Looking for a Real Estate WordPress Theme?
Posted February 6th, 2010
There are often cases where a standard wordpress template will not fulfill all of the required functions of a business. For example, a real estate agent representing properties has the unique need of real estate property listings that can be sorted by location, price and type. To create this content structure, we would use posts instead of pages so that we can use categories and tags.
Categories are used to group the listings by “location”, “price” and “type”. Within these parent categories we have child categories (sub categories) for more precision. For example;
- Location
- Kingsway
- Sunnylea
- High Park
- Price
- 100k – 200k
- 200k – 400k
- 400k – 800k
- Type
- Condo
- House
- Commercial
Once we have our content structure in place, we need to get a search funtion that is category based that allows multiple selections, enter the WordPress theme by Theme Shift; deCondo. It is designed specifically for a real estate agency complete with agent profiles, property search and photo thumbnails.
The one thing it does not have is a mortgage calculator and land transfer tax calculator. These are handy real estate tools that would serve as great real estate resources for the public viewing your website. Fortunately, we managed to write our own real estate calculators right into the deCondo Real Estate WordPress Theme for Julian Pilarski, an acclaimed Toronto Realtor.
Visit http://www.julianpilarski.com for more details and to preview how you can rebrand the deCondo WP Theme.
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