Featured Listings Add-on

The Featured Listings section on your website is to serve two primary functions:

• Improve your ranking in the Search Engines / increase your exposure
• Allow you to better showcase your listing. Unlimited photos (bigger photos), text, video, pdf flyers, etc.

Since these pages will be found by visitors on search engines, they will sometimes be the first page a visitor sees when coming to your site. This is your opportunity to make a good impression. Our well designed Featured Listings template can help you make the right impression and keep that visitor from leaving.

By having a “consistent” look and layout, this will make it a much more user friendly experience for buyers to find what they are looking for. Don’t make them hunt through a paragraph of text to get the basic information they want (beds, baths, square feet, etc).

When going on a listing presentation you can show your prospective seller how you will present their property in a highly professional manner.

Save time by simply adding the basic details about your property and our system will automatically display them in a professionally designed format and embed a map using Google Maps.

How to Manage: Featured Listings
To add new Listing, you will need to simply create a new Post for each listing and add its necessary details as outlined below. Once you have done this a couple times it will only take about 5 minutes or less for each listing.

Add a New Listing

1. Create a Gallery for the Listings images
   1. Go to Gallery > Add Gallery / Images
   2. Enter a name for your Gallery (we recommend the property address – ex: 7648 Mission Street) and click Add gallery
   3. Click Upload Images > Click the Browse button. This will open a window on your computer to find the images you wish to upload. Select all the images you wish to upload and click Open
   4. Choose the Gallery you wish to upload the images to in the drop down select list.
   5. Click Upload Images. Depending on how many images and their size, this could take a couple minutes. You should receive a confirmation message at the top of the page when done letting you know how many images were successfully uploaded.
2. Go to Posts > Add New
3. Enter the Title of the Post (We recommend the property address, city – ex: 7648 Mission Street, San Francisco)
4. Add the Main Image you wish to represent the property at the top of the post editor.
   1. Click your mouse in the top of the editor window
   2. Click the Add NextGEN Gallery icon in your tool bar above the editor
   3. Select the picture you wish to display (you can change it later if you aren’t sure)
   4. Change the Width to 585 (unless otherwise instructed)
   5. Delete the Height (leave it blank, it will be adjusted automatically)
   6. Click Insert (ignore Effect and Float)
5. Place your mouse after the snippet of code entered > Hit Enter on your keyboard for a new paragraph and then add your property description.
6. Under Custom Fields, you should see a section titled Add new custom field. Here you will add the properties basic details.
   1. Add a value for each Name starting with “pd_” (for property details). For example choose in the drop down “pd_address” and enter the properties address for the Value “7648 Mission Street” and click the “Add Custom Field”
   2. For pd_thumbnail, just enter the id number of the image you added to the top of your post in Step 4 above. You will see some code that looks similar to this (singlepic id=17 w=585 h=0 float=). Just enter the id number for pd_thumbnail. In this example it would be 17.
      
      Note: For those that added the Featured Listings Add-on prior to 11/1/2009, you will need to get the path to the image that you uploaded. One way to see this path is to do the following: (if interested please contact us regarding options to update your code to make this step easier)
      1. Click the icon above the editor to Add an Image
      2. Choose NextGEN Gallery
      3. Choose the Gallery which contains the properties images from the drop down box > Click Select
      4. Find the photo you want to use for your thumbnail image and Right-Click your mouse on the image > Click Properties > Copy the Address (URL) by using your mouse and highlighting the entire address (double-click the http:// and drag down and right until you get the .jpg as well) Note: If using Firefox you just have to Right-Click the image and choose Copy Image Location
      5. Click OK to close the Properties window you just opened
      6. Close the Add an Image 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.
      7. Paste the information you just copied into the pd_thumbnail value and click Add Custom Field
   3. For the pd_gallery_number you will need to enter the number of the Image Gallery you wish to display.
      1. Click the Add NextGEN Gallery icon
      2. In the Select gallery drop down locate the Gallery you wish to add to your page (write down, or just remember, the number to the left of the gallery name)
      3. Enter this number for the Value of the pd_gallery_number.
7. Click the Category checkbox (located on the right): Featured Listings
8. Click the Publish button and you are done.

Default Fields

pd_address
pd_baths
pd_beds
pd_city
pd_gallery_number
pd_garage
pd_mls_number
pd_price
pd_square_feet
pd_state
pd_status
pd_thumbnail
pd_year_built
pd_zip