<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>


sunPress

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

Vsourz Digital

<p>WP Responsive Holiday/Events Calendar is easy to manage and clean visual design with a strong set of features to inspire the most advanced website calendar available for WordPress.</p>
<p>It is built on full calendar js with support to add Holiday and Events.</p>
<p><strong>It has various display options.</strong></p>
<p>All it takes is 3 easy step to make your website stand out from rest of your competitors.</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin.</li>
<li>Add Holiday/event in calendar.</li>
<li>Display on front-end using short code.</li>
</ol>
<p>It’s easy to use with provided shortcode and PHP codes.</p>
<p>Read <strong>How to use?</strong> section to find out more about the calendar configurations.</p>
<p><strong>Need Support?</strong> <a href="mailto:wp.support@vsourz.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wp.support@vsourz.com</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add Multiple Holiday and Events on single date.</li>
<li>Set link of content page OR third party URL.</li>
<li>Open page and third party URL on same or new tab.</li>
<li>Display calendar in Multiple views (Calendar View, Standard List View, Grid View, List Hover View).</li>
<li>Set Date Background Color.</li>
<li>Modify Holiday Name Background Color.</li>
<li>Modify Date Text Color.</li>
<li>Modify Holiday/Event Text Background Color.</li>
<li>Calendar Widget.</li>
<li>Compatible in all latest cross browsers.</li>
<li>Fully responsive and mobile friendly.</li>
<li>AJAX powered.</li>
<li>Daily/Weekly/Monthly views.</li>
<li>Fully translatable including the full-calendar.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to use?</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install Plugin via WordPress Admin – Go to Admin > Plugins > Add New.</li>
<li>Add Holiday Go To Admin >> Holiday >> Manage Holiday  >> Add Holiday.</li>
<li>Call the Holiday in the WordPress Front-end using Widget and Shortcodes.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Widget</strong><br />
Go to Appearance -> Widgets and add Holiday calendar widget to your website.</p>
<p><strong>Shortcodes</strong><br />
To generate shortcode Go To Admin >> Holiday >> Display Option</p>
<p>Here you can find various options for customization. The options like View, Date Background Color, Date Font Color, Name Background Color and Name Font Color. From here you can also preview the changes and generate the shortcode.</p>
<p>Put below shorcode directly in any page:<br />
[vsz_responsive_holiday_events_calendar view=view1  date_color=FFFFFF date_bg=2E4D7B text_color=000000 text_bg=D3DEEF]<br />
OR<br />
Use below PHP code to put in PHP file:<br />
<?php echo do_shortcode(’[vsz_responsive_holiday_events_calendar view=view1  date_color=FFFFFF date_bg=2E4D7B text_color=000000 text_bg=D3DEEF]’);?></p>
<ol>
<li>Install and Activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Add Holiday/Events in calendar.</li>
<li>In listing screen shortcode will be generated.</li>
<li>Put this shortcode where you want to display the calendar. </li>
</ol>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>GPLv2 – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</p>


WP Responsive Holiday/Events Calendar

Beautiful way to show your upcoming Holiday and Events in WordPress.

sunPress vs WP Responsive Holiday/Events Calendar