
Explore how to build an appointment booking platform with WordPress using HivePress, covering domain names, hosting, and one-click WordPress installation, plus local development and plugins.
Install Hive Press plugin and Meeting Hive theme to build a WordPress appointment booking site, activate plugins, set license key, and add extensions, listing categories and custom listing fields.
Create a structured appointment booking site by adding listing categories (tutoring, mentoring, consulting, coaching) and building customizable attributes and vendor fields with search filters and display options.
Explore Hive Press settings to configure listings, vendors, and users for an appointment booking site, including search forms, submission rules, moderation, reviews, bookings, time slots, and security with reCAPTCHA.
Add and publish new front-end listings by filling category, title, description, images, and custom fields with admin review; then book appointments within rules and manage requests in the vendor dashboard.
Learn to create a home page by adding hive press blocks and a featured image, then publish, and add a blog page, services page, and experts page with settings saved.
Customize your appointment booking site by adjusting logo, colors, header image, menus, and widgets. Tailor fonts and add custom CSS snippets, including Hive Press snippets, to refine the home page.
Explore monetization by charging users for adding and promoting listings, using featured listings and WooCommerce to manage payments, and creating listing packages like free and premium.
Set up commission-based pricing for each appointment using the Hive Press marketplace extension. Configure vendor commissions or fixed fees, manage payouts and balances, and understand how charges appear on bookings.
Vendors learn to request payouts of earnings after meeting a minimum amount and adding a payment method like PayPal in WordPress, with admin approval and optional Stripe Connect automatic payouts.
Improve WordPress performance by using the Lightspeed Cache plugin to enable object and browser caching, minify and merge css and javascript, and lazy load fonts, images, and embedded media.
Wrap up the course by showing how to build a WordPress appointment booking website for any niche. Explore Hive Press features, and join the community forum for tips and tutorials.
In this course, you will learn how to create an appointment booking platform for any niche without coding skills using WordPress. Whether you want to create a scheduling website for lawyers or an appointment booking marketplace for tutors, you'll be able to do this by following all the steps in this course.
We tried to make lessons as clear as possible, so you don't need WordPress development experience to take this course. We will walk you through all the steps of creating an appointment marketplace with WordPress, from the initial installation and adding listing categories to customizing the website design and improving its performance.
In the course videos, we will show you how to set up your website and fine-tune all the settings. This way you can easily customize the website functionality according to your website niche and requirements. Also, we will explain how to monetize your platform in a few ways, such as charging users for adding listings or taking a commission on every booked appointment.
This course is useful for anyone looking to create their own appointment website or a marketplace for different service providers (e.g., tutors, lawyers, doctors, etc.), such as Preply, Rover, or Zocdoc.
Have fun and build something awesome!