WordPress MultiSite system with booking integration to DS for four tourism websites now online
Whenever a customer has multiple websites running on WordPress, one eventually wonders if there is a more elegant and effective way to manage each site. Especially when websites share strong similarities based on a master template, it makes sense to set up a MultiSite-System mit WordPress. Then, WordPress is installed only once and can serve an entire network of websites with their own domains, unique content, and individual style guidelines. Nevertheless, it is possible to assign a separate admin to each website so that only that person has access to the backend of the respective site where they need to make edits.
We recently designed and developed a WordPress MultiSite system for our client, K&K Ferienimmobilien GmbH & Co. KG. The task was to create modern tourism websites and booking websites that visually and textually entice people to take a vacation, have a high user experience, and lead the target audience to make a booking. This system was to be implemented for four websites.
Characteristic here are the individual colors and also easily modifiable individual sections that are tailored to the specific requirements of each destination. As in almost all our projects, we designed all the icons ourselves to ensure everything is optimized for the corporate design and has a cohesive appearance:
API integration with the booking system of Destination Solutions
One of the major challenges was enabling direct booking on the websites with API integration to the booking system of Destination Solutions (DS) for WordPress. Even when visiting the website, the visitor is tuned into having a great time in the holiday area. The call to action is clear: check the availability of the free holiday apartments. A sophisticated filtering system allows users to select the suitable accommodation from the available units. The data for the holiday apartments, such as images, texts, prices, and availability, is retrieved live from the DS server. The booking can then be made directly through the website. The data is passed back to DS and synchronized with other booking platforms where the holiday apartments are also offered. A technically sophisticated and excellent solution had to be developed individually because the DS API was still relatively new and no available plugins or scripts for WordPress were available until today.
Here you can find the websites of the MultiSite system … take a look, get inspired, and feel free to book a vacation 🙂
- Urlaub in Wustrow auf dem Fischland Darß-Zingst – Project Two Waters
- Urlaub in Waren (Müritz) – Project Harbor Residence Waren (Müritz)
- Urlaub in Zingst an der Ostsee – Project Aparthotel Zingst
- Urlaub in Krakow am See – Project Krakow by the Lake Holiday Apartments
- Urlaub in Malchow – Project for holiday apartments and holiday homes
What may pleasantly go unnoticed is the absence of a cookie banner. We try to avoid cookie notifications in most projects. We achieve this by developing websites that function without cookies. This improves the user experience and reduces frustration moments on websites. In this project, we also created custom icons and maps for the client, ensuring everything is aesthetically pleasing, consistent, and impactful in line with the corporate design.
Those who have followed us for a while may remember that we have previously worked on the Hafenresidenz Waren (Müritz) and the Zwei Wasser project – the old seamanship school in Wustrow. In 2015, we conceived and developed exposés, flyers, websites, and more when the Hafenresidenz Waren (Müritz) was being built and buyers were sought for the ownership and vacation apartments. The same happened again in 2016 for the Zwei Wasser project in Wustrow. Here are more details about what we did at that time:
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It feels good for us to work successfully and appreciatively with clients even after eight years. At this point, a thank you to managing director Ildikó Falkenberg for the trust in our skills and experiences.
Advantages of the MultiSite system with WordPress
Once again summarized, the benefits for our customers from the MultiSite system with WordPress, which is now online:
- only one installation required
- Maintenance and updates of websites are significantly more effective.
- individual styles, sections, content, images, etc. remain definable for each page
- Roles of editors can be limited to individual websites.
- easier expandability of the MultiSite system for additional destinations
- optimal way of focused optimization in terms of SEO and keywords without dilution from too many destinations
If you are also interested in a multi-site system with booking integration to a booking tool for DS (Destination Solutions) or Smoobu or another service for your projects, feel free to contact us! In the past, we managed 18 professional blogs using a WordPress-based multi-site system and are currently designing another multi-site system for a medical service provider in Brandenburg.