As our plan to constantly adding a new feature in WP Travel, we have launched an Android app in our first phase. You can download WP Travel android app from Google Play Store.

WP Travel Android Mobile App is a mobile application design for the site owner which allows them to view the Booking and Inquiries.

The very first step would be setting up your site to use the mobile app. To know how you can set the site for the mobile app please refer to below description.

Setting the site to use the mobile app is quite easy and can be completed within few minutes. Please follow below steps.

Make sure your travel website ( for e.g. http://examplesite.com) is live and trips are managed from our WP Travel plugin. If you’ve not yet installed, you can start by downloading it now.

After your WordPress site with WP Travel plugin is ready, follow the app installation steps as given below.

Step 1

Install the plugin JWT Authentication for WP REST API. You can download it from below link:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/

Installation:

There are mainly two ways of installing the plugin.

1. Using the WordPress dashboard:

• Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
• Search for ‘jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api’
• Click ‘Install Now’
• Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

2. Uploading in WordPress dashboard:

• Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
• Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
• Select jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api.zip from your computer
• Click ‘Install Now’
• Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Step 2 

After the activating the plugin, you need to define the constant.

The JWT needs a secret key to sign the token this secret key must be unique and never revealed.

To add the secret key edit your wp-config.php file and add a new constant called JWT_AUTH_SECRET_KEY

define(‘JWT_AUTH_SECRET_KEY’, ‘your-top-secret-key’);

You can get the secret key from the “WordPress Salt Key Generator – WordPress API – WordPress.org”

Just replace the key in place of “your-top-secret-key” from above code snippet.

For example, select any of the key as shown in the screenshot and add in the code snippet.

define('JWT_AUTH_SECRET_KEY', '2Uh;U{d1pCUUrq|$kDkv dyj=M4@Q|CZ<++-6%dt+TpUmKN!8U,k-<R,0sM-X%&S');

Note: If the app still does not work then, please go through below additional step as well.

Enable PHP HTTP Authorization Header:

Shared Hosts:

Most shared hosts have disabled the HTTP Authorization Header by default.

To enable this option you’ll need to edit your .htaccess file by adding the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

OR

WPEngine:

To enable this option you’ll need to edit your .htaccess file by adding the following (see https://github.com/Tmeister/wp-api-jwt-auth/issues/1):

SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

Step 3

The final step is to download the zip file “wp-travel-rest-api” from the link given below and activate in your site.

https://wptravel.io/downloads/wp-travel-rest-api/

Screenshot:

Finally, you are ready to use your app.

After activating the required app, you are good to go. First page you encounter after you set up the app is the login page.

Login page:

This is the very first page that will encounter after you click on the icon to open the app.

Available fields:

Username: This fields allows you to add the username. The username that you need to enter is from your site set up.

Password: This fields allows to enter the password.  The password that you need to enter is from your site set up.

Site entry filed: This field allows you to enter the site. You just need to enter your site domain. For ex: https://example.com

You can either enter “https” or “http”.

Click on the login button and enter the app.

As soon as you enter the app you will reach the dashboard. Dashboard displays the total no of booking and inquiries made by the customer.

Menu Navigation:

Dashboard:

This menu link will directs you to the dashboard that displays the no of booking and the enquiries.

Bookings:

This menu link will directs you to the list of booking that is made by the customers.

You can view the detail of the booking by clicking on the list.

Enquiries:

This menu link will directs you to the list of Enquiries made by the customers.

You can view the detail of the enquiry by clicking on the list.

Support:

If you encounter any problem while using the app then this menu item directs you to the official support forum of the app.