Best WordPress Real Estate Plugins

Dec 18th, 2011No Comments

This is why we call WP Realty the #1 WordPress Real Estate Solution!
Just doing some more 3.0 beta testing this weekend and we are getting very close to wrapping up all the latest MU compatibility testing that will include the following options:

Say for example you want to set up WordPress MU for a Broker/Company and they want to do all of the following scenarios.

Main site “domain.com” So WPR3 = Regular MLS install and setup – Done

Community subdomain sites “community.domain.com” So WPR3 = installed and setup using the main domains WPR3 – Done

Agent subdomain site “agent-name.domain.com” So WPR3 = Unique install and setup (includes their very own version and separate admin panel) and then ties into choice of MLS/database via our remote database settings – Done

Rentals subdomain site “rentals.domain.com” So WPR3 = Unique install and setup (includes its very own version and separate admin panel) and then allows you to manually upload your own rental properties or you can use the option that ties into another database via our remote database setting – Done

So what you end up with is a single Real Estate solution that can do it all when you combine it with WordPress-MU.

How install/setup works:
Plugin installs into WordPress MU – once activated then when someone clicks on the WP Realty menu link to open the admin panel it will to check to see if it’s already been installed for this domain/subdomain – if (no) – then it will show a prescreen that ask how to configure this install – A= share main domain or B= separate unique install.

 

More about WordPress-MU and how we use it for our client projects…

For any of you that may not be familiar with WordPress-MU the “MU” stands for Multi User and it’s really what I think makes WordPress an exceptional CMS for those that are looking for the ultimate SEO solution. I’ll just give you an example of how the SEO part plays into this so you can get an idea of just how we use it ourselves.
(Visit http://wordpress.com to get a free “yourname.wordpress.com” website and then you will see for yourself just how wordpress uses their MU.)

First the domain and how we use it for the MU – we typically look for a domain that is worded for a MU setup and here is a example domain that I already own “homescondosforrent.com” – now here are some examples of how I could use this domain “Miami.homescondosforrent.com” so as you can see I can use any “city” name and it could even be used to build specific community sites like this “PlantationLakes.homescondosforrent.com” or as an agent site “JohnDoe.homescondosforrent.com”. Not only can I set up a specific subdomain for anything I want I can also set it up with completely different Themes, and Plugins – Cool right?

Now to make this a truly awesome product we use 2 other custom MU plugins – the first one is a “Cloner Plugin” and this is how it’s used – We first setup a master subdomain typically calling it something like “master-city.homescondosforrent.com” and then what we would do is set this master clone up with 100% of all of the plugins, widgets, select the theme settings content etc. (and yes every subdomain can use a different theme if you want) because as the name says “Cloner”.  So, once we get that all done then every time we want to create a new “city-name.homescondosforrent.com” we can select our master city clone and have a 95% completed website within about 10 seconds and the remaining 5% just being the adding of some home page content that would be relevant to that city.

The second MU plugin that we use is a cool SEO widget that can be used on all of the subdomains to allow each subdomain to show the latest titles of any post from any of the other subdomains – thus giving you “do-follow” – “anchor text back links” and thus creates your own mini authority hub……don’t understand what I’m talking about? For those that understand SEO this widget is really a cool item – for those that don’t, well you’re just going to have to take my word for it that it works great for creating your own network of automated back links.

 

So there you have it –

Using WordPress-MU and our New 3.0 WordPress Real Estate Plugin will now give you a huge SEO/developers advantage over any competitor’s solutions. We are the only Real Estate Solution that can do this, and we’ve been doing it now for over 2 years using our own custom MU 2.x version on our own custom client projects so we have plenty of examples and SEO data that we have been tracking for over a year on a couple of our client projects so that we can confirm just how much more of an SEO advantage this creates.

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