OpenRealty Weekly Tips

Posted on June 18, 2009
Filed Under Open Realty Tips | 4 Comments

I’ve added a new category today to my blog where I’m going to write a tip of the week for OpenRealty users which will began as a jumping off point for a different type of documentation I have in the works. I like OpenRealty, always have and likely always will. While OpenRealty is a pretty good product used by thousands and thousands of website owners, agents, brokers and the like, I think many end users generally follow a pretty basic approach when publishing using the product. What I’ve been doing over the years is making OpenRealty behave differently and in unique ways without the need for core modifications, hacks, addons, or by needing complex php code to make it dance like we want.

In my previous post I dropped in a quick tip about adding HTML Markup to the details fields in some instances when creating or editing listings features. Although this is very mundane and rather basic, its none the less a rather easy to implement tip that can have substantial display and presentation benefits when rendering content. I’ve been adding HTML markup to agent details fields for some time now and by simply including links, markup and even some header tags, we can dress up the agent details page with very little effort. These are the types of things I’m going to present to you in my weekly articles under this new category. I have my brand spanking new theme done and ready to apply which was designed to enhance my posts in the future with better, cleaner, and easier to read content. Now that I’ve updated my SlideShow Pro license, dropped in my newest extensible options panel and will be including live examples of all of my 22 FREE add-ons and plug-ins, this will be a nice feature where I can give support and tips for the products I develop with.

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  1. Del July 6, 2009 8:36 pm

    Hi, I’m interested in trying out some or your templates & plugins for OpenRealty, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how! Am I missing something here? I see the templates, but they all have a lock icon beside them. I read where you were going to require registration to download them, yet I can’t seem to locate the login form. Please advise?

    Thanks,
    Del

  2. Eric Brown July 16, 2009 4:13 pm

    It seems that I always stumble on to some things that would be GREAT to have, but they never get tackled. Now, unless you can point me in the right directions, I am at a loss.

    Community Builder Integration with CMS-Realty/OpenRealty.

    Or just a smooth way so that when someone registers, I can go in and decide whether they will be an agent or not. Right now the Agent field in the OR admin does not allow me to change it once it is set to NO, or Yes.

    We also need a good way to register Agents and Members and have it all integrate with Community Builder.

    Nice informative site…thank you ;-)

  3. Jared Ritchey July 18, 2009 8:39 am

    Everything you mention can be done, and I’ll give you the code and process if you want. Although my blog does in fact suck for disorganization and the design is a very very very old Brian Gardner design I downloaded about 3 years ago. I try to keep people informed by sharing snippets and other things. I promise that after I wrap up these last three freelance jobs I’ll be on my blog full time as I’m not doing freelance until September 2009 as I teach class at night now.

  4. Aaron July 23, 2009 5:36 pm

    Can you refer someone or would you be interested in in some work. Looking to build a new website with Open Realty/Vtiger integration.


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