Today I’m proud to announce our biggest theme of the year, Real Estate Directory. As you’ve probably guessed just by reading the name, this theme is based on our Directory platform, i.e. the system behind the popular Directory theme. Since we’ve been talking about Directory for quite some time now I’ll just brush up on the most important features and for the most part talk about the differences between these two themes. For more details on pure features, be sure to visit the All Features page. All the Directory features you know and love Since RE Directory is based on the same code as Directory, they share most of the functionality. As of this moment the only feature that Directory has, but RE Directory doesn’t is WooCommerce compatibility. In terms of stuff unique to RE Directory, I’ll outline them later in this post. First, a quick look at the most important features available in both themes… Front-end submission In RE Directory, visitors will have the opportunity to become content authors, just by registering and submitting a property. Along with that, they’ll have access to a front-end user dashboard from where they can manage their profile and all submitted content. Versatile custom fields Custom fields are the backbone of your real estate website. With custom fields you basically decide what type of information content authors submit using the submission form. As a matter of fact, the submission form is nothing more than a bunch of custom fields grouped together. Monetize with price packages Charge for those front-end submissions by creating payment plans, i.e. price packages. Packages come in two types: single submission and subscription. Set unique price for each category, choose the alive days and even set featured prices. Recurring payments are also available! Manage cities Add multiple cities within your RE Directory theme in order to better organize your real estate portal. Cities are essentially additional filters since properties from one city won’t show in another. Website visitors can navigate between cities by using the header city selector. Big focus on content discovery (search & filters) Most visitors of real estate portals know roughly what they want. If you need a small 1 bedroom condo, you’re not going to browse through the whole “Apartments” category hoping to get lucky; you’ll use search. With that in mind, we’ve made searching the primary focus of the whole homepage and made sure you... Read more »
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