Design Escapes
WordPress theme
Design Escapes is a real starter website for apartments, houses, hotels or other vacation rental websites – featuring accommodations, activities, restaurants, hosts and news. Powered by the YOOtheme Pro builder and all its features.
Design Escapes
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Features
Pages
Home Layout
Landing Page Layout
Map Layout
About Layout
Error 404 Layout
Templates
Accommodation Index Layout
Accommodation Category Layout
Accommodation Post Layout
Discover Tags Layout
Discover Country Layout
Post Index Layout
Post Category Layout
Post Layout
Author Index Layout
Search Layout
Styles
Default Style
Light Blue Style
White Darkblue Style
White Darkgreen Style
White Green Style
White Red Style
Content structure
Design Escapes has 5 content types - accommodations, activities, restaurants, hosts and posts.
Accommodations
The Accommodation content type has 26 custom fields for guest details, media, location data, amenities and related entries.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Teaser Title | text | text |
| Teaser Image BG | media | image |
| Images | subform | repeater |
| └ Image | media | image |
| Content Images | subform | repeater |
| └ Image | media | image |
| Guests | integer | number |
| Bedrooms | integer | number |
| Bathrooms | integer | number |
| Double Beds | integer | number |
| Single Beds | integer | number |
| Sofa Beds | integer | number |
| Floorplan | media | image |
| Website | url | url |
| text | text | |
| Location | location | google map |
| Address | text area | text area |
| Directions | text area | text area |
| Host | articles | post object |
| Amenities | checkboxes | checkbox |
| Characteristics | subform | repeater |
| └ List Item | text area | text area |
| Architecture | text area | text area |
| Sustainability | text area | text area |
| Area | text area | text area |
| Related Activities | articles | post object |
| Related Restaurants | articles | post object |
Accommodation Categories
Accommodations are grouped into different countries and further divided by regions.
Accommodation Categories
└── Countries
└── Regions
Accommodation categories have 5 custom fields used to show them on other pages and relate activities.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Image | - | image |
| Intro Image | media | image |
| Intro Image BG Text Color | list | select |
| Related Activities | articles | post object |
Discover Tags
Accommodations are further divided by topics.
Discover Tags
└── Discover Topics
In WordPress, the Discover tags also have custom fields for featured and intro images.
| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| Featured Image | image |
| Intro Image | image |
Activities
The Activity content type has 4 custom fields for teaser media, description, links and location.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Description | text area | text area |
| Link | url | url |
| Location | location | google map |
Restaurants
The Restaurant content type has 4 custom fields for teaser media, description, links and location.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Description | text area | text area |
| Link | url | url |
| Location | location | google map |
Hosts
The Host content type has 3 custom fields for teaser media, description and related accommodations.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Description | text area | text area |
| Related Accommodations | articles | post object |
Posts
The default Post content type has 2 custom fields for teaser media and related accommodations.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Related Accommodations | articles | post object |
Users
The User has 3 custom fields for the avatar, biography and social links.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Image | media | - |
| Description | text area | - |
| Socials | subform | repeater |
| └ Title | text | text |
| └ Link | text | text |
Relationships
Posts can have related accommodations to show them in the sidebar as nearby accommodations.
Accommodations have related activities and restaurants, both shown in the sidebar. To show related activities from the region, accommodation categories also have related activities field.
Finally, hosts also have related accommodations, these are also shown in the sidebar on the accommodation page. There is also a dedicated page for each host with their accommodations.
Plugin Integration
This WordPress starter website makes use of additional 3rd party plugins. They are free and already preinstalled and configured in the demo package. Here is the list of all plugins.
| Name | Description | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Custom Fields | Add custom post types, taxonomies and custom fields | View |
| Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order | Manually sort terms like categories and tags | View |
| WordPress Popular Posts | Order post types by the number of views or comments | View |
Note The Repeater field is only available in the commercial ACF Pro plugin, which is not included in the demo package. Just install it to display the fields. Alternatively, use a fixed number of custom fields for a similar result.
