We’ve reached a new important milestone for our project: Solidres v1.0.0 for Joomla is now officially available for download with many exciting new features and a brand new template, let go through each of them below:
New features:
Better support for apartment/villas booking: most of the time in apartment and villas booking, guest don’t need to choose the quantity because it is always 1, now you can configure to replace the quantity drop down with a single button for easier booking. Also there is a new option to completely hide the room form in front end if you don’t want it, without the room form, guest will be redirected to reservation step 2 immediately. Faster booking, happier guest.
Each asset now has its own check availability form, it can be helpful when you don’t want to use Check Availability module or you want to hide the front end tariffs
Front end asset social networks now uses font icons instead of images
Add new search tools for all list view
New backend navigation bar with collapsible ability and better responsive
Add option to mark room type’s guest name as an optional field
Add option to show/hide Facilities / Policies sections in front end.
Add file verification feature to detect changed/removed/new Solidres files.
Add ability to override pricing when amend/create reservations
Add ability to record customer’s IP when they make reservation.
Add Font Awesome library
Bug fixes:
Show message when min/max people constraint in complex tariff are not satisfied
Fix single supplement with standard tariff
Fix trashed reservation displayed in My Reservation list
Auto convert double quote in asset’s name to single quotes
Fix currency exchange issue
Fix issue that asset’s partner can not be removed
Fix PHP Fatal when amending reservation in some rare cases
Fix various PHP notices messages
Remove the language field in room type Publishing tab because it is not used.
Fix max day/night constraint in date picker in some cases
Enhancements:
Remove all words “Manage” or “List” in menu’s text
Upgrade latest version for some 3rd libraries bundled with Solidres
Add/refine various internal notices in backend and front end for clearer meaning.
Turn off multilingual mode by default (for new installations)
Make map display in bigger modal windows for easier navigation.
Show date picker in popup instead of inline
New template and plugins/modules:
Emerald: our latest (and the 7th) Joomla template is now join our Joomla template family. It is a full responsive and modern-style template with built-in 5 colors. The quickstart packages is bundled with the latest version of Solidres (+ plugins) and Joomla 3.5.1. It also the first template that uses our new Vegas slideshow module to provide a full screen slideshow.
Custom Field plugin: many Solidres users request to have a feature where they can add/remove the current form fields, especially in reservation step 2. With this new plugin, you will have a dedicated UI to do that without having to make a template override like before.
SMS plugin: hotel’s owner can configure to receive SMS whenever a new reservation is made with this new plugin.
ACL plugin: as an administrator or hotel owner, you want to restrict your hotel’s staffs to specific features in the backend, for example you only want to allow your receptionist to access the backend reservation menu only and you don’t want them to access other sections like assets/room types? This plugin is what you need for these kind of tasks.
Vegas Slideshow module
Complex Tariff plugin v0.6.0:
Support entering tariff daily
Add validation rule and default values for min/max length of stay
Improve ajax loading indicators
Feedback plugin v0.4.0:
Replace the bundle Font Awesome with the new Solidres’s Font Awesome
Add new search tools for all list views
Hub plugin v0.6.0:
Add live unread reservation count in front end dashboard
Add sharing feature
Add favorite feature
Add new search tools for all list views
Add support for custom field and single supplement in front end dashboard
Replace the bundled Font Awesome with Solidres’s Font Awesome
Fix modal window broken after change Grid/List views
Show max occupancy in front end if applicable
Remove dependency with Limit Booking plugin
Advanced Search module v0.5.0:
Add support for Bootstrap 3 when TypeAhead library is not included
Allow multiple instances in the same page
Assets module v0.3.0:
Add display type options: grid & list
Location Map module v0.3.0:
Improve responsive for map placeholder
My Recent Searches module v0.2.0:
Fix PHP notices
Add module class suffix support
Invoice plugin v0.4.0:
Fix Google Plus link in outgoing emails
Add dejavusans and freeserif fonts to support more languages
Limit Booking plugin v0.4.0:
Add default values for valid from/to fields
Load Module plugin v0.2.0:
Fix issue when this plugin stop processing if asset has no description
Camera Slideshow module v0.2.0:
Fix issue with RTL languages
Camera Slideshow plugin v0.2.0:
Fix issue with RTL language
Fix issue with map modal window
Paypal plugin v0.5.0:
Fix reservation payment status is not updated after successful payment in some rare cases
Statistics plugin v0.5.0:
Fix issue that can not choose 1 date for limit booking
User plugin v1.0.0:
Automatically detect guest’s country
My reservation page: show map in modal window.
New page to display customer’s wish list
Fix redirection issue when cancelling a reservation
Fix redirection issue when clicking on close button
Correct prices in my reservation view
Last but not least, we are developing a brand new plugin for Tour booking, please stay tuned!
Solidres v1.0.0, the next major release of Solidres for Joomla is planned to be released in April 2016. This is an interesting release because we’ve refactored a lot of code in the background to increase the modularity and flexibility of our product while adding many new features in the top. Some of the highlights are:
A brand new template
Complex Tariff plugin: now user can add tariff per date in addition to per week. This will simplify the process of creating tariff in some scenarios a lot.
Custom Field plugin: many Solidres users request to have a feature where they can add/remove the current form fields, especially in reservation step 2. With this new plugin, you will have a dedicated UI to do that without having to make a template override like before.
SMS plugin: hotel’s owner can configure to receive SMS whenever a new reservation is made with this new plugin.
ACL plugin: as an administrator or hotel owner, you want to restrict your hotel’s staffs to specific features in the backend, for example you only want to allow your receptionist to access the backend reservation menu only and you don’t want them to access other sections like assets/room types? This plugin is what you need for these kind of tasks.
And the good news is … this is not the completed list, there are still many interesting new features that we will disclose when it is released officially, so please stay tuned.
Luxuria, originally a Joomla templates has been ported to WordPress theme, all WordPress users can access and download it by subscribing to the WordPress BUNDLE subscription level. In addition to Luxuria theme, we’ve also released 05 new plugins to support this theme, include:
Camera plugin: it is used to show the asset’s images in front end via a widget.
Coupons plugin: it is used to show the coupons that you created in front end via a widget.
Extras plugin: it is used to show the extras items in front end via a widget.
Map plugin: it is used to show your asset in a map for easier navigation. Luxuria theme display this map widget in a slider as you can see in our live demo by clicking in the map icon right next to the logo in the header
Room Types plugin: it is used to show the room types in front end, room types are what your guests care about most therefore they need to be displayed beautifully. Room Types plugin offers you 2 types of display: Carousel and Circle Slider, you can choose which one you like the most to attract your potential guests.
The theme packages includes:
The theme zip file: this file can be used to install into your existing WordPress installation. Then you can consult the theme documentation to set it up from scratch.
The quick start package: this file contains a WordPress installation, all Solidres plugins and Luxuria theme. You can install it like installing a WordPress. After installed you will get a site that looks exactly the same with our live demo.
The documentation: this HTML documentation contains everything that you need to know in order to configure the theme.
We are very happy to announce the first stable release of Solidres for WordPress v0.2.0. Since the initial release v0.1.0 Beta, we’ve received a lot of feedback, bug reports and encouragement from our users and this release is the result of all hard works that we’ve committed since then.
In comparison to v0.1.0 Beta, v0.2.0 can be considered as a huge refactoring of our plugin structure to utilize WordPress API better. At this stage, Solidres for WordPress v0.2.0 has most of the features that Solidres for Joomla 0.9.4 is having, there are some missing features like backend reservation creation etc which we are working on for the next release.
In addition to this release, we also release 10 commercial plugins for WordPress subscriber: Advanced Extra, Complex Tariff, Currency, Discount, Invoice, Limit Booking, Offline, Paypal, Statistics, User. To download them you need to subscribe the SINGLE subscription level for WordPress. In the upcoming months we will working on all missing features and convert Joomla templates to WordPress themes one by one, please stay tuned.
This release marks an important milestone for Solidres project, we are strongly committed to provide a solid hotel booking solution for Joomla and WordPress which are the most popular open source CMS in the world.
The first release for Solidres in 2016 is now available, this is mostly a maintenance release which fixing several bugs to improve the stability of Solidres and plugins while adding some minor new features.
Solidres 0.9.4
New feature: add horizontal layout for Check Availability module
Improvement: show discounted price and original price at the same time for easy comparision
Improvement: add option to fix javascript conflict between jQuery and Mootools. You can turn it on when the Carousel not working as expected
Improvement: now showing asset’s alias in hub search results links
Fix amending reservation in front end that duplicate reservation
Fix subscription menu automatically show up in back end when hub plugin is not installed
Fix missing language string for Hub config and improve de-DE translation
Fix incorrect time interval for live refresh feature
Fix check availability break when multiples instances displayed in the same page
Hide description tab when asset’s description is empty
Fix JS regression for front end form validation
Fix asset reordering issue that reset the asset default state
Fix geocomplete feature that does not populate asset’s coordinates automatically
Fix check in and check out date validation in hub search
Fix page is refreshed when clicking on busy date in availability calendar
Improve support for Channel Manager (currently in beta)
User plugin v0.9.5
New feature: add support for front end log in box, guest can log in while making reservation with Solidres, there is no need to use Joomla log in module.
Fix saving empty user’s state
Offline plugin v0.2.0
New feature: add ability to configure accepted credit card
Fix PHP warning messages
Fix JS regression for form validation
Improve card validation rules
Statistics plugin v0.4.1
Fix dependency with Limit Booking plugin
Fix issue when modal windows can not be closed when selection multiple rooms
Download 0.9.4 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.
