An Aside is a special Post Type that will appear in the news content stream like an ordinary blog post … but without the title, but not in all themes. If not you can design your own aside. Handy if you want your blog to look more like social media stream without the annoying adverts …
Category: First things first
This is the default category for posts. If you forget to create a category it will go here. If you delete a category, the associated posts will end up here. If you cannot be bothered with categories, you can hid the category in many themes.
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Embed Calendar
With Google Calendar, you can flexibly import external calendars and display multiple calendars on a website.
If you are taking bookings, it can make sense to integrate all the bookings from multiple platforms into a single calendar rather than display multiple calendars.
To prevent double booking platforms like VBRO and ABNB allow calendar syncronisation. But they’d rather you booked through them and often won’t let you embed their calendar directly.
A solution to this limitation is to make your Google Calendar the default publicly visible calendar on your website.
While a bit of manual labour is involved, you can use the public and private visibility options carefully to: a) selectively show a price calendar (which can show basic pricing or offers); and b) display the bookings; and even c) recycling days and d) other useful local information (a simple notice board).
By default an entry in a Google Calendar is private until you mark it either public or “busy”. To avoid accidentally exposing customer data publicly (as illustrated in the frivolous example above) always make the entry “busy”.
If you’d rather avoid the platform (no bad thing) and are actually more comfortable with a little bit of toing and froing before confirming a booking, this is an effective and economical solution. Cancelling a hasty booking made through a platform can be irksome (can tarnishes one’s reputation). But you can save a mountain on transaction fees too.
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If you’d like to try this solution drop the google calendar embed code into an iframe (if the iframe plugin is enabled) – or ask us to enable it for a donation (which helps ourlocality be more sustainable).
