Understory

Powering experience makers Understory is here to help experience hosts offer great digital user experiences. Our complete software solution helps experience operators do better in terms of administration, booking, payment, gift, and marketing. It’s a one-stop-shop to grow their business – and transform their passion into profits. Understory ↔ WordPress Integrate your existing WordPress site with your Understory account! Using the Understory WordPress plugin, we're adding blocks to both Gutenberg (the Built-in WordPress editor) and Elementor, such that you can add booking calendars or experience overviews directly in your posts or pages. If you use another page builder, you can also use shortcodes together with our shortcode generator inside the settings page. The plugin provides a seamless experience, and you won't have to worry about either copying code-snippets or remembering long IDs - everything is available directly within WordPress, once connected to your Understory account. External dependencies This plugin relies on the Understory platform to fetch JavaScript code, CSS styling and data. The widget is loaded from a specific Understory-domain (widgets.understory.io), to ensure your widget is always up-to-date with the latest features and bug fixes. We utilize server-side caching on our end, to ensure fast and reliable delivery of the widget code. Furthermore, the plugin will also load experience- and event data from the Understory API. The data is not cached within WordPress, to ensure that your visitors always see up to date data. Please note that the Understory API is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Understory Widget API is hosted on the following external domains:

• bfui7akuui.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
• cc5zsp30hj.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

The only data transmitted to our APIs include your Understory Account Id, and the settings which you have chosen when setting up the widgets. No other data or personal information is sent to our servers. We request data from our APIs when initially loading the widgets, to retrieve the data to show on your WordPress page, including:

• Experience names and publicly available data
• Experience availability

For more information regarding the data we collect and how we handle it, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Once you install the plugin, you'll be asked to Connect with Understory. To Connect with Understory, simply navigate to Settings → Understory, and press the "Connect with Understory"-button. Clicking this button will redirect you to the Understory Backoffice. If you're not logged into your Backoffice, you'll be asked to log in, after which we will redirect you back to the WordPress settings. Now you're done, and the plugin is ready to use!

1.5.0

• New gift card widget available in all editors and shortcodes. This allows you to present a gift-card only widget for purchasing experience or variable amount gift cards directly from your site..
• Experience and storefront data is now automatically kept up to date based on data from Understory. No need for clicking "Update company data" except when changing core information like languages and styling.
• Improve language presentation across all widgets.
• The availability widget will now show the year if the event is not within the current year

1.4.3

• Fix an issue where existing uses of the plugin could fail when auto-updating data from Understory.

1.4.2

• Fix an issue where existing uses of the plugin could fail if Understory data is stale.

1.4.1

• Fix reported 4.0 version of the plugin instead of 1.4.0

1.4.0

• Support multiple storefronts You can now select a specific storefront for each widget to present your experiences in more advanced ways. By configuring your storefronts inside Backoffice, you can customize the presentation of your experiences just the way you like it.

1.3.6

• Fix: image styling consistency across themes

1.3.3

• Availability widget: when start and end date are different, the date range will be shown in the widget

1.3.2

• Availiability widget: primary button color will adjust based on the primary button backgroundColor
• Availiability widget: updated date formatting to include weekday

1.3.1

• Availiability widget: add option to override "Book now" button label

1.3.0

• Add option to sync company customization settings from Understory server
• Availiability widget: better customization implementation for button styling

1.2.0

• Added new 'availiability widget' enabling you to integrate an upcoming events view on your page
• Availability widget includes two designs, row and columns
• Filtering by tags now available for all multi-experience widgets
• Updated buttons to match your company customization

1.0.1

• Implement price unit name for experience cards

1.0

• First version of the Understory WordPress plugin!
• Easily add Booking Widgets in either Gutenberg, Elementor or through WordPress Shortcodes