Multilingual Use

Hi,

Thanks for your message. Please find our comments below.

Custom Fields

1. The management functions for the Custom Fields are not available in the free version, and the only editable fields are those of type “checkbox”.
2. The page “Global – Translations” can definitely be used to translate the default custom fields that are installed with the free plugin version. By default, they use internal INI translation constants as name, and the upper-case word you found is actually the default name. If the custom fields could be edited, then you could simply change that INI constant to “Billing Information” (that’s what it actually refers and converts to) or any readable value. That value, which is the custom field name, would be displayed in the Translations page to identify the record you’re translating.
   “Entries” are only available for custom fields of type “select” to list the various select options (a drop-down menu to pick a value). The “Popup” field indicates the URL, and it’s what fields of type checkbox use. The label has not been changed, and the plugin used to open the custom field links within a modal/popup window.

Shortcodes: yes, just one Shortcode per page is allowed, as the rendering is made within a single buffer through PHP.

1. The language attribute for a Shortcode makes it different from other Shortcodes of the same type. A Shortcode is a simple string that gets places inside a WordPress post or page, and it allows the WP framework to run the plugin and let it render its own contents. For this reason, if you are publishing a page (Shortcode) of type “Items List”, then it’s suggested to have one Shortcode of that type for each language, so that the page slug (URL suffix) will be different from one language to another.
2. The language attribute for the Shortcodes will not affect the translations, as those are managed by WordPress and/or by any other language plugin you’re using. The language attribute is only meant to differentiate one Shortcode from the others, as their strings need to be unique. The content translations you are creating from the page “Global – Translations” will be automatically applied by our plugin as long as the currently active language changes in the public section of your site. This is usually done through a language switcher tool of a multi-language plugin.
   On the other side, language translations such as “Book Now” are automatically read and applied by WordPress by loading the apposite PO/MO translation files. Such files can be managed either manually by uploading them onto the plugin language directory, or through any multi-language plugin.

We hope this helps! Also, we invite you to reach out to our technical support team through our website even if you don’t have any active license or accounts.

Thank you!
The VikWP Team

Hi,

No problems, we are happy to help! If you had any concerns about the functions available with the commercial plugin versions, feel free to contact us through our websites.

This topic is related to our VikRentItems plugin as you’ve noticed, but in case you would like to test our Booking Engine and PMS plugin for hotels/vacation-rentals, you should use our VikBooking plugin, which also offers Channel Manager functionalities with our all-in-one solution at E4jConnect.

All our Vik plugins support multiple languages to translate both contents and language definitions.

The VikWP Team

Hi,

Yes, you are definitely going to find some similar functionalities in VikBooking, such as the Custom Fields, but VikBooking is definitely our largest plugin as it’s not just a Booking Engine, but it’s also a PMS with many reporting, financial, management and accounting capabilities.

Our company is a certified Channel Manager provider (E4jConnect) and so we provide real-time API operations with the major OTAs (Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Vrbo etc..). We also offer a Trial activation tool for WordPress in case you wanted to test the whole solution (Booking Engine, PMS and Channel Manager) before committing any purchase. Just to be clear on this forum, even if probably obvious, our Channel Manager service E4jConnect requires an active subscription, beside the commercial versions of the plugins VikBooking and Vik Channel Manager. However, if you go through the Trial activation tool, by connecting a real Airbnb or Booking.com host account, you will get all the required plugins and services activated for free for 30 days.

Feel free to reach out to our team should you have any technical or general questions.

Thanks again!
The VikWP Team

Hi,

No problem, please find our comments below.

1. That sounds like a CSS conflict with your Theme. If you can read the label for the custom field of type “checkbox”, then the checkbox element itself should be displayed by the View. However, it may be hid somewhere next to the label. We suggest using the browser inspector to see what CSS rules are eventually being applied, and whether the HTML source code prints the checkbox input element for tick and acceptance.
2. We understand the feature you’re looking for, and this is only available with VikBooking (our hotel/vacation-rentals booking engine and PMS plugin) and VikRentCar (our car rentals plugin).
   For every room-type/listing in VikBooking you can give a name or a number to each sub-unit. For hotels, this feature is often used to number, for example, 10 units of a “Double Room Deluxe”.
   A similar function is available with our vehicle rentals plugin “VikRentCar”, where every item with multiple inventory units can get custom features composed of key-value pairs, such as “License Plate” (key) – “AB123CD” (value). We call this functionality “Distinctive Features”, but unfortunately it is not available with our multi-item rentals plugin “VikRentItems”, I’m sorry.
   You can test this function even with the free plugin versions, but it is not available at all with VikRentItems.

The VikWP Team