<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.

WPManiax

<p>Add nice looking animation effect of falling snow to your WordPress site and enjoy winter and Christmas.</p>
<p>Simulate snow storm by adjusting the snow falling speed.</p>
<p>This snow falling WP plugin uses jSnow JQuery plugin (2kb only) and no images.</p>
<ul>
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<blockquote>
<p><strong>WP Snow Effect PRO</strong><br />
  There is a PRO version of WP Snow Effect available with following features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ability to show Snow Effect on specific pages</strong></li>
<li>Easy to install and configure</li>
<li>40 flake types to choose from including Snowman.</li>
<li>Define number of snowflakes</li>
<li>Define maximal and minimal size of snowflake</li>
<li>Define maximal and minimal size of fall speed</li>
<li>Define flake color</li>
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<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>For more information and comments please visit the <a href="http://www.wpmaniax.com/wp-snow-effect/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wp-snow-effect-feedback-from-wordpress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Snow Effect WP plugin</a> home</p>


WP Snow Effect


It's that time of year where having a snow effect on a website is a nice addition and makes it feel festive. I have been through various plugins to test and found this to have a good range of options to have a unique effect on the site. 



Between Flakes Number, Falling Speed, Flake Size, and the ability to Show on Specific Pages, this covers a good range of user options.



Additionally, rather than adding another top-level menu, it adds itself nicely to the "Settings" menu on the dashboard.



All around, highly recommend.


Great snow effect. Good set of options

Add nice looking animation effect of falling snow to your Wordpress site and enjoy winter and Christmas.

sunPress vs WP Snow Effect