- Hey all, my name is Kori Ashton
and welcome to another WordPress Wednesday.
One of my favorite plugins that I've ever
shown y'all is from MotoPress
and it's a hotel booking plugin,
it's pretty phenomenal
and it has a light weight version
that is all in the budget of free.
But the demo that I did,
you can see that one here,
I'll put the link to it in the description box below,
really has an awkward kind of generic free theme
that I was using it inside of
and even though the light weight version plugin
can make it look pretty good,
it's still not the best it can possibly be.
So MotoPress decided to come out with
their own WordPress theme with the plugin
already inside of it.
They have five different layouts,
different styling, child themes if you will,
that I'm gonna show you how to use right now.
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So the WordPress theme I'm talking about is called Booklium
and I'll put the link to this in the
description box below.
It is a premium theme
so you'll have to pay for a license for it
but for 69 bucks which is pretty
average these days inside of the
premium WordPress theme industry
you get a lot of bang for your buck you guys.
This is an incredible, incredible theme
that allows for B&Bs to use this,
holiday homes to use this,
hotels, whatever you might have that
needs to actually book a room
or reserve a rental,
this is the theme that can accomplish that for you.
In just a couple of clicks you can
have a really dynamic theme installed
that has a lot of potential when
it comes to laying out your different rooms,
the different accommodations,
holiday pricing, setting specific times
that they're allowed to be rented
or that they're already blocked off,
whatever that looks like you can do that
all inside of this theme.
I'm gonna show you right now how to get that done,
how to install it, how to tinker around with it,
how to even play with the five different layouts.
Here's a quick snapshot
of those five different layouts
that I just mentioned.
You've got the multiple villas,
the single vacation rental,
the hostel layout,
and you have a bed and breakfast, B&B layout,
and an apartment layout.
All of these come prepackaged.
In just a couple of clicks you can plug
and play these, go change out your images,
go change out your details, your pricing,
you're off and running accepting reservations.
To get started you just need to
go over to motopress.com and purchase a theme license
here for Booklium.
I'll put the link to this in the
description box below.
Once you purchase your license from Booklium,
again I'll put the link in the
description box below.
You're just gonna jump into your dashboard,
you'll go up to appearance
and you'll go into themes
and you're going to want to upload
the zipped file right.
So we wanna click add new since
this is a premium theme,
we wanna upload our theme, choose file,
and go get it probably from your downloads
where you just downloaded the file.
Booklium, there you go, double click that.
It should again be uploading a zipped format, install now.
Notification should come up to say
that it's successfully installed.
We wanna go ahead and click activate
so that it's active.
There you are, up and running.
It's gonna ask you to go ahead
and install a couple of plugins
in order to have all the functionality
that the demos are showing us.
I would recommend you doing that.
So begin installing plugins.
These are the few that it needs you to do.
You can go ahead and just do a bulk install if you'd like.
It'll go through each and every one of these installing them
and then we'll have to activate them.
There's the notification that all have been installed.
Next we'll go ahead and activate.
Perfectly and easily done.
If you wanna check that out
you can go over to your plugins area
and see all of them living right there,
all of them are active.
Up at the top of this page though
I want you to see there's another
notification that's here,
it says booking confirmation
and search result pages are required
to handle the bookings, right.
So it says please press install.
You gotta install these pages
and let's go ahead and click that
so that those are created dynamically for us.
Again I haven't written any code at all,
it's all going to be here.
Okay next step in order to get it
looking like the demo,
we actually want to go ahead
and install demo content.
So I want you to come over here to appearance,
scroll down, you're gonna see something
that says import demo data.
Click on that and then we're able to
come here to this section
and import the different styles,
the different layout or child theme
that we've already seen
and kind of tinkered with.
If you wanna review those more
you can come over here to this link,
I'll put this again in the description box below,
and scroll through those five different
demos that I have showed you.
You can click on them
and actually go through the whole thing
and kinda snoop and see how it's all laid out
and if this is gonna work better for you
or if a different layout is gonna
work better for you.
For now the one I like to do for this demo
is the single apartment.
So we're gonna go ahead and click import.
Yes, I wanna import it.
It gave us a warning really quickly
just saying hey, you're about to import a lot of data
so be absolutely certain you're ready to do this,
we don't want to overwrite anything
you may already have on the site.
So this is excellent to do if you're just starting out.
If you already have a live site,
I would highly recommend you having
a backup in place before you start
any of this process.
I would also highly recommend that
you basically have a staging environment.
We want you to be able to build this
in a safe environment that allows you
to tinker and play and get it to perfection
before you launch it.
All right and just like that you can see
down here at the bottom of the page
it says that's it, all done,
the demo import has finished.
Please check your page
and make certain that everything is imported correctly.
If it did you can deactivate the one click
demo import plugin because it's done its job.
All right so let's go take a look
on the front side of the website.
There you go, look at this you guys.
Again I've not had to code anything at all,
this is how beautiful my website already looks.
All the layouts in place here, just fantastic,
shows all the different types of
credit card payments I take.
Of course we can edit anything here.
So if this is too much going on,
you can strip it down and minimize it.
If you need to add more or customize it
with your pictures, your text,
that's what we're gonna do next.
I'm gonna show you how simple that is.
One of the coolest parts of Booklium
is that it actually uses the new Gutenberg editor.
So it has its own blocks that fit
into the Gutenberg editor allowing you
to make all of these changes inside of here
easily and quickly with a drag and drop environment.
So because of that I need to be certain
before we start editing that you go
over to your plugins
and be certain that you do not have
this classic editor activated.
If it is, like you see here,
you need to go ahead and click deactivate.
What that does is it allows Gutenberg
to go ahead and take over
and now we can easily and quickly make some edits.
I wanna show you how simply it is
to make edits to our homepage.
So once you're logged in you can
just click edit page.
Now because Gutenberg is here,
this is our beautiful page that
we can come into
and just start clicking on
and making changes to any of this content.
Literally just clicking on it.
So you're gonna see these areas,
these blocks if you will, in different sections.
This little booking widget here
lives on top of our background image.
If you wanted to change that background image
you would simply click on it
and go up here to the image icon
and make changes to it, replace the image.
You can upload your new image if you'd like
or choose from your media library.
Just like that the image is changed.
You can click update
and view page and there it is.
Full width, I didn't have to know any code,
it perfectly positions it in that space for me.
That's the power of Gutenberg,
that's the power of Booklium.
Basically as you go through the whole page
you can go into any section doing it
the exact same way, just click and start editing
and you can see it's gonna spell check.
Start editing, there you go.
And if you make a mistake you've got
these awesome undo buttons
which will remember everything
in this session for you.
If you wanna make a change to any of this,
it's simply done by coming in here
and clicking edit.
There you go.
If you wanna choose a different icon,
you can just click on it
and go to show block settings.
And now you've got a different opportunity
to either upload your own
or use a totally different icon.
New page, scroll down, there's our icon change.
And this only gets more exciting.
As you go down the page if there are
sections that you wanna remove
you can delete them.
If there are sections that you
don't want to have four columns
and only three columns
you can make all those changes easily as well.
Click edit page, we're gonna hide our settings area
just so we can see more.
But instead of having a four column break here
you can say I only want to have three columns here.
Show block settings.
Instead of four scroll down to three, update,
view home page, go back, scroll down,
and we'll see now we've got three
beautiful sections here.
Alright the power of this,
that's pretty straight forward when
it comes to editing anything
but what about the actual booking
widget inside of this thing.
How robust is it?
I have that other demo that I've done
that gives you a lot of insights
to the capabilities of this thing,
but I'm gonna show you really quickly
and easily right now some of its
out of the box features.
If you'd like to learn more,
I'm gonna put a link to a further demo
in the description box below.
Let's head back into your dashboard.
If you notice now over here on the left side
we have accommodations and bookings.
Accommodations is where you would go
to actually create the different areas
that you have available for rental or lease.
Bookings is where you would go to manage
every single one of the bookings
once a customer has actually come in
and placed a booking with you.
Accommodations allows you to set
all sorts of different categories.
You can come in here and set an accommodation type,
like a room or a conference room or a hotel room.
Just get creative with that.
And then you also have amenities
which would be like a fire pit or a swimming pool
or a tennis court.
You have out of the box, different seasons that you can set
that can ebb and flow your pricing.
You can set your rates.
You have different services that you offer.
There's the accommodations that you offer.
Anything like that you can set
and add them as an attribute to
the different types of rooms or locations
that you're offering for rent.
So as you can see just like I mentioned earlier
this theme comes really packed in,
I'm gonna show you a couple of things.
Look right here above my head.
I've got more pages in here that have
already been dynamically created
because we imported that demo content, right?
So you're looking at the about us page.
Look at this beautiful layout that you've got here.
Again if it's too much you can always
easily click delete.
So if you don't have a whole team,
that's all right, we can click delete.
We don't have to worry about that.
We can come in here and make all of this
customized to our own content.
Add more if we need to,
take away if we need to.
Other pages that are available,
a list of amenities.
You can have this beautiful page here
that shows all the different areas
that you're offering.
All of these pages were already created.
I didn't have to code one thing.
Pretty incredible, right you guys?
I know this is a longer tutorial
than I normally do but I wanted to show you
all the power that's inside of this theme.
If you need help with this
I want you to know that MotoPress is ready to help.
They are extremely responsive
to any support requests that come in.
You would jump back over to their website.
Because you purchased a license
you get support with this.
You can email them, talk to them,
get on their support forms, Tweet to them,
reach out to them,
and they're gonna help you with any needs
that you may have.
But literally in just a couple of clicks,
in the time you've watched this video,
I have built a full website.
All you have to do now is go in
and change the content, change the pictures,
and go live.
It's been that simple to do
and all in a budget of under 100 bucks.
Hey so if you liked this video
and you picked up the Booklium theme
or maybe just the hotel booking plugin,
please reach out to MotoPress,
let them know that you heard about them
on askkori.com.
I will catch y'all next WordPress Wednesday.
Bye everyone!
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