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Meta data and Shortcodes

When a Tour/Hotel is saved in WordPress some of the standard information about that Tour/Hotel (Code, Price, Booking URL, what's included / excluded etc) is downloaded from TourCMS and saved as Custom Meta Data

This information can then be displayed by page templates / widgets by using the get_post_meta() function (the included widgets and theme do just that) or added to the description using shortcodes.

Using shortcodes

When editing the description for a Tour/Hotel in WordPress just add the shortcode for the information you wish to display then save. For example, to show the text "Code: " followed by the Tour Code stored in TourCMS you could type:

Code: [tour_code]

Which would output:

Code: ABC1

The full list of shortcodes and meta data are displayed below.

Shortcode clashes / conflicts with other plugins or themes

If your theme or another plugin uses the same shortcodes as the TourCMS plugin you may find the below shortcodes do not function correctly. In this case you can prefix any of the shortcodes below with the text "tourcms_".

So for example to output the itinerary you would usually use the shortcode [itinerary], you can alternatively use the shortcode [tourcms_itinerary], it functions in exactly the same way. You can mix and match "tourcms_" prefixed and non prefixed shortcodes, either works fine.

Full List

$rates = tourcms_wp_rates();

// Loop through them and display a bit of info about each 
foreach($rates as $rate) {
	echo "$rate->label_full ($rate->rate_id)<br>";
}

// Outputs 
// Adults (r1)
// Children (r2)

$dates = tourcms_wp_dates();

// Display them all in a comma separated list 
echo implode(",", $dates);

// Ouputs 
// 2022-01-01,2022-01-08,2022-01-15 

$dates = tourcms_wp_dates_deals();

foreach($dates as $date) {

	$date_string = $date->d;
	$is_offer = $date->s > 0;

	if($is_offer)
		$date_string .= " SPECIAL OFFER";

	echo "$date_string<br>";
}

// Outputs 
// 2022-01-01 
// 2022-01-08 SPECIAL OFFER 
// 2022-01-15