Real Estate Listing Plugin - Pre Release Update

Posted on May 21, 2007
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Ok it looks like its pretty much unavoidable. Have you ever noticed that nearly all plugins for WordPress don’t require you to edit and or add a database? It was obvious from the get go that our plugin would require a full blown install of the listing manager database and that the plugin would be the WordPress part that provided the interface and display of the listings.

Well today it looks like a few things are not going to be able to be avoided right up front. Here is the news I got from my programmer first thing this morning.

A ) The database will have a separate installer built which will be simple on the first release and subsequent releases will ask you a series of questions about the field names you want to have of which those necessary for normalization will be required such as State, Agent, City and so on as these things are entered only as many times as needed and not duplicated.

B ) Manual editing of tables is required first release as stated before but as mentioned before we told you that using the WordPress Loop in regards to PAGES and not just posts is how you will control the layout of the listings details page. So for example if you had say 3 or 4 different Listings Details Pages you wanted to use for various property types (rentals, luxury, condo, residential) you could have a custom layout per each. Thats the good news. The silly issue we are encountering is the widgets display of featured listings either 1 up or up to 6 up and rotating them from the database. Not a problem per se but people are likely going to want to install this on existing sites and THAT is a problem because it WILL NOT WORK.

C ) ONLY ONE Search Results Page can exist and at this point and the layout changes so far MUST be made in the functions.php file of the WordPress theme of which I’ll supply a pair, an unedited generic no images bare naked one for designers and a default one from my design inventory.

I’ll keep you posted. In the mean time get your FREE Real Estate Blog by emailing me and I’ll set you up with plugins and pre-mods already configured for you.

EDIT: Real Estate Plugin and K2 Sidebar Modules

BTW I forgot to mention that even though the K2 Sidebar Modules are more powerful and work better when developing templates themes in the past following the methodology of the wordpress loop, too many people are going to have issues with this so Widgets is the direction for displaying featured properties and short links to listings. I’ve always been a fan of the K2SBM as many of my themes were based on it but I see no way around this.

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  1. Al Smith May 26, 2007 1:39 pm

    Jared, Please let me know when you are ready to release this. My wife has a site http://www.juliaasmith.com that we want to use a blog in addition to OR.

  2. admin May 26, 2007 2:58 pm

    Yes Al I’ll be sure to send out a notify when I get this done.

  3. Guillermo Ormskerk June 10, 2007 5:24 am

    Well do u think the first version can be released?
    I think its better to let users beta test the product to actually see how it works in the real world.

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