin.
If you want to name it differently for your entire Trip there is another column where you can set its Name for your Trip Title (eg if you like to change the Overview Trips to Overview ) to your entire Trip single page Backend as well as Front End head over to the Custom Trip Type and Replace it with the desired name that you want it for your Viewers. Note: If you only want to change the Label Of tabs for some of the Trips then Read this doc How to Arrange and Change Tabs on Single Trip.
Custom Trip Type
You can add your desired name here for the Trip Label that you want to change Globally for the entire site.
Display
If you don’t want to show any of the tabs in Front End Single Trip Page you can just toggle the display setting by clicking on it and it will turn off Globally Note: If you want that particular label that you have turned off on some of the Trips then you can set it in while adding new trip type which also consists the same kind of design as of the setting page.
Note:Read this doc How to Arrange and Change Tabs on Single Trip.
Don’t Forget to save the changes you have made to make it work
21.2.How to arrange and change tabs in single trip
For setting the tabs format Globally Please refer to this link
We will Try to explain this with the help of the Image, have a good look at the Image and the numbers
Let’s go through the stepwise process:
Step 1: Click on All Trips which will list all the trips that have been added or if it’s your first trips then click on Add New and go to step 3 directly.
Step 2: Click on the desired trip from the trip listing page.
Step 3: Click on Tabs from the vertical menu as shown in the figure highlighted as number 3
Step 4: You can use the global tabs layout by turning it in or if you want to use a different label, order and which one to show in your site page then turn this option off.
There are four column ( Sorting, Global Trip Title, Custom Trip Title, and Display ) as show in the image below with the number marking on it.
1. Sorting
You can arrange your Tabs for this trip from here. Just drag the desired label from the Sorting column which contains handler to place it upward or downward. The change made here will be implemented only on this Trip.
Note: If you want to change the order Of tabs Globally for all the Trips then follow the instruction mention in this doc How to Arrange and Change Tabs Globally on Global Trip.
2. Global Trip Title
These columns contain the title set in you plugin main setting tab section for changing this refer to this link
If you want to name it differently for your entire Trip there is another column where you can set its Name for your Trip Title (eg if you like to change the Overview to Overview Trips ) to your this Trip single page just replace it in the next column.
Note: If you want to change the Label Of tabs Globally for all the Trips then follow the instruction mention in this doc How to Arrange and Change Tabs Globally on Global Trip.
3. Custom Trip Type
You can add your desired name here for the Trip Label that you want to change for this trip only.
Note: If you want to change the Label Of tabs Globally for all the Trips then follow the instruction mention in this doc How to Arrange and Change Tabs Globally on Global Trip.
4. Display
If you don’t want to show any of the tabs in Front End for this Trip you can toggle the display setting by clicking on it and it will turn off for this trip only.
Note: If you want to hide the Label Of tabs Globally for all the Trips then follow the instruction mention in this doc How to Arrange and Change Tabs Globally on Global Trip.
Finally, don’t forget to update the setting of this page by clicking the update button on the right-hand side of your page.
21.3.How to change the layout of trips like in version 1.0.1 and earlier?
The layout styling of the trips has been changed in archive page for the recent version of the plugin. Here is the screenshot of the layouts before and after the release of the update.
Layout-1 :
Layout-2 :
The latest plugin comes with the layout-2, the changes in the layout of trips in archive page has been included in the latest update of the plugin .
But if you do not want the layout-2 and want the same layout as previous version i.e layout-1 then you can have it by following the simple steps listed below
Info : The template file (itinerary-item.php) for the layout styling is placed in the plugin in path wp-travel > templates > shortcode .
You have to override this file through the theme to get the older version layout.
Steps to follow:
Create the folder “wp-travel” in your theme file.
Inside folder “wp-travel” then create the folder “templates” and within the folder templates create folder “shortcode”.
Then create the layout template file ( itinerary-item.php) within the “shortcode” folder and paste below given code in itinerary-item.php file .
Note: Path to maintain in theme file for template override.
After the addition of the CSS , you have to add below given code in functions.php file.
add_filter( 'wp_travel_show_per_person', 'show_per_person' );
function show_per_person( $bool ) {
return true;
}
You can make the decision by looking into the screenshot mentioned above.
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You can find uninstall (delete) option after you deactivate the plugin from the Plugins page.
Keep in mind that when you delete wp-travel you will also delete all of its settings. If you only deactivate the plugin, its settings will remain and will not need to be entered again if the plugin is re-activated.
Under this section, we will list the queries of wp travel plugin along with their answers. This section is specially created to answere the query that people frequently ask.
25.1.How to remove last vertical line from Itineraries?
WP Travel plugin has been growing and has become this amazing product. Also, there has been no compromises in its growth and our development team has been working hard to get new features with each update. As a result with the version (1.7.6) we have come up with the exciting feature of cloning the existing trip.
This feature will reduce the effort of creating new trips each time especially with the similar kind of data. Cloning the trips will copy each and every data from the trips from which it has been cloned.