Installation
- Install the Realty Plugin and the WordPress Default Enhanced 1.6 theme (or the standard wp theme which might need some configuring).
- Make sure the htaccess file and wp-content/uploads directory are writable.
- Login to wp-admin and activate the Theme followed by the plugin.
- Go in to “permalinks” (in settings) and adjust permalink structure to be “Day and name”.
- Create two WordPress pages through the wp page manager, calling them home and news.
- Select ‘reading” (in settings) and check the static page radio button and select the “Home” as the front page and “Blog” as the post page.
Note: For the Realty Plug-in to work you are required to install the XML to Array plug-in which draws data from the Zoo Property API and inserts it into the WordPress database for your site. The Realty Plug-in then draws the property information from the tables created by the XML to Array plug-in in the WordPress database.
Real Estate Settings
General Settings: – Insert the Office id for the offices you wish to display property and team member data for. Set the other defaults you would like and add the Google Maps and Walk Score Keys.
Media Slideshow: – If you would like an image/video/plan slideshow then you need to install and activate the Agentpoint Grid manager plugin. You can control flash player settings in this section.
Pages: - This is where you can determine what real estate related dynamic pages you would like included in your website. If you uncheck any pages then they will be deleted from the wp page manager.
Search Results: – Here you can control what information appears on the search results pages. You can Add, Remove & Edit elements which will update the way information is displayed.
Sold And Leased: - All sold and leased properties will appear here with the price being the sold price (if it ws entered when the property was marked as sold) or if there is no sold price the listing price for the sold property. You can elect to “display the price” or whether or not to “display the listing”.
Team: - Select the team members you would like displayed on the website and select whether or not they are an author of any news articles in the blog.
Widgets
Where you control what information will be displayed on individual pages. On the right are the theme files with two theme files belonging to each website page. The plug-in allows you to control where you would like information displayed by using widgets to display all information.
- Homepage – Homepage Main and Homepage Side
- Property Page – Property Page Main and Property Page Side
- Search Results Pages – Tags Search and Static Sidebar
- Other Static Pages – Static Sidebar
- Blog – Blog Sidebar
The following real estate widgets are available to be added to the files above. Just select, drag and drop the widgets. Once the widget is in place you should open the widget and adjust the settings of the widget.
Note: Some widgets will not activate correctly if they do not have a title or if other data is not entered.
Real Estate Featured Listings – Featured property listings on the homepage.You can control the number of properties which are displayed along with what data is displayed through the widget. The client can select what property id’s are to be featured through the Realty Page.
Real Estate Current Listings – Current listings added to the website. You can control the number and type of listings through the widget.
Real Estate Area map Searchh – Search for real estate by a geographic area.
Real Estate News Articles – Latest News From real Estate Categories. You can select the number of articles, number of characters and article categories to be displayed through the widget.
Real Estate Property Search – Enter property id or suburb.
Real Estate Feeds – Sales, Rentals and Google RSS so listings can appear on Google. This widget creates an XML of the property listings. You can then submit this link/rss/xml to Google who will then index all of the properties on a daily bases so they appear on Google Maps.
Real Estate Quick Search – Search for property through multiple options. In the widget you can control what options you would like to appear in the quick search and what the drop down options are.
Real Estate Sold Listings – Displays sold listings on pages. Through the widget you can select what sold information you would like displayed. The plugin also creates a sold listings page which enables results to be displayed in a table format or exactly the same as the search results appear (this setting can be found in the settings page).
Real Estate Property of the Week – Display Properties of the Week on the homepage. Through the widget you can control what type of property to display.The client can select what property id’s are to be featured through the Realty Page.
Real Estate Similar Sold Listings – Show similar sold listings to a listing teh user is looking at.
Real Estate Rental Application – Rental Application form.
Real Estate Media – Control how and where images are displayed. There are seven image options to choose from or a combination of media types. You need to make sure you have installed the Agentpoint Thumbnail Grid Plug-in if you would like the Slide Show Pro image option. You can control the SlideShowPro player through the
Real Estate Contact Agent – Choose what agent details to display where through the widget.
Real Estate Property Description – Displays the property description.
Real Estate Map – Display the properties location on a Google Map.
Real Estate Walk Score - Display the properties Walkscore and map. In the widget there are settings to control the map and Walkscore style.
Real Estate Property Features – Displays the properties features along with open inspection times for a property.
Real Estate Property Table – Displays key information about the property. In the widget you can control what property information is displayed.
Real Estate Action Buttons – Email self, print and email friend for the property.
Real Estate Mortgage Calculator - Loan repayments for a certain amount of borrowing.
Real Estate Similar Listings - Similar listings to the property a user is viewing. You can control the type of similar listings you want displayed in the property widget.
Real Estate Share – Shares the website property page with popular social networks. You can control which networks in the widget settings.
There are also the standard WordPress widgets which can be added to any page or sidebar of the website.
I’ve installed the XML to Array plugin but it is now asking me for the following information:
· Office Id
· Property Listings Site
· Team Member Site
· Access Key
· Private Key
Where do I find these in Zoo Property?
Rodger,
You will see the access and private key in the details section for each client in the Developers System.
The property listing url is http://api.agentaccount.com/api/properties?office_id=75
and Team member is http://api.agentaccount.com/api/agents?office_id=75
You need to change the office_id (75) to what ever office you are trying to access data for. You can see the office id if you are in the offices system and look at the url, it is the number after offices/
Once this data is entered save it and then submit a manual parse.
A-ha! and I’d been looking at those keys all along
So… I’ve now configured it and I have tried to aprse the data. This error message appears:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C \wp-content\plugins\XmlToArray\includes\index.php on line 3044
Any ideas?
Ok, you need to enable the php extension Curl on your server. Curl is used to talk to the API and remit the access keys.
Let me know how this goes.
Baby steps
Yes, that worked. Installed Curl and the Parse Data completes with the “Parse successful” message.
However, no data is turning up in the MySQL database. There should be 1 Residential Sale record for this office.
Ideas?
Have the tables been created in the database for that site? When you parse the data does it say “parse successful”? In the properties table there should be 1 entry.
We installed and configured the XML plugin, which ran and actually put a record into the database.
I then added the office is 69 to the Realty > General screen and ALL is working
Can you think of a reason that my local test version doesn’t work, but a site on the web would?
Any security built into the system around the URL it’s passing data to?
At least we’ve got the one system working, so I’m very happy about that. Thank you for your help.
Interesting, I’ve done all my testing live through the web. For now I’d just be installing it on a test serve and building the theme out through the web.
I’ll look into the local issue.