Tamino.travel

Tamino.travel – Multilingual WooCommerce Travel Platform PDF Generation

Project Overview

Tamino.travel is a multilingual e-commerce website for tours and activities in Vienna, built with WordPress and WooCommerce.
The goal was to create a modern, scalable, and user-friendly platform that elegantly presents tour offerings, automatically generates product PDFs, and integrates AI-driven tools for image generation and project documentation.

Client Requirements

The client required a solution that would:

• Support both German and Arabic languages
• Provide a responsive, mobile-first design
• Allow for intuitive product management with custom tour details
• Automatically generate downloadable PDF data sheets for each product
• Be SEO-friendly and optimized for multilingual on-page performance
• Serve as a technical foundation for future extensions, such as API integrations or AI-powered tour recommendations
  

Technical Implementation

1. System Architecture & Development

The platform was developed using WordPress and WooCommerce, built on a custom Storefront child theme (TaminoTravel).
Development took place locally on an Ubuntu laptop using XAMPP, allowing for rapid testing, debugging, and full environment control.

All source code is versioned in a private GitHub repository, ensuring structured change tracking through commits and branches.
This setup allowed for a clean development workflow and reproducible builds.

2. Multilingual Setup with Polylang
Multilingual support (German/Arabic) was implemented using the Polylang plugin.
Because Polylang does not natively handle all WooCommerce strings and endpoints, several advanced customizations were necessary:

• Custom endpoint translation for pages like My Account, Cart, and Checkout
• Dynamic translation of product tabs, mini-cart labels, and button text using programmatic string registration in functions.php
• Grouping all translatable UI strings under the Polylang domain taminotravel (e.g. pll_register_string('Label', 'My Account', 'taminotravel'))

These measures ensured that every WooCommerce-related string and component was fully multilingual, without breaking theme or plugin compatibility.

3. PDF Generation

A core feature of the project is the custom-built plugin:
Tamino Generate PDF for WooCommerce Product.
This plugin automatically generates a PDF brochure for each tour product, including title, price, description, locations, activities, and images.

PDF generation is handled through the Python library reportlab, which allows precise layout control and full Unicode support — essential for displaying Arabic text correctly.
The generated PDFs maintain a clean, professional design focused on readability and consistent branding across all products.

4. AI-Assisted Image and Content Production
To enhance the site’s visual appeal, AI-generated images were used to create expressive, brand-aligned visuals for each tour.
Using DALL·E 3 and Affinity Designer, realistic collage-style cover images were created based on the established corporate design (four-image collage with centered “Tamino Travel” branding).

Additionally, a custom GPT assistant (“Tamino Travel GPT”) was developed to support:

• Documentation generation (e.g., function summaries, plugin logic)
• Code commenting and structuring
• Polylang string management and translation consistency checks

This custom GPT was fine-tuned with project-specific knowledge (theme structure, WooCommerce integration logic, translation handling) to streamline development and ensure long-term maintainability.

5. Backend and Frontend Enhancements
The TaminoTravel child theme was extended and refined to provide a polished, cohesive user experience:

• Unified button styling with squared edges consistent with the brand design
• Removal of redundant “Add to Cart” buttons from banner areas
• Improved related product layout for variable text lengths
• A custom mini-cart dynamically reflecting the active language setting

In the backend, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) were implemented to manage additional metadata such as locations, stops, activities, and tour duration.
This allows for structured, easily editable content management directly within the WordPress admin area.

Result

The result is a multilingual, high-performance travel platform that is both visually appealing and technically future-proof.
Through the combination of WordPress, WooCommerce, Polylang, Yoast SEO, and custom plugin development, Tamino.travel delivers a seamless experience for both users and administrators.

By integrating AI-assisted workflows, automated PDF generation, and string-based multilingual management, the project achieves a professional balance of design, technology, and usability — setting a solid foundation for future expansion and automation.