Understory

Description

Powering experience makers

Understory is here to help experience hosts offer great digital user experiences. Our complete software solution helps experience operators do better in terms of administration, booking, payment, gift, and marketing. It’s a one-stop-shop to grow their business – and transform their passion into profits.

Understory WordPress

Integrate your existing WordPress site with your Understory account even easier!

Using the Understory WordPress plugin, we\’re adding blocks to both Gutenberg and Elementor, such that you can add booking calendars or experience overviews directly in your posts or pages.

The plugin provides a seamless experience, and you won\’t have to worry about either copying code-snippets or remembering long IDs – everything is available directly within WordPress, once connected to your Understory account.

External dependencies

This plugin relies on the Understory platform to fetch the both widget JavaScript code, CSS styling and data.

The widget is loaded from a specific Understory-domain (widgets.understory.io), to ensure your widget is always up-to-date with the latest features and bug fixes.
We utilize server-side caching on our end, to ensure fast and reliable delivery of the widget code.

Furthermore, the plugin will also load experience- and event data from the Understory API. The data is not cached within WordPress, to ensure that your visitors always see up to date and correct data.
Please note that the Understory API is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Understory Widget API is hosted on the following external domains:

  • bfui7akuui.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
  • cc5zsp30hj.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

The only data transmitted to our APIs include your Understory Account Id, and the settings which you have chosen when setting up the widgets. No other data or personal information is sent to our servers.
We request data from our APIs when initially loading the widgets, to retrieve the data to show on your WordPress page, including:

  • Experience names and publicly available data
  • Experience availability

For more information regarding the data we collect and how we handle it, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

  • Understory Booking Widget
  • Understory Experiences Widget

Installation

Once you install the plugin, you\’ll be asked to Connect with Understory.

To Connect with Understory, simply navigate to Settings Understory, and press the \”Connect with Understory\”-button. Clicking this button will redirect you to the Understory Backoffice.

If you\’re not logged into your Backoffice, you\’ll be asked to log in, after which we will redirect you back to the WordPress settings.

Now you\’re done, and the plugin is ready to use!

FAQ

Do I need to have a Understory account already?

Yes – to connect your WordPress account with Understory, you should have an account set up on Understory already.
If you do not have that, you can create one on Understory

What Widgets do you currently offer?

The plugin currently supports the Understory Booking Widget, both for individual experiences and the overall “all experiences” widget.

Which Page Builders do you support?

The plugin adds Blocks to both Gutenberg (the Built-in WordPress editor) and Elementor.
If you use another Page Builder, you can contact us through your Understory Backoffice, and we’ll help you started.

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Contributors & Developers

“Understory” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0

  • First version of the Understory WordPress plugin!
  • Easily add Booking Widgets in either Gutenberg, Elementor or through WordPress Shortcodes