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I’ve started putting together a few Wordpress tutorials and thought I would share.  This is a fantastic plugin that allows you to show introductory text, and the user can expand the text (on the same page) if they want to read more.  This way, you can keep your listings higher on the page for users [...]

Today’s feature: An interview with Real Estate Webmasters CEO Morgan Carey about the SEO benefits of indexable IDX.  He reveals hard data on the resulting increased traffic, and the ability of individual agents to compete in the elusive quest for search results.
There’s been a lot of chatter about some of the newer listing scrapers [...]

Back on December 23, I wrote an article here on GeekEstate Blog about a Wordpress plugin that Diverse Solutions was developing that would allow IDX listings to be fully indexed by search engines.
Earlier this week, the plugin came out of beta testing and has been released for general availability.
Here is part of the Diverse Solutions [...]

Taking a look at blogs around the internet there’s really one factor that sets the good ones apart from the bad, and that’s simply the depth of discussion on the content (posts) on that blog. Beyond the content on the blog itself, the template, et. al., there are a couple of simple plugins that [...]

It’s been a bit longer since my last Project Wordpress post.  Holidays, work, & other excuses kept getting in the way of blogging.
Back on track, and I’ll post a bit about theme selection.  Theme selection is obviously personal, so this post is intended more to introduce theme elements the webmaster should be aware of when [...]

The combination of every awesome web 2.0 technique and web 3.0 technique I know I like to think of as web 3.1… I realized as I started writing there’s simply too much information to cover in one post, so I’m going to split this bad boy up into a couple of posts; In this post [...]

What’s The Difference Between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org?
This question came up several times at RE BarCamp a few months ago, numerous times with individual agents I’ve spoken to, and again when I spoke at the Coldwell Banker Bain Tech forum, so I thought I’d address it here:
Short answer: Wordpress.com is a less customizable version of [...]

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their new plugin, dsIDXpress (currently in beta testing).
I’ve been fortunate to be an early tester of this plugin, and can sum its potential up in one word:
Awesome. Radical. Kick ass.
OK, that’s four words. Work with me…
What dsIDXpress does, in a nutshell, is create search engine indexable pages of listings. This [...]

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their dsIDXpress wordpress plugin is now available in BETA. Their demo site can be seen HERE, and if you want to be a BETA tester, you can sign up here. From what I have seen and heard, this seems like an awesome and long overdue IDX Wordpress plugin that has [...]

After reading Drew’s post Building a Wordpress Blog From Scratch, I started to write a loooong comment, then decided to write a post, and finally decided to write a series.
I’m a huge proponent of Wordpress.  I use Drupal for ecommerce sites & am familiar with Joomla.  They both have steep learning curves, and are both [...]

A friend of mine, Aaron Moore, has been a real estate agent in Seattle since October of 2006. However, he hasn’t had ANY web presence whatsoever until about a month ago. After numerous scoldings by me for his lack of a website and social media activity, he finally decided to take the plunge and set [...]

Wordpress MU is a multi-user blogging platform, allowing the webmaster to easily manage hundreds of thousands of blogs from a single WordPress installation… More and more Realtors, Homeowners, Appraisers, Loan Officers, Title Companies, and Mortgage Brokerages will be using this powerful application.