WP-Property – BLM Export

An add-on for the WP-Property WordPress plugin that allows you to send a BLM feed to property portals automatically at regular intervals. Contains the following features:

• Automatic scheduling of feed creation; either twice a day, once a day, or every other day.
• Test mode and live mode to allow you to test the feed first before sending it.
• FTP upload – Feeds are automatically uploaded via FTP to the portals.
• Compression. Specify if you want to send all the files separately, or compress them into a single zip for quicker processing.
• Support for multiple branch codes per portal in the event you are dealing with a multi-office agency.
• Incremental feeds. The plugin only includes the media that is new or has recently changed to massively reduce sending times and filesize. Can be overwritten if required
• Archiving. Store files for a configurable amount of days to act as a temporary backup. These are then automatically cleaned up at regular intervals to prevent disk space being taken up.
• Manually run feeds to assist with testing
• View statistics for the past 30 days including a list of the properties sent in each feed, and a list of errors if any occur to aid with debugging why a feed or property may not have sent.
• Emailed reports. Get a report emailed to one or more recipients containing a log of what happened when the feeds ran. You can choose to receive these reports every time the feed runs, or only when errors occur.
• Advanced field mapping. Easy to use interface allowing you to select which fields setup in WP-Property relate to the fields in the BLM
• Extra resources for developers including links to a BLM validator, a sample BLM and BLM specification.
• Help tooltips throughout explaining what each field means.

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Requires

• PHP ZipArchive extension
• WP-Property plugin

Upcoming features

• Aim to include floorplans, brochures, EPC’s and virtual tours. Because there is no definitive way to add these in WP-Property it’s difficult to know how people will be storing these.
• Make field mapping more intelligent by pre-selecting fields based on their names
• Allow user to choose which size of image they include in the feed

1. Ensure you have the WP-Property plugin installed and setup
2. Place this plugin’s file into your plugins directory and activate the ‘WP-Property – Portal Feeds BLM Export’ plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Under the ‘Settings’ menu there will now be a ‘BLM Export’ options panel where you can configure the panel.

1. 

   Export and Sending Options

2. 

   Portals and Branch Codes

3. 

   Field Mapping

4. 

   Archiving

5. 

   Statistics

6. 

   Actions and Tools

1.0.0

• 2013-07-15 – First commit