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Using Search Widget Styles (CSS)

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Using Search Widget Styles (CSS)

Learn how to style the VRS Search Widget for pages/posts

The Search Widget is our primary call to action on our property rental websites. It begins the Search-Quote-Book process. It is important that the call to action be available so it has been designed and architected to be able to display it just about anywhere. The Search Widget can now be styled using CSS right from the WP Admin VRS Search Widget interface. These instructions will show you how to add styles to a Search Widget for use on your pages and posts within your website.

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Adding the Search Widget to a Page

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Adding the Search Widget to a Page

Add an existing Search Widget to pages/posts

The Search Widget is our primary call to action on our property rental websites. It begins the Search-Quote-Book process. It is important that the call to action be available so it has been designed and architected to be able to display it just about anywhere. The Search Widget is basically a form. Search Widgets can contain any of the search parameters in the Search Widget form. The WordPress Admin can create Search Widgets and then use them on pages and posts within the WordPress sites. These instructions will show you how to place an existing Search Widget on pages and posts within your website.

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Feedback/Ticketing System

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Ticketing System

How to send feedback to VRS

In a previous version of Prelude the “Send Feedback” link was added to the user menu at the top right of the application. Clicking the link brought you to a page where you could provide feedback to VRS in the event of an error or some unexpected behavior or a feature request. Basically any communication you wanted to share with VRS you could, and still can, send from Prelude via the “Send Feedback” link. Until now the Send Feedback page sent an email to the VRS team. The updated page now sends the feedback to our new ticketing system called Freshdesk.

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Custom Banner Text – Blackband Template

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Custom Banner Text for Pages Using Black Band Template

How to add custom banner text to pages that use “Template with black band” as the page template.

The text in the banner can be set by anyone with access to the editor. As long as you are using the “Template with black band” you can use the custom fields for setting the text. The text we will be editing is the two banner lines in the black band in the image below.
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