Rover IDX

Turn your WordPress site into a high-performing real estate platform with Rover IDX. Instantly integrate live MLS listings, showcase stunning property pages, and keep your website automatically updated with the latest data. With intuitive customization and broad theme compatibility, Rover IDX makes it easy for agents and brokerages to stand out and convert more visitors into clients.

Some key features of Rover IDX include:

Customizability

It offers extensive customization options, allowing users to tailor the appearance and functionality of property listings on their site.

SEO Optimization

The plugin is built with SEO in mind, helping improve the visibility of real estate listings in search engine results.

Up and running in minutes

Activate Rover IDX, choose the MLS region, and add the [rover_idx_listings] shortcode to a page. Boom – your site is displaying searchable real estate listings. You can customize what cities are offered for search, what the search panel looks like, what the listing layout looks like, and how the property details page is displayed.

CRM Integration

1. Upload the rover-idx folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the Rover IDX plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Configure the plugin by going to the Rover IDX menu that appears in your admin menu

1. 

   Setting up Rover IDX is a breeze

2. 

   Type in the name or broker last name of the office, and select the active agents. You can set meta data for the agents as well.

3. 

   Choose from any of the listing layout templates that ship with Rover IDX, or build your own.

4. 

   Super easy to add searchable pages - [rover_idx_full_page] creates a fully searchable page with search panel, listing results, and in 2-column mode a sidebar with highlighted listings.

5. 

   Simple, clean layouts for highly usable pages.

6. 

   Don't forget to include a map. Visitors love maps!

7. 

   Easy add links to your sidebar, footer, or page. These links take advantage of the Rover IDX dynamic url feature. If the page does not exist in your website, Rover IDX will parse the url, hoping that the url is calling for searchable listings specified by the url. See https://roveridx.com/features/roverurl/ for more information.

4.0.0.2799

• Fix error on WordPress 6.9 upgrade

4.0.0.2763

• Fix critical error on error path

4.0.0.2759

• Improve third party interoperability with SEO plugins

4.0.0.2732

• Release Rover IDX 4.0, with significant performance and customizability improvements. See https://roveridx.com/rover-idx-4-0-is-coming/.

3.0.0.2661

• Tested up to WordPress 6.1

3.0.0.2660

• Fix issue that prevented auto-blog images from being correctly posted

3.0.0.2654

• Improve date formatting for auto-blog posts

3.0.0.2647

• [rover_idx_links] Fix error when no parameters given in shortcode

3.0.0.2627

• Fix intermittent crash when changing permalinks

3.0.0.2619

• Fix for page with same slug structure as property page

3.0.0.2615

• Fix for WordPress 6.0 do_parse_request issue

3.0.0.2613

• Rover IDX is WordPress 6.0-ready

3.0.0.2611

• Fix bug affecting display of sitemap history

3.0.0.2605

• Improve RankMath integration.

3.0.0.2604

• Fix for egregious Contact Form 7 bug that vendor is ignoring.

3.0.0.2531

• Add missing file

3.0.0.2527

• IMPORTANT: Sitemaps moved to root of site
• Improve integration for Yoast SEO plugin
• Add integration for SEO Framework plugin
• Add integration for All in One SEO plugin
• Add integration for Rank Math SEO
• Add integration for SEOPress
• Add integration for Squirrly SEO

3.0.0.2480

• When changing MLS region, also update other key settings

3.0.0.2400

• Fix for critical error loading seo panel for some configurations

3.0.0.2397

• Validate IP Resolve address which memcached seems to sometimes typecast to an integer

3.0.0.2392

• New parseable email feature for Top Producer, Zapier and other CRM integration

3.0.0.2387

• WordPress 5.8 certified

3.0.0.2385

• Resolve php warning for missing HTTP_ACCEPT request header

3.0.0.2371

• Add ability to add custom classes to more parts of the Login / Register menu

3.0.0.2363

• Improve Login / Register menu layout

3.0.0.2353

• Relax connection timeout limit for slower shared hosting

3.0.0.2350

• Fix build upload error

3.0.0.2349

• Improve blog post url structure

3.0.0.2244

• WordPress 5.7 certified

3.0.0.2235

• Fix url regression on setup
• Relax connect timeout for slower shared servers

3.0.0.2215

• Fix menu slug error

3.0.0.2214

• Improve auto-blogging duplication handling
• Allow configurable endpoint

3.0.0.2193

• Modify menu html to prevent display:block interfering with layout

3.0.0.2140

• Testing up to WordPress 5.6
• Resolve php 7 warning on styling

3.0.0.2133

• Resolve php 7 warning on setup

3.0.0.2095

• Improve datetime mgmt for auto-blogging
• Improve menu layout

3.0.0.2057

• Improve dropdown Login / Register menu structure for some themes

3.0.0.2053

• resolve undeclared ROVER_JS
• For some themes, add presentation span for dropdown Login / Register menu

3.0.0.2028

• preload important css during activation

3.0.0.2024

• Improve support for Yoast premium plugin and Rover IDX dynamic page titles

3.0.0.1861

• resolve logging error

3.0.0.1860

• resolve kit error

3.0.0.1859

• Performance: Refactor javascript loading for significant performance
• Performance: Remove all jQuery dependancy. Your theme can now dequeue jQuery, for faster page loads
• Performance: Searches are now faster
• Customization: Search panel colors can now be changed via plugin settings
• Usability: Mobile touch Slideshow now available for many listing layouts

2.1.0.2192

• Performance: Tune javascript loading for significant performance boost

2.1.0.2105

• Performance: Faster DNS lookup for faster page loads.
• Allow selecting default page template for dynamic page layouts

2.1.0.2080

• Feature: Ability to add Favorites and Saved Searches menus to WordPress menu.

2.1.0.2043

• improve auto-blogging tracking
• improve auto-blog titles

2.1.0.2042

• deactivation and reactivation could result in some settings being lost
• add logging to detect settings changes

2.1.0.2041

• Fix php warning on hosts displaying warnings

2.1.0.2034

• Avoid situation where non-expanded shortcode can appear in cached page

2.1.0.2027

• Upgrade admin panels to Bootstrap 4

2.1.0.1985

• Fix Social key mismatch for auto-blogging

2.1.0.1985

• Add reset feature to clear WordPress options

2.1.0.1978

• Fix setup issue that resulted in incomplete data being saved to WordPress options

2.1.0.1971

• Complete testing for WordPress 5.1 support – no issues

2.1.0.1755

• Minor fix for multi-region handling

2.1.0.1749

• Rover IDX 2.1.0 release

2.1.0.1327

• Tested up to WordPress 4.9 / add capability to exclude url slugs / additional debug capability

2.1.0.1326

• Add helpful debug / php 7 check for item existence

2.1.0.1325

• Improve logic of url parsing to avoid conflict with third party plugin

2.1.0.1324

• Improve reliability of sitemap when allow_url_fopen is disabled

2.1.0.1323

• Fix PHP 7 incompatibility with affordability calculator

2.1.0.1318

• Fix regression in previous release

2.1.0.1317

• Improve admin_notices to warn administrator when activated Rover plugin needs a region to be selected

2.1.0.1316

• Improve algorithm that decides to load js / css from cdn for performance

2.1.0.1315

• add back old [rover_idx_login shortcode] that has been removed before 2.0 was released
• improve reliability of email unsubscribe

2.1.0.1314

• prepare for new feature – custom, non-MLS listings
• default system pages (/rover-control-panel/, /rover-custom-listing-panel/) to naked page template for maximum screen real estate
• improved reliability of automatic sitemap generation

2.1.0.1313

• added ‘Search Panel Orientation’ radio button to Rover Omni Search, Rover – Search by MLS Number, and Rover – Search by School widgets

2.1.0.1312

• quick search widget now defaults to price range dropdown, which is more mobile friendly
• declare support for WordPress 4.8

2.1.0.1309

• added help text to Rover IDX >> SEO >> Dynamic Page Definitions
• improved reliability of automatic sitemap generation

2.1.0.1308

• quick fix for regression in 1307

2.1.0.1307

• Improve reliability of automatic sitemap generation
• Fix error when loading rover-control-panel using the naked_page.php template

2.1.0.1306

• PHP warning for admin panel
• Load help (Rover IDX >> Help) over https

2.1.0.1304

• Remove empty ‘Last’ label from recently viewed widget
• Resolve issue with selected cities not being passed to new and updated widget

2.1.0.1302

• Improve custom template – no longer need to create a page using that template to see template in dropdown
• Default dynamic page post_type to page
• Follow WP codex example to return custom template, and not exit

2.1.0.1301

• Fix strpos() issue for older Rover version upgrades

2.1.0.1294

• Fix uncommon path that could result in css not loaded for back end plugin

2.1.0.1274

• New search panels!
• Facebook Login!
• Property Highlight Banners!
• Map polygon search for visitors!
• Automatically add Login / Register to WordPress menu!
• New rover_idx_registration shortcode – highly customizable!
• New rover_idx_contact shortcode – highly customizable!

1.2.6.1733

• Resolve parse error on old unsupported php versions

1.2.6.1731

• Improve saving of Styling settings to WordPress options.

1.2.6.1605

• Rover IDX will now process Diverse Solutions shortcodes and IDX Data Filters.

1.2.6.1604

• Avoid duplicating Rover shortcode button on Visual tab when editing Post / Page
• Add ‘listings per row’ to Styling >> Listings page settings
• Use key ‘search_panel_layout’ for all quick search widgets
• Allow “Print” to work correctly when in a property details dialog (worked correctly in a new window)

1.2.6

• Although Rover IDX is 8 years old and used in many real estate sites, this is the initial WordPress repository release.