<p>Use WordPress to quickly create and manage a holiday website utilising sunshine.co.uk’s award winning affiliate programme. The sunPress plugin will allow you to easily add destinations and accommodations found on sunshine.co.uk. The plugin also comes with a XML search widget allowing you to serve availability results to your users directly on your own site.</p>
<p>More info:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.sunshine.co.uk/affiliates/wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">sunPress</a>.</li>
<li>Check out our <a href="http://www.sunshine.co.uk/affiliates/" rel="nofollow ugc">Affiliate Area</a> showing all the tools on offer from sunshine.co.uk</li>
<li>Sign up to the sunshine.co.uk with either Paid On Results<a href="http://www.paidonresults.com/merchants/sunshine.html" rel="nofollow ugc">affiliate programme</a> or Affiliate Future<a href="http://www.affiliatefuture.co.uk/registration/step1.asp?ref=2980" rel="nofollow ugc">affiliate programme</a> before installing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example sunPress sites –<br />
* http://expo3.sunshines.co.uk/<br />
* http://expo2.sunshines.co.uk/<br />
* http://expo1.sunshines.co.uk/<br />
* http://expo.sunshines.co.uk/</p>
<h3>Initialising</h3>
<ul>
<li>Once the plugin has been activated, click on the new sunPress tab that appears.</li>
<li>This page shows the steps required to start using your plugin.</li>
<li>First specify your affiliate network and add your affiliate id by clicking on the ‘Settings’ tab, entering the ID into the box, and clicking on ‘Update Affiliate ID’.</li>
<li>Secondly add or request your XML credentials required for the search functionality of the plugin. This can be done on the same ‘Settings’ tab, down the bottom.</li>
<li>The next step is to activate the search box widget that will allow the customer to search on your site. Click on Design (or Appearance, WordPress > 2.6.2), then click on Widgets. At the bottom you will see sunPress Search, click on Add beside this, then ‘Save Changes’.</li>
<li>That’s all that is required to start using the search functionality on your site. If you would like to add content using the content management tools we built into WordPress, please read on.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Content Structure</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Please ensure before enabling the content tools, you have activated your sunPress [agent|guide|basic] theme (if applicable). This will ensure the main ‘pages’ such as ‘All Inclusive Holidays’, ‘Bargain Holidays’ e.t.c. are assigned the correct template. If you have already activated the tools without doing this, please click on Manage->Pages and manually set the page templates within each page. This can be done by editing each page, scrolling down to Page Template, and selecting ‘pages’ from the drop down menu. Then ‘save’. Once activated follow the steps below.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>From the ‘Settings’ tab, check the ‘Enable Content Tools’ box, and click on ‘Save Changes’.</p>
</li>
<li>You will now see a new ‘Content’ tab with the sunPress group, click on this.</li>
<li>The first option allows you to automatically download up to date hotels/resorts/regions/countries from our feeds</li>
<li>If you look under Content Options, you will see a country list and a resort list, using these you can select a area to add to your blog. Countries and regions are added as categories, resorts as tags and hotels as posts</li>
<li>Once you have selected a country or just a resort click on ‘Create Content Page’ to populate your blog.</li>
<li>Once finished, visit the Manage tab to edit any of the cats or posts just created.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media Images</h3>
<ul>
<li>When you edit a hotel that has been added as a post on wordpress, there is a media bar for adding images.</li>
<li>The media bar is just above the editable post content box on the right handside.</li>
<li>If you select the sunshine.co.uk icon from the end of the media bar list, you will be provided with a list of images for the hotel.</li>
<li>Please note, in order to be able to add these images into your post, you must make the following directory editable /wp-content/uploads/hotelimages. If it doesn’t exist, please create it.</li>
<li>Most FTP programs allow you to ‘chmod’ or edit permissions on a folder. Once you have enabled write access, the images you insert into your post will be stored locally.</li>
</ul>


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Use WP to create a travel website using the sunshine.co.uk affiliate programme.

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<p>Woo Store Vacation helps WooCommerce store owners temporarily pause new orders during vacations, holidays, maintenance periods, fulfilment delays, or short business breaks.</p>
<p>Instead of taking your website offline, the plugin keeps your shop visible while giving you control over whether customers can place new orders. You can schedule a vacation period, disable purchases, display a clear notice, and automatically reopen your store when the vacation period ends.</p>
<p>This is useful when you want to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Take time off without receiving new orders.</li>
<li>Pause checkout while still letting customers browse products.</li>
<li>Show a clear vacation or holiday notice on your store.</li>
<li>Let customers know when your shop will reopen.</li>
<li>Keep selected products available during vacation mode.</li>
<li>Avoid confusion, missed expectations, or unnecessary support messages.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pause WooCommerce orders while keeping your store visible</h4>
<p>When vacation mode is active, your shop can remain online and accessible to visitors. Customers can still browse your products, but purchases can be paused by disabling the cart, checkout, and add-to-cart buttons.</p>
<p>This helps maintain your storefront and product visibility while preventing new orders during periods when you are unavailable.</p>
<h4>Schedule your vacation dates</h4>
<p>Set a start date and end date for your vacation period based on your site’s local timezone. Woo Store Vacation automatically applies the vacation settings during the scheduled period and restores normal store behavior when the vacation ends.</p>
<p>You can also deactivate vacation mode manually at any time if you return earlier than planned.</p>
<h4>Display a custom vacation notice</h4>
<p>Create a clear vacation message to explain why the store is temporarily closed and when customers should return.</p>
<p>The vacation notice can include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Custom message text.</li>
<li>Start and end date smart tags.</li>
<li>Custom text and background colors.</li>
<li>A call-to-action button.</li>
<li>A custom button URL, such as a contact page.</li>
</ul>
<p>The notice appears on WooCommerce shop and product pages. You can also place it on other pages using the Store Vacation Notice block, Elementor widget, or <code>[woo_store_vacation]</code> shortcode.</p>
<h4>Control product availability during vacation mode</h4>
<p>Sometimes you may want to pause most of your store while keeping selected products available.</p>
<p>Woo Store Vacation includes condition settings that let you keep specific items purchasable while vacation mode is active. You can exclude selected:</p>
<ul>
<li>Products.</li>
<li>Product categories.</li>
<li>Product tags.</li>
<li>Product types.</li>
<li>Shipping classes.</li>
</ul>
<p>This gives you more flexibility than fully closing the entire store.</p>
<h4>Built for WooCommerce store owners</h4>
<p>Woo Store Vacation is designed for real store management situations, including personal vacations, holidays, fulfilment delays, temporary stock reviews, maintenance windows, or short business breaks.</p>
<p>The plugin is also translation-ready and includes support for multilingual stores using WPML and Polylang.</p>
<h4>Lite features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Schedule a temporary vacation period.</li>
<li>Pause purchases during vacation mode.</li>
<li>Keep your shop and products visible.</li>
<li>Display a vacation notice on WooCommerce pages.</li>
<li>Add the notice with a block, shortcode, or Elementor widget.</li>
<li>Add a CTA button to your notice.</li>
<li>Use start and end date smart tags.</li>
<li>Customize notice colors.</li>
<li>Keep selected products available.</li>
<li>Allow shop managers to manage vacation settings.</li>
<li>HPOS compatible.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Need more control? Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro</h3>
<p>Store Vacation Pro adds advanced scheduling, notices, conditions, and storefront behavior controls for stores that need more than one basic vacation period.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/store-vacation/" title="Store Vacation Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro</a> to unlock more powerful store closure workflows.</p>
<p>With Store Vacation Pro, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Schedule multiple vacations</strong> — Plan unlimited vacation periods in advance and manage upcoming, active, disabled, and running schedules.</li>
<li><strong>Set recurring weekday closures</strong> — Close your shop on specific weekdays and times every week.</li>
<li><strong>Configure opening hours</strong> — Display business hours and automatically close the shop outside your configured hours.</li>
<li><strong>Create advanced vacation notices</strong> — Build reusable notices with rich text, smart tags, templates, CTA buttons, custom styles, and announcement bar display options.</li>
<li><strong>Show vacation content with a block</strong> — Display custom page content only while the store is in vacation mode.</li>
<li><strong>Use smart product availability rules</strong> — Control availability by products, categories, tags, product types, shipping classes, WooCommerce brands, and user roles.</li>
<li><strong>Control storefront behavior</strong> — Keep the default closed-store behavior, replace shop pages with custom content, password-protect shop pages, or allow access through a private link.</li>
<li><strong>Hide store elements while closed</strong> — Hide prices, add-to-cart buttons, mini cart widgets, or mini cart blocks during vacation mode.</li>
<li><strong>Send admin reminder emails</strong> — Get notified before the store enters vacation mode.</li>
<li><strong>Track vacation orders</strong> — Mark and filter orders placed while vacation mode is active.</li>
<li><strong>Force close the store instantly</strong> — Pause purchases immediately without creating a future schedule.</li>
<li><strong>Import and export settings</strong> — Move Store Vacation settings between sites more easily.</li>
<li><strong>Use the REST API</strong> — Access vacation schedule data programmatically.</li>
</ul>
<p>If your store needs recurring closures, multiple schedules, advanced notices, opening hours, or more control over what customers see while the shop is closed, <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/store-vacation/" title="Store Vacation Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Store Vacation Pro</a> is the best upgrade path.</p>


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