WordPress - Tours pages

Where do I find it?

SIDE PANEL > Tours

What does it mean?

The tour pages are automatically imported from TourCMS, so no changes are needed on these pages here. If you wish to edit any descriptions or other fields, this can be done from the backend.

What should I do?

Once per day, all tours are automatically synced from TourCMS. This task updates any new tours, removes tours (if not present in TourCMS), and updates data in existing tours, including content and media.

The user has the option to update tours manually, outside of the standard sync interval as follows:

Update all tours manually

1. Go to SIDE PANEL> SETTINGS> GRAY LINE LICENSEE TOURCMS PLUGIN
2. Click on the Sync Tours button

Update individual tours manually

1. Go to SIDE PANEL> TOURS
2. Search for the tour to be updated and click on the edit button.
3. On the edit page, in the right section under ‘publish’, click the ‘update’ button.

However, for SEO, users can update the configuration for each tour. To check how the SEO is configured please refer to How to configure SEO for pages?

Tours custom fields

Tours custom fields can be used to display different flags on your tour pages and distinguish descriptions used on your own website from descriptions used on 3rd party (e.g. agent) websites. Actually, only the 2 first custom fields are displayed on the website: “a1 Easy cancellation” and “a2 Product Badges”. You can find them in TourCMS PRODUCTS > TOURS > DESCRIPTIONS & IMAGES > CUSTOM FIELDS

a1 Easy Cancellation custom field

In the “a1 Easy Cancellation” you can enter “false” to remove the “Free Cancellation” message for that tour. For example, the “Free Cancellation” message has been removed for the “WS: Minimundus & Schiffahrt” tour.

a2 Product Badges custom field

Here you can enter one of the following codes for the “a2 Product Badges” custom field:

"SO" => __('Likely To Sell Out', 'wp_grayline_tourcms_theme')
"NT" => __('New Tour', 'wp_grayline_tourcms_theme')
"BS" => __('Bestseller', 'wp_grayline_tourcms_theme')
"ET" => __('Essential Tour', 'wp_grayline_tourcms_theme')
"MS" => __('Must See', 'wp_grayline_tourcms_theme')
"PT" => __('Private Tour', 'wp_grayline_tourcms_theme')

Please note that some images may vary slightly from those shown in this article.

How to configure Tour Enquiry on the tour page?

To do this, you need to follow the steps:

1. Login to WordPress and go to SIDE PANEL> SETTINGS> GRAY LINE TOURCMS LICENSEE TOURCMS PLUGIN
2. Tick the ‘Enable Tour Enquiries’ check box

When tour enquiry is enabled, a button is displayed above the booking widget in the tour details page.

On click of this button, an enquiry form is opened where customers can enter details and questions.

How to configure Google Maps on the tours page?

To do this, please follow these steps:

1. Login to WordPress and go to SIDE PANEL> APPEARANCE> WIDGETS
2. Expand Tour Map Widget
3. Click on ‘Add’ to add a block and search for a legacy tour map. Click on the legacy tour map.

4. Enter Title, Zoom and Google Maps API Key and click on ‘Update’ (the Google Map usage API key is paid and to be purchased by the user)

5. To remove Google Maps, delete the block from the widget

Data Synchronization

The following actions are currently configured to automatically update the data on the website in regular intervals.

1. Sync tours – this job is executed daily at a fixed time and it will synchronize the following TourCMS data with Wordpress
   1. New tours added
   2. Tours that were deleted
2. Tour data in existing tours (media, descriptions, etc.)
3. Currency JSON caching (Open Exchange Rates) - This job is executed daily at a fixed time to update currency exchange rates.
4. TourCMS URL uploads – This Job is executed daily at a fixed time to update TourCMS tour URLs