EXPLOORE

Travel, Exploration, Booking WordPress Theme


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

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:

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.







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



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:


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.


4. Menu

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


5. Page Title Setting

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


6. Sidebar

This section allows you to configure 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.


9. Blog display

This section allows you to configure layout for blog template.


10. Tour Setting

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


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.


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.

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.

14. Booking Setting

This section allows you to configure booking information.

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:



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
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
Others Tab
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.



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
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
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.




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
Discount Tab
Gallery Tab

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

Others Tab
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.



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
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
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.



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.

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.




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:

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:

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:



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.

Hope this theme is helpful for you. If you like it, please rating for it.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any issues when using our product.

Thank you!