EXPLOORE

Travel, Exploration, Booking WordPress Theme

• Last Updated: 04/01/2019
• By: Rubik Themes
• Email: admin@rubikthemes.com
• Support Gateway: http://rubikthemes.com/support

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.

• WordPress Codex – general info about WordPress and how to install on your server
• FAQ New To WordPress – the most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress

Install theme

Once you've downloaded the installation file on ThemeForest, extract it and locate a file called exploore.zip. You can install the theme by using one of two installation methods:

1. Wordpress upload

Step 1: Go to Admin Panel → Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.

Step 2: Browse to file exploore.zip and click "Install Now".

2. FTP upload

- Upload non-zipped theme folder called exploore to "/wp-content/themes/" folder in your WordPress installation folder on your server.

3. Active Theme: Go to Admin Panel → Appearance → Themes, locate the theme and click "Activate" button to activate the theme.

You will see a notification message to change permalink setting to post name. Please do this.

Update Theme

Please refer to here to see how to update theme without losing customization.

Install Plugins

After you actived Exploore theme, you will see the notice, as described in the screenshot below:

To install this plugins, Click on “Begin installing plugins” link.

Check plugins which you want to install, select “Install” and click “Apply” button.

Waiting a while, after all installations have been completed. These plugins will be actived automatically.

* For more detailed documentation, you can read below:

• Contact Form 7 plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7
• Contact Form 7 - Dynamic Text Extension plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension/
• Newsletter plugin : http://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/plugins/newsletter/newsletter-documentation
• Redux Framework plugin : https://docs.reduxframework.com
• Revolution Slider plugin : http://www.themepunch.com/revslider-doc/slider-revolution-documentation
• Visual Composer plugin : https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Visual+Composer+Pagebuilder+for+WordPress
• WP User Avatar plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatar
• WooCommerce plugin : https://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/

You can either start building your site from scratch, or import one of our demo sites and then modify it to fit your needs. We will now explain how to perform the import process.
First, you must clear all available data which you created before (posts, pages, menu and widgets) and make sure you activated Slz Core plugin then do the following one of two ways:
1. One Click Importer: Please go to Admin Panel → Theme options → Demo Inporter. Click "Import Demo" button and wait for a while. When progress go too long ( > 15 mins ), please try to refresh page and re-import.
2. XML Importer: Use other tools in download package, please read "Demo-content / readme.txt"

After you import demo content, please go to Admin Panel → Settings → Permalink and click Save Changes button to complete process.
Once the demo data has been imported, you can make changes according to your requirements and continue building your site.

Note! Some reference topics if you have issues when import demo data
• Maximum execution Time: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-fatal-error-maximum-execution-time-exceeded-in-wordpress/
• Memory Limit https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-increase-memory-limit-to-64-mb

1. Menu Content

To set up menu, please go on "Appearance → Menus" enter your menu name and click "Create menu".

• Add menu items from the boxes on the left, such as pages, categories and links.
• If you’d like to change which menu options you see from this page, Click the arrow on the right of the item to reveal additional configuration options.

2. Set menu location

Please set menu location to show menu.

Click "Manage Locations" tab to choose menu for each location.

Note! Remember to click Save menu to apply all changes

Beside you can read detail at: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus

Start to setup

To set up Widgets, please go on "Appearance → Widgets"

Widgets Content

There are all widgets of theme:.

Let check out where widgets will show in frontend page

• SLZ Contact (1): enter information to contact .
• SLZ Custom Link (2): a list custom link for your site.
• SLZ Accommodation (3): a list of accommodation.
• SLZ Tour (3): a list of tour.
• SLZ Taxonomy (3): display a list taxonomy.
• SLZ Gallery (4): list image of tour or accommodation post type.
• SLZ Recent Post (5): a list post for your site.
• SLZ Categories (6): a list of categories (of post) will be shown .
• SLZ FAQ Request (7): a form to send a FAQ request. This widget like shortcode "SLZ FAQ Request".
• SLZ Cruise (8): a list cruise for your site.
• SLZ Car (9): a list car for your site.
• SLZ Search : this widget show form search for tour,car,cruise or accomodation.

Go to "Appearance → Widgets" enter widget name in "Exploore Custom Widgets" if you want to add new widget area.

Display Widget

Please go to "Theme options → Sidebar" to configure how to display of these widget area.

You can access Theme options from the WordPress Admin Panel. The settings found here are applied globally and will affect all pages of the site. However, be noted that many of these options can be overridden locally by applying settings on individual pages or on shortcode elements.

1. General

In this section you can set up some general settings for your site. Please check below options available in this section:

• Layout display: choose layout to display. If you choose a Boxed layout for your site, the content will be fitted in a centrally positioned grid. Otherwise, your content will be able to cover full width of the page.
• Site Skin: choose main color for web site. Our theme has 10 main colors.
• Header Logo: this is where you can upload your website logo in header.
• Header Transparent Logo: this is where you can upload your website logo in transparent header.
• Footer Logo: this is where you can upload your website logo in footer dark.
• Footer Logo Light: This is where you can upload your website logo in footer light.
• Header Sticky Enable: choose On if you want to fixed header when scroll.
• Back To Top Button: choose Show if you want a "Back to Top" button to display at the bottom right corner of every page.
• Currency Sign: enter currency sign of site.
• Where To Show The Currency Sign: choose position of the currency symbol.
• Map google API Key: enter Google API key that is used to run a some feature of Map. Go to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key to get this key.
• Search Box Info:select information to be displayed on the search box of header. Then choose icon for it in below.

2. Social

In this section you can enter social information which is used to display in Header & Footer and configure social share information for car, cruise, hotel and tour.

3. Header

This Section will change setting for header.

• Main Layout: choose a style for header of your site.
• Header Logo: choose header logo for header style 4.
• Search Icon: choose Show or Hide search icon in the navigation.
• Search Layout: choose a style for search form in the navigation.
• Header Top: configure detailed information for each content in header.

4. Menu

This section allows you to configuration for main navigation on top.

• Main Menu Setting: configure for main menu.
• Dropdown Menu Setting: configure for dropdown menu.
  • Dropdown Menu Custom: configure dropdown menu.
  • Dropdown Menu Align: dropdown menu will align left of right.

5. Page Title Setting

This section allows you to set how to display of page title in your site.

• Show Page Title : choose to show or hide page title.
• Page Title background image : choose body background image for page title section.
• Page Title overlay background : choose color for for mask layer above background.
• Page Title height : set height for page title seciton.
• Page Title text align : set text align attribute for page title seciton.
• The Title : config typography for title in page title.
• Breadcrumb : config typography for breadcrumb.
• Breadcrumb Labels: enter label for breadcrumb.

6. Sidebar

This section allows you to configure sidebar.

• Default Sidebar : choose position to display Default sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Blog Sidebar : choose position to display Blog sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Tour Sidebar : choose position to display tour sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Tour Archive Sidebar : choose position to display tour sidebar and widget area for sidebar in tour archive page.
• Accommodation Sidebar : choose position to display accomodation sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Accommodation Archive Sidebar : choose position to display accomodation sidebar and widget area for sidebar in accomodation archive page.
• Car Rent Sidebar : choose position to display car rent sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Car Rent Archive Sidebar : choose position to display car rent sidebar and widget area for sidebar in car rent archive page.
• Cruises Sidebar : choose position to display cruises sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Cruises Archive Sidebar : choose position to display cruises sidebar and widget area for sidebar in cruise archive page.
• Shop Sidebar : choose position to display shop sidebar and widget area for this sidebar.
• Block margin bottom : choose margin bottom between 2 block content on sidebar.
• Block padding bottom : choose padding bottom for one block content on sidebar.

7. Pre Footer

This section allows you configure to show subcribe in footer top. It will be displayed in frontend

8. Footer

This section allows you change setting in footer.

• Footer section : choose to show or hide footer section.
• Columns : choose columns number for footer section.
• Footer Style : choose style of footer section.
• Footer background image : set background image for footer section.
• Footer overlay background : set background color for mask layer above footer.
• Footer padding : choose inwards spacing for footer section.
• Footer Bottom : custom for footer at bottom of page.
  • Partner Slides: choose image for partner in footer bottom. It will be displayed in frontend:
    

9. Blog display

This section allows you to configure layout for blog template.

• Show Blog Title : choose show or hide title on page title in blog detail page.
• Blog Info : choose what information to show below blog content.
• Social Share Link : choose social to share post.
• Tag Section : choose show or hide tag section in blog content.
• Categories Section : choose show or hide categories section in blog content.
• Comments Section : choose show or hide comment section in blog content.
• Author Section : choose show or hide author section in blog content.

10. Tour Setting

This section allows you configure some information in use for tour page.

• 1: choose tour status that tours in this status will not display in front-end. To create tour status, go to Tours → Add New and click plus symbol in General tab in Tour Information metabox.
• 2: show or hide tour title in tour detail and tour result page. If Show is selected, Tour title on detail page will get value from Custom Tour Detail Title. If Custom Tour Detail Title is empty, It gets value from display title meta of Tour.
• 3: show or hide related tours in tour detail page.
• 4: select a number of tours to show on search tour result page.
• 5: setting page title for search tour result page.
• 6: show/hide categories of tour on top page.search tour result page

• 7: select the fields that contain the search condition to show on the search tour result page.
• 8: set max value for price filter on the search tour result page.

• 9: setting fields for sort box on search tour result page.

• 10: setting fields for result box on search tour result page.

• 11: setting tour info.

11. Accomodation Setting

This section allows you configure some information in use for accomodation page. It have some field same tour. Please go to Tour Setting to understand about this fields.

• 1: show or hide hotel title in hotel detail and hotel result page.
• 2: show or hide map session on hotel detail page.
• 3: show or hide related hotels in hotel detail page.

12. Car Rent Setting

This section allows you to change some settings in Car Detail page and Car Result page. It have some field similar to tour.Please refer "Tour Setting" tab to know about some similar field.

• 1: show or hide car title in detail page and result page.
• 2: show or hide related cars in detail page.

13. Cruises Setting

This section allows you to change some settings in Cruise Detail page and Cruise Result page. It have some field similar to tour.Please refer "Tour Setting" tab to know about some similar field.

• 1: show or hide cruise title in detail page and result page.
• 2: show or hide related cruises in detail page.

14. Booking Setting

This section allows you to configure booking information.

• Booking Active: Choose page( Car Rent, Cruise, Hotel, Tour detail) that you want to show booking button.
• Checkout by Woocommerce: If this option is enabled, these object( Car Rent, Cruise, Hotel, Tour ) will be added to Woocommerce Cart and you can checkout theme through Woocommerce Checkout.
• Setting Email Booking: Enter infomation about email that you want to use to get send confirm email after booking success.
  • To: Enter a receiver email. Booking infomation will be sent to this email and customer email.
  • From: Enter a sender email. If this field is empty, Sender email is admin email.
  • Subject: Booking confirm email subject.
  • Reply To: Booking confirm email reply to.
  • Message Body: Booking confirm email message.

15. Product Setting

In this session, you can setting page title for product detail page when you use Woocommerce.

16. 404 Setting

In this section, you can change some options displayed on 404 page.

• 404 Page Background : Choose background image for 404 page.
• Main Title : Enter a text as title of page.
• Description : Enter text as description of page.
• Back to home text : Enter text which link to Home page when clicked.
• Button 02 text : Enter a text for other button of page.
• Button 2 Link : nter link for other button of page.



17. Extras

In this section, you can configure for login and register page as : choose page, logo, background, title, text. Besides, you also can choose show or hide list team in team detail pages in this section.

In session Register Page Setting, if you want to use captcha please do the following :

• Step 1: go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html click button Get reCAPTCHA then enter label and your domain.

• Step 2: get Site key and Secret key.

• Step 3: enter this keys in Key API and Secret Key API.




18. Custom Style

In this section, you can write some of your manual code to change the style as your wish.




19. Custom Script

In this section, you can write some of your manual code to change the script/action for your site.




20. Typography

This section allows you to stylize your text.

• Body text : Set style of text shown on page.
• Paragraph text : Set style of text shown on paragraph.
• Links Color Option : Set the color of the link text.
• H1 text → H6 text : Set style of H1 → H6 tag on your site.



21. Demo Importer

This section allows you to import demo content by one click.




22. Import/Export

This section allows you to import/export settings in Theme options and Custom Taxonomy options of EXploore theme.


• Import Options : import option settings of Exploore theme from file or url.
• Export Options : copy or download your current option settings of Exploore theme.

This menu manages all posts. From here you can add new, edit or delete post. Besides, you also can overwrite settings of post which you set in theme options.

To create a new blog post, go to "Posts → Add New" from the Admin Panel.

In that new page, please fill in all fields according to your needs. Once all is completed, your blogs page should be shown as below.

This menu manages all pages. From here you can add new, edit or delete page. Besides, you also can overwrite settings of page which you set in theme options.

To create a new page, go to "Pages → Add New" from the admin panel.

You can choose page template to display in frontend.

Our theme have six page template:

• Default Template: template default of page.
• Login Template: this template use for login page.
• Register Template: this template use for register page.

Accommodations - Custom Post Type

Accommodations is a custom post type and so you can manage it like post. Accommodation has several options in Accommodation Options metabox like bellow.

Go to Accommodation → Add New in Admin Panel to see how Accommodation Options metabox displays.

General Tab

• Display Title: You can enter accommodation custom title which display on front-end. If this metabox empty, this value will receive value of title.
• Status: Choose a status for accommodation. You can disable accommodation that accommodation will not display on front end by setting in Theme options → Accommodations Setting → Accommodations Status Disable.
• Description: This metabox allows you to enter description for accommodation.
• Thumbnail: You can upload image which display as feature image of accommodation on front-end.
• Check in time & Check out time: You can enter information about time check in / check out accommodation. This field also will be used on search and sorting.
• Tax Rate: This field will be used in price calculation.
• Star Rating: You can enter number of star of accommodation in this metabox. This field also will be used on search and sorting.
• Average Price: This field will be used as a presentation price and also will be used on search and sorting.
• Email & Phone & Address: This metaboxes will be used to display contact information of accommodation.

Room Types Tab

You can show or hide Room Types Box in detail page by Show Room Types Box option. Room Types Box will be hidden if Room Types of accommodation are empty. You can also create new room type by Add new room type link.

Discount Tab

• Is Discount: This metabox allows you to show discount of accommodation.
• Discount Rate: You can enter number percent which will be discount. Discount in front-end will be hidden if discount rate are empty even though is discount is checked.
• Discount Text: You can enter a text which will be shown with discount rate.
• Discount Start Date & Discount End Date: This fields will be used to limit discount period.

Others Tab

• Booking Email: This email will receive user booking information when this accommodation booked. Emails are separated by commas.
• Mark the accommodation as featured: Mark your accommodation as Is Featured if you want to be able to show this accommodation in accommodation lists (widgets and custom pages) where "Show only featured" flag is checked.
• Attachments: You can upload attach documents that related to the accommodation.

Deposit Tab

This tab allows you to display deposit information of this accommodation on front-end when user booking. Go to Deposit to see how it works.

After All settings completed, a single accommodation is displayed as below. Go to online demo to see how accommodations will be shown.

• 1: Accommodation title. Go to Theme options → Accommodations Setting → Title Setting to change accommodation title.
• 2: Display title of accommodation.
• 3: Discount of accommodation. Go to Discount tab in Accommodation Options to set discount of accommodation. Discount will be hidden if Discount Rate is empty, even though Is Discount is checked.
• 4: The content of accommodation.
• 5: Accommodation room types. Go to Room Types tab in Accommodation Options to set room types for accommodation.
• 6: Accommodation contact. Go to Theme options → Accommodations Setting → Show Map & Contact to show or hide accommodation contact.
• 7: Accommodation related. Go to Theme options → Accommodations Setting → Show Related Accommodations to show or hide accommodation related.

Accommodation Categories - Custom Taxonomy

Accommodation categories is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Facilities - Custom Taxonomy

Facilities is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Locations - Custom Taxonomy

Locations is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Room Types - Custom Post Type

Room Types is a custom post type and you can manage it like post. Room Types has some metabox fields such as Accommodation, Max Adults, Max Children, Number of room, etc. Each room types belong to an accommodation. Max Adults and Max Children field values will be used for search and check availability.

Go to Accommodation → Room Types → Add New in Admin Panel and see these settings in Room Options block.

Room Types also has Gallery Setting metabox and you can change gallery setting in Gallery tab

Vacancies - Custom Post Type

Once you have an accommodation and a room type created ,you can add new vacancies for this accommodation. This posttype allows you to be able to set different prices for certain date ranges.

To create vacancies, please click Add New button on Accommodations → Vacancies page.

You can pick accommodation and room type. It has a handy feature - if you pick an accommodation, room types that belongs to this accommodation will be listed in Room Type field.

This post type allows you to set different prices in different periods for every room of the hotel. And these rooms only bookings in this periods. Example: If you configure information of a vacancy post in admin as above capture, Booking form of this room in frond-end will be displayed as below.

Bookings - Custom Post Type

Once you create vacancies, visitors to your website will be able to make bookings. To view already created bookings go to Accommodations → Bookings. To test the booking system on the website, go to a single accommodation page and click the Book button, refer to Booking to see how it's working.

Go to Accommodation detail page on front-end and click Book Now button to see how Booking form displays.

Tours - Custom Post Type

Tours is a custom post type and so you can manage it like post. Tour has several options in Tour Information metabox like bellow.

Go to Tours → Add New in Admin Panel to see how Tour Infomation metabox displays.

General Tab

• Display Title: You can enter tour custom title which display on front-end. If this metabox empty, this value will receive value of title.
• Short Description: This metabox allows you to enter description for tour.
• Date Type: Choose date type for the tour. Check Fixed Days if the tour open with fixed days as weekly, monthly, any day during the season or a specific date. Example:
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Weekly and Day Of Week is Mon, this tour is only available for booking every monday.
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Monthly and Day Of Month is 20, this tour is only available for booking 20th of every month.
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Season and Tour Date is from 2016-09-20 to 2016-09-30, this tour is available for booking any day from 2016-09-20 to 2016-09-30.
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Specific Day and Tour Date is 2016-09-20 to 2016-09-30, this tour is only available for booking on 2016-09-20.
• Duration: You can enter information about duration of tour.
• Available Seats: You can enter available seats of tour.
• Price Per Adult / Price Per Child: This field will be used as a presentation price and also will be used on search and sorting.
• Destination: You can enter destination of tour.
• Is Discount: This metabox allows you to show discount of tour.
• Discount Rate: You can enter number percent which will be discount. Discount in front-end will be hidden if discount rate are empty even though is discount is checked.
• Discount Text: You can enter a text which will be shown with discount rate.
• Status: You can choose a status for tour.

Gallery Tab

You can show or hide Gallery Box in tour detail page by Show gallery option. This tab also allow you to enter title of gallery box, upload image for background and gallery.

Travel Guide Tab

This tab allow you to configure how Travel Guide block display in tour detail page. You can show or hide Travel Guide block in tour detail page by Show travel guide information option. You can also enter title and infomation of block, choose a travel guide to display in detail page.

Others Tab

• Booking Email: This email will receive user booking information when this tour booked. Emails are separated by commas.
• Mark the tour as featured: Mark your tour as Is Featured if you want to be able to show this tour in tour lists (widgets and custom pages) where "Show only featured" flag is checked.
• Attachments: You can upload attach documents that related to the tour.

Deposit Tab

This tab allows you to display deposit information of this tour on front-end when user booking. Go to Deposit to see how it works.

After all settings completed, a single tour is displayed as below. Go to online demo to see how tours will be shown.

• 1: Tour title. Go to Theme options → Tour Setting → Title Setting to change tour title.
• 2: Display title of tour.
• 3: Discount of tour. Go to General tab in Tour Infomation to set discount of tour. Discount will be hidden if Discount Rate is empty, even though Is Discount is checked.
• 4: Tour meta info.
• 5: The content of accommodation.
• 6: Tour gallery. Go to Gallery tab in Tour Infomation to set how gallery display on detail page.
• 7: Tour travel guide. Go to Travel Guide tab in Tour Infomation to set how Travel Guide display on detail page.
• 8: Tour related. Go to Theme options → Tour Setting → Show Related Tours to show or hide tour related.

Tour Categories - Custom Taxonomy

Tour categories is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Tour Locations - Custom Taxonomy

Tour locations is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Tour Tags - Custom Taxonomy

Tour Tags is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category.

Tour Bookings - Custom Post Type

Once you create tours, visitors to your website will be able to make bookings. You can see and manage it on Tours → Bookings page. And it is quite similar to accommodation bookings panel, refer to Booking to see how it's working.

Go to Tour detail page on front-end and click Book Now button to see how Booking form displays.

Tour Schedule - Custom Post Type

This post type allows you to add schedule for a tour. This means you can set different prices and different maximum seats for different tour dates.

Car Rents - Custom Post Type

Car Rents is a custom post type and so you can manage it like post. Car Rent has several options in Car Information metabox like bellow.

Go to Car Rents → Add New in Admin Panel to see how Car Information metabox displays.

General Tab

• Display Title: You can enter car custom title which display on front-end. If this metabox empty, this value will receive value of title.
• Short Description: This metabox allows you to enter description for car.
• Price(per day) / Subfix: This field will be used as a presentation price and also will be used on search and sorting.
• Available Cars: This field allows you to enter available cars for rent.
• Max People: You can enter max people per car in this metabox.

Discount Tab

• Is Discount: This metabox allows you to show discount of car.
• Discount Rate: You can enter number percent which will be discount. Discount in front-end will be hidden if discount rate are empty even though is discount is checked.
• Discount Text: You can enter a text which will be shown with discount rate.
• Discount Start Date & Discount End Date: This fields will be used to limit discount period.

Gallery Tab

This tab allows you to add images list that will be display as gallery in Car detail page.

Others Tab

• Booking Email: This email will receive user booking information when this car booked. Emails are separated by commas.
• Mark The Car As Featured: Mark your car as Is Featured if you want to be able to show this car in car lists (widgets and custom pages) where "Show only featured" flag is checked.
• Attachments: You can upload attach documents that related to the car.

Deposit Tab

This tab allows you to display deposit information of this car on front-end when user booking. Go to Deposit to see how it works.

After All settings completed, a single car is displayed as below. Go to online demo to see how cars will be shown.

• 1: Display title of car.
• 2: This is car price.
• 2: This is Car gallery. Go to Gallery tab in Car Information metabox to add images for car gallery.
• 4: This is content of car.
• 5: This is car booking button. Go to Theme options → Booking Setting → Booking Active to show or hide this button.
• 6: Related car rents. Go to Theme options → Car Rent Setting → Show Related Cars Rent to show or hide related car rents.

Car Categories - Custom Taxonomy

Car categories is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Car Locations - Custom Taxonomy

Car locations is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search and check availability.

Car Bookings - Custom Post Type

Once you create car rents, visitors to your website will be able to make bookings. You can see and manage it on Car Rents → Car Bookings page. And it is quite similar to accommodation bookings panel, refer to Booking to see how it's working.

Go to Car detail page on front-end and click Book Now button to see how Booking form displays.

Cruises - Custom Post Type

Cruises is a custom post type and so you can manage it like post. Cruise has several options in Cruise Information metabox like bellow.

Go to Cruises → Add New in Admin Panel to see how Cruise Information metabox displays.

General Tab

• Display Title: You can enter cruise custom title which display on front-end. If this metabox empty, this value will receive value of post title.
• Short Description: This metabox allows you to enter description for cruise.
• Star Rating: Enter number of stars for cruise.
• Date Type: Choose date type for the cruise. Check Fixed Days if the cruise open with fixed days as weekly, monthly, any day during the season or a specific date. Example:
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Weekly and Day Of Week is Mon, this cruise is only available for booking every monday.
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Monthly and Day Of Month is 20, this cruise is only available for booking 20th of every month.
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Season and Tour Date is from 2016-09-20 to 2016-09-30, this cruise is available for booking any day from 2016-09-20 to 2016-09-30.
  • If you choose Date Frequency is Specific Day and Tour Date is 2016-09-20 to 2016-09-30, this cruise is only available for booking on 2016-09-20.
• Duration: You can enter information about duration of cruise.
• Price Per Adult / Price Per Child: This field will be used as a presentation price and also will be used on search and sorting.
• Available Seats: You can enter available seats of cruise.
• Destination: You can enter destination of cruise.
• Is Discount: This metabox allows you to show discount of cruise.
• Discount Rate: You can enter number percent which will be discount. Discount in front-end will be hidden if discount rate are empty even though is discount is checked.
• Discount Text: You can enter a text which will be shown with discount rate.
• Status: You can choose a status for cruise.

Gallery Tab

You can show or hide Gallery Box in cruise detail page by Show gallery option. This tab also allow you to upload images for gallery.

Cabin Types Tab

You can show or hide Cabin Types Box in detail page by Show Cabin Types Box option. Cabin Types Box will be hidden if Cabin Types of Car are empty. You can also create new cabin type by Add new cabin type link.

Others Tab

• Booking Email: This email will receive user booking information when this cruise booked. Emails are separated by commas.
• Mark The Cruise As Featured: Mark your cruise as Is Featured if you want to be able to show this cruise in cruise lists (widgets and custom pages) where "Show only featured" flag is checked.
• Attachments: You can upload attach documents that related to the cruise.

Deposit Tab

This tab allows you to display deposit information of this cruise on front-end when user booking. Go to Deposit to see how it works.

After All settings completed, a single cruise is displayed as below. Go to online demo to see how cruises will be shown.

• 1: Display title of cruise.
• 2: This is cruise price.
• 2: This is cruise gallery. Go to Gallery tab in Cruise Information metabox to add images for cruise gallery.
• 4: This is short description of cruise.
• 5: This is cabin of cruise. Go to Cabin Types tab in Cruise Information metabox to see cabins of cruise.
• 6: This is content of cruise.
• 7: This is cruise booking button. Go to Theme options → Booking Setting → Booking Active to show or hide this button.

Cruise Categories - Custom Taxonomy

Cruise categories is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search cruise.

Cruise Locations - Custom Taxonomy

Cruise locations is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search cruise.

Cruise Facilities - Custom Taxonomy

Cruise facilities is a custom taxonomy and so you can manage it like category. This values will be used for search cruise.

Cabin Types - Custom Post Type

Cabin Types is a custom post type and you can manage it like post. Cabin Types has some metabox fields such as Cruise, Max Adults, Max Children, Number of Cabins, etc. Each cabin types belong to an cruise. Max Adults and Max Children field values will be used for search and check availability.

Go to Cruises → Cabin Types → Add New in Admin Panel and see these settings in Cabin Types Information block.

Cruise Bookings - Custom Post Type

Once you create cruise, visitors to your website will be able to make bookings. You can see and manage it on Cruises → Cruise Bookings page. And it is quite similar to accommodation bookings panel, refer to Booking to see how it's working.

Go to Cruise detail page on front-end and click Book Now button to see how Booking form displays.

This section will introduce to you how to book a accommodation. Tour, Car and Cruise booking is similar to accommodation booking.

To book a accommodation, please go to Accommodation detail page on front-end and click Book Now button to see how Booking form to displays.

Fill all fields in the booking form and click Book button, Your booking will be added to Woocommerce Cart if Checkout by Woocommerce option for hotel is enabled.

After booking process have been completed, you can check booking information at Accommodations → Bookings in Admin Panel.

Otherwise, if Checkout by Woocommerce option for hotel is disabled, Only confirm email is sent to user after you enter your booking information as below. Fill customer infomation in below form and click Next button to complete booking process. And a email will be sent to customer to confirm booking.

This section will introduce to you how tour deposit works. Accommodation, Car and Cruise deposit is similar to Tour.

To display tour deposit, edit that tour and go to Deposit tab in Tour Information metabox.

• Enable Deposit: choose Yes to enable deposit feature on front-end when booking.
• Deposit Unit: choose deposit unit, deposit by percentage or fixed amount.
• Deposit Amount: enter deposit amount. If Deposit Unit is Percentage, please enter value of this field less than 100.

After you congifure tour deposit as above, Your booking form will display deposit as below.

After booking process have been completed, you can check deposit information at Booking tab in Tour Booking Options metabox. Edit a Tour Booking at Tours → Tour Bookings in Admin Panel to see this metabox.

Teams - Custom Post Type

Teams is custom post type and you can manage it like post. To create a new team, go to "Teams → Add New" from the Admin Panel.

To display teams in your front page, you can add Team shortcodes ( SLZ Team Carousel, SLZ Team List, SLZ Team Single ) in Exploore’s shortcode list to your specific page. You also can create a Team Categories that is a colection of teams same category.

Partners - Custom Post Type

Partners is custom post type and you can manage it like post. To create a new partner, go to "Partners → Add New" from the Admin Panel.

To display partners in your front page, you can add SLZ Partner shortcode in Exploore’s shortcode list to your specific page.

Testimonials - Custom Post Type

Testimonials is custom post type and you can manage it like post. To create a new testimonial, go to "Testimonials → Add New" from the Admin Panel.

To display testimonials in your front page, you can add SLZ Testimonial shortcode in Exploore’s shortcode list to your specific page.

Extra Items - Custom Post Type

Extra Items is a custom post type and so you can manage it like post. Extra Items has several options in Extra Item Option metabox like bellow.

Go to Extra Items → Add New in Admin Panel to see how Extra Item Option metabox displays.

• Price Per Item: You can enter enter price of item in this metabox.
• Is Price Per Day: Choose Yes if this item price is price per day. This field is only apply for Accomodation and Car.
• Is Price Per Person: Choose Yes if this item price is price per person. This field is only apply for Accomodation, Cruise and Tour.
• Max Allowed Items: Enter maximun allowed items that maximum items can book when booking.
• Support: Choose categories that this item aplly for when booking.

This section introduce shortcodes of EXPLOORE theme. EXPLOORE supports useful 33+ shortcodes. To view this shortcodes, go to "Admin Panel → Page", edit page with Visual Composer.

Click "Add Element" button , select tab SlzCore.

1. SLZ Toggle shortcode

It will be display as below:

2. SLZ Gallery Image shortcode

This shortcode will display a list of the picture by uploading photos. It have three style:

• Masonry grid
• Image slider
• image grid
• image regions

It will be displayed in frontend

3. SLZ Hotel, Tour, Car, Cruise Grid shortcode

This shortcode will display a list accomodation/tour as a grid.

4. SLZ Search Hotel,Tour, Car, Cruise shortcode

This shortcode is used to display the fields which are used as search conditions in the search accomodation/search tour page.

5. SLZ Room Types shortcode

This shortcode is used to display schedule for tour detail page.

6. SLZ Tour Carousel shortcode

This shortcode create a list tour with carousel animation.

7. SLZ Tour Schedule shortcode

This shortcode is used to replace default button shortcode of visual composer if you want to create a specific button of Exploore theme.

8. SLZ Tour Categories shortcode

This shortcode create a list categories of tour.

9. SLZ Testimonial shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display posts in Testimonials posttype as below.

10.SLZ Team List shortcode

This shortcode is used to display teams list from Teams posttype.

11. SLZ Team Carousel shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display a list team from team post type with carousel animation.

12.SLZ Team Single shortcode

This shortcode is used to display a specific team from Teams posttype.

13. SLZ Block Title shortcode

This shortcode create a block title with three style.

14. SLZ Banner shortcode

This shortcode allows you to create a banner containing video

15. SLZ Item List shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display a item list as below.

16. SLZ Button shortcode

This shortcode is used to create a button for your site.

17. SLZ Icon Box shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display a block icon with 6 style.

18.SLZ Post Carousel shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display images list from posttype( Accommodation, Tour, Post ) with carousel style as below.

19.SLZ Contact shortcode

This shortcode will display a contact form. It have three style as below.

20.SLZ Discount Box shortcode

This shortcode is used to display discount box with four style as bellow.

21.SLZ Partner shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display partners list in Partners posttype as a banner.

22.SLZ Blog shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display posts list in Posts posttype as below

23.SLZ Recent News shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display recent posts list in Posts posttype with carousel style.

24. Search shortcode

This shortcode allows you to display search form with accommodation or tour. Go to Theme Options → General → Search Box Info to choose what fields to show on search box.

25.SLZ Tabs shortcode

This shortcode allows you to add content for each tab as below.

26.SLZ FAQ

This shortcode allows you create a list FAQ from post type "FAQ".

27.SLZ FAQ Request

This shortcode allows you show a form (get infomation from plugin "contact form 7") to send a FAQ request.

27.SLZ Map Location

This shortcode allows you show a search form and search results with map for accommodation, car, cruise and tour.

Translate the Theme to your language

If you want to translate the theme to other language (e.g. for the Portuguese spoken in Brazil ) you must:

• Open wp-config.php and edit: define(‘WPLANG’, "pt_BR");
• Go into wp-content/themes/exploore/languages folder and replace exploore.mo and exploore.po to pt_BR.mo and pt_BR.po
• Download Poedit and open .po file by Poedit



• Choose text which want to translte and enter translated text into Translation box.
• After you have done your translation, click Save.
• Once all settings have been completed, you will see translated text displayed as below.

  

In Admin Panel, go on Settings → General, choose Site Language is your translated language.

You can learn more about translating WordPress here Installing WordPress in Your Language

Note : After you translate your pages you need to go into Settings → Permalinks and click on Save.

Translate the Plugin to your language

If you want to translate the plugin to other language (e.g. for the Portuguese spoken in Brazil ) you must:

• Make sure wp-config.php defined this code: define(‘WPLANG’, "pt_BR");
• Go into wp-content/plugins/slz-core/languages folder and replace slz-core.pot to slz-core-pt_BR.po
• Open .po file by Poedit.



• Choose text which want to translte and enter translated text into Translation box.
• After you have done your translation, click Save. Once your slz-core-pt_BR.po file saved, slz-core-pt_BR.mo file will created automatically.

Create PO file with POEDIT

In Poedit window, choose File → New to create a new po file. Choose "Extract from source" to configure source code extraction.

In "Translation properties" of Catalog properties dialog, please choose Source code charset is UTF-8.

In "Sources paths" tab, please add folder which you want create po file.
Example :
- Choose "wp-content/themes/exploore" if you want to translate Exploore theme.
- Choose "wp-content/plugins/slz-core" if you want to translate Slz-core plugin.

Next switch to "Sources keywords" tab, press the same "New item" button and add all Gettext functions you use for your plugin as below.

Make sure all necessary functions are added and press OK button. After your po file is nicely saved, navigate to Catalog and choose to "Update from sources"

- Choose text which want translate and translate them to your language.

- After you have done your translation, click Save.

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