WP Travel Engine – Blocks, Patterns & Templates

Build your trip pages by clicking and dragging ready-made sections into place. No coding required. This guide shows you how to turn on the page templates that control how your trips look, customize your individual trip page, and add review sections that travelers can read and fill out.

Turn on the page templates

Starting with WP Travel Engine 5.9.0, your plugin includes ready-made page templates. A template controls how a type of page looks across your whole site. For example, the Single Trip template controls how every individual trip page appears to visitors.

Before this, you had to rely on your theme's built-in layouts. These templates give you direct control over the design instead.

"Full Site Editing" (or FSE) is the WordPress feature that makes this possible. It lets you edit your entire site using blocks. Blocks are ready-made sections like a photo gallery, a price box, or a map. You pick the ones you want, drop them where you want, and arrange them by dragging.

You'll need WP Travel Engine version 5.9.0 or newer, and a WordPress theme that supports Full Site Editing.

That's the setup done. Now you can move on to customizing how your individual trip pages look.

Customize your Single Trip page

The Single Trip template controls how every individual trip page looks on your site. You set it up once, and it applies to all your trips. So if you want trip photos at the top and the booking button right below them, this is where you arrange that.

Right now, WP Travel Engine gives you flexible blocks only for the Single Trip template. You won't need to touch any other template.

You'll need the page templates turned on first. If you haven't done that yet, follow the steps in the section above.

Don't worry about getting everything perfect on the first try. You can come back and adjust the template any time, and your changes will show up across all your trips.

Blocks you can use on your trip page

Each block below is a ready-made section you can add, move, or restyle on your Single Trip template. Think of them like building blocks. You pick the ones that make sense for your trips and arrange them however you like.

Trip Booking block

Shows your trip's price, any discount, key highlights, and booking button all in one section. Each part can be styled on its own.

• Booking button: change the background color, border color, and font to match your brand.
• Discount badge: shows a discount or special offer to catch a traveler's eye. Say you're offering 10% off for early bookings. This badge makes that visible right away.
• Pricing: choose whether to show the regular price, the sale price, or both.
• Global highlights: shows your trip's main selling points right next to the booking button. For a 5-day Everest Base Camp trek, highlights might include "English-speaking guide" or "All meals included."

Trip Duration block

Shows how long the trip lasts, anywhere on the page. If your trek is 3 days and 2 nights, this block displays "3 Days 2 Nights." Pick from several built-in styles to match your site's look.

Trip Description block

Shows the trip's description with full control over font, color, and styling so it matches the rest of your site.

Trip Highlights block

Turns your trip highlights into a bulleted list with icons. For a Kathmandu Valley tour, highlights might include "Visit 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites" or "English-speaking guide included." You can customize the icon size, color, and spacing.

Trip Facts block

Shows key trip details as a clear, icon-led list. This is where travelers see practical info. For a trek, it might show "Trip type: Group tour," "Meals: All meals included," and "Transportation: Private vehicle." You can restyle the icons to match your branding.

Trip Gallery block

Presents your trip's best photos in a gallery layout. If you have photos from past trips, like a group at a mountain viewpoint or travelers enjoying a local meal, this block displays them in a clean, organized way.

Cost Includes block

Lists what's included in the trip price, each item paired with an icon. Say your trek price covers guides, meals, and accommodation. This block lists those items clearly. You can customize the icon size, color, and spacing.

Cost Excludes block

Lists what's not included in the trip price, each item paired with an icon. If your trek price doesn't cover flights, travel insurance, or personal gear, this is where you list those. Same customization options as the Cost Includes block.

Trip FAQs block

Adds a frequently asked questions section to the trip page. Travelers often ask the same things, like "Do I need a visa?" or "What should I pack?" This block lets you answer those questions right on the page, which also helps your site show up in search results.

Trip Itinerary block

Builds a timeline-style itinerary for your trip. For a 5-day trek, you'd add Day 1 through Day 5, each with a title like "Fly to Lukla and trek to Phakding" and a short description of what happens that day. You can edit titles, descriptions, icons, and dates for each day.

Trip Itinerary Altitude Chart block

Turns your trip's altitude changes into a visual chart. If your trek goes from 2,800m in Lukla up to 5,545m at Kala Patthar, this block plots those changes so travelers can see the climb at a glance. You can customize the chart colors, altitude unit, axis labels, and line tension.

Trip Map block

Embeds an interactive map on your trip page. If your trek starts in Kathmandu, goes through Lukla and Namche Bazaar, and ends at Everest Base Camp, this block plots each stop on the map. Visitors can zoom and pan to explore. You can adjust the map height to fit your page.

Trip Enquiry block

Adds a contact form so visitors can ask questions right from the trip page. Say a traveler is interested in your trek but wants to ask about available dates before booking. This block gives them a form to reach you without leaving the page. You can style the form to match your site.

WP Travel Engine Tab block

Organizes your trip information into tabs. Instead of one long page, travelers see tabs they can click through. For example, you could have tabs labeled "Overview," "Itinerary," "Cost," and "Reviews." You can configure the colors, fonts, and spacing between elements.

Trip Fixed Starting Dates block

Shows your trip's fixed starting dates with automatic scheduling. If you only run treks on specific dates, say the 1st and 15th of every month, this block displays those dates so travelers know exactly when they can go. You can customize the colors, fonts, and layout.

Trip Rating blocks

Three related blocks that show review data on your trip page:

• Star Rating block: displays a star rating to build trust with new visitors.
• Trip Ratings block: shows the average customer rating. If 47 travelers rated your trek an average of 4.5 stars, this block shows "4.5."
• Reviews Count block: shows the total number of reviews. Using the same example, this block shows "47 reviews."

Stars Bar Graph block

Turns customer star ratings into a bar graph. If 30 travelers gave you 5 stars, 10 gave you 4 stars, and 5 gave you 3 stars, this block turns those numbers into visual bars. You can customize the bar colors, fonts, and spacing.

Trip Review Form block

Adds a form travelers can use to submit a review after their trip. When a traveler returns from your trek and wants to share their experience, this form lets them write and submit a review right on the trip page. You can style it to match your site.

Use the Trip Review patterns

Patterns are pre-designed layouts. Instead of adding blocks one at a time and arranging them yourself, you pick a pattern and all the blocks come pre-arranged and ready to go. Think of it like choosing a pre-decorated room instead of buying each piece of furniture separately.

WP Travel Engine includes four built-in patterns for displaying trip reviews. Like the review blocks above, these patterns require the Trip Review add-on.

You'll need the Trip Review add-on installed and active before you can use these patterns.

Review Block pattern

Displays a single trip review as a ready-made section you can drop anywhere on the page.

Aggregate Reviews pattern

Combines review data across a trip into one summary view.

Average Ratings pattern

Shows the trip's average rating at a glance.

Review List pattern

Lists multiple trip reviews in a clean, scrollable layout.

To add any of these patterns to a page, open the block inserter. The block inserter is the panel you use to add new blocks to a page. Click the Patterns tab and you'll find all four patterns there, ready to insert.