This page shows you some tips how to use this Theme.

This theme can be used by companies active in the Tourism scene. This DEMO website will help you understand the fucntionalities/posibilities of the theme.

Pages vs. Posts

Is is very important to understand the differences between a page and a post.

Page

The page is used to create a webpage. These are the pages that can be reached by the website navigation. Withing the theme you can create a page in the WordPress Dashboard by clicking on the menu Pages and then Add New.

A page is nothing more than a simple static website page comparable with an empty piece of paper. By using shortcode you set the layout of a page a little bit. Think about the use of columns, griphical boxes, tabs etc.

Posts

Posts are articles, small pieces of stand alone content which can be viewed / embed in a Page. E.g. news artciles, package article, room description article etc. An artical has a certain loook and feel, so that the website has a nice and consistent look and feel. Every article can be connected to one or more categories. These categories in combination with shortcode give you a huge adventage.

What is this advantage you probably think?
You can use shortcode to load articles into a page!!! So this means that you can put a piece of shortcode into a page that for examples does the following:

• Load all articles related to “Sun & Beach”
• Show a featured image on the left
• Show a small description of the article
• load only 4 articles per page, if there are more, than add navigation links.

The above funtionality would generate an overview page containing 4articles. These articles will be visible with an image, a small piece of text from the article and a read more link. When clicking on the read more link, you can see the complete article.

What does this mean…

This DEMO site has been set up in the same way. First we have set up an empty website. containing the following structure of pages:

• Home
• Tours
  • Adventure & Sports
  • Sun & Beach
  • Historical
  • Nature
• Accomodation
  • Hotels
  • Bed & Breakfast
  • Tents
• Tour planner
• About us
• Foreign tour operator
• News
• Book now
• Contact

Below you can find some explanations how the pages have been set-up to use.

[accordions] [accordion title=”Home”]

This is the frontpage of your website which is one of the most important pages of a website. It is the page that is directly visible after entering your websites domain name. You can compare it wuth your online business card.

The homepage has toconvince your visitors to further explore your website. So you have to build trust, have to make them eager and have to activate them to click on the calls to action you have on your website. Calls to action could be:

• Book now
• Plan your tour
• Ask for information
• Call us
• Skype us

Your visitors will only click on those calls to action if the are enthousiastic or curious about the products or services you can offer them. In the tourism sector this is done by building trust, telling about your experience, showing testimonials, links to social media, logo’s of awards or memberships, great attractive images and attractive descriptions of your products.

Your homepage can be edited over here.

[/accordion] [accordion title=”Tours”]

This page can be used to give your visitors a quick overview about the different types of tours you offer. This page is set up as a static page with static text. At the end of the page we would advise to show nice images related to your different tour categories and linking to the submenus.

We have created the following subpages in this Demo site:

• Adventure & Sports
• sun & Beach
• Historical
• Nature

Those page have the tours page as its parent. This automaticaly makes them subpages. Also WordPress will automatically place these subpages in a submenu.

[tabs] [tab title=”Adventure & Sports”]

This page has been set up as an overview page introducing all the article related to the category Adventure & Sports. This has been done by creating shortcode by using the shortcode genertator. The only content in the Adventure & Sports page will be the following shortcode:

[pre][blog count=”5″ cat=”8″ width=”150″ nopaging=”false”][/pre]

This shortcode tells WordPress to add 5 blogposts (articles) to the page, related to category Adventure & Sports (8), the immage shown is 150px width and the nopaging is set at false. This means that when there are more then 5 articles related to the Adventure & Sports category, there will automatically be generated next and prior page links.

[/tab] [tab title=”Sun & Beach”]

The Sun & Beach page contains the following shortcode:

[pre][blog count=”5″ cat=”8″ width=”150″ nopaging=”false”][/pre]

This only loads articles from the Sun & Beach category.

[/tab] [tab title=”Historical”]

The Historical page contains the following shortdoce:

[pre][blog count=”5″ cat=”8″ width=”150″ nopaging=”false”][/pre]

This loads only articles from the Historical category.

[/tab] [tab title=”Nature”]

The Nature page conaints the following shortcode:

[pre][blog count=”5″ cat=”8″ width=”150″ nopaging=”false”][/pre]

This only loads articals linked to the Nature category.

[/tab] [/tabs] [/accordion] [accordion title=”Accomodation”] [/accordion] [accordion title=”Tour planner”] [/accordion] [accordion title=”About us”] [/accordion] [accordion title=”Foreign tour operator”] [/accordion] [accordion title=”News”] [/accordion] [accordion title=”Book now”] [/accordion] [accordion title=”Contact”] [/accordion] [/accordions]