Well WordPress 3.0 has been with us now for around 2 months and let me say…..“it’s making our life a whole lot easier”. Why? Because is now means we can have all of our real estate websites powered by one set of plugins installed on one ftp account and one common database. Once it is setup it is saving us hours a week in maintenance time and even new website installations are now a lot more streamlined.

Some Q&A’s in relation to our experiences with WP3.0

• Have we found any bugs with WP3.0? None at all.
• Did we need to modify our real estate plugins for the Multi User section of WP3.0? 90% of the plugins worked with a few plugins we needed to account for the combined database of all sites. Overall, there was only a few days development needed for the adjustments.
• Can each site have their own url? As long as you install WP with the sub-domain for new blogs you can then mask the blog url with any url the client would like to use.
• Are there any SEO disadvantages with domain masking? None at all, as longs as you make sure your sitemaps plugin is a WPMU plugin.
• Is WP3.0 one of the best wp releases? Absolutely, this enables a whole lot more innovation and if you follow this blog you will see some unbelievable innovation appearing in the coming months.

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While Australia has beautiful real estate websites with excellent functionality we always appear to lag behind countries like US in picking up new technologies in the real estate sector. In particular iPhone applications as I’m yet to see an Australian real estate franchise or office with an iPhone application other than Harcourts.

It can be argued that this application isn’t in fact Australian as I believe it comes from Harcourts head office in New Zealand. Anyway like all great New Zealand things we’ll claim it as Australian. I’ve seen a lot of iPhone application and I must say, this application is quite good. It’s very unique and allows you to locate all properties and agents in Australia and New Zealand. It does the job perfectly and even allows you to save the full contact details for an agent to your phone’s contacts.

Maybe Harcourts with their new website and iPhone application are setting the trend for a new more technological franchise operation. As quite frankly the technology which the majority of major franchise groups in Australia operate with is comical and years out of date.

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In anticipation for the release of WordPress 2.9 there has just been a recent release of WordPress 2.8.5. Some updates include:

The headline changes in this release are:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
• Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
• Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

Can’t wait for wp 2.9 they are currently beta testing it so Agentpoint will get involved with that.

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WordPress today launched the latest release of their CMS system WordPress 2.8 named “Baker”. We have been using WordPress 2.8 in beta form for the past month and are very impressed with the speed of the wp-admin interface. It is remarkable the progression WordPress has made over the past 12 months to their wp-admin. Not only have a world of gadgets been introduced and speed increased but the styling (beauty) of the admin system is much better than before.

Undoubtedly, over the past 12 months WordPress has cemented their position as the number 1 and most popular CMS for blogs across the World.

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Listing Press is a new WordPress plugin developed to allow real estate agents and other bloggers in the United States with the opportunity to display real estate listings within their personal or business blogs. Listing Press draws properties through IDX providers who redirect the MLS information into an independent blog or website. Read the rest of this article »

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Foreclosure.com a leading American real estate portal has just launched a WordPress property listing plugin allowing website owners to display the portal’s property listings. The plugin is designed for real estate agents who have a WordPress built website and also to be installed on real estate agent blogs allowing agents to show property listings along side their blog. Read the rest of this article »

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Agentpoint have announced the passing of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6 ). f you are one of the few remaining people using this dastardly, viscous, software I suggest you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, Safari, Opera or the fastest growing browser Firefox. Read the rest of this article »

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Over the Christmas period Agentpoint will be closed from the 24th of December until the 5th of January, however our support is always open for clients and you can call Peter on 0438 391 397 at any time during business hours. If I am not available please just leave a message and I will attend to any concerns within a few hours.

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Agentpoint today featured on the Inman News website – The Future of Real Estate Marketing. The article written by Joel Burslem is about how WordPress was a remarkable piece of software that is only growing more powerful every day and how real estate agents are using this software to promote their listings and their companies.

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