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Normal updates

Once your license is activated, Booking Plus updates show up on Plugins → Updates like any other plugin. Click Update and you’re done.

Manual updates (license issues, staging environments)

1. Download the latest .zip from your PureThemes license page.
2. Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin → pick the new zip.
3. WordPress will detect that an older version exists and prompt to replace it. Confirm.
4. The license re-syncs on the next admin page load.

The migration screen

Major releases sometimes need to migrate data — new database tables, new schema for ticket types, etc. Booking Plus runs migrations on first load after the update and shows a migration progress screen if there’s significant work to do.

Do not close the page while a migration is running. On most sites it completes in seconds. On sites with thousands of bookings it can take a minute or two. If it’s interrupted, reload the page and the migration resumes from where it stopped.

What to back up first

Before any major plugin update on a production site:

1. A full database backup (UpdraftPlus, the host’s snapshot tool, or a manual mysqldump).
2. The plugin folder (wp-content/plugins/listeo-booking-plus/).

You’d want both anyway, but specifically for Booking Plus: it stores resources, occurrences and ticket data in custom DB tables, so a database backup is the only way to roll back cleanly.

Override path

Most commonly overridden templates

Things to know before you override

• Templates can change between major versions. When you override, you’re taking responsibility for keeping your copy current. After a major update, diff your override against the new plugin version and pull in any changes — otherwise you’ll miss bug fixes and feature improvements.
• Hooks first, overrides second. Many templates have do_action() / apply_filters() hooks. If you can achieve what you want by hooking into them from your child theme’s functions.php, do that — you’ll survive plugin updates without diffing anything.
• Don’t override partials/ unless you know what depends on them. Several partials are included from multiple parent templates; overriding one partial changes its behaviour everywhere it’s used.

A Resource is anything that can only be booked by one customer at a time that can belong to a listing. Examples:

• A hair stylist (a Service listing has multiple stylists; the customer picks one).
• A specific hotel room.
• An individual rental car or kayak inside a vehicle rental business.

When a listing has resources attached, Booking Plus reserves the resource – not just the listing. Two customers can book the same listing at the same time if they pick different resources, and conflicts are checked at the resource level.

When Manager Resources page is set, each Listings in My Listings page will have button “Add Resource”, that will open a submit form to create resources for listings.

In Listeo Booking Plus, “Resources” is the catch-all term for whatever bookable thing lives inside a listing — a room in a hotel, a stylist in a salon, a vehicle in a fleet, a court in a tennis club. Because that term doesn’t fit every business equally well, the plugin lets you rename it at three different levels: globally, per listing type, or per individual listing

When Listeo Booking Plus needs to print the label on a button, a heading, or in an email, it looks for the most specific override first and walks up to the default:

1. Per-listing override (most specific) — set on the single listing.
2. Per-listing-type label — set on the Listing Type in the Listeo editor.
3. Plugin default — the literal words Resource / Resources.

If a listing has its own label, that wins. If it doesn’t, the listing’s type label wins. If neither is set, the generic default is used.

Level 1 — Plugin default

Out of the box, every label says Resource (singular) / Resources (plural). If your site is generic enough, you can leave it. Most sites won’t want to.

Level 2 — Per listing type (recommended starting point)

This is where 90% of sites should set the label. It applies to every listing of a given type — so all your Hotels say “Rooms,” all your Salons say “Professionals,” all your Tour businesses say “Guides.”

Where to set it:

1. Go to Listeo Editor → Listing Types in wp-admin.
2. Edit the listing type (e.g. Hotel, Service, Rental).
3. Scroll to the Booking Resource Labels block.
4. Fill in:
   • Singular Label — e.g. Room, Professional, Instructor, Vehicle.
   • Plural Label — e.g. Rooms, Professionals, Instructors, Vehicles.
5. Save.

Level 3 — Per individual listing

Sometimes one specific listing inside a type needs a different word. A clinic listing type called “Practitioners” might still have one location that uses “Therapists.” A hotel called “Rooms” might have one boutique property where they’re called “Suites.”

There are two ways for that override to get set, depending on whether the listing is being managed in wp-admin or on the front-end.

A) The admin metabox (always available)

On the wp-admin listing edit screen, there’s a Resource Label Override section with two fields — singular and plural. Fill them, save, and they take precedence over the listing type’s label for this one listing only. Leave them blank to fall back to the listing-type label.

This works for every listing on every site without any extra setup.

[SCREENSHOT: Resource Label Override metabox on listing edit screen]

B) Front-end submit form (opt-in per listing type)

If you want the listing owner to be able to set the override themselves from the front-end (without giving them wp-admin access), you need to add the override fields to the submit form for that listing type using Listeo’s Submit Listing Editor.

1. Go to Listeo → Submit Listing Editor
2. Pick the listing type you want to enable the override on.
3. Choose the section where you want the fields to appear (e.g. Basic information or a new section called Booking).
4. Click Add Field and you’ll see two Booking Plus entries in the picker:
   • Resource Label (singular) — Booking Plus
   • Resource Label (plural) — Booking Plus
5. Add both. Save the form.

From that point on, the listing’s owner sees the two fields in their submit / edit form and can fill them in. The values save to the listing as post meta and the booking UI picks them up immediately.

Creating a Resource from Admin side

Resources are a custom post type registered under your Listings menu in the WP admin.

1. Go to Listings → Booking Resources → Add New.
2. Give the resource a title (e.g. “Anna — Senior Stylist”, “Room 4”, “Kayak #12”).
3. Add a description and a featured image — both appear on the front-end and in the booking popup.
4. Save.

Assigning a Resource to a Listing

Edit a listing (Services, Rentals, Events all support it) and you’ll find a Resources section. Pick the resources that belong to this listing and save, or you can edit resource and select the listing to which it should be assigned

Display layout on the front-end

Resources appear on the single-listing page in either List (full-width stacked) or Grid (2-column cards) layout — switch in Listeo → Settings → Booking → Resources display layout.

When the listing has resources, listing-level booking settings act as defaults

Some configuration (availability calendar, certain pricing options) moves from the listing to the resource when resources are attached. The listing-level fields stay as defaults that new resources inherit, and the editor shows a notice telling you so — no need to re-enter everything for each resource. Basically if something is not set for resource, it inherits the setting from the listing.

The Booking Plus options live on the Listeo > Settings > Booking tab, in two blocks near the bottom: Listeo Booking Plus Settings and Booking Popup Appearance. They live here rather than on a separate page because they extend Listeo Core’s booking behavior — keeping them together means one place to configure how bookings work site-wide.

Listeo Booking Plus Settings

Booking Popup Appearance

Installation

1. Go to https://purethemes.net/license/ and download listeo-booking-plus.zip
   Enter your Listeo theme license there (for the free version) or your Listeo Booking Plus license (if you purchased the Pro version).
   You’ll need purchase key: How to find my license key?
2. In WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
3. Pick the zip, install, then click Activate.

If Listeo Core is missing or not active, you’ll see this notice – install/activate Listeo Core first, then come back:

Listeo Booking Plus – This plugin requires Listeo Core to be installed and activated. Please install Listeo Core first.

Enter your license key

1. Go to Settings → Booking Plus License.
2. Paste your license key from your PureThemes account.
3. Click Activate License.

You’ll see a green confirmation and a “Last verified” timestamp on success.

Invalid or expired license

With an invalid or expired license you’ll see a persistent admin notice on every page that links to the License page, and Booking Plus’s premium features remain disabled until activation succeeds.
Your data is not deleted – resources, tickets and bookings stay in the database; they just stop being surfaced until the plugin can boot again.

Automatic updates

Once activated, the license also enables automatic updates through the standard WordPress Dashboard → Updates and Plugins screens – no manual zip downloads needed for future versions.
See also: Updating the Listeo Booking Plus →

FAQ

Listeo Booking Plus is an add-on plugin for the Listeo theme. It extends the booking functionality that already ships with Listeo Core rather than replacing it – Core still handles the listings, the base booking flow and payments. Booking Plus adds the pieces that high-traffic Service, Rental and Event sites tend to outgrow Core for.

Where to go next?

1. Install and activate the plugin: Installation & License Activation →
2. Get familiar with the settings: Plugin Settings Overview →
3. Set up your first bookable resources: Resources – Employees, Rooms & Equipment →

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