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How to Create Online Admission Form for School or University

How to Create Online Admission Form for School or University

Technology has been applied more and more popularly, even in education, and led to obvious changes in this special field. Notably, when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out and caused serious impacts on our lives, education institutions mostly started online teaching classes. As a result, school admission also can be done online. Students do not need to go to schools to hand in their profiles anymore. They can stay at home, and fill in their online admission forms. This can save expenses for traveling and delivery, as well as reduce risks of exposure. On the other hand, it helps the school office easily digitize the student’s data.

In this post, we are going to create an admission form for a university like that.

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How to create an auto-updated cheat sheet in wordpress

How to Create an Auto-Updated Cheat Sheet in WordPress

Have you ever had a regularly updated cheat sheet on a page or post, but you do not want to manually edit it anymore? I have edited my cheat sheets by hand for Black Friday event. I had to update deal lists several times per day, and that was a true nightmare.

Thus, I managed to find a more effective way to add an automatically updated cheat sheet. All I have to do is to create a submission form to input data, then the data will be automatically inserted into a table. This way can display data in a both stunning and convenient way. Let’s see how to do this!

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How to Create Download Buttons Using Custom Fields with Meta Box Plugin

How to Create Download Buttons in WordPress - Using Custom Fields

The Internet allows us to chat, exchange, search for news, share experiences, and download documents, gadgets, applications, etc. Besides saving documentation from websites, you can share your documents with users on the WordPress website. Creating a download button using custom fields is not a bad idea - it looks beautiful, professional, and not difficult to create at all.

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How to Add Custom Fields to Display Banners using Meta Box Plugin

How to Add Custom Fields to Display Banners using Meta Box Plugin

Are you getting stuck on placing a banner on all pages of the website as well as customizing the size, title, image, ... on the banner? Don’t worry, this can be done easily by creating a settings page on the back end, and then add some custom fields. Each custom field is a parameter to customize the banner. After that, just use a shortcode to display the banner on the page you want.

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Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box Plugin - P3: Create Filters for Single Hotel Pages

Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box Plugin - P3: Create Filters for Single Hotel Pages

In part 2 of the series “Create an OTA website like booking.com with Meta Box plugin”, we created filters that allow users to search for hotels on the Hotel archive page. Then, to help users find their desired rooms in each hotel conveniently, we need to filter vacancies in Hotel single pages.

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Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box Plugin P2 Create Filters on the Archive Page

Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box Plugin - P2: Create Filters on the Archive Page

In part 1 of the series “Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box plugin”, we completed creating a page to introduce hotel rooms and creating custom fields to fill in the booking data. But an OTA website needs more than that: a filter hotel system to help users search for hotels that fit their requirements easily and quickly. So, this next part is about how to create filters on the Hotel archive page. Let’s find out!

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Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box Plugin P1 Create a Page to Introduce Hotel Rooms

Create an OTA Website Like Booking.com with Meta Box Plugin - P1: Create a Page to Introduce Hotel Rooms

Nowadays, having an OTA (Online Travel Agent) website is very popular with companies and agencies, especially ones that supply the hotel booking service. Some of the most popular websites in this field are agoda.com and booking.com with professional hotel booking systems. If you want to build an OTA website just like them, follow our series “Create an OTA Website Like booking.com and agoda.com”.

In the first article of this series, we’ll create a single page for each hotel and create custom fields to enter the hotel information, and then display them on the website.

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How to Build a Hotel Booking Website Using Meta Box - P4 - Booking Management Page

How to Build a Hotel Booking Website Using Meta Box - P4 - Booking Management Page

After the 3rd part of the series about how to build a hotel booking website using Meta Box, we had a basic system to create and book reservations for a small and medium hotel. However, I think that you still need a tool to collect all the booking details for easy management and scheduling.

That’s why in this 4th part, I will show you how to display all booking orders on one page so that you can view the booking schedule intuitively as well as easily check each information.

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