Very slick! Thanks for a peek at the listings publish page.
Makes me curious what some other publish pages look like, it’s great for seeing the organization behind it all.
Really great job! I’ve been thinking about how a property site could be done in EE for a while now.
Ideally I’d like to have an EE powered property/real estate site where users could pay a subscription and add properties themselves (a bit like a classifieds site).
Thanks for the ‘behind-the-scenes’ peek at your setup. That’s really a neat insight into how the site works. I’d be interested in seeing the template that went with that!
Does the realtor herself put in the listings, or does she have you (or someone else) do it? If she does her own, is she familiar enough with headings and bullet points to do the layout properly in the “Listing Body” of the entry, or did you set it up somehow so she just fills in the bullet points, or what-not?
Well done site, and it looks great. Color me impressed!
Thanks for the ‘behind-the-scenes’ peek at your setup. That’s really a neat insight into how the site works. I’d be interested in seeing the template that went with that!
Does the realtor herself put in the listings, or does she have you (or someone else) do it? If she does her own, is she familiar enough with headings and bullet points to do the layout properly in the “Listing Body” of the entry, or did you set it up somehow so she just fills in the bullet points, or what-not?
Well done site, and it looks great. Color me impressed!
Yeah, the Realtor actually populates all of the listings (well 100% of the content actually) herself. She is very familiar with basic HTML and stuff so she knows how to properly check and make sure that the WYSIWYG editor isn’t adding bloat, etc.. as far as I know she just made a template entry for how she wants the default Listing Body to look then she just copies and pastes the text. there is also a really handy toggle for the WYSIWYG so that she has access to the actual html.. this is very handy also if I notice that something looks wonky in an entry, I can just go in, toggle it off, fix the html and be out quick. I can show you the template too if you like, check my next post.
Thanks for doing that Ryan! This is nice because I can look at your template in one window and look at the page in another and it helps me grasp the logic and ways to use EE better. I’ve been having a heck of a time struggling to figure this out and this actually does help. Thanks a ton (And if you happen to be in the helping mood, I’ve made post over here that details just one of the many problems I have )
In this line at the top: {embed="global/_header" pagetitle="My Listings” weblog="listings"} why do you have “weblog=listings” there? Never seen that before.
In this line at the top: {embed="global/_header" pagetitle="My Listings” weblog="listings"} why do you have “weblog=listings” there? Never seen that before.
Hey, it’s because I am using it as an embedded variable, so my _header template has this for displaying the correct info in the <title> tag.
I really like what you’ve done here. I’m working on a real estate site for a client and have been trying to model listings manager after your work. However one issue I’m stumped on is how you accomplished the photos. The way I understand it is that the “Listing Photo” field has a relationship to the listing gallery, which returns all of the photos. I guess what I don’t understand is how you are pulling in “categories” into the “Listing Photo Gallery” field. Is this field just a relationship to another weblog with multiple custom fields related to the listing gallery?
Seems like it would be a lot of work having to first upload all of the images, create a weblog entry for all of the photos and then created the listing entry. Not to mention if there are a lot of photos the hassle of selecting them from a drop down.
However that’s the only way I can figure out how this was done unless I’m missing something. Ideally I’d like to have a custom relationship field that could simply list all of the photo gallery categories.
I know this is an older thread so thanks if you can offer any insight.
Regards,
Justin
EDIT: Nevermind, solved the problem with Robin Sowell’s extension.
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