Great Real Estate plugin for WordPress
The WordPress plugin for Real Estate, showcasing your listings - and more!
Current version: 1.2.1 released Dec 16, 2008 (1.2.1: NextGen v1.0+ support; 1.2: updates to RSS feeds, bugfixes for WP2.6+ jQuery issues, French translation/localization)
Note: The Page Revisions feature of WordPress may cause some problems with your listings if you revert a listing page to a different version. More details.
Overview
A real estate content management plugin for WordPress. Initial version allows management of listings.
Need an idea of what it can do? Here’s a live demo:
- My real estate site - demonstrating the Featured Homes widget configured in Basic mode, highest price first
- My listings index page - the default output, plus the Featured Homes widget configured in Text mode, sorted by title
- A listing detail page with all the bells and whistles turned on
Screenshots of the admin screens:
Requirements
WordPress 2.5 through 2.7 installation (2.7 recommended). For additional functionality, you may wish to enable one or all of the third party plugins listed under Features below.
Features:
- Integration with NextGen Gallery plugin for listing photos
- Integration with WordTube plugin for videos.
- Integration with FPP-Pano plugin for 360 VR photos.
- Integration with DownloadManager plugin for PDF attachments such as brochures.
- Integrated Google Maps pinpointing the listing location.
- Easy form-based entry of listing data - right on the Edit Page screen!
- Customizable starter templates for your listings index page and for the actual listing pages.
- Tab-based access to property description, gallery, videos, panoramas, maps, and downloads.
- Gracefully handles users with JavaScript disabled as much as possible.
- “No Branding” option for use as link in MLS - restyle your page to hide the navigation elements.
- Featured Listings widget or template for your front page or navigation bars. Includes three display options: thumbnail and text, text only, and a map of all your listings.
- Pre-designed templates for use with Feed Wrangler plugin to automatically feed your listings to Trulia, Zillow, and Google Base. Plus a custom RSS template for My Yahoo! and iGoogle supporting listing photos.
Future Versions may include:
- live search options for your listings index page
- showings management
- seller dashboard
Installation Instructions and How to Use
Quick Start Guide - how to install, configure, and create your first listing
Featured Homes Widget - configuring this widget for your site, or using shortcodes or PHP code to include the featured homes content in your pages or templates.
Setting up syndication feeds - how to set up the supplied XML and RSS feed templates
Using the “no branding” option - enabling a “contact free” link page for your MLS
Customizing your templates - use the sample templates in your theme instead of the default content if you need a different format to display your listings
Template Tag Reference - detailed documentation on using template tags in your theme files
Coming soon:
- Tips and how tos
Download
The Great Real Estate plugin is available for download in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. The current version is 1.2. Other versions are also available for download.
License
The plugin is licensed under the GPL version 3.
Contributors
Thanks to these folks who have donated their time to the Great Real Estate project: Rodney Tommasi (Italian translation), Patrice “plwm” ROMEVO (French translation), and Joan Soler (some time saving admin features that I’m still working on integrating)
You can make a cash donation to my projects via the PayPal link at the top of the page.
Support
Support is available here in our Plugin Support Forums. This is the best place to ask a question, make a suggestion, or point out a defect, so everyone else can benefit.
See this list of known Issues if you are having problems.