Setup Wizard

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The setup wizard takes you from a fresh installation to a website ready to launch: with AI from your details and photos, from a demo, or blank. Go to WP Admin → Lodge WP Settings → Setup Wizard. After you activate the theme, a welcome message on the Dashboard links to it too.

Your answers are saved at every step: you can leave the wizard and continue later from the same menu. Nothing on your website changes until the last steps, where you see exactly what will be created or replaced.

First steps

1. Language: the language of the wizard’s screens, and the language your website is written in. They can differ: you can set up a German website in English. Optionally, add more website languages; for those you need a translation plugin (Polylang, TranslatePress or WPML).
2. License: enter your license key to activate updates, demo imports and the AI features. You can skip this step and add the key later in Lodge WP Settings → License & updates. If your license includes WP Booking System, the wizard can install and activate it here.
3. How to start: choose one of three ways.

Three ways to start

• Create with AI (recommended): you tell us about your property and add your photos; the AI writes your pages, accommodation descriptions, FAQs and other texts from that information, into LodgeWP’s hand-designed layouts. Needs an active license (see LodgeWP AI).
• Import a demo: a ready-designed website (Cabin, for one accommodation, or Ocean Villas, for several) that you fill in with your own details. AI can rewrite the demo texts for you afterwards. Needs an active license.
• Start blank: the essential pages and your accommodations, created from your details without marketing texts. You add your own texts, photos and sections in the page editor.

If your website already has pages or accommodations, you choose what happens to them: Keep it and add new pages, Replace demo content (moves content from a demo import or an earlier wizard run to the Trash) or Start fresh (moves all LodgeWP content to the Trash). Your media library, settings, plugins and bookings stay. Items in the Trash can be restored for 30 days.

The next steps

Which steps you see depends on how you start:

• Demo (Import a demo only): imports the chosen demo. It takes a minute or two; keep the page open.
• Your business: website name and tagline, type of property, location, what makes your place special, your guests, your story, contact details and social media profiles. These details are saved in Lodge WP Settings → AI → Your property.
• Accommodations: each unit with its details and, optionally, the price shown on its page (“From €120 /night”; your booking rates are set in WP Booking System). You can paste the text of a listing (e.g. from Booking.com or Airbnb) to fill in the fields, the price included; check them before you continue.
• Photos & brand (Create with AI): choose or upload your photos. The AI looks at each one, describes it and picks the best banner photos. Add your logo, or let the AI draw three logo ideas to choose from.
• Writing style: how your website should sound, any instructions the AI should always follow, and how detailed the website should be (Simple & focused, Balanced or Detailed).
• Nearby & blog (Create with AI): attractions and activities near you, and travel-guide blog posts about them. The posts are saved as drafts: once you publish the first one, the blog is linked in your footer menu.
• Bookings (when WP Booking System is active): a booking calendar and form for each accommodation. To take payments online, install the Stripe or PayPal add-on here, or click on Skip, install later and add any payment add-on (Mollie, Square, bank transfer and more) later in WP Booking System → Add-ons.
• Your pages (Create with AI): the pages and sections the AI suggests, which you can change before anything is written.
• Create or Your texts: builds your website. With a demo, you choose which demo texts the AI rewrites with your details.
• Review & launch: check every page, then make your new home page the front page.

Everything the wizard creates is a normal page, accommodation or post: change it afterwards in the editor, also with the AI buttons.