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Welcome to the Real Estate Test Blog. Orginally, I created this blog just to play around and learn some things to help improve my rankings for my real estate website. Since that time, I've learned some - I've a long way left to go. That's for sure. But, along the way, I've created a handful of real estate blog themes for WordPress and tested some ideas about how to use Google maps, create powerful single property websites and lots of completely above board methods of improving the rankings of my website. Most of what I have learned can be summed up with the very simple idea of building real relationships online the same way we do offline. This website will very shortly become a nice resource for real estate bloggers to learn some basic to intermediate SEO as well hopefully pick up a nice blog theme - they're free! More to come once I have the site ready...
OK, I’ve finally found some time to release a new and updated theme for the WordPress real estate world. The new theme is called “Blue Day”. Don’t ask me why, I’m not really good at naming themes. This is a pretty solid, easy to use, clean, SEO friendly, real estate ready theme.
I say “real estate” ready because it has a built in additional custom page template for framing in your IDX solution. So many themes out there for you, but, so few who realize the importance of being able to integrate an IDX solution. Well, this one is ready for you!
If you have any questions or comments, please leave them directly on the theme page. I’ll try to answer relevant comments directly from the theme the questions will be about. In the next week or two, I’ll be putting out this theme in several additional colors, but, it will be a middle of December before they launch…
Instructions
Pretty straigthtforward and standard. Dowload the theme, unzip it, save it to your computer and upload it to your wp-content/themes folder and activate it. Let me know if you have any questions.
Very nice theme, just the kind of thing I have been searching for.
there are so few good realtor themes available.
I found another great them i-villa but it is an older one which has not been widgetised (unfortunately something that is currently beyond my limited skillset!)
One problem I am having with the new site I am working on is that in the top menu bar
(Here it contains Blog Themes, Marketing, SEO and Testing)
I am unable to work out how to limit the number of tabs that appear.
At the moment it adds a tab to this bar for every page on my site which makes a real mess!
I am sure this is a simple solution but alas it thus far eludes me.
The theme is designed so that you can have as many main pages on the top section and as many categories on the bottom section as will fit. The dropdown menus are subpages or subcategories. I’ll probably make a theme at some point that will allow for more main pages, but, it becomes a little tricky.
To utilize this theme with more pages than will fit across the top, what you need to do is to make some of your main pages subpages. Sort of, recategorizing them a little.
The way to do that would be to go to “manage”/”pages”, then “edit” one of your main pages. Scroll down to “Page Parent” and select another main page that the edited page could be categorized under.
Let me know if that helps…and if you use the theme, please post a link within a new comment back to the site so anyone else who comes by can see it and you can get an extra link to it…
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December 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Very nice theme, just the kind of thing I have been searching for.
there are so few good realtor themes available.
I found another great them i-villa but it is an older one which has not been widgetised (unfortunately something that is currently beyond my limited skillset!)
One problem I am having with the new site I am working on is that in the top menu bar
(Here it contains Blog Themes, Marketing, SEO and Testing)
I am unable to work out how to limit the number of tabs that appear.
At the moment it adds a tab to this bar for every page on my site which makes a real mess!
I am sure this is a simple solution but alas it thus far eludes me.
December 7th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Hi Andy and thank you.
The theme is designed so that you can have as many main pages on the top section and as many categories on the bottom section as will fit. The dropdown menus are subpages or subcategories. I’ll probably make a theme at some point that will allow for more main pages, but, it becomes a little tricky.
To utilize this theme with more pages than will fit across the top, what you need to do is to make some of your main pages subpages. Sort of, recategorizing them a little.
The way to do that would be to go to “manage”/”pages”, then “edit” one of your main pages. Scroll down to “Page Parent” and select another main page that the edited page could be categorized under.
Let me know if that helps…and if you use the theme, please post a link within a new comment back to the site so anyone else who comes by can see it and you can get an extra link to it…