WordPress IDX RETS

Posted on September 26, 2009
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Adding MLS Listings to a WordPress Site from IDX or RETS sources.

Today we finally got the 2.0 version back for our latest WordPress plugin that ties in full listings management to your WordPress site without the need to install OpenRealty and a bridge. Although we have built several bridging and integration plugins capable of working with OpenRealty, the process for managing those solutions can become challenging to most website owners. What was needed was a full blown solution that didn’t require you to trick, modify or substantially alter the method by which you blog in order to achieve a truly clean MLS IDX or RETS integration solution. Our brand spanking new plug-in does just that. It fully integrates not only standard listing editor features but provides a way for bloggers to add IDX RETS listings to their sites.

The new plugin allows for you to turn your WordPress Real Estate site into a full blown MLS empowered solution unlike anything ever produced before. But its not just for IDX or RETS empowered sites either. Part of our plan in building this new version was to make sure it would work with a few types of sites we have built in the past in particular those not associated with Real Estate. Automotive sites, Virtual Magazines, Online Classifieds, even a sports and gun shop site have been successfully built using the beta version of this new application. Although a precursor to the much more advanced version scheduled for release March of 2010. There is no shortage of features in this release however; A super clean listing integration and unique characteristics guaranteed to make your WordPress site a powerful listings manager.

In the past versions we attempted to provide a rather complex bridging and integration tool for use with your install of OpenRealty. Problems mounted however as each successive update of OpenRealty usually breaks all previous versions to some degree. One bug fix in OpenRealty would present additional bugs that could break the sites structure. We have moved past that in our new plugin.

Free GNU/GPL Real Estate Listings Manager Plugin

Here is a quick summary of the features for your review pending the release this Tuesday.

  • Works fine with or without the All In One SEO Plugin, which was a requirement from the start.
  • Works with almost any modern WordPress theme including those from StudioPress and iThemes.
  • No need to bother with the installation of OpenRealty.
  • A more advanced user registration widget is included.
  • Powerful featured listings options allowing for you to put featured listings directly in posts throughout your site.
  • Designed to work with the WordPress Menu Creator.
  • Automatically generates title, meta and meta keywords based on user defined listings fields.
  • Full inline documentation
  • Contact / Client Tracking
  • CSV Export / Import
  • Export to Trulia, Google, Yahoo and other XML feeds.
  • Easily create contact forms that integrate well with the listings management features of the plugin.
  • The ONLY fully CSS/XHTML compliant output for listings data.
  • Google maps on search results.
  • Google maps on listing details pages.
  • Ajax integrated contact forms.
  • All features are template driven allowing for endless possibilities in design.
  • More to come….

With this plugin and your favorite theme, you will have the only true fully featured easy to manage listings manager available for WordPress. Although there are many real estate WordPress themes that have listings features in them, NONE of them have the potential to integrate IDX or RETS data effectively. Framing is an absolute waste of the effort and alternative methods using modified versions of the NextGen gallery are not only counter productive, but impossible to manage for any number of listings beyond a few dozen. Contact me today for more details!

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