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Agent Roster Add-on

agent-roster-remax.jpg The agent roster will nicely display all Active agents on one page so visitors can quickly find their agent’s profile and contact information.

Simply create a Page for an Agent and they will automatically be added to the Agent Roster page. If an agent changes their phone number, email address, picture, etc. – just update it on the agent’s profile page and the Roster updates automatically.

How to Manage: Agent Roster
To add new agents to the roster, you will need to create a new page for each agent and add their necessary contact and profile information as outlined below.

Add a New Agent Profile

  1. Upload the image of the agent to your website.
    1. First you must crop the agents photo so it is consistent with the others on your site. Typically we will use a size of (80w x 87h in pixels). If you don’t have photo editing software we highly recommend Picnik. It is free and you don’t have to download any software.
    2. Go to Media > Add New > Select Files > find the image to upload on your computer and double click to upload.
  2. Go to Pages > Add New
  3. Enter the Agents Name as the title (Ex: John Smith)
  4. Add the agents bio in the main editor. The agents photo, contact info will be automatically added from the information you add to the custom fields explained below.
  5. Under Custom Fields, you should see a section titled Add new custom field. Here you will add the agent’s basic contact info and photo.
    1. Add a value for each Name starting with “ar_”.
      For example choose in the drop down “ar_email” and enter the agents email address for the Value “john@hisdomain.com” and click the “Add Custom Field”.
      Note: The agent will not appear on the Roster page until their First and Last name have been added.
    2. For the ar_image you will need to get the path to the image that you uploaded. One way to see this path is to do the following:
      1. Click the icon above the editor to Add Image
      2. Choose Media Library
      3. Find the photo you want added and click the Show link located to the right
      4. In the field labeled Link URL, highlight and copy the images location. If it is not there simply click the File URL button and it will display the link.
      5. Close the pop up window by clicking the X in the top-right corner…We don’t want to add the image to the editor, we just want the images location.
      6. Paste the information you just copied into the ar_image value and click Add Custom Field
  6. Under Attributes (typically located on the left), under Parent choose the page that contains the Agent Roster (typically named About Us, Meet Our Team, Our Agents, etc.).
  7. Under Template choose “Agent Profile”
  8. This should be it…just click Publish and then check the page to be sure the agent is displayed properly.

Special Note: The agents email address will be hidden from public view by default (this is done to hide the address from spammers). When a website visitor clicks the “email agent” link, they will be redirected to a form where they can submit their message and the agent will be contacted directly.