Travel Buddy

Description

This plugin adds a powerful widget to your WordPress site, allowing users to check visa requirements for 199 different passports and 209 destinations. It delivers real-time updates on visa policies, ensuring your audience has access to the latest travel information.

Features

  • Install once and maintain effortlessly – Easily integrates with any WordPress site.
  • Enhanced User Experience: Provides your visitors with an easy-to-use tool to quickly check visa requirements, enhancing the overall user experience on your website.
  • Stay Updated: Offers real-time updates on visa policies, ensuring that your users always have access to the most current information.
  • Increased Engagement: Keeps users on your site longer as they interact with the widget to explore visa requirements for different destinations.
  • Attracts Traffic: By providing valuable information that can be hard to find, your site can attract more visitors from search engines and social media.

Developed by the website experts at travelbuddy.

External Services

This plugin relies on the Travel Buddy API to provide real-time visa requirements and travel information. When users check visa requirements using the widget, their request is sent to the Travel Buddy API, which processes the request and returns the necessary information.

By using this plugin, you agree to the terms and conditions outlined by the Travel Buddy API.

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.0
  • PHP 5.6

Privacy Assurance

We do not collect any technical data from our users. The plugin relies on the Travel Buddy API to provide real-time visa requirements and travel information. Please review the Travel Buddy API Privacy Policy for more details.

Screenshots

Installation

Automatic Installation

  1. Go to Plugins -> Add New in the WordPress admin panel.
  2. Type “Travel Buddy” in the search bar.
  3. Click the ‘Install’ button found under the Travel Buddy plugin.
  4. After installation, activate the plugin by clicking on ‘Activate’.

Manual Installation

  1. Login to the WordPress admin panel and select Plugins -> Add New.
  2. Choose the ‘Upload’ option.
  3. Click ‘Choose File’ and select the travel-buddy.zip file you have downloaded.
  4. Click ‘Install Now’.
  5. To activate, find the Travel Buddy under Plugins -> Installed Plugins and click ‘Activate’.

Reviews

November 9, 2024
I’ve been using this plugin for a few months. This plugin is highly useful on a travel website and once set up, works wonderfully, and the information is surprisingly accurate. You need to sign up for an API, there is a free plan. The plugin looks good with any theme and can be added to a widget or as a shortcode now too. The only issue was setting it up was slightly complicated because of the way the information was presented at the time I signed up. As I said in a support request, when I signed up, the API key (which is a long string of characters) was displayed in a drop down menu, but it doesn’t get copied to the clipboard if you click on it. You also can’t click on it a second time after opening the drop down menu to highlight and copy it. I figured out what part of the code snippet on the right hand side is the API key, and had to copy it from there. Not sure if this issued has been fixed, but the staff seem responsive enough and I am sure they will help you if you have any issues. Thank you for the plugin and service.
Read all 1 review

Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

Translate “Travel Buddy” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

Version 1.2.1

  • Fix display exceptional text on some destinations.

Version 1.2.0

  • Display the Widget with Shortcode.
  • Fix small css bug

Version 1.1.0

  • Change the API provider.
  • Fix missing country list

Version 1.0.2

  • Fix the “We are currently experiencing a temporary technical issue. Please try again later” message that appears due to a conflict with some cache plugins.

Version 1.0.1

  • Added documentation for the use of the Travel Buddy API.
  • Improved security.

Version 1.0.0

  • First stable release.

Version 0.9.0

  • Initial release.