Lux Hotel

Our Lux Hotel theme uses WP Hotel Booking plugin written by ourselves. With this plugin, you can order rooms, room settings as well as checkout with variety of payment methods. The plugin has more some professional features than other current hotel booking plugins in the market. It works independently, not involving with WooCommerce plugin.

1. Set up rooms with some WP Hotel Booking addons

Check some general settings and WP Hotel Booking addons as well as creating a new room here:

When you created rooms but 404, please check “Post Name” option in Dashboard >> Settings >> Permalinks.

2. Setup WooCommerce system for booking system

WP Hotel Booking supports to use WooCommerce checkout system with WooCommerce payment gateways. By installing WP Hotel Booking WooCommerce addon, you can completely use WooCommerce for online booking system.

3. Setup WPML with WP Hotel Booking and multilingual translation

This tutorial will guide you how to setup WPML  to translate your rooms into many languages. We skip WPML general settings step such as languages setup, pages/ posts setup. We just focus on room translation setup and how to translate the rooms into multilingual correctly. In the tutorial, we setup 2 languages: English is the default language and French is the second language. The necessary plugins are:

• WP Hotel Booking WPML Support
• WPML Multilingual CMS
• WPML Translation Management
• WPML String Translation
• WPML Media

Please notice the following things:

1. Setup WPML

– Visit WPML >> Settings >> How to translate posts and pages, enable ‘Create translation manually’

– Visit WPML >> Settings >> Post Types Translation >> enable ‘Rooms’ translatable  & Rooms Capacities in Taxonomies Translation

2. Start to translate the rooms

– Install WP Hotel Booking WPML Support plugin.

– Translate Room Capacities and Room Type in WPML >> Taxonomy Translation

– Begin to translate rooms. When translate rooms (or posts/ pages) use “Overwrite content of …” instead of using “Copy content of…”.

Below is the steps:

Before submitting a ticket on our support forum, please ensure that you meet all the following requirements:

• Refer documentation.
• Read changelog and make sure that your site is running the latest version of Lux Hotel.
• Disable all 3rd part plugins because sometimes they’re the reasons causing the issues.
• Clear all the caches after changing any settings in your site.

And check out our Knowledge Base and FAQs below to find out the answer for your question.

How can I translate room/ slug to something else?

Our booking plugin can be easily translated by a translation plugin, such as Loco Translate plugin. Most of you want to change /rooms URL so I will guide how to do.

– Install Loco Translate plugin.

– Visit Dashboard >> Loco Translate >> Plugins >> WP Hotel Booking >> find rooms [URL Slug] and change to “apartments” (in case, I’ll change /rooms URL to /apartments URL)

* The permalink is always “Post Name”

Will customization be lost if I update theme?

No, your customization in Customize panel will not be lost if you update theme. Only the coding modification in original theme’s files will be lost and that’s why you should deploy in child theme.

Customize can not be saved

When you make some settings in Customize panel but the changes can not be saved. There are some common following reasons:

• It’s due to your server error “500 Internal Server”. Read here to know about the error and how to fix it.
• User of server (e.g Apache, Nginx) can’t write file. Let chmod file style.css and config.less (all in the theme directory) is 777.
• Your PHP version is outdated. PHP version 7.0 or higher is recommended.

There are also some sticky tickets we posted in purchased theme support forum. Please take a look these tickets. In case you can not find out the answer, don’t hestitate to let us know by submitting a ticket.