Question 1

How to integrate the booking widget in the front end? Where to find the shortcode and how to use it?

Accepted Answer

|| Applicable for v0.9.3.0+

How to integrate booking widget in the front end?

Q: Troubleshooting - Why slots are missing/not available?

<h1 id="whyslotsaremissingnotavailable">Why slots are missing/not available?</h1> <p>Slots and days can be <strong>not available because</strong> of one or more reasons mentioned below.</p> <ul> <li>If <a href="/en/article/calendar-integrations-4et2xz/#1-how-check-for-conflicts-calendar-works">conflict calendar</a> is setup - If there is event added outside WPCal to your conflict calendar(say a calendar in your Google Calendar account) then that particular period will not be available. <strong>To troubleshoot try disabling conflict calendar of the event type's host admin.</strong></li> <li>Slot(s) are already booked for the specific period.</li> <li>All slots of the day are booked so that day is not available.</li> <li>By using <a href="/en/article/how-to-customise-availability-for-event-type-one-or-more-days-qfc8ez/">custom availability</a> a particular day(s) availability can be either changed by available time or marked as not available.</li> <li>Conflict slot(s) are booked for another event type of same admin.</li> <li>Slot(s) are not available because of advance Event Type settings like <a href="/en/article/event-type-availability-options-show-start-times-every-minimum-scheduling-notice-and-event-buffers-17lvw88/">Max Booking Per Day, Minimum Schedule Notice, Event Buffers</a>. <strong>To troubleshoot try disabling these settings.</strong></li> </ul>

When you create a new event type, a page is created and the booking widget shortcode is added automatically. You can also add the booking widget to any page you wish using shortcodes. Please read below about where to find and how to use the shortcode?

Where to find the shortcode?

Step 1: Choose the desired Event type.

Choose desired Event Type

Step 2: Copy the shortcode.

Event Type Shortcode

How to use the shortcode?

The copied shortcode can be used in

Pages
Posts
Widgets
Templates (Themes)

It can also be used in popular page builders. We are listing a few of them below -

Gutenberg
Elementor - How to use shortcode with Elementor?
Beaver Builder

In most cases, you simply have to paste the shortcode in the Text/HTML/shortcode mode/widget of the editor, save and use it.

|| Note: Currently, only one event type booking widget shortcode can be used in a single page.

For more details check - How to Add a Shortcode in WordPress?

Question 2

How to customise email templates in PHP?

Accepted Answer

|| Applicable to v0.9.5.0+

|| To customise email templates check - How to customise calendar event content template in PHP?

In this article -

Email templates customisation using PHP
List of templates to customise
How to customise an email template?

Email templates customisation using PHP

Emails like new booking confirmation, reschedule and cancellation mails to the invitee and admin are customisable by overriding PHP templates. If you do not dabble with code, we recommend using the services of a PHP developer who has good knowledge in WordPress to do the customisations. The developer should copy the original desired templates from the plugin and place it in child theme folder and modify it based on your needs.

List of templates to customise

All email templates can be found in [WP Site root]/wp-content/plugins/wpcal/templates/emails folder.

header.php
footer.php
inviteebookingnew.php
inviteebookingreschedule.php
inviteebookingcancellation.php
inviteebookingreminder.php
adminbookingnew.php
adminbookingreschedule.php
adminbookingcancellation.php

How to customise an email template?

Make sure the 'Invitee notification type' option of the event type is set to 'Email'.

For example, in this article we are customising email templ

Question 3

How to edit/view/setup other admin's Event Types or Bookings?

Accepted Answer

|| Applicable for v0.9.5.0+

How to set up/view/edit other admins' Event Types or Bookings?

Starting with v0.9.5.0, viewing and editing other admins' event types and its bookings are possible except privately managed event types.

To view/edit other admins' event types (Except privately managed event types)

Navigate to WP-Admin › WPCal.io › Event Types and click on the host filter and choose the desired host.

Click on the host filter and choose the desired host.

Event types of the selected host will be displayed. To view/edit, you can follow the same steps as you usually do to view/edit your event types.

To set up Event Types for other admin

Navigate to WP-Admin › WPCal.io › Event Types and click on the [ + Create New Event Type ] button.

Click on Create New Event Type

In the 2nd step, please choose the desired host and continue completing the next step to create the event type.

In step 2 of Create new event type, choose a desired host

To manage other admins' bookings (Except bookings of privately managed event types)

Navigate WP-Admin › WPCal.io › Bookings and click on the host filter and choose the d

Question 4

Troubleshooting - Why slots are missing/not available?

Accepted Answer

Why slots are missing/not available?

Slots and days can be not available because of one or more reasons mentioned below.

If conflict calendar is setup - If there is event added outside WPCal to your conflict calendar(say a calendar in your Google Calendar account) then that particular period will not be available. To troubleshoot try disabling conflict calendar of the event type's host admin.
Slot(s) are already booked for the specific period.
All slots of the day are booked so that day is not available.
By using custom availability a particular day(s) availability can be either changed by available time or marked as not available.
Conflict slot(s) are booked for another event type of same admin.
Slot(s) are not available because of advance Event Type settings like Max Booking Per Day, Minimum Schedule Notice, Event Buffers. To troubleshoot try disabling these settings.

Question 5

How to contribute to WPCal plugin translations?

Accepted Answer

Contribute in translate.wordpress.org

How to contribute in translate.wordpress.org for WPCal plugin?

| Translate the plugin and get 1-year Pro license for 1-site Free

Visit the plugin translation page - https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wpcal/.
Choose the required language and its locale. For example, French used in France will have locale code fr_FR. || When the translation percentage for a locale reaches 90% it then becomes available as a language pack for download by any WordPress site configured with that locale as it’s language. It will be updated (once created) even below the threshold. You can contribute if the language is not 100% translated or if you want to update the translations.
Check your Glossaries and Style Guides per locale.
Sign-up and contribute to the translations. On the translation screen, you will see a simple user interface with the source text and text area to provide translation for specific strings.
After translating check out the approval procedure - After Your Contribution.
Once your translations are approved, and it will be published.

||| If you are not the native regional language

Question 6

How to translate WPCal plugin for your WordPress Site?

Accepted Answer

|| As of v0.9.4.0+

If the language pack is available for your language in translate.wordpress.org and you have set the same language in your WordPress site setting, you can look for translation updates in the updates section of WP Admin.

Click here to check whether your language pack is already available.

Do you want to contribute translations of our plugin see How to contribute to WPCal plugin translations?

Follow the steps below to translate the plugin for your site manually

This is assuming you have already installed and activated WPCal v0.9.4.0+ plugin in your site.

In this article we have used French used in France as an example its locale code fr_FR.

Step 1) Create a .po file and enter translations

Method 1) Using Loco Translation plugin.

Download, Install and Activate Loco Translation plugin plugin in your WP site if not already present.
Navigate WP Admin › Loco Translate › Plugins › WPCal.
In the Overview tab, click on New Language.
Now choose the language you like to translate and select the location as languages/plugins/wpcal-{locale}.po (This is where you will get updates, the translation pack is available).
Now you can enter the translation and each text you want and save it.

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