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<p>Instantly add real estate listing data to your website.  This WordPress plugin will allow your listings, from multiple feeds, to appear within your site as native content, treated just like other content on your website.  All of this is done through an integration with GetRETS® from timitek, llc.</p>
<h3>Advanced Listing Search Widget</h3>
<h4>About</h4>
<p>GetRETS integrates with the default WordPress search immediately out of the box after setup. However, if you would like to enable a more advanced search, the GetRETS plugin also includes a Search Widget, which once enabled, will allow visitors to your site to specify additional constraints to search listings by.</p>
<p>In addition to the generic keyword search, the following constraints are made available;</p>
<ul>
<li>Minimum Price</li>
<li>Maximum Price</li>
<li>Residential Listings</li>
<li>Land Listings</li>
<li>Commercial Listings</li>
</ul>
<h4>Enabling</h4>
<ul>
<li>From the WordPress administration dashboard, select <strong>Appearance</strong> – <strong>Widgets</strong>.</li>
<li>From the <strong>Available Widgets</strong> section, select <strong>GetRETS Search</strong>.</li>
<li>Based on the theme you have installed, select the sidebar / area where you want your widget to be displayed at on your site.</li>
<li>Click the <strong>Add Widget</strong> button</li>
<li>You may customize the title to be used for the for the widget.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Finally</h4>
<p>Now your sites visitors can perform more advanced listing searches!</p>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<h4>Advanced Search</h4>
<p>In addition to the the search widget, the GetRETS plugin provides a <code>[getrets_search]</code> shortcode for you to use in a post or page to create a more customized search page. This short code provides a search form with the same advanced searching functionality as the widget.</p>
<h4>How To Use</h4>
<p>Place the following line in any page / post.</p>
<pre><code>[getrets_search]<h3>Extending Via CSS</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>The post content detail elements are marked up with several CSS classes that can be used to customize the look and feel of the listing details post.</p>
<h4>Main Content</h4>
<pre><code>getrets-content
</code></pre>
<p>This is class used for the main div that surrounds all of the content for the listing details post.</p>
<h4>Sections</h4>
<p>Each of the 4 sections are wrapped in a div that has it’s own class.</p>
<ul>
<li>Details – <code>getrets-details</code> </li>
<li>Description – <code>getrets-description</code> </li>
<li>Features – <code>getrets-features</code> </li>
<li>Photos – <code>getrets-features</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Titles</h4>
<pre><code>getrets-title
</code></pre>
<p>This is the title for each of the 4 sections.</p>
<ul>
<li>Details </li>
<li>Description </li>
<li>Features </li>
<li>Photos</li>
</ul>
<h4>Detail Entries</h4>
<pre><code>getrets-detail
</code></pre>
<p>Each entry in the <strong>Details</strong> section has a div around it with the <code>getrets-detail</code> class applied to it.</p>
<h4>Labels / Values</h4>
<pre><code>getrets-label
getrets-value
</code></pre>
<p>This <code>getrets-label</code> class is applied to each label used for each detail item in the Details section, as well as the <strong>Provided By:</strong> label.</p>
<p>Likewise, the <code>getrets-value</code> class is applied to each value after the label.</p>
<h4>Photos</h4>
<pre><code>getrets-photo
</code></pre>
<p>Each photo has the <code>getrets-photo</code> class applied to it.</p>
<h4>Further Details</h4>
<p>For further information examine the markup at;</p>
<pre><code>wp-content/plugins/getrets/views/frontend/content.php<h3>Extending Via JavaScript</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>In addition to extending the the listing details post via custom styles in your theme, you can also extend functionality via JavaScript.</p>
<h4>listingLoaded Function</h4>
<p>Each listing detail post will attempt to inject listing detail information and a list of images for the listing into a global function if your theme enables it.</p>
<p>To take advantage of this create a public function with the following syntax, that will be called when a listing detail post is displayed.</p>
<pre><code>/**
* Function that is called by GetRETS when a listing
* detail post is loaded.
* 
* listing - JSON object representing the details
*           of the listing
* images  - an array of image urls associated
*           with this listing
*/
function listingLoaded(listing, images) 
{ 
    alert(listing.description);
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Element Attributes</h4>
<p>Each element that is rendered is also rendered with an intuitive id to make it easy to allow for DOM manipulation.</p>
<p>For further information examine the markup at;</p>
<pre><code>wp-content/plugins/getrets/views/frontend/content.php
</code></pre>


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I did a lot of research on all of the available IDX feed solutions for WordPress and I can say that this is the best I've found (by a long-shot). The SimplyRETs API is very clean and easy to use, I would like to commend the developers on that. 
The plugin itself is very good, in that it has plenty of shortcode options and works seamlessly with the API. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is that I found it very difficult to customize the output of the plugin. We're using this service as an add-on for a highly designed, market-leading brokerage in a large metro area and the plugin's default markup and styling was not adequate. In the end we forked the plugin and customized all of the output. I hope the API is relatively stable and we don't regret that decision in a year. 
I admit that we're a bit of an edge case, but if there were a way to override the default templates without completely forking the code, it would have made me much more excited about using the plugin in the future. Next time, we might just build a custom javascript app powered by the SimplyRETs API.



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