The Realty Plug-in is a WordPress plug-in which once installed will provide all the functionality necessary to have a feature rich real state websites. This plug-in combines 10 years of real estate WordPress development of numerous plug-ins by Agentpoint converted into a super Realty plug-in. Once installed you have complete control over all data in your website and you can easily switch off/on or place the data in certain locations of your website. All of the features and data display for the website are controlled through WordPress widgets. These widgets are located in the Appearance tab in WordPress Admin. It is as simple as clicking, dragging and placing widgets on the pages you would like them to appear.
Realty plug-in features/widgets include:
Homepage or Sidebar Widgets (displayed on the homepage)
Real Estate Featured Listings – This widget displays featured property listings on the homepage or in the sidebar of other pages.You can control the number of properties which are displayed along with whether just sales listings, lease listings or a combination of both are displayed. You also have the ability to choose what property information (bed, bath, car, suburb, property type, price, listing type) you would like to appear. When the client logs in they can control what property id’s will appear as featured listings.
Real Estate Current Listings – This widget displays recent property listings on the homepage or in the sidebar of other pages. You can control the number of properties which are displayed along with whether just sales listings, lease listings or a combination of both are displayed. You also have the ability to choose what property information (bed, bath, car, suburb, property type, price, listing type) you would like to appear.
Real Estate Property of the Week – Similar to the Featured Property widget this widget displays properties of the week on the homepage or in the sidebar of other pages. You have the option to display a House, Apartment and Rental of the week. You also have the ability to choose what property information (bed, bath, car, suburb, property type, price, listing type) you would like to appear. When the client logs in they can control what property id’s will appear as properties of the week.
Real Estate Area map Search – Creates a map with a drop down on the side allowing users to quickly narrow their search down to a specific state. Once a user selects a state they are directed through to the search results page where they can further narrow their search criteria.
Real Estate News Articles – This widget can be placed anywhere and displays the latest news articles published through the blog. You can select the title for this section, the number of articles, excerpt size and article categories to be displayed on the website.
Real Estate Property Search – This widget can be placed anywhere and allows users to search via property id or suburb. The widget will search all properties in the database and display results matching the users criteria. This works the same way as GOogle answers with an Ajax highlighter for quicker retrieval of results.
Real Estate Tags – This widget can be placed anywhere and allows users to perform an interactive search for property. It is a hyperlink search which updates in real time and the search results update according to the selected options in the sidebar. The widget will search all properties in the database and display results matching the users criteria.
Real Estate Enhanced Search – A widget combining the Real Estate Quick Search and Real Estate Tags Widget and users JQuery allowing the user to quickly jump between each search type.
Real Estate Feeds – This widget creates a Sales, Rentals and All (Google) active listings RSS feed for your property listings. You can then submit this link/rss/xml to Google and other 3rd party portals who accept RSS, who will then index all of the properties on a daily bases so they appear on their website.
Real Estate Quick Search – This widget is placed in the sidebars and allows users to search for property and narrow their selection through key property features. In the widget you can control what options you would like to appear in the quick search and what options should be included in the drop downs.
Real Estate Sold Listings – There are a number of these widgets which can be placed in numerous locations on the website and which displays sold and leased listings. Through the widget you can select what sold information you would like displayed. The plug-in 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 Social Widget – This widget allows users to share a page on the website with a number of popular social networks. There are around 50 social networks to choose from and you can control which networks are offered through the widget settings.
Real Estate Team Widget – This widget displays the real estate agent’s details and a contact form to contact the agent(s) in relation to that property. You can control what information is displayed including the agent’s name, phone, email, mobile, fax and role. You can also elect whether the agent’s image is displayed and if the image is a portrait or landscape image.
Property Page Widgets (displayed on the property page)
Real Estate Similar Sold Listings – This widgets displays similar sold listings to the listing the user is looking at on that page. You have the option to control the number of similar listings, title and criteria for similar listings. Criteria includes Price range, listings type, suburb, property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, carspaces.
Real Estate Media – This widget controls where and by what means images are displayed. There are 9 image options and a combination of media types to choose from. These include:
- Flash Player Slide Show – Images rotate through a slideshow
- Thumbnail – One large image with a number of thumnbails below/beside that image which when clicked update the main image.
- Flash Player Slide Show + Thumbnail Popup (to view larger images)
- Flash Player Slide Show + Lightbox Popup (allows to scroll through larger images)
- Main Image + Flash Player Slide Show Popup
- Main Image + Thumbnail Popup
- Main Image + LightBox Popup
- Thumbnail + Flash Player Slide Show Popup
- Thumbnail + LightBox Popup
Real Estate Contact Agent – This widget displays the real estate agent’s details and a contact form to contact the agent(s) in relation to that property. You can control what information is displayed including the agent’s name, phone, email, mobile, fax and role. You can also elect whether the agent’s image is displayed and if the image is a portrait or landscape image.
Real Estate Property Description – This widget will display the property description text. This is the text used to describe the property. Be sure to think about the design of the website for this information as it varies greatly from property to property.
Real Estate Map – You can display a Google map which will automatically mark the property’s location on that Google Map. Can also include Street View. You can adjust the height and width of this Widget also.
Real Estate Walk Score - This widget displays a properties Walkscore, what amenities are near that property and the location of them on a map. In the widget there are settings allowing you to control the map and Walkscore style.
Real Estate Property Features – This will display the property features you checked for the property in Zoo Property.
Real Estate Property Table – All the fixed field data you enter in relation to a property are Displayed in the property table. In the widget you can control what property features you would like to display through out the website.
Real Estate Action Buttons – This widget contains all of the call to action options available to the user. The user can Email the listing to himself, email it to a friend, print the listing, complete a rental application form, view the Photo Gallery (image popup), save the image to their favorites or view their favorites.
Real Estate Stamp Duty & Mortgage Calculator - This widget calculates the mortgage repayments in relation to borrowing a certain amount of money along with the stamp duty (taxes) payable when you purchase a property. You can choose to display each widget separately or to display both widgets as one using JQuery to tab the options.
Real Estate Similar Listings – This widgets displays similar listings to the listing the user is viewing. You have the option to control the number of similar listings, title and criteria for similar listings. Criteria includes Price range, listings type, suburb, property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, carspaces.
Real Estate Social Widget – This widget allows users to share a page on the website with a number of popular social networks. There are around 50 social networks to choose from and you can control which networks are offered through the widget settings.
Location Information – This widget allows use to display a suburb profile on the property page. Your clients can login and add/manage suburb profiles for all the suburbs they have properties located in.
Real Estate Sales Data – This widget allows you to display property sales data like suburb reports, graphs and trends on the property page. The widget can import live property sales data from popular 3rd party providers such as Australian Property Monitors (APM) and others.
This widget also gives you the option to display a Suburb Profile, Sold/leased Listings, Similar Listings, Walkability and Map as tabs in a table using JQuery.
Documentation for the plug-in can be found in the plug-in. Alternatively, instructions and installation guide can be found in the comments in the Blog
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