After long debates on how to approach the re-release of the old bridging method of WordPress and OpenRealty we opted to take the advice of those at Automatic (publishers of the WordPress plugin site) and start a second string of plugin development titled ORPress.

What is ORPress?

Put in simple terms it is WPRealty 1.0 renamed befitting of its purpose. ORPress is essentially a 100% FREE GNU/GPL product that will bridge the standard install of OpenRealty and integrate it into WordPress.  You might ask why not leave the name WPRealty 1.0? Well its a complex set of events that resulted in a slight our error in judgment.  Although we had hoped to just toss WPRealty 1.0 aside for much better version in 2.0, we realized that we were a tad to presumptuous in thinking there would be no market for people wanting to take the latest OpenRealty and making it work with WordPress.  Naturally this idea was based on some indicators beginning with the witnessing of OpenRealty forum members being banned or having their posts edited for the mere mention of “integrating wordpress with openrealty” and figured that is a path no longer traveled.

Recently however there has been a surge in interest in bridging the applications with the latest version of both. What we realized is that now that WordPress can be mentioned in the OpenRealty forums without punitive results we could take our plugin, bring it up to date with our new NON IFRAMED method of integration.

So, ORPress is reworked WPRealty 1.0 with new updates and improved code.  You can now take and bridge both applications effectively while taking advantage of support from each application independently.

I’d like to make mention that we are the very first group of developers and designers to ever integrate WordPress and OpenRealty together in a way that had any utility value. We were second in the market to integrate Joomla and OpenRealty and later became the only team to date that tied in Joomla with a home grown version of the listings manager.