Travel Booking Toolkit

外掛說明

The Travel Booking Toolkit plugin is for the Travel Booking theme by WP Travel Engine. It enhances the theme by adding extra features, including a Customizer and Widgets Section, to help you create professional travel and tour booking websites.

To make the most of this plugin, you must install and activate both the Travel Booking theme and the WP Travel Engine plugin.

ABOUT TRAVEL BOOKING WORDPRESS THEME

The Travel Booking theme is a free travel WordPress theme for creating travel and tour booking websites.

With over 1,000 active installations, the Travel Booking theme is one of travel and tour agencies’ most used and trusted themes in creating travel booking websites.

Using this theme, you can add trips, destinations, and trip types, feature travel activities, highlight specialties, and allow visitors to book trips through the website.

The Travel Booking theme is also compatible with the WP Travel Engine plugin, which gives you even more features and flexibility for creating your travel booking website.

CHECK THE DEMO OF THE TRAVEL BOOKING THEME

USEFUL LINKS

Docs | Video Tutorial | Support | Facebook Group

TRAVEL THEMES COMPATIBLE WITH THE TRAVEL BOOKING TOOLKIT PLUGIN

Travel Booking by WP Travel Engine
Travel Muni by WP Travel Engine

WIDGETS FOR TRAVEL BOOKING WEBSITES

The Travel Booking Toolkit plugin includes a variety of widgets that you can use to add custom functionality to your travel booking website. These widgets include:

  1. WP Travel Engine: Call To Action Widget
    You can use the WP Travel Engine: Call To Action widget to create a custom call-to-action button for your website. This widget allows you to change the text, link, color, alignment and to open in a new tab.

  2. WP Travel Engine: Client Logo
    You can display multiple client logos on your website with the customizable WP Travel Engine: Client Logo widget. This widget lets you choose each logo’s size, alignment, and border and add links to the client’s websites.

  3. WP Travel Engine: Icon Text Widget
    You can spotlight key details on your travel booking site with the WP Travel Engine: Icon Text widget. You can add customizable text and icons, choose their color and alignment, and highlight special deals or popular places on your site.

  4. WP Travel Engine: Recent Posts
    You can showcase recent posts on your booking site with the customizable WP Travel Engine: Recent Posts widget, allowing you to select the number of posts, display thumbnails and post dates, and choose from three layouts.

  5. WP Travel Engine: Category List
    With the WP Travel Engine: Category List widget, you can display a list of trip categories on your website filtered by multiple criteria, such as destination, activities, trip types, difficulty, and trip tag.

  6. WP Travel Engine: Contact Widget
    The WP Travel Engine: Contact widget lets you add a contact form to your website. You can add a title, description, phone number, email address, and social icons. You can also change the order of the social icons.

  7. WP Travel Engine: Image Text Widget
    You can easily place images and text on your site using the WP Travel Engine: Image Text widget, making them look good and easy to read by picking the right size and alignment.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR TRAVEL BOOKING WEBSITE WITH SECTIONS

Customize your travel booking website to match your branding and showcase essential information to your visitors.

Use the following customizable sections to create a website that is both visually appealing and informative:

  1. Banner Section
    You can introduce your website and services with a bold and eye-catching banner.

  2. About Section
    Here, you can highlight what makes your travel booking site unique.

  3. Popular Packages
    You can showcase your most popular travel packages and make it easy for visitors to book their next trip.

  4. Call to Action One Section
    You can encourage visitors to take a specific action, such as signing up for your newsletter or booking a consultation.

  5. Featured Section
    You can highlight special offers, promotions, or new travel packages.

  6. Deals Section
    You can attract budget-minded travelers with exclusive deals and discounts.

  7. Destination Section
    You can provide helpful information about popular travel destinations, such as itineraries, tips, and recommendations.

  8. Call to Action Two Section
    You can encourage visitors to take specific actions, such as contacting or following your travel booking site on social media.

  9. Activities Section
    You can highlight the activities and attractions travelers can enjoy at their destination.

  10. Blog Section
    You can share travel tips, stories, and inspiration to keep visitors coming back for more.

ABOUT WP TRAVEL ENGINE PLUGIN

WP Travel Engine is a WordPress plugin that you can use to create travel booking websites that are optimized for search engines.

With over 10,000 active installations and 145+ reviews with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5, WP Travel Engine is one of the most popular and trusted travel and tour booking plugins available.

WP Travel Engine has all the tools you need to create a successful travel booking website, from creating complete itineraries to collecting customer payments.

CHECK THE DEMO OF THE WP TRAVEL ENGINE

USEFUL LINKS

All Add-ons | Travel and Tour Themes | Video Tutorials | User Documentation

EXTEND FEATURES WITH ADD-ONS

WP Travel Engine plugin offers many add-ons to enhance your website’s functionalities and provide a smooth booking experience to your guests.

Explore the features to see why it is arguably the most effective travel and tour booking plugin for WordPress.

USER EXPERIENCE

  • Trip Fixed Starting Dates — You can create travel packages with varied departure dates, times, budgets, and preferences, allowing guests to easily find and book their ideal travel package.

  • Advanced Itinerary Builder — You can create comprehensive itineraries with various features, including a text editor, meals, duration, accommodation, altitude charts, and galleries.

  • Per Trip Emails — You can create custom emails for each trip to personalize and increase guest engagement.

  • Form Editor — You can edit and customize forms to personalize the booking experience for your guests.

  • Email Customizer — You can create customizable and personalized email templates for booking and payment notifications, reflecting your brand’s unique identity.

  • Currency Converter — The add-on automatically converts tour prices to local currency based on the guest’s location.

  • Trip Weather Forecast — The add-on allows you to add weather forecast information to each trip.

UPSELL (INCREASE AVERAGE ORDER VALUE)

  • Group Discount — Offering group discounts can increase revenue by increasing AOV and encouraging more people to book trips. Additionally, this feature can help you fill up trip dates that might otherwise be empty.

  • Extra Services — You can increase bookings’ average order value (AOV) by offering extra services to guests, such as airport pickup/drop, room upgrades, and other extra services.

MARKETING

  • Partial Payment — You can set upfront payments for tours so that guests can pay a percentage or fixed amount upfront and the rest later.

  • User History — The add-on helps you track guests’ booking journeys to understand their behavior and make informed decisions.

  • Trips Embedder — You can embed trips in your website, influencer, and affiliate blog posts to drive traffic and increase bookings.

LEAD CAPTURE

  • Itinerary Downloader — The add-on creates tour brochures in PDF that guests can download and read offline, saving you time and money on design costs.

  • File Downloads — You can attach downloadable files to trips for guest access. While providing an email address is optional for guests, you can also gather leads by mandating an email for file downloads.

CONVERSION

  • Legal Documents — The add-on enables adding physical and legal documents to the site, which can be displayed on pages, posts, or widgets via shortcodes for user access or download.

  • Trip Reviews — You can allow guests to submit reviews on the website, enhancing trust and boosting bookings.

  • Trip Fixed Starting Dates CountDown — You can add a countdown timer for the trip starting date, creating a sense of urgency and encouraging quick bookings.

  • Social Proof — You can use social proof to boost conversions by informing guests that others have purchased trips from you, as research indicates that social proof can increase conversion rates.

AUTOMATION

  • Zapier — You can connect WP Travel Engine to the Zapier automation platform to streamline workflows and save time.

PAYMENT GATEWAYS SUPPORTED

WP Travel Engine supports all major payment gateways for most bookings.

WOOCOMMERCE PAYMENT

WP Travel Engine supports all the payment gateways supported by WooCommerce, the world’s leading e-commerce plugin. It means you can use your local payment method to receive payments for your travel packages.

OTHER PAYMENT GATEWAY ADD-ONS

WP Travel Engine also supports PayPal Standard, Book Now Pay Later, Direct Bank Transfer, and Check payment methods.

FREE TRAVEL BOOKING THEMES COMPATIBLE WITH WP TRAVEL ENGINE

PREMIUM TRAVEL BOOKING THEMES COMPATIBLE WITH WP TRAVEL ENGINE

WP TRAVEL ENGINE FEATURES

  1. Unlimited Travel Packages — You can easily create and sell an unlimited number of tours. Effortlessly include tour details, gallery, itineraries, regular and sales prices, duration, trip facts, FAQs, and the included and excluded costs.

  2. Advanced Trip Search and Filter — You can use the existing search filters or create custom ones to enable your customers to locate the suitable trip according to destination, budget, duration, activities, trip types, and more.

  3. Smart Travel Booking Process — The trip booking process is streamlined, fast, and easy, with automatic price adjustments based on the number of people selected and a booking form that only includes essential fields, resulting in faster bookings and more sales.

  4. Payment Processing — WP Travel Engine accepts various payment gateways, allowing your customers to make bookings online and enabling you to receive payments promptly.

  5. Progress Bar — WP Travel Engine features an attractive progress bar that visually displays the time of progress a guest has made in booking a tour. Studies have indicated that a progress bar can enhance bookings and sales.

  6. Enquiry Form — WP Travel Engine has an inquiry form on the trip page, making it easy for customers to find, fill, and contact you, leading to more inquiries about your travel packages.

  7. Booking Email Notification — You can personalize the message sent to your customers upon booking a trip. Additionally, whenever a traveler makes a booking on your site, you will be notified via email containing all the relevant booking details.

  8. Booking Details — All booking information, including the travelers’ details, is securely stored on your website. You can access any booking details or information with just a few clicks whenever needed.

  9. Discount Coupon — You can generate various coupons to provide discounts to customers, encouraging them to make bookings.

  10. Create More Tabs — You can use the existing four tabs (Overview, Itinerary, Costs, and FAQs) on each page and, if more are needed, easily create and reorder them!

  11. Unlimited Trip Facts — You can create unlimited ‘Facts’ for trips, including group size, meals, accommodation, optimal visit times, and more, while adding them to various trips.

  12. Destination Page — You can effortlessly establish pages for destinations like London, USA, and Nepal. This way, when a traveler visits a specific destination page, like Nepal, they can view all the trips associated with that destination.

  13. Activities Page — You can develop pages for various activities like hiking, sightseeing tours, mountain biking, skiing, etc. It enables customers visiting your website to explore the diverse activities available and the trips related to them. For instance, customers who access a hiking activity page will be presented with all the hiking-related trips.

  14. Trip Type Page — You can organize trips based on their specific types. For instance, you can plan trip categories such as dog-friendly, child-friendly, budget travel, nature walks, and weekend trips. So, when customers navigate to a specific type of page, like dog-friendly, they can view all dog-friendly trips.

  15. Currency — You have the option to select the currency in which you want to sell your trip package.

TRAVEL SEO FEATURES (Schema Markup)

WP Travel Engine is compatible with travel schema markup (JSON-LD format), aiding search engines in better understanding your website content. It transforms unstructured data into structured, enhancing the efficiency of search engine crawlers on your site and boosting organic visibility and ranking.

By meeting the criteria of the Schema Markup Validator Test and Rich Schema Test, WP Travel Engine provides your website with a competitive edge in SEO.

Translation Ready
The plugin is fully prepared for translation, allowing you to convert your website into any language you desire.

Multilingual
WP Travel Engine is compatible with WPML and Polylang, the two most popular multilingual translation plugins for WordPress. You can easily create a multilingual travel website to reach a wider audience and gain a competitive edge.

GUTENBERG BLOCKS

WP Travel Engine provides six blocks for Gutenberg in the core plugin.

The blocks included are:

  • Trips — You can showcase trips based on specific conditions (featured, latest, on sales, and custom selection) and have the option to select from layouts and additional filters.

  • Destinations — You can present Destinations using various filters and select from three different layouts.

  • Trip Types — You can showcase Trip Types based on many filters and choose from one of three layouts.

  • Activities — You can present Activities using various filters and select from three available layouts.

  • Trip Search — You can arrange the Search filter horizontally or vertically and add search criteria like destination, duration, price, activities, etc.

  • Terms — You can showcase trip categories created under Custom Filters, such as Destinations, Activities, and Trip Types.

WP TRAVEL ENGINE – ELEMENTOR WIDGETS

HOW TO USE WP TRAVEL ENGINE ELEMENTOR WIDGETS

CREATING SINGLE TRIP PAGES WITH WP TRAVEL ENGINE ELEMENTOR

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安裝方式

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

  1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
  2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
  3. Select travel-booking-toolkit.zip from your computer
  4. Click ‘Install Now’
  5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

  1. Download travel-booking-toolkit.zip
  2. Extract the travel-booking-toolkit directory to your computer
  3. Upload the travel-booking-toolkit directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

常見問題集

WHAT FEATURES DOES THIS PLUGIN ADD?

The Travel Booking Toolkit plugin is a collection of widgets that also adds extra options for customizing the Travel Booking theme’s home page.

WILL THE TRAVEL BOOKING TOOLKIT WORK ON OTHER THEMES?

Initially, the plugin was designed to work with the Travel Booking theme by WP Travel Engine, but some widgets within the plugin might work with other themes.

WHAT IS THE PLUGIN LICENSE?

The plugin is open-source and licensed under GPL v2.0+, which means you can use, change, and distribute it freely if any changes you make are released under the same license.

IS THE WP TRAVEL ENGINE PLUGIN DEPENDENT ON THE TRAVEL BOOKING TOOLKIT PLUGIN?

No, the WP Travel Engine operates independently. Yet, using it with the Travel Booking theme and the Toolkit will enhance functionality and user experience by providing extra widgets and customization options for travel booking websites.

HOW DOES THE WP TRAVEL ENGINE ENHANCE MY SITE’S SEO?

WP Travel Engine support for travel schema markup in JSON-LD format. This schema markup enhances the understanding of search engines regarding your website content by converting unstructured data into a structured format. It allows for more efficient crawling by search engine bots, ultimately improving organic visibility and ranking.

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變更記錄

1.2.4

Released on: 30th July, 2024

  • Compatibility Updates

1.2.3

Released on: 15th April, 2024

  • Compatibility Updates

1.2.2

Released on: 7th June, 2023
* Fix: Added missing translation.

1.2.1

Released on: 2nd May, 2023

  • Compatibility Updates

1.2.0

Released on: 1st December, 2022
* Footer customizer text changed.
* Compatibility update for WTE Trip widgets section on homepage
* Minor bug fixes.

1.1.11

Released on: 14th September, 2022

  • Compatibility update for WTE Plugin
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.10

Released on: 10th August, 2022

  • Compatibility update for themes
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.9

Released on: 1st August, 2022

  • Compatibility update for themes
  • Compatibility update for WP 5.9.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.8

Released on: 10th June, 2021

Fixes:
* Compatibility update for WP Travel Engine and Fixed Departure Dates.
* Minor bug fixes.

1.1.7

Released on: 3rd June, 2021

Fixes:

  • Compatibility update for WP Travel Engine 5.0.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.5

Released on: 19th August, 2020

Fixes:

  • Compatibility testing for WordPress 5.5.
  • Group Discount issue fixes in Deals, Featured and Popular sections.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.4

Released on: 3rd July, 2020

Fixes:

  • Compatibility added for Currency Converter addon.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.3

Released on: 18th June, 2020

Enhancements:

  • Compatibility added for Trip Fixed Starting Dates 2.0.
  • Compatibility added for WP Travel Engine 4.0.

Fixes:

  • Markup updated for Deals, Popular, and Featured section.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.2

Released on: 2nd April, 2020

Enhancements:

  • Compatibility testing for WordPress 5.4

Fixes:

  • Markup updated for Deals, Popular, and Featured section.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.1

Released on: 18th February, 2020

Fixes:

  • Trip Review compatible in featured trip, popular and deals section.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.1.0

Released on: 15th November, 2019

Fixes:

  • Fixed JS error in Customizer.
  • Minor bug fixes.

1.0.9

Released on: 12th November, 2019

Enhancements:

  • Days/Nights String translation issue fixed
  • Compatibility testing WordPress 5.3.

1.0.8

Released on: 16th October, 2019

Enhancements:

  • Filtering Days in singular or plural form
  • Posts date format specified to the default date_format option

1.0.7

  • Featured Section issue fixed

1.0.6

  • WP Travel Engine Compatible
  • Theme Compatible

1.0.5

  • Contact Widget issue fixed

1.0.4

  • Code updated to control departure dates in homepage.
  • Added Anchor link target in call-to-action, client-logo, category list, icon-text widget & Recent Post widgets
  • Fixed multiple widgets repeater conflicts in call to action, client logo widget
  • Js defer
  • Added filters for all the widgets
  • Customizer About Us Section issue fixed
  • Loading js assets in footer
  • Images optimized for Lazy Loading
  • Fontawesome 5.6.3 updated

1.0.3

  • Some design issues fixed

1.0.2

  • Slug to Id Conversion

1.0.1

  • More Sections Added
  • More Widgets Added

1.0.0

  • Initial Version