Tripvance

Yes. Tripvance → Tailor-Made Requests → Settings has a "Create Trip Builder Page" button, or lets you choose an existing page; nothing is created until you press it. The page shows a step-by-step wizard (dates, length, interests, destinations, travel style, accommodation, travellers, budget, contact) whose steps and answers you manage on the same screen. Requests are private records with a TMR reference, separate from bookings, and "Create Draft Tour" starts a draft tour from one. The [tripvance_trip_builder] shortcode and the Trip Builder block place the wizard anywhere. An optional "Plan your own trip" call to action on tour pages is off by default.

Yes. After activation a dismissible welcome offers a step-by-step guide (Tripvance → Settings → Setup guide): tours, homepage and its preset, tour design, booking. Every step reads your site as it is and only offers what is missing; nothing is created or changed without a button pressed for it. The guide also offers demo content — sample tours, activities and destinations, every item marked as demo — with a one-click removal that never touches your own content. The guide can be restarted from Tripvance → Settings.

Yes. Tripvance → Site pages → Homepage creates a page on the "Tripvance homepage" template and fills it from what the site already has. Its hero can be a classic image cover, a muted looping video with accessible playback and optional sound controls, a split featured-tour spotlight, layered floating image stories, or an animated travel-colour mesh. The same buttons, optional reassurance points and five tour-search designs adapt to every hero; search can be hidden entirely. The rest includes featured tours, destinations and tour types with their counts, a signature tour, activities, trust, "why choose us", articles and a final call to action. Sections can be switched off and reordered; a section with nothing to show is not printed. Setting the page as the site's front page is a separate, explicit button.

Yes. Tours → Car hire creates a page on the "Tripvance car hire page" template, built the same way as the homepage: sections you tick and order, a preset to arrange them, a preview before anything goes live. It holds a hero, a fleet with a filter by kind of vehicle, the services a driver is hired for, a table of routes with journey times and prices, your destinations and tours, the booking steps, trust details, a gallery, testimonials and questions. Only the vehicle's name is required; a cell left empty prints nothing and a section with nothing in it is not printed at all. Publishing the page is a separate, explicit button, and it is a normal page, so you add it to your menu yourself.

Through the form plugin you already use. Paste its shortcode — Contact Form 7, WPForms, Forminator, whichever it is — into the Request form group on Tours → Car hire, and the form is printed in its own section, styled to match the page. Tripvance does not add a second enquiry system for cars: your form plugin already holds the fields, the address the mail goes to, the spam protection and the export, and duplicating that would only give you two places to check. Leave the shortcode empty and the section is not printed at all. The section answers to #wptm-cars-request, so a hero or call-to-action button can scroll straight to it.

No. Activation only registers the post types and prepares the database. A notice then offers a starter kit, and nothing is created until you press the button. The starter kit's sample destinations are Moroccan examples; rename or delete any of them.

Tripvance cannot make stars appear; Google decides that. What it does is make a tour eligible: turn on reviews under Tripvance → Settings and let travellers leave rated reviews, and keep "Search result product data" switched on. Once the tour has approved rated reviews, their average and count — the same figures printed on the page — are added to the tour's Product data. With Rank Math active they go into the Product Rank Math already builds for the tour, or into one Product added to Rank Math's graph if it has none: Tripvance does not add a second Product when Rank Math already provides one for the current Tour or Activity. Ratings can be left out separately with "Include the average rating from approved reviews"; a site that had switched the earlier rating option off keeps it off. Ratings from other websites are never included, and activity pages, which do not display reviews, carry no rating.

Optionally. Activities are pages of their own from the start; the listing at /activities/ and a page per activity type are switched on under Tripvance → Settings (activity archive). With it on, the plugin draws both — title, description, a row of type links, the activity cards with their prices, pagination — and a theme can replace either with archive-wptm_activity.php or taxonomy-wptm_activity_type.php. The [wptm_activities] shortcode and the Activities block put the same cards on any page.

On Automatic this should not happen: a tour is drawn day by day only when it says it lasts more than one day — more than one day, at least one night, a multi-day duration preset, or an overnight written on one of its days. Check those four first, because one of them is what is claiming the days. Otherwise set Itinerary format to "Single day / Timeline" on that tour and the choice is final. Fill in the Time field at the top of each stop's card if you have one and it leads the stop on the page; a stop with no time still reads perfectly by its title.

No. Automatic only decides for tours that have not chosen, and a tour that has chosen keeps that choice whatever its duration says.

The readable files sit beside the minified ones (assets/css/tour.css next to tour.min.css). Define SCRIPT_DEBUG as true in wp-config.php and the readable files are served instead, as WordPress does for its own. The minified copies are built with esbuild 0.25.9. To rebuild a file, run npx --yes esbuild@0.25.9 assets/css/tour.css --minify --outfile=assets/css/tour.min.css (use the corresponding paths for other CSS or JavaScript files); until then the edited file is served as it is, because a minified copy older than its source is never used.

No. It records booking requests and the agency confirms them. No payment gateway is included and none is required.

Yes. Open a booking, set its price under Price & services if needed, and use the Documents panel: Preview gives a draft without a number, Issue gives the numbered document and keeps an unchangeable copy. PDFs are produced on your own server. Tripvance prints the details you give it; check that your invoices carry what the rules where you trade require.

No. The plugin has its own fields and works without it. If ACF is installed the same fields are shown through ACF instead. The free version is enough; no premium field type is used.

It should not. The plugin outputs no canonical, meta description or Open Graph markup and no site-wide schema, leaving those to Rank Math, Yoast or whichever you use. Its only structured data is one Product on eligible Tour and Activity pages; with Rank Math it is merged into Rank Math's own graph, and with Rank Math the page builder no longer writes Rank Math's title, description or focus keyword. If another SEO plugin already publishes a Product for your tours, switch off "Search result product data" or use the wptm_product_schema_print filter.

Yes, with the free version. Tours, activities, taxonomy terms and generated pages are assigned a language and linked to their translations, and each generated page is written in its own language. The homepage and the car hire page are created in every language at once and linked, so the language switcher and the hreflang tags are right from the start. The homepage's own wording gets a language tab per language in Tripvance > Site pages > Homepage: the same form, the source text above every box, and a box left empty falls back to the source language rather than leaving a hole. Booking mails, vouchers and reminders answer in the language the traveller booked in. Your other wording is still exposed in Languages > String translations. A language switcher can be switched on in Settings and printed in the theme's menus or through [wptm_language_switcher]; each language links to the real translation of the current page and never to a guessed address. Without Polylang nothing changes.

In Tripvance > Settings > Addresses & SEO. Two structures are offered. Shared slugs use one base for every language (/tours/, /fr/tours/, /es/tours/; the language folders are Polylang's). Translated slugs give each language its own base (/tours/, /fr/circuits/, /es/tours/; activities: activities, activites, actividades; transfers: transfers, transferts, traslados), with Polylang Free. Choosing Translated slugs fills these words in; they are suggestions you can change, and any other language starts from the English word rather than an invented one. Translating a base translates the address only: a French address shows the French translation of a tour where one exists. A new site with Polylang already active is offered translated slugs in the Setup wizard. An existing site keeps exactly the addresses it has, through the update and afterwards, including when Polylang or a new language is added later, until an administrator changes them here. The screen shows the addresses each word produces as you type. Save changes checks every word first and saves nothing if one is refused (an empty or reserved word, a language code, or two Tripvance routes at one address); the error is shown beside the field. Going back to an earlier word is always possible: it simply becomes the live address again. After a save the screen lists every route that moved and checks it against the rebuilt rules. Back up your site before changing published addresses. Every previous base keeps answering with one permanent (301) redirect to the same tour, activity, transfer, list or term in the same language, so links and indexed pages keep working; several successive changes still take one hop, and a word that becomes active again stops redirecting. Unknown addresses keep answering 404; nothing is sent to the homepage or to another language. No post slug, title, content, ID, language, booking or SEO field is changed, and the plugin builds canonical, hreflang and sitemap addresses through WordPress's own functions, so Rank Math, Yoast and Polylang publish the new ones. Search rankings can fluctuate while search engines process the change; check your sitemap and Google Search Console. Restore Previous URL Configuration puts the previous bases back, with the same preview and redirects; it cannot restore content, rankings or links on other sites. If Polylang is switched off, the site keeps its default language's addresses and returns to the per-language ones when it is switched on again. Supported: language folders (/fr/, with or without the default language's folder), WordPress in a subdirectory, structures with or without a trailing slash. Not supported for changes (the current addresses are kept and the screen says why): plain permalinks, Polylang languages by domain, subdomain or content, and bases set by code through the wptm_rewrite_slugs or wptm_language_slugs filters. Where Polylang Pro is active, its own Translate slugs module owns translated bases and Tripvance offers shared slugs only. Multisite works per site but has not been tested.

Yes. Tripvance → Bookings → Booking forms makes a booking request form with no tour page behind it — an airport pick-up, a private dinner, a day with a driver. Give it a name, optionally a price, the largest party and the notice you need, and place it on any page with [tripvance_booking_form id="123"]: a button that opens the form in a window. Add display="inline" to show the form in the page instead. The button's words, icon, style (solid, outline, soft), shape (rounded, pill, square), size, width, alignment and colour are set on the form with a live preview, and one placement can change any of them in the shortcode (icon="calendar" style="outline"…). When a request is sent the traveller sees a booking slip print out of a small receipt printer: the reference, what was booked, the date, the party, the estimate and what happens next, with buttons to continue on WhatsApp, download the confirmation or print the slip.

Yes, in Settings → Booking reference: your own letters and hyphens with {YYYY}, {YY}, {MM}, {DD} and {NUM}, and how many digits the number has — MTL-{YY}{MM}-{NUM} gives MTL-2610-0001. An example updates as you type. New requests use it; references already given keep theirs. The numbering starts again each year only when the year is part of the reference. Requests arrive in Bookings under the name you gave the form, with the same e-mails, statuses and documents as a tour booking.

If seat-capacity enforcement is enabled, no. Tripvance obtains a departure lock and performs the capacity test as part of the reservation write, so only one request can take the final seat. Capacity enforcement is off by default because many agencies use the form as an enquiry system.