Just Released v1.1! Easy Property Listings real estate plugin on WordPress.org grab it now!

We’ve been writing real estate software for a website development platform called WordPress that allows for plugins to make your website better. Finally the software is to a point where its ready for the general public as I had to make sure its right before release.

So after seven months of coding and working out all the abilities its ready! Time for a beer or several.

Click here to grab your copy from WordPress.org and tell us what you think. Your feedback will help make this better for you on your real estate website.

How to Import REAXML files into Your WordPress Real Estate Website

Updated Instructions

In this tutorial we are going to walk through the steps of importing REAXML files into your WordPress real estate website.

Basically we are going to create two import jobs for each REAXML property element, one for current and one for sold/leased. FeedSync merges the REAXML files and creates three output files: current, sold/leased, withdrawn/offmarket. We only need to import the current and sold/leased as because this is more efficient by reducing import file sizes, leaves the withdrawn/offmarket out of the database.

To do this you are going to need a few tools.

What You Need

  • FeedSync: This processes multiple REAXML files into merged files.
  • WP All Import Pro: You can import CSV and XML files into WordPress quickly and easily it’s the best import plugin for WordPress.
  • WP All Import Scripts: Scripts you can use to configure WP All Import Pro.
  • Easy Property Listings: The best real estate plugin for WordPress.

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How to use the free Easy Property Listings plugin for WordPress with any theme to build real estate websites quickly

Tired of asking yourself “Oh no… I’ve got to make a real estate website…! ”

You’re not alone. There are thousands of agents, PA’s and developers who want to build a real estate website using WordPress and are trying everything to get the right property plugin to work, and then having to deal with:

  • Different listing types: Rentals, residential property, land, commercial, rural, business.
  • Allowing for different pricing: fixed price, no price, range price.
  • Under Offer/Contract flags.
  • REAXML and XML feeds.
  • Show/hide property address.
  • Property searches.
  • Listing features.
  • Multiple agents.
  • Featured listing widget.
  • Creating dozens of custom fields.
  • Trying to get it to work with your WordPress theme.

But alas, at the end of the day, you just want a real estate plugin that has already taken care of all these problems. You just want to be able to install the plugin and add your listings, so you can get on with the rest of your life.

Mostly you’re thinking, “It’s just too hard”.

Well, finally you can relax knowing that all the hard parts are done when you use the right real estate plugin for WordPress.

Easy Property Listings plugin for WordPress has been created to solve all these problems for you.

Also it’s free.

It’s quick to set-up, and you’ll be adding your first listing in a few minutes.

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How a push helped me to finally release Easy Property Listings. A free real estate plugin for WordPress

Just one more day…

If you’ve been uttering these words to yourself because you are finishing a project and it needs more time, like a lot more time you are not alone.

I’ve been uttering these words to myself every day for the past 6 months and thanks to you a ecommerce push post that I read on Chris Lema’s blog and his challenge that gave me a tight deadline to release my real estate plugin for WordPress.

This challenge gave me a launch date to strive for.

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How to use FeedSync REAXML Pre Processor to merge thousands of xml files into something you can import into your WordPress website or custom software

Here is a script that you can upload to your server and configure in a few minutes with ease and you can do it all without FTP software and it is only $87 for a single site license.

The core of FeedSync was developed over 3 years ago to solve the problem of dealing with multiple REAXML files that need to be merged into a single file that can then be imported by your software. So FeedSync has been working on dozens of different real estate websites

I didn’t realise that there are so many developers looking to solve this same very problem.

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How to Install WordPress in 5 minutes or Less on a cPanel Host

Installing WordPress is easy to do but when installing it is very important to make a few key changes to maximise the security of your new WordPress website. First I recommend never using a one-click install script as they tend not to make the simple but necessary security changes during install to keep your website safe and secure. Lets get started.

First download the latest WordPress zip file from WordPress.org

First step is to download the latest version of WordPress and save it on your computer to upload via cPanel. Direct download link to latest version of WordPress.

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Real Estate REAXML Parser Script that takes a minute to install and you can use it on any website that needs single import files like WordPress

My requirements when developing this REAXML parser script was to make sure it was fast, efficient and not repeat imports if NO changes are detected and be able to use WP-Property to import the files and manage the property and rental listings.

So after countless hours searching for a REA XML parser to no avail I set out to find a developer to build my REA XML parser.

The script had to do the following:

  • Combine the individual REAXML files into a single, or multiple import files.
  • Process the results and store them in 3 new separate REAXML files: Current, SOLD/LEASED, and withdrawn to increase speed.
  • When the property status changes to sold/leased/withdrawn delete the property entry from the current REAXML output file.
  • Just added: Geocode the property address during import and add another field so my new property plugin did not have to also geocode the entry on import.

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Just Finished the Development Of A Website For A Perth Business Called Airon Air Conditioning Service

Just finished the development of a WordPress website for an air conditioning service business in Perth. We designed the logo, the website theme and created a full marketing pack including some slick business cards for this tradesman business.

It’s live, go check it out.

They are just getting started with online marketing and the first step is to get a website with a key offer, in this case it’s an online quote for an air conditioning service. So we put together the design and setup a custom WordPress website using the powerful iThemes Builder framework and our advanced collection of premium plugins and features like Gravity Forms and our Testimonial Manager. We also integrated our SEO Settings for optimum Google search…. our secret sauce.

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What are people saying about your real estate agency? 3 Tips for Handling Online Reviews

These days, it’s incredibly easy for customers to share their experiences online and it’s not just restaurants who are being reviewed. Increasingly, more real estate agencies are finding themselves in the spotlight, making great customer service an area of increased focus for real estate agents.

These reviews are often located at the top of the Google search results which is a blessing when you get positive reviews and troubling when things didn’t go the way you planned with a client. The question then becomes, how do you handle less than stellar reviews of your real estate business?

The following 3 tips will help you when handling customer reviews:

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How to use video in real estate marketing to wow your buyers and sellers and place you at the top

If you aren’t using video as a real estate marketing tool, you are missing out on a great opportunity to reach clients.  Video can really help you differentiate yourself and your properties in a crowded market and can be a powerful supplement to your existing marketing campaign.  Nearly every real estate agent has a website, but relatively few are using video.

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