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.

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frankly the technology which the majority of major franchise groups in Australia operate with is comical and years out of date.

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.

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

This is great as it means the blog or website owner can display the property data in what ever format they like and it improves website SEO. How? Well by doing so, your site will now contain all the content and keywords that home buyers are searching for.

This is the second WordPress plugin (in as many months) to be released in the United States designed to drag 3rd party real estate and property listing information into a blog. I guess this highlights how popular WordPress has become, it is the number one blogging platform and as you can see through our work at Agentpoint is a great foundation to build a website from.

This not only highlights the popularity of WordPress built real estate websites but also that real estate blogging in America is becoming one of the most popular ways for agents to showcase their profile and engage with their local community. Blogging is both easy and completely free, not to mention enjoyable as you can write about anything you choose.

So get your WordPress blog up now and don’t forget that Agentpoint are WordPress specialist so if you need a hand then let us know.

As Wired reports “IE 6, released in 2001, is the scourge of web programmers, user-experience designers and technical-support staff alike. The browser is stacked with quirks that cause web pages to render differently from all other browsers, and special considerations must be taken by web builders to accommodate users running IE 6.”

So we bid adieu to this infected sore and no longer support this software in any of our current websites/system or future websites systems.

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