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It provides:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Services<\/strong> and <strong>Reviews<\/strong> custom post types (with price\/icon and rating\/author fields).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forms<\/strong> \u2014 MOT\/service booking, quote-by-registration, MOT reminder signup, a UK\ntyre search (by size or registration), and a contact message form. All submissions\nare emailed to the address set in the Customizer (Garage Settings), or the site\nadmin email if that is blank.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEO structured data<\/strong> (JSON-LD) \u2014 an AutoRepair\/LocalBusiness block with opening\nhours and an optional aggregate rating, a WebSite search action, and article +\nbreadcrumb data on posts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Starter content<\/strong> \u2014 an optional, one-click import (Tools \u2192 Garage Starter Content)\nthat adds sample services, reviews, posts and key pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The plugin renders its forms and content through simple template functions, so a\ntheme can call them where it likes; if the plugin is not active, a compatible theme\ncan fall back to its own defaults.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>(Optional) Go to <strong>Tools \u2192 Garage Starter Content<\/strong> to import sample content.<\/li>\n<li>Set your details under <strong>Appearance \u2192 Customize \u2192 Garage Settings<\/strong> (available\nwhen your theme registers that panel).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>For reliable form email delivery, use an SMTP plugin such as WP Mail SMTP.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"where%20do%20the%20form%20submissions%20go%3F\"><h3>Where do the form submissions go?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>To the notification email in Appearance \u2192 Customize \u2192 Garage Settings \u2192 Contact, or\nthe site admin email if that is blank.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20work%20with%20any%20theme%3F\"><h3>Does this work with any theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. The plugin provides the content types, forms and structured data. Any theme can\ncall its template functions to display them; the visual styling comes from your theme.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>1.0.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Prefixed custom post type identifiers to avoid conflicts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Hardened JSON-LD output; renamed to Garage Companion Kit; general clean-up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Initial release: services &amp; reviews CPTs, forms, structured data, starter content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Garage-business features for any theme: services, reviews, booking and tyre forms, SEO structured data, and optional starter content.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/336323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336323"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/nazreen1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=336323"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=336323"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=336323"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=336323"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fr-be.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=336323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}