City Hostel | Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme
City Hostel is a modern, responsive Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme designed for hostels, hotels, and other hospitality facilities, featuring integrated booking, room catalogs, and WPBakery-based page building for flexible customization.
Theme purpose, target users and positioning
- Target industries: hostel and hotel operators, students accommodations, youth hostels, guest houses, inns, motels, tours, and related hospitality facilities.
- Extended use cases: villas, accommodations agencies, wellness spas, resorts, dormitory bureaus, lodges, bed and breakfast establishments, and similar businesses seeking a stylish, all-in-one booking solution.
- The theme emphasizes a modern, elegant design with a focus on usability, visually rich presentations, and streamlined management of bookings and room information.
Design, responsiveness and booking capabilities
- Responsive and retina ready design: all elements are finely displayed, with a booking form accessible on any device.
- Booking and scheduling: online appointments booking & management are built into the theme, enabling straightforward reservation workflows.
- Advanced forms: Premium, feature-rich contact & booking forms support efficient user communication and data collection.
- Premade rooms and accommodations: ready-to-use room templates and accommodation layouts speed up site setup.
Homepage, layout and core presentation
- Homepage features: WPBakery (aka Visual Composer, which we think is better than Elementor), full-width Revolution Slider, essential grid gallery, and comprehensive options to present hotel information.
- Rooms catalog: an elegant, user-friendly rooms catalog presents each room with clear details and visuals.
- Elegant yet powerful framework: the theme is built on a robust framework offering shortcodes, custom widgets, and extensive customization options.
Design language, components and customization flexibility
- Professional design: polished visuals suitable for hospitality brands.
- One-Click demo install: quick setup by importing a ready-made demo.
- Modern, flexible, customizable: adaptable design to suit various hospitality concepts.
- WordPress 4.0+ tested and approved: ensured compatibility with modern WordPress versions.
- HTML5 and CSS3: clean, modern codebase for performance and compatibility.
- Cross-browser compatibility: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE11+ support.
- Included sliders: Slider Revolution & Swiper Slider are bundled for engaging visuals.
- Retina images support: high-resolution visuals on retina displays.
- Menu systems: user menu and main menu support for flexible navigation.
- Interactive Ajax Search: fast, dynamic search experience.
- Flexible colors & typography: extensive options to tailor appearance.
Layout features and content organization
- 100% responsive & mobile-friendly: fluid layouts adapt to devices from phones to desktops.
- Boxed and fullwidth layouts: two layout modes to match branding and content needs.
- WPBakery Page Builder support: modify any page content easily with drag-and-drop editing.
- Header and footer customization: adjust layouts in WPBakery Page Builder for branding consistency.
Advanced blog settings and content strategy
- Multiple blog styles: diverse presentation options for content marketing.
- Flexible layout options: adaptable grid and list layouts for posts.
- 20+ post animations: engaging transitions to highlight content.
- Customizable blog feed: control what appears by post type or category.
- Post interactions: views, likes and sharing buttons to boost engagement.
- Related posts: automatic recommendations to keep readers on site.
Theme framework, options and performance
- Powerful theme framework: setting inheritance and override system for predictable customization.
- 750+ customizer options: extensive controls for fine-tuning site behavior and appearance.
- Custom post types & widgets: additional content types and widget sets for hospitality focus.
- Custom shortcodes & theme options panel: feature-rich elements and global controls.
- Optimized performance: design and code aimed at smooth operation and speed.
- Extensibility: numerous options to grow with future needs and integrations.
Plugins compatibility and ecosystem
- Revolution Slider: advanced animated slides for hero sections and showcases.
- WPBakery Page Builder: primary page builder included for content editing.
- Essential Grid: flexible grid gallery layouts for rooms, amenities, and media.
- Booked Appointments: appointment booking integration for services and tours.
- Fontello & image icons: scalable icons for UI elements.
- Google Fonts: varied typography options sourced from Google Fonts.
Support, documentation and updates
- Professional support: dedicated help and guidance for users.
- Detailed documentation: comprehensive guides for setup and customization.
- Regular updates: ongoing improvements and compatibility fixes.
- Continued compatibility: designed to stay current with evolving WordPress ecosystems.
Credits, assets and licensing notes
- Clipart, images and fonts credits to respective owners and providers (depositphotos.com, peopleimages.com, flaticon.com, Google Fonts).
- All images in live previews are copyrighted by their owners and not included in the template package.
Changelog and version history
- 08.09.2025 Version 1.2.4 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.8.2 has been improved; Theme styles have been improved.
- 25.02.2025 Version 1.2.3 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7.2x has been improved; Theme styles have been improved.
- 18.10.2024 Version 1.2.2 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.6.2x has been improved; Scripts libraries updated; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated to latest versions.
- 24.07.2024 Version 1.2.1 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.5.5x improved; GDPR framework compatibility; Scripts libraries updated; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated to latest versions.
- 30.10.2023 Version 1.1.0 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.3.2x improved; TikTok & Twitter icons added; QuickCal plugin compatibility; Scripts updated; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 25.03.2024 Version 1.2.0 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.4.3x improved; Booked Appointments plugin; QuickCal plugin; Scripts updated; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 28.07.2023 Version 1.0.12.1 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.2.2x improved; Minor theme styles fixed; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 21.03.2023 Version 1.0.11 – Update: Import Essential Grid 3.0.17+ plugin; All plugins updated to latest versions.
- 14.10.2022 Version 1.0.10 – Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.0x improved; PHP 8.1 compatibility improved; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 13.09.2022 Version 1.0.9 – Update: PHP 8.1 compatibility improved; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 16.01.2022 Version 1.0.8 – Update: WordPress 5.8.2 compatibility improved; PHP 8.1 compatibility improved; Datepicker removals/additions; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 13.03.2020 Version 1.0.7 – Update: Compatibility with ThemeREX Updater plugin added; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 20.01.2020 Version 1.0.6 – Update: WordPress 5.3x compatibility improved; PHP 7.3 compatibility improved; Datepicker integration added; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 01.07.2019 Version 1.0.5 – Update: PHP 7.3 compatibility improved; WooCommerce 3.6x compatibility improved; JS libraries updated; Theme styles improved; All plugins updated.
- 20.03.2019 Version 1.0.4 – Update: Documentation.html updated.
- 05.03.2019 Version 1.0.3 – Update: Scripts libraries updated; PHP7.2 compatibility improved; All plugins updated.
- 24.01.2019 Version 1.0.2 – Update: WP GDPR Compliance plugin; Checkboxes added for GDPR-compliant forms; Alert for demo data installation; Contact Form 7 plugin added; WordPress 5.0+ support; Role manager issues with WPBakery plugin fixed; Checkbox and radio button styling improved; All plugins updated; Theme styles improved.
- 03.05.2017 Version 1.0.1 – Update: Child theme updated; Documentation updated; Plugins updated.
- 04.04.2017 Version 1.0 – Release
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