WordPress Featured Listings Plugin Change

Posted on March 14, 2008
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Version changes for the Featured Listings Plugin

Okay today my coder sent me some very significant changes to the plug-in so it would work with sub-domains and this plug-in was removed temporarily from the download section until Saturday or Sunday. We discovered a nasty little bug that would render some fields in WP useless as a result. 

Version Numbering Method

Rather than call this release 0.98 or 1.0 RC2 (release candidate 2) we have tested it enough to start our version number to start at 1.2.1  Here is why;  keeping with the standard version numbering criteria, 1.0 was considered stable and tested by dozens of people for the past two months and is even functioning live on a few dozen sites now but a minor  or major-minor rewrite of the methods were changed to such a degree that we call the version 1.2.  This morning my coder made a few important changes that we will now follow the sub versioning criteria with small changes and bug fixes.  As it stands for this release Starting TODAY (download-able tomorrow morning) we are at 1.2.1

New method employed to increase usability, Search Engine Support, and features.

Some of the things we ran into with the previous version that was tested by so many beta testers (I thank each of you) was the issue with making different templates show up on different pages and the issue of locking people into only one field. As we have encountered in the past month, sites that have an IDX or RETS installation in them, the fields are often dynamically created with each refresh of the database. This of course poses a serious problem with flexibility. As many of you know some MLS providers can be real sticklers for things like the listing of brokerage, office, or even MLS logos. Couple that with proprietary needs of each Realtor or real estate office and we compound the problem making this plug-in of little or trivial use. Well we could not stand for that naturally.

Our solution to those problems was to rewrite the plug-in to allow at bare minimum, 80% user defined search criteria in the search results while allowing for ways to include one or more per post. This way the WordPress Featured Listings Plug-in can operate as a mini listings detail plug-in or a featured listings plug-in randomizer as it was intended for.  Now an agent blog can have listings displayed by literally hundreds of variables that can be organized with three simple fields and each instance will be a completely separate instance.  What does that mean? Well lets have you look at the next post to see how it will work.

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