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Creating a Real Estate Website in WordPress — Part 2

June 18, 2008

in Code, Design, Tutorial

Real estate website screenshot

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In Part 1 of Building a real estate website in Wordpress, you learned about a plugin called FreshPost that we used to set up the basic structure of your real estate website.  Using this article, you will be able to display a single listing page that has all the content your real estate website will need.  Read more&hellip

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Denver Real Estate Website – Blue Sky Development Group

May 28, 2008

in Web Design Portfolio

Screenshot of the Denver Real Estate website design

In anticipation of a magazine ad in Denver magazine 5280, we launched two static web pages featuring properties.

  • 2250 South Marion Street
  • 2372 South Humboldt Street

These websites are no longer active.

These pages are a preview to the WordPress real estate website I’ve been working on.  The complete site will be coming soon, including some nifty features that someone should turn into plugins! :-) 

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Building a Real Estate Website in WordPress – Part 1

April 22, 2008

in Code, Design

I am designing and creating a real estate website with WordPress, and I’m going to be writing a few articles that detail how it’s done.  This article will get you started — please leave feedback with any questions or topic requests for the next installment. Real estate using Wordpress Part 2 is now available!

A little background — why use WordPress?

I’m working with a Denver company on a real estate website. Their goal is to showcase their listings in an easy-to-update CMS.

I’ve worked with Open-Realty, and — to say it bluntly — it’s a huge pain in the ass.  When you scratch the surface of OR, you begin to realize how cobbled together it is. Customizing the code to work as it should requires a steep learning curve.  The templates are relatively simple to work with, but the administration section is horrible.  The Open Realty user experience is just awful. 

WordPress is my CMS of choice currently, and it’s so easy to develop for that I recommend it to many of my clients.  Read more&hellip

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