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by Vince
Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:20 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Spam email or Ligitimate Airbnb warning? Help please.
Replies: 6
Views: 1512

I've been using LP for..I don't know, a dozen years? It's saved my bacon plenty of times. I have CC numbers saved, various account stuff saved such as security question answer. things like that. I have it on the PC, laptop and various mobile devices (for the mobile devices I set it not the automatic...
by Vince
Wed May 09, 2018 9:29 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Spam email or Ligitimate Airbnb warning? Help please.
Replies: 6
Views: 1512

Use a password manager like Lastpass. If you click on a link in an email (and we all do it, even when we shouldn't) and you're taken to a domain to login, even if it looks right if it's not the right domain then LP will not prefill the login fields with your data. That, right there, is your first wa...
by Vince
Wed May 09, 2018 8:12 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Wordpress "Cookies" widget?
Replies: 9
Views: 3743

A bit more information for you. I sell an online booking engine called Jomres. I'm not suggesting you use it, it's not targetted to most LMH users as it's more of an OTA type system. I hang around here because you people help me to understand the trials and tribulations you experience as property ow...
by Vince
Wed May 09, 2018 8:08 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Wordpress "Cookies" widget?
Replies: 9
Views: 3743

Emmy, The GDPR is more than for just cookies, I'm afraid. Depending on how you do business you may have to do a lot or a little work. Looking at your website, you don't do any online bookings that I can see, however you do have a contact page : http://www.textileholidaysfrance.com/?page_id=1546 Stri...
by Vince
Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:59 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Surely you are all listing here....
Replies: 5
Views: 1435

Jomholiday*? Serves them right, I have no sympathy for them. Should have gone with Jomres :D :D :D * To explain, Jomholiday are a competitor of mine and I had to report them to the Joomla Extension Directory editors because of their fake reviews. They were banned for a month a few years ago as a res...
by Vince
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:00 pm
Forum: Bookings
Topic: Going it alone
Replies: 7
Views: 2741

I am currently trying out several of these new shovels, for which I am grateful as I haven't the required know how to make my own but am happy to do a bit of digging. If you're not experienced with different types of shovels, mine might not be for you, it's a tool for experienced shovellers ( more ...
by Vince
Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:29 am
Forum: Bookings
Topic: Going it alone
Replies: 7
Views: 2741

russellt wrote:
Vince wrote: they don't have time to make the shovels too
And I have started to dig with it. It's free to use if you want to join the dig.
Nah, I got one of my own, thanks :D
by Vince
Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:48 am
Forum: Bookings
Topic: Going it alone
Replies: 7
Views: 2741

There was a discussion about this a year or so ago, I even contributed a license for Jomres and a domain but the general consensus was "It's too much work for a small community" and the conversation died a death. I think the problem is that everybody's too busy mining for gold, they don't ...
by Vince
Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:37 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Multilingual option for Wordpress?
Replies: 3
Views: 2885

We have a booking engine for both Wordpress and Joomla, and most of our Wordpress users seem to like Polylang the most. It seems easy enough to setup although I haven't built an entire site using it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/

Best of luck.
by Vince
Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:23 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: WordPress Availability & booking plugin
Replies: 4
Views: 3033

You could consider giving https://www.jomres.net/ a look, that's my baby and it's used for both Hotels and Villas/Apartments etc.
by Vince
Fri May 27, 2016 8:27 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Espana Breaks
Replies: 17
Views: 2626

I wonder if things like this are the cause : https://www.espanabreaks.com/costa-blanca/algorfa/7477 No online booking functionality there, and the link to their website ( https://monosnap.com/file/nVULHa0nSKFL01OHGQPIVecEqH0nM4 ) doesn't go anywhere. It only takes one or two links like that and boom...
by Vince
Fri May 27, 2016 5:34 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Espana Breaks
Replies: 17
Views: 2626

Strange, it's a nice enough site, as booking websites go. I wonder what makes it hard for users to "adopt" it.
by Vince
Tue Jan 12, 2016 12:51 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Your payment options in Homeaway instant bookings
Replies: 10
Views: 901

e-richard wrote: When offered a series of choices, good design will either be 100% sure that the default is what 90% of users actually want, or better still not have any default, but raise an error if its left blank - thus ensuring that the user makes his OWN choice.
Absolutely true, also bloody hard to achieve.
by Vince
Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:27 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Stripe - Online Payments
Replies: 12
Views: 8687

Any idea why the menu's not working for you now?
by Vince
Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:26 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Links for SEO
Replies: 3
Views: 1486

I listened to a podcast, may have been TED, not sure. But page links (Larry Page) were suggested to be of higher rank on quality, but not necessarily reciprocal. Google will also black list you if they suspect you are paying for these, the main criteria was to create good quality shared information...