Great Real Estate plugin for WordPress

The WordPress plugin for Real Estate, showcasing your listings – and more!

Current version: 1.3.1 released July 28, 2009 (1.3: WP 2.8 support, a few bug fixes, and additional translations: German, Russian, and Spanish)

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:

Screenshots of the admin screens:

Requirements

WordPress 2.8 installation (please use version 1.2.1 if you are running WP 2.7.x). 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 1.3.0. 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), Yaroslaw Dorogyy (Russian), Helge Siems (German), Hernan Quiroga and Fernando Jose Orihuela Simon (Spanish), 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.

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