Announce: WordPress plugin for Real Estate listings
I’m pleased to announce that my WordPress plugin, titled “Great Real Estate”, has been released to the public.
Free publicly available plugin extends WordPress blog software to manage Real Estate listings.
Great Real Estate plugin brings real estate content management to the WordPress community. The initial version features a convenient editor form to capture listing information such as price, bedrooms, and other features, detailed template tags for easy customization and theming, and pre-formatted quick start templates.
Developed by Roger Theriault, a real estate listing specialist, REALTOR®, and web development veteran, this plugin incorporates features designed to make any real estate agent or broker’s website more functional and appealing, and easier to use for both agents and home buyers. The free plugin, released under the Gnu Public License (GPLv3), is aimed at helping agents provide better services and getting their listings sold more quickly.
The plugin also permits users to integrate photos, videos, panoramas, downloads, and maps into their listings. Content from other WordPress plugins can be incorporated into the tabbed listing page display seamlessly.
The plugin supports customized outgoing feeds to other websites, so that users can distribute their listings to sites such as Google Base, Trulia, Zillow, or My Yahoo! users. And it incorporates options to conform to MLS rules for display of contact information.
Background
The Great Real Estate plugin is available for download at WordPress.org’ s Plugin Directory, and more information and support is available on the Great Real Estate plugin homepage.
WordPress is an Open Source project which has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world.
Roger Theriault is a web developer, consultant, and real estate technology service provider in Lantana, Florida. He is also an independent contractor and top producing REALTOR with Illustrated Properties. Roger has been a software developer for over 20 years, developing dynamic websites since 1994, and has been involved in the real estate industry since 2002.
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Great plugin. I’ve installed and want to write about it and place it in my tutorial for WordPress on About.com.
One problem, Google map shows up and centers on the right spot, but no icon or map symbol to mark the spot. I’m rural and used geo coordinates. Help?
Hi James, that’s great.
Have you set up a Google API key specific to the server you’re testing on? I’ve seen Google selectively leave out bits if you are using one for a different host. They will issue keys for “localhost”. The only other thing I can think of is an error with the marker function call, if you can send me the page source or point me to the site that would help.
Great plugin !
I would like to add a “Deposit Required” for Rentals and a Few new Discriptions in “Features” Box.
Can you point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Hi Mike, I posted a note in the Forums about that, and we’ll make Features manageable in the next release.
Great plug-in and much needed. I look forward to seeing future features. Thank you!!!
Looks great! Long overdue development. Is there any way of setting up listings into categories and sub category pages or posts? i.e. Quick listing as rentals, sales, district? Perhaps utilising tags??
Hi Kevin, you can use any existing page parameters to query, plus the listings data. I’ll be adding some extensions in a future version to make sorting and filtering easier. I intend to add a “neighborhood” feature. For now, pages don’t support tags and categories but there are third party plugins that do.
The plugin is crashing Firefox 1.04 and Safari 1.02 (Mac 10.2.8 Jaguar).
Also happens on your demo site rogertheriault.com
If I turn off javascript it will load.
I disabled all other plugins, Great Real Estate is definitely the one causing the crash.
I’m looking forward to using this plugin, please advise.
@KF, does it happen on a particular page? With a particular combination of content? If you can report further details in the User Forums (http://rogertheriault.com/forums/) it would be helpful.
Ciao.. I try by myself to work with wp to make my personal real estate, but now there is your plugin! GREAT WORKS!
It’s possible to translate in italian also?
If you need tell me…