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We introduced our test site more then a year ago so this is just a reminder for those who didn’t have a chance to use it. The test site features all of our premium themes and you have 15 days to try out as many of them as you can. If you run into problems during testing you can always let us know via HelpDesk.

To visit our test site just click on the large image or on the link below:

test.templatic.com

 
To sign up and test the themes do the following:

1. Sign up by choosing user ID and email address
2. On the next page select your site name and title
3. An activation link will be sent to your email address. You MUST activate the site by clicking the link
4. Once you activate the link you will be given a randomly generated password with links to login to your admin account. Make sure to copy that password and login to wp-admin area using the same.
5. Once you are in wp-admin dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes
6. You will see all the templatic themes here. Simply activate the theme of your choice and it will auto install itself.
7. You can check different aspects of the theme from here.

We’ve had our eyes on creating this one since a long time. To add to that, we’ve been receiving crazy amounts of theme requests related to the hotel booking concept. So, not to make you wait any further, here it is – Hotel Booking WordPress Theme, an ultimate booking management tool for hotel businesses.

Eye catchy aesthetics, backed by strategically coded design and easily configurable admin panel is what this theme is all about. We wanted to provide the best experience not only to your users, but also to you, as an administrator. Apart from the attractive design as seen in the screenshots, the extensive admin options let you customize and edit any section of your site. Multiple custom widgets are provided to ease your task.

You can show pictures of your hotel properties in a sleek image slider on the homepage. For booking purpose, there is an intuitive booking form which your visitors can use.The booking requests can easily be approved/rejected/managed from the back-end. Your visitors will receive notification emails accordingly.

The dashboard features a handy ‘Upcoming Booking Requests‘ section for a quick glance at the recent booking requests and previous booking logs too. The ‘Booking settings‘ let you specify many options related to the booking process. From number of rooms to currency settings, from tax surcharge to coupon settings, from photo gallery settings to additional services setup, you are in full control of everything.

The ‘Hotel settings‘ let you manage contact and address information while the ‘Email settings‘ is for managing notification emails required to be sent to your customers. The inner pages let you add more content about your hotel business in your preferred layout (full-width or with a sidebar). There is also a blog where you can interact and get personal with your visitors. We have tried our best to incorporate as many tasks related to hotel booking management within this theme. The goal is to simplify the booking process for you and your site visitors.

Hotel Booking theme for WordPress is all you need to run an elegant website for your business with minimal effort. Did we tell you, there’s an auto-install option that automatically adds sample data to get you started?

So, go ahead, see the live demo or test this theme for free and purchase it here.

Share and Win

Limited time period offer: Retweet the following message or ‘Like’ this theme on Facebook before 20th July and any 3 winners will get a copy of this theme absolutely FREE!

Tweet this: Win a copy of Hotel Booking theme from @templatic http://bit.ly/WPBook Retweet to Win.

Or, ‘Like’ this theme on Facebook:

Winners of the content will be announced on this page at the end of the competition.

 
The time has finally come to announce the winners of our HotelBooking competition! First off we would like to thank all of you who participated and spread the word for this beautiful theme. So, the three winners are:

• Mauricio Mancias. Mauricio won by retweeting. You can find his Twitter feed @ElPimbo
• Scott Jarvis. Scott won the theme by liking our post on Facebook. You can visit his profile by clicking here
• The last winner is William Lang. Just like Mauricio, Will also won by retweeting. You can find his feed @WilliamLang

Again, thanks everyone who participated!

Hi everyone!

To bridge the gap between Templatic staff and you guys Bhavesh decided to hire a community manager – me. My name is Vedran Fak, I am 23 years old and come from Croatia, a small European country. I will be at your service with any questions you might have. Templatic themes, staff, website, the weather- you can ask me/talk to me about anything. I am at your service most of the day on Twitter @vedranonline. Also, you can reach me at any time on the following email:

For theme support please contact HelpDesk. You can contact me with those questions too but know that I am not nearly as competent as our support guys.

I have been using WordPress for around three years and have created a number of sites during that time. I have experience in programming (various languages), SQL and of course HTML/CSS. I am an administrator on a relatively small gaming site for a couple of years now so I am familiar with basics of community management; this knowledge will undoubtedly come in handy here at Templatic. Those of you who share my love towards gaming know that you can always add me as a friend on PSN. My ID is duude88.

I have a great deal of learning and work in front of me, but I am looking forward to every bit of it. My mission is to make everyone’s life at least a wee bit easier. I will not have all the answers all the time, but I give you my word – your questions and ideas will never go unanswered.

I am looking forward to meeting you guys! Please use the comments below to ask whatever comes to your mind.

Kind regards
Vedran

First of all, thank you for the amazing response provided to recently released Appointment and Spa Salon themes. Soon you’ll see some new niche themes from us. Let’s get on with preview to one of them.

What if you can make a daily deal site like Woot and Groupon in WordPress? What if you don’t have to go through the tedious hassle of designing, coding and maintaining it without considerable efforts? Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, you asked for it and you will finally get it. We are working on DailyDeals WordPress theme right now and would like to share small preview with you.

DailyDeals theme is strategically designed and coded after a lot of research and iterations to give you a perfect daily deals site for your business. We hope you like it once it comes out. Is this the theme you have been waiting for?

If you keep up with the latest developments at WordPress, you’d probably know that version 3.2 is out now, after a few beta and RC releases. It brought with it some cool new features and some notable UI changes too. We’d like to notify our users that WordPress 3.2 has some minimum requirement changes as mentioned below.

• PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
• MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)

We’ve tested our themes on WordPress 3.2 and are glad that they are all working as they should. In a rare event, if you find any issues with any of our themes, please let us know via our helpdesk and we’ll sort it out.