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Introduction

There are two ways of placing the Booking Engine Button on a Wordpress site:

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website: Using a WordPress widget or by placing the button with HTML only.

  1. Using a WordPress widget (recommended)
    Widgets are tiny blocks

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  1. that you can place in your WordPress sidebars

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  1. , also known as

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  1. “widget-ready-

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  1. areas”. We recommend using an existing WordPress widget, which allows you to place our HTML into your website.

  2. Placing the booking Engine Button as HTML in a page textbutton with HTML only
    If you want to place the Booking Engine Button

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  1. on a page without the “widget-ready-

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  1. areas”, you can

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  1. place the button between your regular page text

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Placing the Booking Engine Button with the widget "HTML snippet"

  • Go to the Wordpress Dashboard

  • Go to ““Plugins”

  • Search for "Insert Html Snippet" (by xyzscripts.com)

  • Click on “Install now”

  • Click on “Activate”

  • Go to “XYZ Html”

  • Click on "Add new HTML Snippet".

  • Fill in:
    "Tracking Name" for example "Hoteliers-com-booking button"
    "HTML code" (see code below)

Code Block
<form method="post" action="https://scripts.hoteliers.com/api/v1/book-form" target="_blank" class="hoteliers-book-form">
    <input type="hidden" name="hotel" value="{hotel}">
    <input type="hidden" name="lang" value="{language}">
    <button type="submit" class="hoteliers-book-form__button">Book now</button>
</form>

For more possibilities see Booking Engine Button

  • Go to “View” -> “widgets”

  • Click on dropdown icon of "Insert Html Snippet" and choose a widget-ready-area

  • Enter a title, e.g. "Hoteliers Booking Button" or leave blank

  • Click on dropdown icon at “Choose Snippet” and choose "Hoteliers-com-booking button".

  • Click on "Save"

For more information, check https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/widgets/

Placing the booking Engine Button as HTML in a page text

  • Go to the Wordpress Dashboard

  • Go to “Pages”

  • Click on "Edit”

  • Click on the three dots on the right above "More tools & options".

  • Click on "Code editor"

  • Put the HTML code below on the desired spot in the text

Code Block
<form method="post" action="https://scripts.hoteliers.com/api/v1/book-form" target="_blank" class="hoteliers-book-form">
    <input type="hidden" name="hotel" value="{hotel}">
    <input type="hidden" name="lang" value="{language}">
    <button type="submit" class="hoteliers-book-form__button">Book now</button>
</form>

For more possibilities see Booking Engine Button

  • Click on "Update" at the top right

  • Click on "View page" at the bottom left

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  1. using HTML only.

Note

We recommend using option 1. As with option 2, the changes you made to place the button, can be overwritten when you update your WordPress theme.