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I’m really happy to say that the version 3 beta of the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin is finally available for everyone to try out. For those who don’t know what Local Market Explorer is, it’s a way to embed local area info from Zillow, Education.com, Walk Score, Yelp, TeachStreet, and Nile Guide directly into [...]

It’s HERE!! WordPress 3.0 is now available in its final version for download! [via Zengy]

It was just announced that WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. I’ve been anxiously awaiting WordPress 3.0 for awhile due to the possibilities it will enable for real estate sites and it’s nice to see that they are nearing completion of the final release version. You can download it HERE if [...]

I’m hoping the final version of WordPress 3.0 is close to completion (the Beta came out a few weeks ago) and I wanted to take a few minutes to touch on two of the cooler possibilities for agent and broker sites opened up by the release of 3.0. As you may or may not know, [...]

I thought I’d piggy back on Drew’s post on How Are You Using Facebook Pages As Part of Your Real Estate Business? and offer a couple of quick tips to help you integrate your new Facebook pages with your wordpress blog. Fotobook – Ever wanted to automatically post all of your facebook photos to your [...]

For the WordPress developers, I think you’ll be happy to hear the long awaited WordPress 3.0 has been released in BETA form. The most notable component of the 3.0 upgrade is clearly WordPress and WordPress MU now sharing one code base (instructions for those who want to try it), but I’m sure the WordPress geeks [...]

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 [...]

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 can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]