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…
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…
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.
The final release of version 2 of the Local Market Explorer WordPress Plugin is still a week or so away, but for the adventurous, we’re making available a beta version to try out. I feel pretty confident that there aren’t major bugs though, so you…
I thought I’d give everyone a heads up that version 1.1 of the Local Market Explorer for WordPress includes a new module — local class information from TeachStreet. From the TeachStreet blog: To see how it can work, check out this realtor’s local class and…
WordPress is full of great plug-ins, as many owners of full WordPress sites can attest, but some are definitely more valuable than others. At any given time my real estate website is running 10-15 plug-ins but my two newest additions really stand out. Sidebar Countdown…
There is a lot to be said about how to design a website and what works best for which industries. You can get design advice from eye tracking experts, your Mom and your co-workers but the simple fact is testing and trial and error are…
Today’s post is my first contribution to the Geek Estate Blog, but before I dive into the details of today’s post, I wanted to take a quick second to do an intro about my background in the online world. My name is Matthew Swanson and…
If you are running a WordPress blog focused on real estate, there is a new plugin (I think) is worth taking a look at — Local Market Explorer. The plugin creates “city pages” inside of the WordPress interface and pulls school data from Education.com, local…
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