EZPro Auto and WP Auto

Posted on October 19, 2008
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WordPress Automotive Blogs

Now that EZPro Realty and WP Realty are available in the first release (technically first RC release) we decided to expand this a bit by providing customized versions for use in several other industries. Automotive, Boating, Furniture, Antiques along with any type of gallery required listings site will benefit from these new developments by turning WordPress into truly powerful marketing tools for such sites.

What does this mean? Many car dealerships and boating dealerships usually have to resort to common shopping cart solutions to display their inventory if they don’t flip the bill for a commercial solution. We felt that we could do justice to those industries by providing a simple core modification to OpenRealty along with our special versions of the EZProRealty component and WP Realty plugin to build truly impressive sites.

The method requires a site owner to simply replace the default OpenRealty language file with a new one we build which changes the site wide wording from real estate terms to automotive or boating terms. What we came up with in our first beta test was to simply underscore the language file as so, __lang.inc.php and upload ours. Then install either WP Realty or EZProRealty and the project is now set to be developed as an automotive listings or boat and yacht listings site.

Initially during the planning stages we had a few hold outs who could not escape their FSBO mentality for a moment to look at a few simple facts. The market we are approaching is not primarily FSBO. Next; Car, Truck, Boat and Yachting dealerships don’t sell these items via a PayPal Buy Now link. These items are costly enough to warrant the same type of site a real estate listings site would offer and that is a place to put all listings of cars, boats, trucks or whatever the case may be and then combine it with the power of WordPress or Joomla to build a truly turnkey solution that doesn’t cost a great deal to entertain. Last, there is no solution available for such dealerships anywhere on the web that is as efficient in URL structure and SEO friendliness as our two new products. I’d like to stress yet again that they are 100% FREE!

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  1. Josh Haaus October 20, 2008 2:02 pm

    Hey I made another comment earlier and it said its to be moderated. Sorry for the bad language but I hate those guys at OpenRealty.

    I think what you are doing is great but where is this fork you keep talking about. I’m desperate to jump ship at OpenRealty, I can’t stand their policing peoples posts and dictating how their FREE product is to be used.

    My email is real this time so please email me when its ready.

  2. Jared Ritchey October 20, 2008 2:40 pm

    Josh, the Fork has been sitting on the sidelines while we worked on components plugins and client projects. Its back in full swing and will be available soon.

    We are not calling it a fork anymore its simply a second place to download it with core hacks. We keep the OpenRealty license in tact and just add in what we feel should be there beginning with better support and certainly friendlier people to work with.

    Sorry about your OpenRealty frustrations, I’ve heard this from too many people to mention.

  3. Greg November 11, 2008 6:21 pm

    Jared I like your site but I honestly can’t see why you announce stuff when there isn’t anything to download. Is it for blog spam?

    I went to open realty and was turned off by how little any intelligent content there is and how rude that pbflash guy is. If you actually have a product maybe you should release it so we can think you are telling the truth instead of blowing smoke.

  4. Jared Ritchey November 12, 2008 2:27 pm

    Hello Greg, sorry for your perception of my site. I do have products available for download. I’ve posted them to wordpress and joomla alike.

    I’m guilty of not paying attention to my blog posts assuming that people would look at ezprorealty.com for these items.

    As per your statement about OpenRealty, its the same thing over and over and over again. They are rude, why I’m not sure, but I tell everyone, you don’t have to stay with OpenRealty, you are not held there at gun point so just leave.

    The EZPro Realty fork of OpenRealty is in fact ready but not released because there is a rumor that OpenRealty is changing its license with its next release and will be incorporating some of the things I’ve talked about for months. We are keenly aware of pbflash’s efforts to add his addons to the core and we are keenly aware that they have spent some time looking into what we have been doing in hopes of copying it. Just a few more days and its ready to roll.

  5. Jared Ritchey November 12, 2008 2:30 pm

    I’d like to add a side note for you. EZPro Realty gives credit where credit is due. Any and ALL contributors can have their own advertising and blogs on the EZProRealty site free of charge. That means anyone, from template builders to plugin builders can market their services and products free once they join the team.


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