SimplyRETS Real Estate IDX

SimplyRETS provides the fastest and most up-to-date solution for embedding your listings on your site. SimplyRETS will update as frequently as every hour (or as frequent as your MLS provider allows). This means that you’re ahead of the competition and can have the fastest possible response time for dealing with interested prospects.

This plugin is fast! You don’t have to worry about slowing down your website by pulling lots of data on every page load. The SimplyRETS plugin is optimized to only load on the correct pages, and to only load the listings you choose. By doing this, you are able to keep visitors on your site to look at more properties. If you offer the fastest searching solution in your city, why would they go any where else?

SimplyRETS supports both RETS and RESO Web API feeds. This allows you to be on the leading technical edge and provides you with many advantages of IDX (Internet Data Exchange) including response speed, compatibility across multiple MLS areas, and up-time. So while your competition is working on getting properties on their site, you can install the SimplyRETS WordPress plugin and spend more time actually selling!

Documentation

See the full plugin examples and documentation here

The SimplyRETS plugin makes it easy an intuitive to show your listings on your site in a way that you want. There’s virtually no restrictions to how you can customize the plugin and your site.

The plugin is based around shortcodes; there are shortcodes for listings, search forms, sliders, and more. Each of these shortcodes takes attributes that refine which listings are pulled. For example:

To show all listings from your MLS:

[sr_listings]

but to only show listings from a specific agent:

[sr_listings agent="AGENTID"]

..read more about the available attributes [here][#Available-Attributes].

Contents

• Shortcodes Show Listings
• Search Form
• Featured Listing Slider
• Interactive Map Search

Available Filters Admin Settings / Permalinks MLS Compliance Settings Widgets Trial Listings SimplyRETS Pages Customizing CSS Support / More Documentation

Shortcodes

Most of the plugin is built around using shortcodes. This allows the most flexibility for customizing your own layout and search pages.

SimplyRETS Listings Shortcode

[sr_listings]

This is the main shortcode for showing listings on any page of your site. Put this shortcode onto any page and, voila, you’ve got listings!

This shortcode takes many different [attributes][shortcodes attributes], and you can combine almost any of them.

If you want to use the listings shortcode, but only show listings above $500,000 then you would simply add the minprice attribute:

[sr_listings minprice="500000"]

So how about the same minimum price, but only for one specific agent? Easy!

[sr_listings minprice="500000" agent="ID"]

( Note: the ID is provided by your MLS )

SimplyRETS Search Form Shortcode

[sr_search_form]

Next up is the search form shortcode. This is what ties together the ability to search and view listings.

This shortcode also takes a few different attributes, but not quite as many as the listings shortcode because the user will change them.

For example, you can set up a search form that will only search form that will always search one specific office or brokerage:

[sr_search_form brokers="ID"]

( Note: the ID is provided by your MLS )

You can also set the search form to search pre-designated property types (like Residential and Condominium). To do so, use the type attribute within the sr_search_form short-code:

This will default to search Rentals only: [sr_search_form type=”Rental”]

This will default to search Commercial and Land only: [sr_search_form type=”Land; Commercial”]

There are several use-cases for the search form and you can put it anywhere on your site you want! The two most common ways to use the search form are:

1. 04On the landing area of your homepage, to get the visitor to start a search immediately.
2. 05To be used in combination with the listings shortcode, like so: [sr_search_form] [sr_listings]

This builds a nice page with an initial set of listings, which promotes the visitor to continue making a search.

Listings Slider Shortcode

[sr_listings_slider]

The listing slider is a great feature that allows you to build a ‘slider’ of listings. See screenshot #7 for a quick glance of how it works.

Note: Some attributes (listed below) can take multiple values. sr_listings_slider currently only supports one value per attribute. For example, [sr_listings_slider postalCodes=”123456″] is supported, but [sr_listings_slider postalCodes=”12345; 34567″] is not.

Attributes

• random Show the listings in a random order whenever the page is loaded. [sr_listings_slider random=”true”]

The slider shortcode takes all the same attributes as the listings shortcode, which is all of them. So to make a slider with listings over $500,000:

[sr_listings_slider minprice="500000"]

And the same minimum price, but only for one specific agent? Easy!

[sr_listings_slider minprice="500000" agent="ID"]

( Note: the Agent ID is provided by your MLS )

Interactive Map Search

The SimplyRETS plugin also provides a second kind of map based search that allows the user to search by drawing polygons over and area and setting their parameters.

The short-code can be used with:

[sr_map_search]

Attributes

• search_form

Show search form in addition to the map.

[sr_map_search search_form="true"]

• list_view

Show a list view of search results below the map

[sr_map_search list_view="true"]

( Note: Maps can only be enabled when latitude and longitude are available for the listings. Some MLS’s do not provide this, in which case you can check out the SimplyRETS Geocoding Addon. )

Available Filters

There are ton of attributes available for refining the listings in any way you can imagine. Each of these attributes can be used in any of the shortcodes, and you can use (most of) them in combination with each other like the examples above:

• mlsid Fetches a single listing by it’s mlsid. [sr_listings mlsid=”12345″]
• status Refines listings by a certain status, like Active, Pending, or Closed. (Separate multiple with a semicolon ‘;’) [sr_listings status=”Closed”] [sr_listings status=”Active; Pending”]

Note: By default, Active and Pending are queried

• minprice Refines listings to a minimum price. [sr_listings minprice=”500000″]
• maxprice Refines listings to a maximum price. [sr_listings maxprice=”1000000″]
• minbeds Set a minimum amount of bedrooms. [sr_listings minbeds=”3″]
• maxbeds Set a maximum amount of bedrooms. [sr_listings maxbeds=”3″]
• minbaths Set a minimum amount of baths. [sr_listings minbaths=”3″]
• maxbaths Set a maximum amount of baths. [sr_listings maxbaths=”3″]
• q A fuzzy keyword search that will include listings matching a given string. [sr_listings q=”great view”]
• type Refines listings by a certain type, like Residential, Condo, Rental. [sr_listings type=”Rental”]
• agent Refines listings to a specific agent by taking an agent’s MLS ID. [sr_listings agent=”JDOE12″]
• brokers Refines listings to a specific brokerage by taking a brokerage’s MLS ID. [sr_listings brokers=”KWREALTY1″]
• cities Refines listings to a given set of cities. (Separate multiple with a semi-colon). [sr_listings cities=”Houston; Austin; Dallas”]
• neighborhoods Refines listings to a given set of neighborhoods/subdivisions. (Separate multiple with a semi-colon). [sr_listings neighborhoods=”Heights; Downtown; Uptown”]
• postalcodes Refines listings to a given set of postal codes. (Separate multiple with a semi-colon). [sr_listings postalcodes=”12345; 34567″]
• counties Refines listings to a given set of counties. (Separate multiple with a semi-colon). [sr_listings counties=”Harris; Travis”]
• amenities Refines listings to a given set of amenities. (Separate multiple with a semi-colon).