Another Plugin for Wordpress - Property Watch
by MattAs you can see I’m releasing a lot of plugins. The idea behind the plugins for wordpress is to create a full real estate website for your blog.
Take your typical wordpress blog, add IDX, your featured listings, contact forms, etc… and you now have a full blown website.
I’m releasing these plugins quickly because we are currently programming blogging software for Keller Williams San Francisco Properties. The foundation is WPMU, which I love. I actually use for all blogs I make, even for single agents, because it allows you to easily create subdomains. The great thing about subdomains is that google sees each subdomain as a different website, but the front end user see one site. WPMU handles this perfectly. Although you cannot just set up WPMU and create subdomains, you have to have wildcard DNS available, and access to the httpd.conf file. If your hosted on a site does not allow this access, you are welcome to come over to Realivent.com. Our servers are completely set up and ready to host Wordpress MU sites.
For more information, please contact: matt@realivent.com
Back to the new plugin. I have made a lot of websites over the last 8 years, and one of the biggest wastes of time is creating forms for people to contact you over the internet…There are a lot of form generators, but any programmer knows you still have to build them manually.
I created a property watch plugin that allows visitors to your site to fill out a form that contains information for home searches. The form gets emailed to you, and you (the agent) sets up the new lead in your automatic email notification system. All you have to do is download the plugin, add your email in the admin section, and then add it to a page…Simple and effective.
Example website: http://smartlegacy.com/property-watch/
Download the plugin: Property Watch Plugin v1.0
Install into plugin directory, and then access it at admin->options
Any comments or questions are welcome, and as you can see I’m focusing a lot on plugins for wordpress, so if you need anything made, just let me know. I can do it.
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Matt, I’m trying out the Property watch plugin.
I notice that the best time to contact is reporting back a numeral instead of text. Most bloggers using this plugin aren’t going to know how to look at the code and know an evening selection is going to return a “2″ in the email.
When the property watch is sent they are taken to a sent page but the end of that page statement is you can contact me at: There is no place for the contact information to be entered and there is “.$arow[’Phone’]; at the end of this statement in the code. But I couldn’t find an option for filling in a contact number in the admin panel.
You also might want to add in the admin panel a text box where they can enter an introductory paragraph of how it will be handled once they submit the inquiry.
I like the plugin.
I modified the selection of Basement to be fireplace since we don’t have basements in Tucson.
It is a great plugin for wordpress. Thanks for making this kind of form so easy to put on a page.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 pmThank you for trying it…Let me fix the bugs you mentioned and I will notify you when it is done. Good idea about adding an admin section to make paragraphs to tell users what the form does. I will make an information paragraph and after submit paragraph feild.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:27 pmPersonally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single link will not.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:55 pm[…] 2. Property Watch - The property watch plugin creates a form for home buyers to email you their home search criteria. This works great if you do not have an IDX search on your website. […]
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