Introducing the Zillow Wordpress Widget
by Matt
I think we nailed down all the bugs and ready to release this widget.
Download it here (zip file)
Extract and upload the entire folder to your website plugin directory.
What is it?
This widget will add 2 forms to your Wordpress website. One form is for instant house values, retrieved from Zillow.com. The other form is a request form that allows users to send you a description of their property so you (the agent) can send then a custom made comparable market analysis of there home.
Both forms can be turned off, so you can only display the Zillow form, or only display the agent form…or turn them both off and display nothing.
Why Should I use it?
Offering instant online house values is a great way to advertise your website. You can make newspaper ads or google adwords offering this services. It's all about getting people to your website, and staying there. This adds value to your website. Sometimes Zestimates can be high or low, so the agent form allows people to send requests for professional home estimates if they need additional help while checking for house values.
Editing Options:
To configure the pages and widgets, you have to active the plugin, then go to Options > CMA Request. From this page you will create the CMA page. If a CMA page already exists, this page will update the public CMA page. To delete the public page, go to Manage > Pages then delete the cma page
- Add your email address because that is how you will get the request form set from potential clients
- Make a page title. This will appear in the menu bar.
- Choose page template. I prefer wider main sections, but this should work with main sections as narrow as 400px.
- Then you need to add a Zillow Api Key and select what forms to display. You can get a Zillow API Key in about 30 seconds here
- You can edit the introduction message for the agent form, and edit the message after the agent form is submitted.
- The widget colors are configurable also.
- Zillow provides some very nice graphs for address, city, state and zip. These graphs are configurable. You can adjust the height and width so they fit perfectly onto your pages.
Once you have it all configured, the page will be created automagically. The forms will work without the sidebar widget, but the widget will allow people to get house values from any page on your site, so I recommend adding it.
Note: this is only for widget enabled themes
Go to Presentation > Sidebar Widgets and drag the "Realivent CMA" to your sidebar
The widget will disappear when the CMA page is accessed so you do not have the main form and the sidebar form visible at the same time. The widget will be visible on all other pages.
Enjoy 
Tags:Blogging Updates Plugins Realivent Updates widgets wordpress zillow
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Thanks you guys. I can’t wait to implement this new widget.
:-)
May 4th, 2007 at 5:01 pmCool, thanks for posting this. It looks like this will be one of the more useful real estate tools I’ve used.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:31 pmAwesome widget - congratulations and thanks for sharing it.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:33 amim not clear on setting up this plugin. When i tried to get it going i received the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_get_current_user() in ~path/wp-content/plugins/realivent_cma/cma_form.php on line 99
any help would be appreciated!
May 5th, 2007 at 10:39 amMatt-
May 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pmThanks! I really appreciate the work your team has put into this - I’ll try to get a post up on Zillow Blog tomorrow.
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May 9th, 2007 at 11:01 amMatt,
I am trying to use this with the latest version of wordpress. Doesn’t seem to be quite working. The graphs print out ok but the information such as house prices, low/high price range, percentile etc are 0. I have the API plugged in from zillow so think I have set it up correctly. Any thoughts?
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:08 pmthanks.
There is nowhere for me to enter my API key on the backend.
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June 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pmIt should be noted that the plug-in requires you to use the Numeric Permalinks in your WordPress settings. Just in case for any of you having problems setting it up.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:00 pmit does not appear this plugin works with version 2.5 of wordpress
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November 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm