10 Best WordPress Themes for Real Estate

Real estate is a competitive industry. Agencies everywhere are trying to rope-in as many customers as possible by trying to stand out and offer something unique, especially in their corner of the web.

And that’s all well and good. In a sector where image is everything, everything is image, you want to stay just one step ahead by making it worth your clients’ while to visit and check out your page. Your own corner on the Web should be as comprehensible yet chic as it can be; a perfect mix between aesthetics and performance.

Take a look at these themes and see if you can’t find it:

ListingPress 

With a built-in API which allows advanced customized search based on price range, location, type and other variables, and arranges the result in grid/list/map view, this theme is as user friendly as can be. Designers can customize search features using a child theme. Extra user-friendliness points for log-in/sign-up options and attractive dashboards for a log of previous searches for account holders. More options are available to users for saving listings as favorites and account settings that can be modified.

We like:

o Front-end login

o Dashboard for logged in users

o List/grid/map view for search results

o Customizable price range format, currency

o Sold/For Sale status included

Realia

A robust, responsive theme which supports dsIDXpress plugin (to embed live real estate data from an MLS directly into a blog); Realia comes a theme customization API which allows you to design it, with 20 different color schemes, three header variants, and 10 background patterns to choose from.

We like:

o Revolution slider

o Fully responsive across various dimensions

o Optimized for search engines

o Gallery carousel

WP Estate

A responsive and elegant theme, WP Estate comes with intuitive admin panel that allows designers to alter logos, currency, colors, font, and contact details. Further modifications can be made with child themes and plugins.

We like:

o 27+ shortcodes

o 7 custom widgets

o Custom page and templates for property listings and agents

o Full width slider panel

o Compatible with most browsers

o Easy two-step navigation

Light House 

Sharp, smooth, minimalistic, and pleasant, this one has ‘ultra-modern’ written all over it. Theme colors can be changed without much effort, and list/grid options are available to show property listings. The wireframe is a designer’s dream, and customization is fluid.

We like:

o 9 sidebar positions

o 4 page templates

o Custom widgets

o Compatible with most browsers

o Menu manager

o Slider format for easy browsing

WP Residence 

This is a great theme with added options of Agent pages and allowing users to create their own listings. Front-end form handles submissions and option for online payment through PayPal and Stripe are also available. The theme’s USP is its backend, making it easy to set up and customize. Tutorials and documents are also available if you need further help.

We like:

o Custom property fields

o Advanced Search

o Unlimited sidebars

o Premium plugins included in the theme package

HomeQuest 

With a responsive, contemporary design that looks and feels fresh and off-beat, HomeQuest packs a quite a punch with powerful search and filter modules which allow users to streamline their searches as much as possible. It comes with five different header styles for easy customization to novice WordPress users and one-click auto installation. It’s definitely a bit on the ‘large’ side in terms of budget, but you also save a lot of time and money trying to customize the appearance of your theme with the help of a developer.

We like:

o Responsive theme

o Off-beat look

o Easy to browse

o Easy to install/customize

o Streamlined

o Latest discussions display on homepage

Estatement 

A stylish and flexible theme loaded with shortcodes and custom widgets to make customization easy as a dream. Developers can create custom fields to use in searches with units of their choice. There are 4 types of search available. Frontend and backend is fully translatable. The theme looks great and can be customized further to match your specifications down to a letter.

We like:

o Full page map searching

o Customized image sliders

o Multiple agent support

o Uses well-known plugins like LayerSlider, Yoast, and WP User Avatar for better compatibility

o 500+ Google Web Fonts

Real Homes 

This theme looks and feels clean and simple, which is exactly what it is. Responsive, easy to browse, and search engine optimized, the theme takes performance seriously and delivers well.

We like:

o Advanced property search

o Grid/list listing view

o Superb multimedia support: Image, video, and gallery posts

o Up to four column gallery templates

o Custom widgets included for featured listings, advanced search and property types

Freehold

Created and optimized for devices with high-res displays, Freehold’s responsive design is compatible with the most popular dimensions. Simple to browse and easy to customize, the theme’s layout is friendly for both users and developers.

We like:

o Translation

o Unlimited portfolios

o Twitter widget

o Built-in social media sharing

o E-mail and print

o Unlimited color schemes

Open Door 

This one is perhaps the highest rated themes for real-estate industry category. The theme features like compare, Google Map, and Google Street View are unmatched by any other. Other features common to most real-estate centric themes like advanced search based on customized fields are also included in Open House. There’s no need to worry about being on the same page as every other agency that uses this theme. You can hire a developer and customize it for your requirements.

We recommend this one.

We like:

o Comparison for up to 5 listings

o Three different home page layouts

o Dark and light header styles

o Call to action buttons

o Listings show in Google map

While all these themes will make for a great online showing of your business, you should make a checklist of your best attributes and pick one which throws additional emphasis on them. If you’re unsatisfied with the way a theme looks, you can always hire a designer to customize it for you.

End point being that a theme’s aesthetic value is easier to customize than its features; so pick a theme which offers great features. You can always paint it to show your (agency’s) personality later.

Author Bio: Tracey Jones has been working as a WordPress developer at HireWPGeeks Ltd., a leading Custom WordPress Development company across the world. She loves sharing innovative posts related to WordPress customization and its benefits. Follow her on various social media sites like:- Twitter, Facebook, GooglePlus

By: Danial Munsif On 12:42

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Top 5 Best Free Wordpress Security Plugins

Everyone has it’s own definitions for the Security and means accordingly. But in general, security is such an essential thing that we can’t do compromise with it and when it comes to secure your website, it becomes very crucial that all the essential security plugins should be installed for your website. As we all already know, Wordpress is a most popular and secure blogging platform which is widely used by millions of users across the world. But it’s high popularity also increases risk of attacks done by hackers and spammers. Therefore, it becomes necessary for every blogger or web developer to install all the important security plugins to keep their site secured and protected from hackers and spammers.
Here is the list of top Wordpress Plugins that will keep all your private information safe and secure:

1 .BulletProof Security

BulletProof Security is best for stopping hackers malicious scripts to enter into the php coding in WordPress and it’s this feature makes it superior than any other security plug-in. It not only act as a barrier but also provides full security against Base64, XSS,CRLF, RFI, CSRF, SQL Injection and Code Injection hacking attacks in BulletProof Security Mode and in Maintenance Mode, website owners can access and work on their website while a 503 Website Under Maintenance page will be displayed to all other website visitors. Protection of root website folder and ‘wp-admin’ folder and with a single click are also the key features of this security plugin. The good thing is that it doesn’t require any manual configuration.

2. Secure WordPress

Every blogger should have Secure WordPress plugin that improves security by removing Really Simple Discovery, error information on login pages, core update and plugin-update information for non-admins and a lot more. For non-admins, it also hides wp-version in backend-dashboard.

3. WordPress File Monitor Plus

WordPress File Monitor Plus is one of the most essential plugin that will let you know whenever any changes has been made to your files or site via an e-mail. It monitors your files all the time. Some key features of WordPress File Monitor Plus are:
Monitors file system for added/deleted/changed file and sends email whenever any changes are made to the files
Also sends administration area alert if email is not received by the owner
Monitors the files for changes based on time stamp, file hash, and/or file size
Offers multisite support and includes URL in notification email if plugin is used on multiple sites

4. Exploit Scanner

Exploit Scanner mainly scans your whole file system and posts and comments tables of your database to find all those security holes through which attack can be done. Users will have to remove all those security holes because the plugin doesn’t remove anything. For unusual filenames, it also checks your list of active plugins.

5. Better WP Security

I can say that this is all-in-one” security plugin for your website that can not only patch multiple security holes but also come up with awesome built in features that are more than enough to protect your WordPress from any attack done by hackers by keeping them away from sensitive areas like admin, login, admin etc. It obscure, protect, detect, recover and also gives you some extra benefits to the users by giving them login and admin URLs so that they can log into a site.
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Know the Best WordPress Tips Tricks and Hacks

It’s a known fact that WordPress is a leader when it comes to blogs and custom websites. Here is how you can make the most of WordPress and run your website effectively.

WordPress the biggest blogging platform that is available on the internet and many great websites are also powered by WordPress. WordPress is highly customizable and some websites you won’t even know are built on WordPress. First you need to set up everything properly so that you can make the most of your WordPress website. Let’s have a look at some tips that we can use in our WordPress website or blog. WordPress offers a lot of extensions and plugins which will help you to run your WordPress website in the best way possible. Not everyone would know about all of these tricks and so sometimes we are not able to manage our websites in a proper way.

§ The first thing you need to do after installation is that change the username and password of your WordPress admin panel. Put a new username and password so that no one will be able to hack your website or blog.

§ WordPress allows you to choose any page from your website to be set as your opening page. So when a user comes to your website he will see the page that you have set. You should also have a plugin for people to search through the pages of your website in case if you have a huge website.

§ You can also download the JetPack plugin of WordPress which will allow you to display featured posts on the top of your blog. Make use of the power of SEO with a breadcrumb navigation.

§ It is true that when you load your website with more plugins it will slow down. In such cases use WP Minify, it will compress the CSS and JavaScript and will thus improve the speed of your website.

§ You can make use of Pagination which will allow you to add numbered links to other pages. It is common on the posts in the archives, but you can also do the same in your blog comments. If you have got more than fifty comments, breaking them into pages greatly reduces loading time and scrolling.

§ With the help of CSS you can also highlight the comments posted by the blog’s author. The next thing you can do is that, you can cleanup your comments by changing the PHP in your comments.php. This way your blog automatically separate the comments from the trackbacks. You can also disable the HTML in your comments so that you will not receive any comments from spammers.

§ You can have mobile version of your website so that you will be able to capture all the visitors who use different devices to access the web.

§ Another plugin that you can use is YARP, this will display your posts in the form of thumbnails. All of these plugins and extensions will help you run your WordPress website or blog in a smooth way.

§ You can also make use of threaded comments which can be set from the settings page in your WordPress admin panel. Before you could not do so and had to use third party plugins but WordPress allows you to use threaded comments.

WordPress is a great platform and with this highly customizable platform you can use that way you want to. WordPress powers some great websites. Not only is it cost effective but it is also yields us with great websites. So use these tricks or plugins and help your website be the best on the internet. Make full use of such features and plugins and see your website prosper.

By: Danial Munsif On 09:48

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Free Vs Premium Wordpress Themes Which one is good for SEO

Wordpress is one of the most famous blog and domain providers of the world. It provides a medium to its users from all over the world to tell others about their existence in the form of blogs, articles and own websites. Most of the bloggers all over the world recommend Wordpress more than any other blogging site. There are simple and straight reasons for their suggestion.

Why Wordpress is the best? 

There are many reasons in support for Wordpress which are told by experienced bloggers who have tried several other cms. Some of the reasons are listed below:

1. The primary reason in support for WordPress is the ease in creation and decoration of blog that it provides to its users. Only qualifications needed to create a blog in WordPress is that user should know to create an account, type and upload images. That’s it.
2. Second reason is that there are majority of plugins available for WordPress that can give a blog owner some extra features.
3. It’s not just a blogging site, users can create fully functional site from it. Many sites of today’s internet are made by WordPress.

After a user creates a blog, there are some choices that user can make for its blog. Either it can use it as a free user or a premium user; and to apply a free theme or a premium theme. A theme is a template that contains basic widgets and arrangements of these widgets. It provides a standard look and feel for the blog and site. Even a free user can use both free theme and premium theme. There are some advantages of both of them when compared to each other.

Free themes:

Free themes are provided to the WordPress users completely free of charge for their blog. Although they are called as free themes, still they are very beautiful and in a large number. There are about 197 free themes to choose from. Free themes have following advantages and disadvantages.

1. For a free user, they give an overview of what the site is capable to produce. So before the user can make a deal and buy premium theme, they can test the existing.
2. It gives free users some experience of about how a theme is going to work, how to add widgets in it and how to change existing widgets.
3. For a simple user who is using blogging for hobby, free themes provide all the necessary things that will be required.
4. The main drawback of free themes is that even if the user knows programming, themes cannot be modified by its source code and user cannot get a desired custom look by this method.
5. There can be many other blogs with same free theme. So these users blog will look same and they will lack uniqueness.

Premium Themes:

Premium themes are also called paid themes. To apply these themes in the blog, a user first needs to purchase it. There are few advantages and openness due to which a user is attracted to the premium themes.

1. The main reason of using premium theme is for users who have sufficient programming knowledge and can edit the code of theme in order to give it a new and desired look.
2. If user is very sincere towards its blog and want unique look in it, then it can be achieved by premium themes.
3. Users who want to earn from blog can put the ads of different sites like Google adSense in specified area of blog.
4. The disadvantage of using premium theme is the risk involved in purchasing it. After purchasing, user own the theme and in case he/she does some modifications after which something goes wrong, then there will be trouble in finding the solution.

So, both free themes as well as premium themes have their own advantages, limitations and risks. The key point is that – free themes are great option for beginners in WordPress and are a mean to get friendly with WordPress; while premium themes are meant for serious and advanced bloggers.
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How to Install Thesis 2.0 for the First Time or Upgrading your blog to Thesis 2.0?

Finally the wait is over. Thesis 2.0 has released. And now it is available to download worldwide. Those who have purchased this highly SEO friendly wordpress framework are lucky because it was available on discounted price before the launch and those who are reading this post are extremely lucky. You can download Thesis 2.0 for free. Below is the link ;)
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Now you have thesis 2.0 ;) but I recommend or suggest all bloggers not to upgrade your blog to Thesis 2.0 stick to your current version because there are lots of compatibility issues and bugs. You can search on google for bugs and issues. But still thesis is best framework for the coding part and there is no doubt about it.

By: Guppu Boss On 09:01

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