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:
Fabulous 5 bedroom 3 bath home. 3 sided brick, upgraded marble bathrooms, priced to sell!
8 Photos
Brand new one bedroom one bathroom condo with fireplace on the top floor in Midtown Atlanta's hot Atlantic Station District.
8 Photos
- 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:
[album=Listings(or whatever you name your album),extend]
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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December 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Pretty slick. Think I’ll add this to my list of things I’d like to check out during the holiday break.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
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February 1st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Nextgen Gallery is a great plug-in for Real Estate. Check out my Featured Listing page for another example: 1101 Canyon Edge Dr at InspiredAustin.com
February 5th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Pretty slick, thanks! This is something I’ve been looking for some time.
March 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
So where is the plugin, this is using a gallery script, i thought it was an actual plugin. I found a plugin online but they offer it by request and its real sharp
March 26th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Great tip ! Gonna try it now. I was thinking about using a Joomla extension to do this, but it seems wordpress can do everything!
April 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I own almost a dozen homes I would like to sell and I’ve been looking for sensible way to get them up on the Internet. You’ve solved my problem. Thanks!
April 12th, 2008 at 2:00 am
I’m having problems with your steps. When I get to the last one where I paste the code into my featured listing page, I get nothing. Why would the code not work for me?
April 12th, 2008 at 7:26 am
It looks like you are using [gallery]….I’ll post a screenshot of the setup.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Ryan,
Thank you - I think I figured it out. Now I have another question: Is there any way to get my sidebar slideshow widget to link directly to my featured listings page? I tried to put html code into the sidebar widget title box, but it doesn’t do anything.
As it is now, the slideshow widget photos appear to be links when you hover over them, but when you click, nothing happens.
April 13th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I’m not sure. Can you post a link so I can look at it?
June 10th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Very nice tip - it never ceases to amaze me how many different things you can do just with Wordpress.