Wordpress for Realtors: Plugins that work for Real Estate
May 2nd, 2009 by admin
Plugins for Wordpress are what allow you to make your blog or website your own.
For these plugins to work you have to host your own Wordpress installation. Plugins do not work with the free www.WordPress.com accounts.
My favorite WordPress plugins, so far:
- Great Real Estate plugin. Set up your own featured homes page
- NextGen Gallery: Display your listings photos as a widget in the sidebar of your blog.
- AddThis: Social networking buttons automatically added to each post.
- FeedWrangler: This one is a bit quirky on install but broadcasts your posts via an RSS feed.
- ShareThis: Like #3. It’s a social networking linking option.
- Pagemash: Allows you to reorder your pages (not posts) in the order you want.
- Stats: Hooks into your old WP.com account to provide you with visitor stats and hit counts.
- Wordpress CSS Dropdown Menu- Very cool drop down CSS menu. Easiest one to configure I found. Need a bit of knowledge of CSS to implement, IMHO.
- WP Download manager – allows you make files available for download off your WP site.
These can all be found on the Wordpress website. Wordpress offers many, many plugins and not all of my WP websites use the same plugins. This should get you started though for a real estate website.
Troy Deierling, RDCPro, ABRM, Realtor
EXIT Realty Deierling & Assoc.
Williamsburg, VA
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©2009 Troy Deierling
Good post! Found it doing a quick blog search about foreclosure info. Subscribed! Mark
Thanks for the article. I might use these tips for my real estate promotions on WP.
This information is very useful in marketing Real Estate. It’s kind of you to share it. As an estate agent, I appreciate people who provide great information to educate and help readers.