Thank to many useful feedback on the first Beta, we’d like to announce the availability of Solidres v0.9.0 Beta 2, Complex Tariff v0.5.0 Beta 2 and User v0.9.2 Beta 2. All subscribers can download from menu Download – Show all downloads.
There are many fixes, new features and improvements since the first Beta, there is a new tab Tariff in Solidres Options which allow you to configure how you want Solidres to handle adjoining and overlapping tariffs.
We are also making a great progress on the brand new Feedback plugin, the first Beta version of it will be available soon for testing.
We’d like to announce the first Beta release of v0.9.0 is ready for download by all subscribers (please go to menu Download – Show all downloads). We also release Beta versions for Complex Tariff v0.5.0 and User v0.9.2 as well, we’d love to hear your feedback so that we can improve it further toward the stable releases.
Please note that in this testing phrase, Solidres v0.9.0 Beta need to be installed in a new Joomla installation without previous Solidres versions installed. We will re-enable upgrading feature in the stable release of v0.9.0.
May has come and we’d like to share some latest development news:
Solidres for Joomla v0.9.0 development is going well with many bug fixes and new features implemented, the highlights are:
Reservation creation for staffs: before v0.9.0, reservation can only be made in front end. This new feature will allows reservation to be created by back end staff or front end partners (Hub plugin), it will be very handy when you need to record reservation over phones or direct reservation or reservation via other booking sources.
Editable asset’s coordinates: before v0.9.0, coordinates will be automatically generated in the background using Google Maps Geocoding service, but sometimes coordinates generated this way is not correct and we need to manually adjust them. Since v0.9.0 we add an UI that allow you to manually choosing coordinates by dragging map marker on a real Google Maps, it is very handy and ensure 100% accuracy.
Booking per night or per day: Solidres was built to support hotel booking, that’s why Solidres support booking per night out of the box. Since v0.9.0 we add a new field in asset to allow configure whether an asset is for booking per night or per day.
Add plugin event onSolidresTariffAfterCompute: this will allow you to write plugin which modify the computed tariff programmatically, it is useful when you want to change the tariff’s result the way you want without having to edit Solidres core files. With this change we also develop a simple plg_solidres_sample plugin to demonstrate this ability so that you can use it as an example to develop your own.
Add plugin event onSolidresAssetViewLoad: the initial idea is from this topic when fabrikastyle implemented mod_sr_last_visited. We have to give a big thank to fabrikastyle for the contribution and sharing effort. Base on that we developed mod_sr_myrecentsearches which offer the same functionality but following Solidres coding standard, this module will be released when v0.9.0 get stable.
And more which will be disclosed in the stable release change log.
About Solidres for WordPress, we are are working to keep it up to date with Solidres for Joomla v0.8.0 (or event v0.9.0 if time allows).
We will release Solidres for Joomla v0.9.0 Beta for all subscribers in the next several days to get feedback so that we can fine tune it for stable release. Please stay tuned and check back often for more news.
March has been an exciting month for us, so far we have released Solidres for Joomla v0.8.1 and the initial public Solidres for WordPress v0.1.0 Beta 1. At this moment we are focusing on the upcoming Solidres for Joomla v0.9.0, this release will highlight 2 long awaited features:
Backend reservation creation for hotel staff
Feedback plugin
Along side with them, there will be improvements and bug fixes as well as other new features. This version is targeted for April release, but the plan could be changed if it need more time to be fine-tuned. Please stay tuned for more news.
Since our announcement in Sep 2014, we have worked very hard to develop Solidres for WordPress and now it is time for the first public release. You can download it in our Downloads section or see the demo.
The features set of Solidres for WordPress v0.1.0 BETA 1 is almost the same with Solidres for Joomla v0.7.2. We are still working to keep it up to date with Solidres for Joomla v0.8.1. This release is considered as BETA, therefore it should be used for testing purpose only. We are also working to bring commercial features to WordPress as well, please stay tuned.
Go to menu Systems – Install sample data to get some data ready for testing
Create 02 WordPress pages:
The first page should have the same slug with your asset’s alias.
The second page will be served as a “Reservation completed” page.
Go to menu Systems – Settings – Pages and select the first page for field “Single asset”, then select the second page for field “Reservation completed”.
Go to menu Settings – Permalinks and choose a setting which is different than the default one.
Go to Appearance – Menus and insert the first page into your WordPress menu.
Until the stable release, we still have a lot of works to do. If you found any issues, let us know by posting in our forum.
