I have a confession to make – I stole the headline of this post directly from the tagline of the plugin I am featuring. But when a tagline so aptly describes the functionality of a product, what better words are there to use?
My testing of the WP-Property plugin came about after a friend inquired as to whether or not I could design a new website for his real estate business. Without wanting to sound too lazy, the beauty of WordPress is that you can almost always provide the main functionality of any given “type” of website with minimal effort. I am still often surprised when I think of a new thing I want WordPress to do, and almost immediately find a plugin that performs the task admirably.
And WP-Property does just that. If you’re looking to build a website in which you can intuitively manage and promote a portfolio of properties, you may have just found the ideal solution. Take a look at these two short videos to get a better idea of the plugin’s functionality:
As you can see, WP-Property offers a wealth of functionality – it is easy to add and manage properties, and the display options are numerous.
One thing that is a must for any estate agency website is fully-featured search functionality. WP-Property delivers that in spades (which you can see in the second video above), with the ability filter by specific meta data such as price, number of bedrooms, and so on.
All in all, WP-Property is the best plugin of its type that I have found, and is worth exploring if you are looking to create (or update) an estate agency site.
Download WP-Property here.
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Its great to see more useful property plugins coming available. Does the plugin work with properties other than residential ? and is it suitable to countries other than the US ?
Hi Dublin,
The producers of the plugin actually advertise the fact that it can be used to manage and display any number of things, so I don’t think you’ll have problems on either front.
Cheers,
Tom
is it suitable to countries other than the US ?
This was the first thing that came to my mind too.
I read an article recently from css-tricks *using-ziptastic* – The international issue was also bought up.
It is great to learn of this new plugin. I have not tried it’s functionality yet though but I hope to be able to improve my site with its use.
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Thanks for the write up. I’ve seen WP-Property be used to list all sorts of things, to include livestock (alpacas, specifically), to machinery, to European castles. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the website that listed livestock, but Van Wall is a pretty good example of a non-real estate listing site using WP-Property: http://vanwall.com
Great stuff – thanks for the information!
I tried this plugin when I started my real estate listing website, and it was good. It’s a versatile plugin and obviously not so difficult to use. I stopped using it when I opted for a full scale WP theme.
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Hadn’t heard of this — sounds interesting. I’m redoing my website (http://www.texasselectproperty.com) and this may prove helpful. Thanks for posting!