RSSCreating Featured Listings For Real Estate in WordPress
By Ryan Ward | November 26, 2007
I have struggled to find a good solution that allows real estate bloggers to post our listings on our blogs and until now, I have not been able to find a resonable solution. Thanks to Dave Smith I have been able to create featured real estate listings using nextgen gallery. It’s not hard to do so I will post the steps that I used to create this featured listings page. A little primer on the hows and why’s of it first. The plugin works by allowing you to create galleries of photos. You will use one gallery for each listing. Next you can take each featgured listing gallery that you create and create an album. I named my album “listings”. Finally you will create a page called “Featured Listings” or whatever you want and place the album containing each featured listing gallery onto that page. Here is what mine looks like. This is a test blog so I won’t be posting every listing here, just enough to show how it works. Here are the steps to make it happen and it should look like this:
- Follow the steps to upload and activate the nextgen gallery plugin.
- Create a gallery.
- Go to “Manage Gallery” and edit your gallery.
- Add titles and descriptions to your gallery.
- Create a new page (top right side of page).
- Under “Page Link to:”, select that new page.
- Select a preview image, again, at the top right of the page.
- Save Changes.
- Go to “Album” and create a new album with the name of your choice.
- Add your gallery (by dragging it) to that album and click “Update”.
- Write a new page named “featured listings” or some descriptive title of your choice.
- Go to “manage”, “pages”. You now need to edit each gallery page and make it a subpage of your “featured listings” page.
- Now go to your “featured listings” page and place this code:
You should now have a “featured listings” page that contains a rectangular bordered table with your selected thumbnail for each gallery that links to a new page with your gallery. Now you just need to edit your gallery page to include the details that you would like to display such as MLS number, beds, baths, and a detailed description. Make sure that you include a link back to the featured listings page, your phone number and a method for a buyer to contact you via email. A simple code to use for them to email you is this:
<a href=”mailto:you@youremailaddress?subject=Property Address”/>Email</a>
Once you have done this with one gallery, you can set up a new featured listing in about 5 minutes. Simply upload a new gallery of images, move it into your listings album, update your album and it will show on your page. Since you have already set up your descriptions from your first listings details, copy and paste that into your new listing and change the details.
If you are having trouble, check these settings under “options”
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Under options, gallery – make sure that: The album will not link to a gallery subpage. The gallery is shown on the same page is unchecked.
If you have any additional problems setting up your listings, please reply in the comments below and I will do my best to help sort out the issue.
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AboutUs.org
By Ryan Ward | November 18, 2007
Has anyone used this? I just found myself there, and the information is accurate, but, I didn’t put it there. Here is a view of my profile:
http://www.aboutus.org/RyanWardRealEstate.com
Anyways, if you come across this blog and know who writes these things, I’d love to know. Apparently it’s been there for a few months. Kind of neat.
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More Trackback Testing
By Ryan Ward | November 17, 2007
I have an open house this Sunday and I need to see if my trackbacks are working so I am using this as a test. It’s in my Atlanta Open Houses Category…
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Turning a WordPress Blog into a Website
By Ryan Ward | November 12, 2007
So it turns out that WordPress can be used for so much more than a blog. Many people already know this, but, I’m still learning. I have turned what was nothing more than a blog about the city I live, Alpharetta, into a full on Alpharetta real estate website. The best part about this is that they don’t cost any more than the hosting cost and you can create a really high quality website and blog that ranks extremely well. The first thing I did was to create a static front page and name a new page “blog”. Then I created a seperate side navigation system to be used witht the pages and off it went. Now, it’s a fully functioning website with all of the features of a WP blog built right in
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Testing How Trackbacks Work
By Ryan Ward | November 12, 2007
I’ve never used them so in an effort to try to be a better blogger, I’m going to test out a trackback. So I had some clients that I took out this past weekend and we literally drove 500 miles in 2 days to view 15 houses. you can read about the article on my Atlanta blog. I’m also going to trackback to that article and see what happens. The internet real estate world seems to have more to learn the more I learn!
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Keller Williams WordPress Blog Theme
By Ryan Ward | November 6, 2007
Edit – 8/5/09 - this theme is now been revamped and can be viewed here and downloaded at first by leaving a comment for me here and I’ll get the theme to you and shortly I’ll post a live link to downoad it directly from here…
My first project is now complete. I have created a WordPress blog theme for real estate professionals working at Keller Williams. the theme is active and in use on my Atlanta real estate blog and is available for download for Keller Williams agents. this blog theme incorporates all the the SEO plugins required to give you the opportunity to utilize the internet to get your message out to consumers and show your authority of your local real estate market while incorporating the valuable trust afforded to us as agents working with a reputable company at Keller Williams. The theme is coded to the Keller Williams colors and themes provided to us for marketing materials.
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