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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  November 18, 2015 at 9:38 am #30067

    Hi,
    I’m using Search & Filter Pro, and I would like to add a calendar to the searchfilter, so visitors can select dates, and then only the available houses (it’s a holiday house rental site) will show. Do you know of a booking plugin that works with s&f like this, or do you have an idea how I could accomplish this?
    Cheers!
    Boris Hoekmeijer

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  November 20, 2015 at 12:06 am #30249

    Hey Boris

    I don’t use any personally.

    How would you envisage the system would work?

    A great plugin for meta data would be http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ – you can attach dates to your posts.

    Thanks

    Anonymous
    (Private)  November 20, 2015 at 10:20 am #30296

    Hello Ross,

    I have no idea how it would work, I guess that would also depend on how the booking plugin functions, which is why I asked here. What I would like, is to display a calendar (or let the visitor fill in dates) in the search filter, and filter houses on availability by entering dates.

    Are you saying that if a booking plugin enters availability data in custom fields (no idea if there are any that work like that), ACF should be able to retrieve it, in turn allowing S&F to include the extra filter?

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  November 24, 2015 at 11:50 am #30579

    Hey Boris

    Yes S&F can use custom field data, but actually thinking about the logic of this I’m not sure how it would work.

    Another way could possibly be that a CPT is used for each availability, so where you can set the start/end dates in each post.

    To be honest I don’t have much experience using S&F with booking systems but I’ve seen other users do it.

    If you are using any very popuplar events/bookings plugins I’d be happy to spend a bit of time figuring out how with you how to get it all setup.

    Thanks

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