WP Realtors Plugin Coming Soon
April 4, 2008 – 12:28 pmI’m really excited about my latest project. I’ve worked with real estate and IDX for about 8 years now. I’ve written tons of code for IDX over the years. With my migration to everything wordpress, it was only logical to convert my work to wordpress. Its essentially a complete rewrite pulling bits of code from all over the place. I’m almost done with phase one of the migration. I’ll be launching a site soon that uses this plugin.
At the moment, I’m using IDX. However, with the news from National Association of Realtors that all MLS’s should have a working RETS solution by July 2009, I’ll be creating a RETS importer this summer. Until then, some work is required per MLS IDX solution since every MLS’s IDX feed is different. I’ve minimized how much work has to be done per market where my code is used.
Phase one of the migration will be limited to the following features.
- requires Wordpress 2.5+
- IDX Import
- easy creation of listing pages.
- embedded tags in posts/pages inserts listing data
- ex: [wprl_listing mls="123456"] would embed a summary view of listing #123456 into your post or page.
- ex: [wprl_search] would embed the search form into a page.
- manage listings in backroom - edit some features of the listings in the wordpress backroom. Useful for IDX feeds that don’t include things like property descriptions. (ya, some MLS’s are really out of touch with reality)
- Google Map of property
- tie in with CForms plugin for things like property inquiries or showing requests. This leaves you with full control of the form data.
- easy to modify templates in the same format as wordpress themes
One Response to “WP Realtors Plugin Coming Soon”
Really looking forward to checking out your IDX plugin upon it’s release. As a Realtor who does his own sites, and currently changing to Wordpress, this looks encouraging.
By Jay Myers on Apr 16, 2008