One of the most important steps in testing your WordPress theme with development purposes is filling it with a sample data and defining how the template looks and runs with the actual hypothetical content. As it’s a hard task to add this dummy content manually, this process should be automated: you can either use particular plugins for this purpose or add theme unit test data.

Theme unit test data

It’s a sample content for WordPress theme development packed into XML file. It’s generally used by developers and WordPress theme review team. This data is very useful as it helps you create a WordPress theme that meets all compatibility needs – with its help you can check your WordPress theme for HTML tags, formatting, widgets, comments, etc.

Here is a short instruction (from WordPress Codex) of how to add theme unit test data:

1. Download the theme unit test data
2. Go to Tools > Import > WordPress in order to import test data onto your WordPress website.
3. Select the downloaded XML file from your computer.
4. “Upload and import”.
5. Check the “Download and import file attachments” box and click Submit.

You will also need to apply the appropriate WordPress settings.

Theme unit test data includes all up-to-date sample content to test categories, child categories, menu items, pages, comments, images, etc. This instruction can come in handy for both developers with testing purposes and WordPress users who just installed their themes. However, WordPress theme providers might have different instructions and custom XML files for installing sample data.

Free WordPress plugins to generate sample content

Another popular solution you can use is installing the plugin that will generate dummy content for your website. There are a couple of tools that can actually do this job for you:

Lorem shortcode
It generate dummy texts and images for your website. You can also set various needed parameters to apply on the site.

FakePress
This plugin can help you generate the following dummy data: posts, custom post types, tags, categories, comments, features image, etc. With this tool you can also test your your plugins.

There are even more easy-to-use solutions that can help you generate and import sample data into your WordPress theme (like Dummy Text Generator, etc.).

Adding quick demo data installation option for your users

End theme users will be certainly delighted to see they have an option to import sample content into their themes easily (if you offer this option within your theme). It’s already very popular and is implemented into multiple WordPress themes as one of the steps of the theme installation. There are a couple of reliable plugins that can help you do this.

The most popular solution is One click demo import plugin. It imports your demo content, widgets and theme settings with one click. It helps clone the demo data to a customer’s website. So, on the installation step the customers will be asked whether they want to proceed with “One Click” import of the demo content and actually install it in one click. More instructions of how to work with this plugin can be found on the official page of the plugin.

Endnote

More automation in WordPress means saving tons of time and efforts for you. Especially if it comes about dummy data. Hopefully, this information will help you follow the right direction in your testings and customizing a WordPress theme!

Have you been waiting for fresh updates of the MotoPress Slider plugin for WordPress? Meet them in a new version 2.0.0! Now your admin toolkit is more intuitive and more powerful, especially in terms of adjusting the slider to various screen sizes of popular devices. As the recent SEO statistics claim, 60% of American adults use smartphones and tablets to search for local product and service, namely, your business or personal project loses almost a half of its potential if mobile and tablet users are not served properly. As on the vast majority of websites the slider comes first on the front page, the matter of mobile optimization became the main field to act on during recent MotoPress Slider plugin improvements.

So, let’s get down to the updates!

Your slider is more flexible

The layers of the slider are now more easily customized for various devices. You are free to manually configure slider width and height for different screen resolutions such as desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile. To check out the settings, go to your WordPress Dashboard > MotoPress Slider > Size tab in settings. In this area you can tick the needed devices to enable their further editing and set the desired width and height by changing initial dimensions:

Now you are able to continue adjusting each particular layer of the slider right in the admin area – for this you need to go editing your slide. There from the right side you’ll see the drop-down menu with all available devices (ticked in Settings). When you need to perform any changes to content elements (layers) of your slide on the particular device, just select the needed screen size from the drop-down menu and edit the slide styles, size and position.

In this way you are able to create the most optimal viewing and navigation experience for the users of the particular devices. For example, the landscape desktop view can be replaced with more suitable portrait view for mobiles. Moreover, you can completely re-arrange slider layers, change their size, and perform any other tricks to make the slider look maximum attractive. You don’t have to duplicate the slider and its content anymore. For example, take this landscape slide viewing which is perfect on a desktop:

And make a couple of changes for the mobile version transforming the layout into a portrait:

Such modifications help you create the most optimal slider viewing on mobile, laptop and tablet devices. In general, you can customize:

• Layer size
• Layer position
• Font size
• Line-height
• Text-align

More new features

Apart from major updates, you also get the following options:

– You can optionally hide a layer if a current screen width (of the user’s device) is less than set in layer options.

– You are free to disable automatic resizing and positioning of the layer for different screen sizes under the Size tab in Slider settings.

– You get more animation easing effects for the slider.

Conclusions

These updates of the MotoPress Slider plugin for WordPress are beneficial for both sides: website admins save tons of time for customization (backend) and the website visitors definitely get a better user experience (frontend) .

Feedbacks or ideas? You know that those are our main fuel for improvements, so don’t hesitate to speak your mind in comments!

This cool feature appears in a recent version 1.1.4 of the Demo Builder for any WordPress product plugin. For those unfamiliar, this fresh MotoPress tool helps developers and business owners promote the plugins and themes in demo presentations with an additional option of provide the prospects with trial accounts.Thanks to the feedback of our first customers, we’ve made some important improvements to help you stay in tune with your requirements. See what was done and how you can benefit from the updates!

In the first version of the plugin you could create a demo website using your main one.

See how we released it.

But of course if you have different products, you probably want to feature them on different backgrounds, themes, with different content, etc. And moreover, you want to provide users with an easier way of creating their trial account for testing a particular product and have different links for sandbox registration.

All this is now real thanks to a new option of creating a demo website from the specific sub-site.

Namely, if you have say 3 WordPress products to feature and want to get different links with sandbox registration forms for all of them, you’ll need to create your demo websites from the different sub-sites and accordingly create 3 registration forms each with a unique ID.

To perform all this, you firstly have to go to your WordPress Multisite Network and create a needed number of new sites and customize them – add content, activate plugins, set restrictions, etc. So, all of the sub-sites will have their individual settings and look.  What you also need on this step is remembering the site IDs. Don’t forget to find it out – just hover the mouse over a website link:

To add a sandbox registration form, go to the blog which is not a sandbox > customize the form and put the needed sub-site ID:

Now each particular sandbox will be created with its particular activated theme, content and restrictions.

You may check out the updated documentation for more details:

And then tick Enable Administration menus – Plugins options. This gives you access to restrictions of a particular blog, where you can tick “Plugins” to allow users activate and deactivate the plugins.

Please note that this option is foremost controlled by WordPress, so if the user role of the created demo site is not Administrator, the plugins won’t be visible for a demo user in a sandbox. So make sure to set a preferable user role for the sandbox:

• Restrict access to specific pages

This new option allows you to manually hide a needed page from the sandbox if you were not able to do that via the Restrictions menu. So you may just add the needed URLs – each from the new line.

• Keep the user after their sandbox is expired

When the trial period is over, the data of the sandbox will be deleted, but you still may keep the email address of the user to continue communication.

Looks like all main updates are already mentioned.

We hope that they will improve your experience of managing the plugin! Any other ideas or questions are welcome, just share them in any convenient way.

Google search algorithm can be changed quicker (around 500 times per year) than you write blog posts, voice search trend is growing faster than you realize it actually exists, paid ads may decrease trustful relationships with your prospects. These are the realities of SEO and if you take a good care of your WordPress website from this perspective, check out this post to find out more about core SEO trends in 2017.

Let’s at first define the main conceptual pathways around the trends:

• Paid ads are not your best friends. As well as aggressive or black-hat SEO techniques may lead to breaking up your relations with search engines, markers like “Ads” or “Sponsored” next to the link to your website are lowering down clicking rates. People don’t trust popularity gained through a payment and continue searching for organic results.

• Search engine optimization is not a plugin, but a process. So, if you want to get all the work done with any popular WordPress SEO plugin only, it’s not going to work. Of course, Yoast SEO or All-In-One SEO Pack are huge reliable helpers, but you should spend more time and use more tools to properly analyze and improve the optimization of your website.

• Focus on the user. Make interaction with your website easier for a user. Understanding that this interaction starts not with the front page of your website but with its appearance in search engines. As researches from KissMetrics explain, “ensuring a great user experience is the first step in conversion rate optimization”.

So, let’s get down to the actual trends.

Researches from Alameda Internet Marketing agency interviewed 37 SEO experts asking them to give their vision on SEO trends for 2017. What you should pay attention to when optimizing the website for future, that is. The results of the research they presented in the following chart:

Let’s now revise the main features of the core trends.

Pop-up bans

There is something new you should know regarding “Optimization for mobile”. Mobile pop-ups are annoying not only for humans. And Google may penalize websites that use them. It’s officially claimed on the Google Webmaster Central blog:

“To improve the mobile search experience, after January 10, 2017, pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the transition from the mobile search results may not rank as highly.”

On the blog they also put some examples you should avoid using for your mobile website:

So, what’s wrong with this kind of ads (the so-called interstitials)? To compare with other ads, these require user’s action in order to be closed. If your users have to manually ‘fight’ with ads, it’s a huge minutes to the UX and overall SEO ranking accordingly. And from 2017 your website can be even penalized for it.

However, the things like cookie permissions, age verification, and small side banners are fine for Google.

Many huge publishers who use the splash screen banners and other pop-ups are afraid new rules may have a bad effect on their business. But Google’s focus on a user and mobile friendliness has its common sense: smartphones take the second place (80%) among the most popular devices used to search the Internet (91% for desktops and laptops).

So, the needs of the users are the most important, so the interested business should look for alternatives (like wisely placed side or top banners).

This is actually a step in a long journey of mobile optimization. Back in 2015, Google created a mobile-friendly test to quickly see whether your website looks fine for a robot (and users accordingly). If you have not tried it yet, check it out here – the test should help you define whether your website looks fine on mobiles in Google’s eyes:

Links matter

Search engines love authoritative domains. One of the main things that helps building this authority is quality organic links. Despite all new tendencies, this one remains highly important and you should work hard on building your links strategy.

Canonical URL
If you have the same content available under different URLs, it’s important to mark one page as the canonical. In this way search engines will have less problems indexing the same content. Canonical links become more and more important for all types of website, not just WordPress ones. WordPress SEO gurus like developers of Yoast SEO plugin stress the importance of canonical URLs – it helps fight with a duplicated content and build a smart links hierarchy.

Nofollow links – to be or not to be?

A lot of WordPress owners don’t use nofollow links. In general, all created links are dofollow – it means the websites containing them receive a link juice and are ranked better. Nofollow links, on contrary, don’t give your website that juice, but still generate natural traffic which is also very important. Nofollow links are also essential if you deal with affiliate links (which are so highly popular in WordPress space). How to find dofollow and nofollow links, you may check this post.

Interlinks
Work on adding more internal links – whether it’s a blog post or a product page. They will help you keep the users on your site for longer time spreading link juice throughout your site. If Google doesn’t have a clear way to reach any of internal links, as Moz explains, “these pages basically don’t exist – great content, good keyword targeting, and smart marketing don’t make any difference at all if the spiders (Google) can’t reach those pages in the first place.” So make sure to relink all possible related pages.

Moz gives you a great tool to discover and increase your link-building opportunities:

Evergreen content

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of unique content for the website SEO. WordPress space in particular provides lots of resources to help you polish your content and make it more optimized for the search engines (e.g. new Readability option of the already mentioned Yoast SEO plugin).

Quality content plays a key role in SEO marketing and literally creates your image across the net. All brand businesses who already achieved huge success advise to hire a talented content creator who can reflect your ideas in depth and clearly.

As for evergreen content, what’s this? Similarly to the well-known trees, it’s a content that stay relevant for a longer period of time. It’s able to deliver new traffic and social shares, namely, it’s able to create value for your readers now and for months and years on.

There are several quick points that define your content as evergreen:

– solving real readers’ needs
– high quality and readability
– creativity
– “long clicks” through the text to make sure the content is really satisfying, and it’s useful for a different audiences and niches.

All in all, it won’t only bring you more traffic, but it will eliminate the needs to update it regularly.

Local SEO

You probably want to skip this paragraph because your business is not locally limited or an online-only business. But there are lots of thoughts across the net that prove the importance of local SEO for the vast majority of businesses. Even for those mentioned ones.

In one of the recent posts on Moz Rand Fishkin explains that it’s a huge resource for improving your SEO possibilities and at the same time a very promising technique of for all SEO guides for 2017.

There are lots of hidden benefits you may get from local links:

• boosting maps visibility (your business may show up higher if someone is looking for a relative business in your area)
• Increasing local rankings
• Boosting domain authority as each link matters
• Sending organic traffic (e.g. if your website is submitted to TripAdvisor, Booking, etc.).

Rand is explaining more in this video for MOZ:

Voice search

So, is it already the right time to think about optimizing your WordPress website to voice search?

This year in March Principal Engineer at Google, Zurich claimed that 55% of teens and 41% of adults use voice search daily. That’s impressive. So a lot of authors of SEO resources now reflect on whether voice search is going to change the future of SEO.

But incorporating voice search strategy into website is still a very daunting and unclear task. The main feature of the voice search is asking questions in a conversational tone, but optimizing a website content to such a tone is not a universal strategy.

That’s why developers and SEO engineers just make the first steps in creating an ultimate strategy around optimizing your website to the voice search. Among them are:

• Adjusting context with schema markup
• Microdata optimization (your XML sitemaps)
• FAQ pages are becoming even more important, etc.

As it was noticed at the beginning of this post, in the predictions of SEO gurus voice search is somewhere in the middle among SEO trends of 2017. Though it’s not a rush, this topic is going to be highly discussed and should take place in your stockpile of future strategies of the website optimization.

Wrapping it up

Though new SEO trends are growing quickly, does it mean you should spread your resources for everything at once? No, it’s a way to nowhere. Much better to keep up with the latest trends, but filter out all information and build your SEO strategy step by step.

By the way, do you have your own SEO trend prediction?

At last! We expect to make many Restaurant Menu plugin users happy with so patiently long-awaited news. Meet fresh Delivery and Toppings addons that aim to significantly extend conversion opportunities of your business and increase a happy user experience of your customers. As for why, it’ll take more time to explain!

If to believe predictive analytics, there are tons of odds it will be fully overtaken in 2017.
Namely, using online food ordering systems with delivery services is rather a habit of modern Internet users, which should be properly served.

Remember, here we talked about how you can sell food and drinks online with free Restaurant Menu plugin for WordPress?

Now let’s have a closer look at the core features of the Delivery extension which is now  available for your WordPress Restaurant menu:

• two main options: delivery and pickup services (on both free and paid basis);
• ability to make order taxable;
• opportunity to let customers choose the best time for delivery;
• handy order submission form – customers are satisfied with the form usability, you get all needed details logically structured;
• option to grant free delivery for a specific minimum order amount;
• easy admin management – all orders are stored at one place, organized for quick access and, moreover, fully editable (in case the customer wants to add/remove anything). 

It won’t take much to configure the main settings of the plugin.

So, to make it work according to your requirements, go to Restaurant Menu > Settings > toggle to Extension tab> find Delivery Settings. The settings are pretty intuitive so you should not have any troubles, just follow these easy steps:

1. Turn on delivery services – this way you notify the customers that their order can be delivered.
2. If the delivery chargeable, set its price in the appropriate field or put 0 if it’s free.
3. Specify whether the order is taxable.
4. If free delivery for a specific amount of order is available, specify a minimum order amount for it.
5. If pickup option is available, turn it on and fill in the next fields: address to pick up from, best time of delivery, minimum time interval for delivery and any other useful information if needed.

Basically, your online buyers will see the following order submission form on the checkout page, which is very intuitive. They’ll need to submit some personal details needed for the order to be delivered:

…and billing info (remember that you can place a test payment to test how the form works):

If you toggle to Restaurant menu > Orders you can view all orders, their statuses (pending, complete, failed, cooking, shipping, etc.), addresses for delivery, amount of the order and other details for quick preview:

Moreover, if the customer who already placed an order wants to update it somehow (add or remove items, customize the dishes), plugin administrator can easily edit the needed order details according to customer’s request. Simply find the needed order and click “Edit”:

So, these are major moments of working with Delivery addon for your WordPress Restaurant menu by MotoPress. If want to learn more or get the addon, click the button below:

Time to cover the main advantages of another extension we’ve just released: Toppings addon.

This is a perfect tool to increase the amount of order in each shopping cart in a natural way: if you offer more available ingredients or products for additional purchase, online buyers are more likely to add something else. This way they get more customized orders in result and feel that their personal complex demands are met. Moreover, if you have some free optional extras, you can also list them along with a menu item.

So, what are the main options and benefits of this addon? Let’s make a quick list:

• ability to supply each menu item with the needed amount of some extra ingredients/dishes available for additional purchase;
• selection controls of the toppings: which way is the most suitable to show a list of toppings to customers;
• easy checkout: the chosen toppings are automatically added to the cart with still editable quantity;
• easy management process: add and customize toppings in a few clicks;
• featured image of a topping: make toppings more attractive to customers by adding tasty images;
• pizza builder – it’s a general name of the plugin option, which basically means you can offer customers to completely customize their orders, just like design their own pizza with chosen ingredients.

General settings for the plugin are accessible via the same menu for all addons under Extensions tab, or, to be more precise go here: Restaurant Menu > Settings > toggle to Extension tab> find Toppings Settings. Here you can update a label for Add a topping button and text notification to show to customers:

When you need to add any new topping, go to Topping under Restaurant menu > click Add topping and customize it. Apart from the title, description and featured image, you can choose the most appropriate selection controls:

When the topping and its price is added, you should go tie it to the appropriate menu item: Restaurant Menu > Menu items > choose the needed one > scroll down to Toppings > choose the needed ones:

As already mentioned in features, you can allow the customers to fully customize the menu item including a menu item builder. We’ve created an example of Pizza builder with a help of Toppings extension, which allows to choose the size and ingredients of the dish:

As you might see, a couple of really easily manageable tools can drive your food business for much more sales and increase its popularity among modern users. If you were thinking of the ways to make your restaurant or cafe business more profitable, just give these new tools a try and great outcome won’t make you wait!

Any ideas or suggestions regarding the plugins in questions are more than welcome here!

It’s a high time to add some free goodies to your online restaurant powered by WordPress and MotoPress, agree? Along with some really conversion-boosting extensions for your Restaurant menu plugin, we’ve just released another useful addon, which is available for free download: Restaurant menu cart.

This plugin automatically adds a shopping cart icon into any available menu of your WordPress website and makes it so familiar and easy to use for online shoppers, so the whole process becomes even more intuitive for them. See how you can modify this plugin.

First up, download and activate the plugin, then navigate to Restaurant Menu > Settings > Menu cart, where you’ll see the alternatives of various options (including the menu where the shopping cart icon should appear):

On the next step, you can choose when the icon should be displayed: always or only when something is already added into the cart:

Moreover, you have a great choice of icons to choose from for your shopping cart:

You can also customize what items should be visible in the cart: the number of items, price or both. Also, don’t forget to specify the alignment that would have the most optimal look for your particular menu:

Moreover, if you have any custom styles to add, just input them into the appropriate filed and save the changes:

Hopefully, this useful addon will come in handy in improving your online restaurant menu.

More good news to come. Stay tuned!

It can be extremely difficult to find the proper and quality image to use it in your holiday greeting card, newsletter or even article, so we give you a beautiful pack of Christmas and New Year Stock Photos absolutely for free, though its price is $15.

Just copy the code: MotoPress2017 paste it at the checkout page, download the bundle with images and amaze your fellows and colleagues with sparkling and charming wishes.

Specials thanks to our friends from MasterBundles for this great festive bundle. We wish Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you for being with MotoPress.

Subscribe, choose a domain name, pay – your new website is up and running. No need to look for the best hosting, tinker with installation, additional plugins and other stuff. Sounds too simple to be true? Absolutely not. All this is possible with a new awesome service – 1-click installation of Emmet Business WordPress theme. It’s a fully automatic process of instant website setup in literally one click, whereas your task is to choose a domain name and fill the template with your custom content.

To make it all real for MotoPress customers we’ve partnered up with experienced and reliable ThemeCloud agency that helps set up WordPress websites instantly. If you don’t have time or experience to handle each step separately, this offer perfectly suits your needs.

Features

So, what else will you get within this service for Emmet WordPress theme? Tons of useful features:

You are free to add a background image that will be displayed in each section where background is not customizable (e.g. Blog). To set the image go to Customizer > Background image > Change image. In the same menu you may also update image position choosing from “Image Size” drop-down menu.

If you don’t plan to use background image, you may set another image for the upper front page section. Upload it to Customizer > First Section > Select image. In this way your image will be fully separated from the navigation menu and header. Just like here (I’ve also deleted calendar and added a simple “contact me” button):

Entrepreneur theme engine also allows you to feature all your service and prices in the appropriate tables: go to Customizer > Services section. Here you can edit the title, button label, button URL and add a background image. To add content to this section, go to “Entrepreneur – Services & Prices” widgets to “Customize > Widgets > Services & Prices section. Let’s feature some services the photographer can offer:

You may also add a photo gallery to feature separate work or projects. It comes with stylish hover effects and an option to set a background image.

For example, photographers can display the best works or, like in the example below, the latest collection of photos:

You may also add a fullscreen slider of testimonials, where it’s possible to add a background image and a photo of each author.

To add and customize testimonials, go to WordPress Dashboard > Testimonials > Add New:

You may also add a call-to-action section to create immediate value of your offerings to potential customers (Customizer > Call to Action Section):

Moreover, the theme comes with a free version of a visual MotoPress Page Builder that helps create more professional and personalized pages with different types of content. Using it, you’ll be able to add any type of content module (like text, buttons, images, sliders, tables, charts, etc) – drag-and-drop, fronted editing and tons of customization tools for each element:

Conclusions

As you might sum up, the template can serve absolutely different types of business. It is very easy to tweak to your needs no matter if you provide consulting services, build a creative portfolio or offer furniture repairing service. Just start with adding your services and prices, show some examples, add testimonials and posts for blog, adjust colors and images – you are mostly ready to go!

Good news for a variety of hotel establishments! We’ve expanded the product line with one more useful tool – Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress. If it’s your niche and you are thinking about delivering new conveniences and services to enhance guest experience of your website, or have not even started building a hotel website yet – this plugin is ready to perform both tasks. It will help roll up your hotel communication and management into one platform and do your business much easier.

Why so? The plugin is not limited to implementing online booking service alone – it’s a complete WordPress solution for featuring rooms, rates, services and other information to properly present your entire hotel. Additionally, the travelers won’t only get the idea of what you offer, but will be able to quickly book a needed room without any human interaction or direct communication.

If you’ve got a WordPress website set up (in the process or just think about it), a bit of inspiration and a cool plugin we are talking about, you may just start plain sailing from this post and see how you can create your hotel website with less efforts.

But at first let’s dive into the main features and opportunities of the plugin.

Feature any property type

No matter if you run a huge hotel with multiple rooms, a small hostel or a guesthouse, you are free to present any room types in the best light. You may add a room type title and description, in-room facilities, capacity, bed types, etc. You can also supply each room type with an individual gallery to show all details and advantages of a room.

Website administrator will see a list of all room types in a clearly categorized section:

Handy reservation form

Many modern travelers consider online booking option as a natural extension of the hotel, so the plugin comes with a user-friendly room reservation form. It’s quite logical and requires just a couple of steps to be submitted:

– specifying check-in and check-out dates
– choosing the room that fits the criteria
– providing personal data to complete a booking.

Perfect mobile layouts

In the hospitality technology sector mobile use for reservation continuous to rise. Today, nearly 60% of travelers book hotels using a mobile device and this number is increasing. We made sure that your site pages created with our plugin will look properly and stylish on each screen.

Hotel services

Usually, there are tons of extra services a hostel establishment can provide. Some of them are better to be preordered while online room reservation process. With the plugin it’s an easily doable task – when setting up a room type you can tie the available services to it and show on the Reservation page allowing users book them right away.

The plugin settings also allow you to set the charge terms – whether a price charged for a room or a person and how often (once or per night). A great way to make guests feel that they are offered more than usual. Moreover, a great way for you to gain additional revenue.

Fits your theme design

The content created with plugin will look like a natural part of your theme design, so there is no need to adjust styles additionally. Just do your content work, design will look great.

Seasons and holidays

Of course, the pricing in your hotel depends not only on world economic situation, hotel stay-in may be cheaper in winter and more expansive in summer or vice versa. That’s why the plugin lets you divide a year into different “seasons” (fully customizable option – this can be a month, year, day, couple of days, etc) and set different prices for each of them. Once the seasons are added, you’ll be further able to add prices.

Rates

Want to present the same room type but with different benefits or payment terms? No problem – just set various rates for the room type and let guests choose the most suitable for their search requirements. This may be a double room standard refundable vs double room standard not-refundable, for example. Simply supply each rate with a description and your guests will be able to understand the difference faster.

Generate rooms

If there are a lot of real rooms of the same room type in your hotel, you may add the same ones in clicks without doing a repetition work. You can generate a needed number of rooms when adding a new room type or under a separate section Accommodation > Generate rooms.

Booking Calendar

When everything is set up, your online hotel is up and running and new booking requests arrive, you may view all of them in Booking calendar – it makes it easy to quickly sort all bookings and find the needed one with any status.

Interested how it looks in reality? Take a quick look at the demo:

We are moving in the direction of improving your editing experience with MotoPress Visual Page Builder and prepared some awesome updates! From now on, the builder won’t leave any shortcode mess in a standard WordPress TinyMCE. Instead, you’ll get a great alternative of switching to a plain Text Editor any time without losing any content. The most important thing, content from the Visual Builder will be duplicated to WordPress text editor, so you’ll be able to continue editing your content without shortcodes even if the MotoPress Page Builder plugin is deactivated.

2. If the plugin is deactivated, deleted, or crashed, your content built with the MotoPress Visual Builder is available without shortcodes in a simplified way in a WordPress Text area. Compare: here is how you usually edit your content on the frontent with the Visual Builder:

3. However, as it was already mentioned, if you use the Visual Builder but also want to tweak the shortcode, you may still find it here (in the Visual Builder tab before clicking Open Visual Builder):

To sum up, your live site displays content depending on which tab is active for a particular page. This new feature will work for all posts and pages created after this update.

Edit your content with more peace in mind with the updated MotoPress Visual Builder.

Having fun with an updated plugin or noticed any issues? We want to know more, so speak your mind in comments!

Since the Demo Builder for any WordPress product first launch, we’ve received multiple suggestions from users on how the builder should be improved. It turned out there are lots of big and small things able to make work of developers much easier and we are making steps in order to meet all priority requirements. Let’s see what we’ve managed to do this time!

These are actually 3 important things you can now see.

Firstly, a lot of you asked for more spam protection on the sandbox sign-up process, so we’ve added a popular and secure reCAPTCHA protection. Demo users won’t need to solve a usual difficult CAPTCHA, so a happy user experience of demo creation is guaranteed.

All in all, it’s easy to use for prospects and delivers high spam protection for demo site administrators. One problem solved!

Another important thing we’ve implemented is an ability to export demo sandbox data.

If a demo user played around with the functionality of your product for a pretty long time and doesn’t want to lose the changes made, hurrah, you can export all data of their particular sandbox to send to a user.

So, if you have such a request from a demo user, simply go to Demo > Sandboxes > choose the needed sandbox > tick what tables and uploads should be exported and what databases replaced (optionally) > export sandbox. And wait for a huge “thanks” from your users.

Enjoy fresh improvements and don’t hesitate to send your questions or ideas!