Tripvella documentation

A WordPress theme for tour operators and travel agencies: small-group tours, adventure trips, beach holidays, city tours, family holidays and luxury journeys. Six demos, tours with itineraries, fixed departures, a trip finder, destinations, guides, booking enquiries with a live guide price and a trip cost estimator.

Thank you for choosing Tripvella. This guide takes you from a fresh WordPress site to a copy of the demo with your own details. If something is not covered here, write to support@codememory.com — we answer within one working day.

• Version1.0.0
• WordPress6.5 or later
• PHP7.4 or later
• Live demoOpen the demo

Highlights

• Six travel demos imported in one click
• Tours with price, length, group size, activity level, day-by-day itinerary and what is included
• Fixed departures with date, start city, price and places left, soonest first
• Trip finder: destination and trip style drop-downs on the hero
• Destination tiles with a photo and the number of tours
• Booking enquiry form with travellers, month, dates and a live guide price, saved in your dashboard
• Trip cost estimator with a group discount
• Guides with role, languages, years of guiding and home town
• Destinations and trip styles to group tours, departures and guides
• Office hours with an "Open now" badge
• 19 Elementor widgets (free Elementor)
• Every section also works as a shortcode
• Call / plan bar on phones
• Light and dark mode
• Colours and fonts from the Customizer
• Block patterns and every core block styled
• Self-hosted fonts, nothing loaded from Google
• Translation ready, right-to-left support
• Child theme included

What is in the download

themeforest-tripvella-wordpress-theme/
├── tripvella.zip               ← the theme: upload this in WordPress
├── tripvella-child.zip         ← child theme, for your own code changes (optional)
├── plugins/tripvella-core.zip  ← the theme's plugin (also installed from inside the theme)
├── demo-content/               ← demo files for a manual import
├── documentation/              ← this guide, as HTML and PDF
└── licensing/                  ← GPL licence, font licences and credits

Requirements

• WordPress 6.5 or later (tested up to 7.1).
• PHP 7.4 or later (8.2 or later recommended).
• For the demo import: PHP memory_limit 256M, max_execution_time 300, upload size 32M. Most hosts already allow this; if an import stops half-way, ask your host to raise these values.

Every plugin the theme uses is free from wordpress.org. Nothing needs a paid licence.

Installing the theme

1. In your dashboard, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme.
2. Choose tripvella.zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Optional: install and activate tripvella-child.zip the same way (see Child theme).

Upload by FTP instead: unzip tripvella.zip and copy the tripvella folder to wp-content/themes/, then activate it under Appearance → Themes.

Plugins

After activation, a notice at the top of the dashboard lists the plugins the theme uses. Click Begin installing plugins (or go to Appearance → Install Plugins), select them all, choose Install, then activate them.

The theme works without any plugin: posts, pages, menus, widgets and search are styled the same. The plugin is needed for the travel features (tours, departures, guides, booking form…).

Importing a demo

The import gives you the demo site: pages, tours, departures, guides, reviews, posts, menus, widgets and the Customizer settings. Use it on a new site: it adds content next to what you already have.

1. Install the plugins above.
2. Go to Appearance → Import Demo Data.
3. Pick a demo and click Import. It takes one to three minutes; keep the page open.
4. Done: visit your site. The home page, menus and blog page are already set.

All six home pages are imported with every demo; the demo you pick decides which one is the front page and which colours and header the Customizer uses. To switch later, go to Settings → Reading and choose another home page.

Manual import

If the one-click import is blocked by your host, use the files in demo-content/:

1. Tools → Import → WordPress (install the importer when asked) → upload content.xml.
2. Install Widget Importer & Exporter → Tools → Widget Importer & Exporter → upload widgets.wie.
3. Install Customizer Export/Import → Appearance → Customize → Export/Import → upload customizer-<demo>.dat.
4. Appearance → Menus → Manage Locations: set the main, top bar and footer menus. Settings → Reading: choose the home and blog pages.

After the import: your details

The demo uses a made-up phone number, address, office hours and prices. Replace them with yours, in this order:

1. Phone number and top bar: Appearance → Customize → Tripvella options → Header and top bar. Set Phone number, Top bar text (a short line such as your office hours) and the Label next to the phone. Every "Call" button on the site uses this number.
2. Logo and site icon: Appearance → Customize → Site Identity.
3. Colours: Appearance → Customize → Colors. The six demo home pages each have their own accent colour (see Page options); clear it there to use the Customizer colour.
4. Office hours, estimator prices and booking emails: Settings → Tripvella Core (see Office hours, Trip cost estimator and Booking enquiries).
5. Footer widgets: Appearance → Widgets → Footer column 1–4: edit the Contact details widget (address, phone, email).
6. Your content: edit the tours, departures, guides and reviews in the dashboard menus of the same names, and replace the grey placeholder photos with your own.

Tours, departures, guides and reviews

The Tripvella Core plugin adds four content types, a Destinations list and a Trip styles list to the dashboard. Each content type has a Details box under the editor.

Destinations (under Tours) group tours, departures and guides, for example Portugal or Japan. Each destination has its own page at /destination/<name>/, a tour page shows the guides of its destination, and the Destinations widget shows each one as a photo tile with its number of tours. Trip styles (under Tours) group tours and departures, for example Walking or Family, with a page at /trip-style/<name>/. A tour can have several trip styles.

The trip finder (turn on Show the trip finder in the Hero widget) has two drop-downs, destination and trip style, filled from your own lists. It opens the tours page filtered to the visitor's choice.

Departures are listed by date, soonest first. With Only upcoming departures on (the default), past departures are hidden; when none is coming up, the widget shows the latest ones instead of an empty section, marked Departed.

The featured image of a tour, departure or post is used on its card and at the top of its page. Use landscape photos at least 1600 × 900 px.

Booking enquiries

The Booking form widget (or the [tripvella_booking] shortcode) asks for the traveller's name, phone and email, the tour, the number of adults and children, the travel month, a preferred start date, how flexible the dates are, how to reply (email quote, call or video call) and an optional message. Name and a phone number or email are required. Spam protection is built in (a hidden field and a limit on repeated sends) and no other plugin is needed.

• When the visitor picks a tour, the form shows a guide price for the group as they type (tour price × travellers). The saved enquiry gets its own estimate, worked out from the tour price on the server.
• Every enquiry is saved under Bookings in the dashboard, with a counter of new ones. Open an enquiry to see the details and set its status: New, Contacted, Quote sent, Booked, Cancelled.
• The tours in the form come from your Tours, so they stay up to date.
• Settings → Tripvella Core → Booking enquiries: turn email alerts on or off, choose the address (empty = the site admin email), and edit the thank-you message and the privacy note under the form.
• Emails are sent by WordPress. If they do not arrive, install an SMTP plugin such as WP Mail SMTP; enquiries are saved in the dashboard either way.

The form is an enquiry, not an online payment: your planners confirm each booking by phone or email.

Prefer a form plugin or a booking system? Put its shortcode in a Text Editor widget instead. Everything else keeps working.

Office hours

Settings → Tripvella Core → Office hours: set an opening and a closing time for each day. Leave both empty on days you are closed, and add an optional note (for example "Travelling now? Our 24-hour line is in your trip documents").

• The Office hours widget (Elementor) or [tripvella_hours] shortcode shows the hours beside your address and phone number. The Tripvella: Office hours widget shows them in the sidebar or footer.
• Today's row is highlighted, and a badge says Open now (with the closing time) or Closed now. The badge uses the time zone in Settings → General, and it is worked out in the visitor's browser, so it stays right even when your pages are cached.
• The week starts on the day set in Settings → General → Week Starts On; times use the time format set there.

Trip cost estimator

Settings → Tripvella Core → Trip cost estimator: list your trips, one per line as Trip|price per person|days, for example Portugal: Lisbon to the Douro|2890|10. Set the currency symbol, the group discount and the group size that gets it, and the note under the result.

The Trip cost estimator widget (or [tripvella_calculator]) lets a visitor pick a trip and the number of travellers. It shows the total and the price per person ("About $10,982 in total, or $2,746 per person"), worked out in the browser: nothing is sent or stored. Turn on List the trips in the widget to show every trip with its length and price per person beside the estimator.

Page options

Each page has a Page options box in the editor sidebar:

• Accent colour for this page: overrides the Customizer accent on this page only. The demo uses it to give each demo home page its own colour.
• Colour scheme: light or dark for this page only (the Adventure demo is dark).
• Header layout: classic, centered or contact, for this page only.

Leave them empty to follow the Customizer.

Page templates

Customizer settings

Appearance → Customize. Colours are in the Colors section; everything else is in the Tripvella options panel. Changes show in the preview before you publish them.

The site title, tagline, logo, site icon, background and homepage settings are WordPress's own, in Site Identity, Background image and Homepage Settings.

Menus

Appearance → Menus. Create a menu, add pages, services or custom links, then tick a Display location:

• Primary menu — the header. Drag items under another to make a drop-down.
• Top bar menu — the small links in the top bar.
• Footer menu — the links in the footer's bottom row.
• Social links menu — links to your profiles (Facebook, Instagram…), shown in the footer. Add them as Custom Links.

Widgets

Appearance → Widgets. Areas: Blog sidebar and Footer column 1 to Footer column 4 (set the number of footer columns in the Customizer). The plugin adds three widgets, named Tripvella: … in the widget list:

• Contact details — phone, email, address, each with a link.
• Office hours — your hours from Settings → Tripvella Core, with an "Open now" badge.
• Tours list — links to your tours, optionally from one destination.

Building pages with Elementor

All demo pages are built with the free Elementor plugin and the theme's widgets.

1. Create a page, set its Template to Full width, no title, and click Edit with Elementor.
2. Search for the widget or open the Tripvella group in the left panel and drag a widget onto the page.
3. Edit its text and options in the left panel. Every widget has a Background option (light, paper, dark or accent colour) so sections alternate like the demo.

The widgets fill themselves from your content: Tours, Destinations, Departures, Guides, Reviews and Latest posts show the items you add in the dashboard. List fields (prices, steps, questions…) take one item per line, with the parts separated by |, as the help text under each field shows.

Elementor's own Google Fonts loading is switched off by the demo import, so the site keeps using the theme's self-hosted fonts.

Without Elementor: shortcodes

Every widget is also a shortcode, so you can build the same sections in the block editor: add a Shortcode block and type, for example:

[tripvella_tours count="6" columns="3" triptype="walking"]
[tripvella_departures count="5" upcoming="yes"]
[tripvella_booking title="Plan your trip"]

Options are the same as in Elementor. In list options, separate items with || and parts with |. Images take an attachment ID (Media → Library → the number in the address) or a full URL.

Shortcodes: [tripvella_hero], [tripvella_tours], [tripvella_destinations], [tripvella_reviews], [tripvella_guides], [tripvella_stats], [tripvella_features], [tripvella_steps], [tripvella_pricing], [tripvella_faq], [tripvella_cta], [tripvella_trust], [tripvella_calculator], [tripvella_departures], [tripvella_posts], [tripvella_emergency], [tripvella_about], [tripvella_booking], [tripvella_hours].

Block editor and patterns

Posts and simple pages use the WordPress block editor. Every core block is styled to match the theme, and the editor shows the theme's fonts and colours. Click + → Patterns → Tripvella for ready-made sections: hero with call button, three services, call to action, questions and answers, three reviews, price table and contact details. The theme also adds block styles: Card (Group), Check marks (List), Eyebrow (Paragraph) and Framed (Image).

Blog

Settings → Reading → Posts page sets the page that lists your posts (the demo uses "Blog"). Choose a grid or list layout and the sidebar position in Customize → Tripvella options → Blog. Posts show the author, date, category, share links (turn them off in Settings → Tripvella Core) and related posts.

Light and dark mode

Customize → Tripvella options → Style and fonts → Colour scheme: Light, Dark or Follow the visitor's device. With Show a light/dark switch on, visitors can switch with the moon button in the header; their choice is remembered on that device. A single page can be forced to light or dark in its Page options.

Child theme

If you want to change the theme's code, install tripvella-child.zip and activate Tripvella Child. Put your CSS in the child theme's style.css and your PHP in its functions.php; copy a template file from tripvella into the child theme to override it. Theme updates replace the parent theme only, so your changes are kept.

Small style changes do not need a child theme: use Customize → Additional CSS.

Translation and right-to-left

Every text in the theme and the plugin can be translated. The templates are tripvella/languages/tripvella.pot and tripvella-core/languages/tripvella-core.pot.

1. Easiest: install Loco Translate → Loco Translate → Themes → Tripvella → New language, and translate in your browser. Do the same under Plugins for Tripvella Core.
2. Or use Poedit: open the .pot file, translate, and save the files as tripvella-fr_FR.po/.mo in wp-content/languages/themes/.

Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian…) are supported: when WordPress runs in such a language, the layout mirrors automatically.

Updating

When a new version is released, download it from your ThemeForest Downloads page. Then either:

• Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme → choose the new tripvella.zip → Replace current with uploaded; or
• replace the wp-content/themes/tripvella folder by FTP.

When the theme comes with a newer Tripvella Core, the dashboard notice offers to update the plugin. Your content, menus, widgets and Customizer settings are kept. Changes you made to the parent theme's files are lost: keep them in the child theme.

Questions

Support

Support is included with your purchase and covers questions about the theme's features and fixing bugs. It does not cover custom changes or problems caused by other plugins.

Email support@codememory.com with your purchase code and your site address. See the changelog for what changed in each version and third-party materials for credits.