MotorDesk

MotorDesk is a revolutionary car dealership management platform, designed to simplify and modernise your automotive stock/inventory management, advertising, communication, sales, social media & website.

The MotorDesk WordPress plugin connects your WordPress website to your MotorDesk account, giving you the full benefits of the MotorDesk platform combined with the flexibility of maintaining your own independent WordPress car dealer website.

Whether you’re looking to integrate your car inventory into an existing WordPress car dealer website, or would simply prefer to build your used/new car dealership website in WordPress, the MotorDesk plugin is the perfect solution.

Features & Benefits:

• Connect your MotorDesk account to your WordPress website in seconds, simply install and insert the [MOTORDESK] shortcode into your page content.
• Provides a powerful used car/automotive search tool with automotive inventory listings, helping your visitors find their perfect vehicle.
• Provides individual vehicle information pages to help your visitors evaluate each car, motorbike and truck.
• Designed with developers and customisation in mind. Start with the default layout, then endlessly customise the simple template files to suit your needs.
• Provides access to all your MotorDesk vehicle data within your WordPress installation, including full vehicle specifications, optional extras and more.
• Whenever you update a vehicle in MotorDesk it will update on your WordPress website automatically, within 1 minute.
• Integrate with MotorDesk’s vehicle reservation and enquiry forms using iframes to take advantage of MotorDesk’s Leads & Chat system.

1. Once you have installed the MotorDesk plugin simply log-in to your WordPress administration panel and select the ‘MotorDesk’ link.

2. Select ‘Connect MotorDesk’ and log-in to your MotorDesk account, then confirm the connection.

3. Once connected go to the ‘Pages’ section in your WordPress administration panel and create a page to be used for your vehicle search results. We recommend setting a permalink URL slug of ‘vehicles’, ‘used-cars’ or similar.

4. Add the [MOTORDESK] shortcode to the page content, and you’re done!

5. Visit the page on your website and you will see your vehicle search form and vehicles, and when selected you will be taken to an information page for each vehicle.

6. When you’re ready to customise your templates go to the plugin directory and duplicate the /template/ directory to be called /template_custom/, then modify the files in the /template_custom/ directory as you require – this will protect against your changes being overwritten when the plugin is updated. Please ensure you maintain a separate backup of your /template_custom/ directory in case of upgrade failures.

7. Alternatively you can maintain the template files in another location in which case you can set the path to your templates directory below.

8. You can include the search form and latest vehicles in other pages of your website using the shortcodes [MOTORDESK-SEARCH] and [MOTORDESK-LATEST].

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   MotorDesk - Dashboard

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   MotorDesk - Leads & Chat

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   MotorDesk - Edit Vehicle Data

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   MotorDesk - Vehicle Background Report

1.0.0

First official release of plugin.

1.0.1

No changes, testing upgrade process with custom templates.

1.0.2

Adding [MOTORDESK] shortcode.

1.0.3

Adding custom template directory path setting in admin.

1.0.4

Maintenance update.

1.0.5

Adding dynamic page title for vehicle pages, related vehicles, latest vehicles and search page URL setting.

1.0.6

Adding dynamic page title for vehicle pages, related vehicles, latest vehicles and search page URL setting.

1.0.7

Adding search page options for default sort and number of vehicles per page, adding more example search form fields, and adding support for standard feature and optional extra categories.

1.0.8

Fixing JavaScript error.

1.0.9

Adding [MOTORDESK-SEARCH] shortcode for adding vehicle search form to other pages.

1.1.0

Adding [MOTORDESK-SOLD] shortcode for creating a sold vehicle listings page.

1.1.1

Adding support for vehicle categories.

1.1.2

Adding support for Yoast SEO plugin for meta description and OpenGraph data.