Concepts

• Item: Objects or shared goods offered for lending
• Location: Physical place from which items are lent out
• Timeframe: Groups all events such as availability, holidays, and bookings
• Booking: A so-called "slot" within a timeframe configuration that assigns an item at a location to a user
• Booking restrictions: Covers important usage notes and restrictions (e.g. total breakdown) and supplements a bookable timeframe
• Template tags: Placeholders for dynamic content, such as the name of a user in a booking confirmation email
• Booking codes: Randomly generated word combinations created by the system that help verify a booking offline

Here are some general terms that may need explanation, but do not apply only to the CommonsBooking plugin:

• Frontend: The part of a website visible to visitors. The opposite is the backend or admin area.

• Admin dashboard / backend : The part of a website that is used solely for administration purposes, usually with protected access.

• Custom-Post-Types: Customized post objects; these are essential in the context of WordPress (see the official documentation). They are an important part of tailoring the functionality of WordPress to your needs. CommonsBooking leverages them to extend post objects for aforementioned items, locations, timeframes, bookings etc. and lets website users configure and access them via admin backend.