HOW TO USE BOOKING CALENDAR IN WORDPRESS

WHAT IS WORDPPRESS

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes

On a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management system licensed under GPLv2, which means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free. A content management system is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – like content – without needing to know anything about programming.

The end result is that WordPress makes building a website accessible to anyone – even people who aren’t developers.

What Kinds Of Websites Can WordPress Make?

Many years ago, WordPress was primarily a tool to create a blog, rather than more traditional websites. That hasn’t been true for a long time, though. Nowadays, thanks to changes to the core code, as well as WordPress’ massive ecosystem of plugins and themes, you can create any type of website with WordPress.

For example, not only does WordPress power a huge number of business sites and blogs, it’s also the most popular way to create an e-commerce store as well! With WordPress, you can create:

  • Business websites
  • eCommerce stores
  • Blogs
  • Portfolios
  • Resumes
  • Forums
  • Social networks
  • Membership sites
  • …pretty much anything else you can dream up.

FEATURES OF WORDPRESS

WordPress Benefits & Features

IQComputing builds websites on the best (and most popular) open source content management system (CMS) available today, WordPress, making it easy for you to manage your own website’s content. A proven and mature platform for more than a decade, WordPress enables you to manage your content quickly, intuitively, and with an easier learning curve than less-common open source website content management systems.

Our WordPress development gives you a platform that makes it possible to grow.  New features, new services, and new designs can be applied on top of your website avoiding the need for complete “start from scratch” relaunches.

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Easily Manage Your Website Content

Easily manage your website’s content as much as you want, whenever you want. With the intuitive WordPress content management system, you can login from any modern browser and make changes to your website without programming knowledge.

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Unlimited Pages, Posts, Products & More

Don’t limit yourself – You can add images, text, files, links, and embed media right on the content areas of your pages anytime you want and we don’t restrict the number of pages, posts, or products that you can add.

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Integrated News & Blog Posting

Take advantage of built-in blogging and blog category management by easily adding/editing/removing content as you need to. Add news articles on an ongoing basis directly from your browser!

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Flexible Post Scheduling

Posts can be scheduled to display at specific dates/times so that you can create content ahead of time and schedule it to be published. Create pages and posts, keeping them as drafts until you’re ready to publish them.

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Restore Deleted Pages & Rollback Versioning

You can easily restore deleted page content (before it is deleted permanently) and even roll back page text to previous versions using built-in version control features. Save pages so that only you can see what they look like or publish them live whenever you need.

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Website Portability & Vendor Lock-in Avoidance

We don’t want our customers to be locked into any provider. By using an open source platform, we ensure that website can be moved to a compatible environment should the need arise. Using “proprietary” CMS platforms can result in a total project restart should a CMS developer stop support for a system or raise prices.

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Easily Add Additional Website Editors

You can easily add/edit/remove additional editors to give others within your organization the ability to manage your website content. Self-service password resets and web-based content management make keeping your website fresh a snap!

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Managed Website Security

A website that is constantly suffering from outages or that keeps getting hacked does you no good and can result in a loss of customer confidence, potential sales, organic search engine ranking and a negative image for your brand. We take care of your WordPresss CMS security, backups, core upgrades, and updates for you as part of our managed web hosting services!

Combined with our managed business hosting services, we make use of proven development approaches to building websites to help avoid break-ins often associated with CMS-driven websites. We lock down your website to remove potentially dangerous entry points commonly used by hackers as well as malicious visitors. Security practices are constantly evaluated to ensure that new threats are identified and mitigated before your website is affected. Web nodes are firewalled and upgraded on an ongoing basis.

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Core Upgrades & Plugin Updates

We help to avoid software obsolescence by applying updates and core upgrades to your website’s CMS on an ongoing basis. This keeps your website on the current stable release development track so that you don’t have to worry about falling out of the CMS upgrade cycle as our team addresses this for you.

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Stability & Reliability

IQComputing evaluates and implements technologies that help to keep your website running. On our managed platform, third-party plugins are subject to review and testing process to help prevent security risks and to minimize performance impacts on your website. Just because it’s the latest doesn’t always mean that it’s the greatest for your website.

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Automatic Backups

Our managed website hosting services take automatic daily site-level backups as well as bare metal backups to help prevent the loss of data in the event of catastrophic failures.

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Diversified Infrastructure

Our diversified approach to infrastructure ensures that your website runs on a node that is dedicated to your website while mail, DNS, and other services run on nodes optimized for those environments.

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WordPress Web Design

When we work with WordPress web design, our team can design custom websites that stand out and communicate your message.  Your WordPress website can be responsive, easy to update, and can offer all of the features that a static website offers without sacrificing the benefits of a dynamic WordPress website.

Booking Calendar plugin enable awesome booking system for your site. Simply show availability and receive bookings for your property or service in easy to use booking system with clean and smooth interface.

Your website visitors can check availability of property (like apartment, house, hotel room, etc.) or any service you offer and make a booking in a minute for a full day(s) or specific timeslot (in Booking Calendar Free version). Different versions of WP Booking Calendar provide hundreds of features to complete almost any booking functionality for your business.

Your Customers will be able to:

  1. Select day(s) in calendar (which is possible to customize for fitting to your site design)
  2. Optional. Select available time-slot to book in your booking form.
  3. Fill booking form fields (which is possible to configure – change fields labels, activate/deactivate or set as required)
  4. Submit a booking

Administrator (and also your visitors) will receive notification email(s) about the new booking, and be able to Approve or Decline this reservation in Easy to Understand, sleek Admin Booking Panel (with possibility to see all bookings in day/week/month view of Calendar Overview mode – Timeline or just in Booking Listing Table).

KEY BENEFITS:

  • Extremely easy to use.
  • Very flexible functionality. Fit to very wide range of business.
  • All bookings and settings are stored in your DB. You don’t need third party account(s).
  • Sleek and customizable design of calendars, for fitting to your site design.
  • Nice time picker for time slots bookings
  • Responsive front end and back end design.
  • An easy to use Booking Admin Panel that displays bookings in Calendar Overview or Listing Table and lets you manages bookings.
  • Easy to install and integrate into your site. For example, using booking button in edit toolbar for configuration and inserting booking shortcode into post or page.
  • Booking Calendar Blocks for new Gutenberg Editor to add booking forms into pages.

PLUG-N-PLAY

Booking Calendar is built to work out of the box. Just activate it and insert booking shortcode into the post or page and you are ready to receive new bookings. Most of the settings have the predefined values and small descriptions.

FEATURES:

Make New Bookings on Client side.

  • Timeslots bookings in Booking Calendar Free version, as well. Ability to receive simple bookings for specific time-slots (times during selected day). Selection time slots in time picker or in dropdown list.
  • Make bookings in friendly booking interface – select the date(s) and fill booking form fields.
  • Prevent of double booking for already reserved days (1 booking per 1 day) or allow multiple (unlimited) bookings per same day in same calendar.
  • Set pending days as available in booking form. You can receive as many bookings as you need to and stop receiving bookings on specific date(s), when you approve some booking on specific date(s).
  • Timeline – Glance booking checking for a year, month or day, at front-end side of your website.
  • Booking form and calendar support fully responsive design that looks great on any device.

Manage your Bookings in Admin Panel.

  • Email notifications to administrator and site visitors about specific booking actions. Possibility to change the admin email.
  • Comfortable Admin Panel for booking management. View bookings in Calendar Overview Panel (Timeline) with possibility to set Day/Week/Month view or in Booking Listing Table.
  • Search the booking(s) by different parameters, using the Filter in Admin Panel.
  • Possibility to sort bookings by several parameters.
  • Set default dates format.
  • Pagination of the booking listing.
  • Possibility to set the different user roles for the each plugin menu pages.
  • Administrator can Approve or Decline specific bookings.
  • View the number of new bookings on the booking dashboard section.

Sync bookings

  • Native integration with our Booking Manager plugin for ability to import/export .ics feeds or files
  • Import .ics feeds via shortcodes at pages. It gives a great flexibility to import .ics feeds from different sources (like Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, VRBO, FlipKey or any other calendar that uses .ics format, including iCal (iCalendar)) into same booking resource.
  • Define different parameters in import shortcode, for example, you can set “start from” and “finish to” date condition or maximum number of items to import or import only events for available dates in exist calendar, etc…
  • Confgure custom ULRs at setting page for export bookings to .ics feeds/files, which possible to import in Google Calendar (or Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, VRBO, FlipKey and any other calendar that uses .ics format, including iCal (iCalendar)).

How do I use Calendar booking in WordPress?

  1. Select day(s) in calendar (which is possible to customize for fitting to your site design)
  2. Optional. Select available time-slot to book in your booking form.
  3. Fill booking form fields (which is possible to configure – change fields labels, activate/deactivate or set as required)
  4. Submit a booking.

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