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Here are various ways to edit/add your Agent ID to feature listings on WordPress IDX with Diverse Solutions. General Settings: Log into your WordPress admin. Hover over ‘IDX’ on the left menu. Click ‘General’. Scroll to the bottom Under the ‘My Listings’ section update your ‘Agent ID’ Click ‘Save Options’. IDX Pages Filters: Log into […]

If you are using any Price Drop IDX filters with dsIDXpress and would like to remove them, simply find the IDX pages you’ve created using this filter and remove them. Here are instructions. IDX Pages Once logged into the WordPress Admin, click, “IDX Pages” Find any page that you have created that is using an […]

If you are using any Open House modules or search panels with dsIDXpress and would like to remove them, there are a few different areas you might need to edit in order to remove them. Follow these instructions: Main Options Login to your WordPress Admin On the bottom left, hover over “IDX” Select, “More Options” […]

It’s a great question and valid concern. But we actually do have valid reasons for using underscores rather than dashes. This video quickly explains. But basically, for ADDRESSES, we don’t want Google or other search engines to look at each part of the address and index it separately. Right? 12345_livingston_rd_accokeek_md_20607 The UNDESCORE tells search engines […]

Theme / template / display issues The pages dsIDXpress generates often have a bunch of line breaks in them If the dsIDXpress pages aren’t formatted correctly or appear to contain <br /> tags throughout the pages, it’s possible that your theme is overriding dsIDXpress’s configuration. It’s rare that a theme will do this, but there’s […]

Link structure for loading MLS content This is an advanced topic. Read the getting started guide for a simpler explanation. dsIDXpress can load property search results and individual property details based on a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with /idx/, so if your domain name is yourblog.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages […]

Shortcodes There is built-in support for WordPress shortcodes, allowing bloggers to embed live listing data from the MLS into their blog posts / pages. Adding / editing these shortcodes is made easy by using the tools that dsIDXpress builds into WordPress’s page / post editor. IDX Listing Detail The idx-listing shortcode embeds a single listing […]

Link structure for loading MLS content This is an advanced topic. Read the getting started guide for a simpler explanation. dsIDXpress can load property search results and individual property details based on a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with /idx/, so if your domain name is yourblog.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages […]

I installed and activated the plugin. Now what? You were sold on all the spectacular functionality of dsIDXpress, you decided to purchase an activation key, you installed and activated the plugin, and now you want to actually utilize it on your blog. Well thankfully, we made it super easy to get rolling with dsIDXpress. Listed […]

Installing & Activating Check out the sections below to help you install and active the dsIDXpress plugin. Requirements The following are requirements you must satisfy before you can install and activate dsIDXpress You must be an active member with a multiple listing service (MLS). This means that anyone other than real estate agents and brokers […]

Search results pages just show basic search fields, for the longer description field you’ll need to click to view the individual property page. Most MLS rules require us to show the listing broker info on any property page, so we’ve purposely kept the search result info brief to make sure we stay within what constitutes […]

QUESTION: It would be nice to be able to put the IDX Search widget on the main part of a page, rather than a widget sidebar. I tried a plugin called “Add Widgets to Page”, but couldn’t get it to work. Could you guys maybe come up with a plugin or perhaps a shortcode that […]

From Wikipedia: A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more […]

We’ve provided 3 widgets that you can add to your blog to bring Google and Visitors to the MLS listings on your site. In this tutorial let’s take a look at how to setup your IDX Listings Widget. To do so, perform the following steps… Log into your WordPress Dashboard, Click on the “Widgets” link […]

We’ve provided 3 widgets that you can add to your blog to bring Google and Visitors to the MLS listings on your site. In this tutorial, let’s look at how to set up the IDX Areas Widget. To do so, perform the following steps… Log into your WordPress Dashboard Click on “Widgets” under “Appearance” Here, […]

We provided 3 widgets you can add to your blog to bring Google and Visitors to the MLS listings on your blog. To add the IDX Search Widget to your blog, perform the following steps… Log into your WordPress Dashboard, Scroll down to the “Appearance” section and click on “Widgets Here, you’ll want to locate […]

Right now we don’t offer any search map for the plugin; we only have maps that show listings based on pre-defined criteria. Like the map at the top of results pages like this one: http://brucegarrisonsells.com/blog/id… …which shows 25 listings on the map at a time …and the properties plotted on a map in a sidebar using the […]

With dsIDXpress you can load property search results and individual property details based on a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with /idx/, so if your domain name is yourblog.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages would always start with http://www.yourblog.com/idx/. You can display search results from the MLS based on a number of […]

Google looks at new domains registered less than a year like they are “baby domains” not yet ready for the big world. So, it is more difficult to gain and maintain results until they see the site mature and continue maturing. Part of the maturing process happens by adding new pages of content and blog posts […]

In order to add dsIDXpress to a second (or multiple) blog(s), you need to purchase an additional license for each domain. Once you purchase that secondary license, you can activate dsIDXpress using the same API. However, if it’s a different MLS feed the API key will not be the same and you will need to […]

The map widget for dsIDXpress should always resize based on the width of the container you place it in. Basically, it’s an auto-adjusting widget. Unlike the map modules for dsSearchAgent, you cannot resize their width and height.

Yes!  Registration features are included with the PRO version of dsIDXpress.  These settings are available in your WordPress admin under the IDX > General section.  Here you can set the number of search results or the number of property detail views that users can see before they will be forced to register. If you are using […]

Writing a market report, a neighborhood update, or a post to talk about a specific listing shouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes. Here’s a quick video tutorial that shows you how to use Shortcode to write a post in about 5 minutes or less (now you have NO excuse to write a blog post […]

Currently you cannot use more than one zip code (or city, or tract) via shortcode snippets. In the meantime however, if you also have the dsSearchAgent Pro product, you can: 1. Login to your dsSearchAgent LINKS area and create a custom link that uses multiple zip codes as the search criteria (Read: How To Create Custom […]

Currently our dsIDXpress plugin only displays active and (when available) contingent IDX listings; sold and other pending listings are not displayed. Some MLSes do allow the display of sold and other pending listing data, so this may change in the future… but for now it’s just active and contingent that the plugin will display. Once a listing is […]

One thing you’ll come to find as you use dsIDXpress more and more is that it’s very flexible and you can specify multiple values when using the link structure to load MLS content to your blogsite. Basically, you want to use the following format for specifying multiple values: idx-q-NAME=VALUE The NAME is the parameter name. […]

With dsIDXpress you can load property search results and individual property details based on a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with /idx/, so if your domain name is yourblog.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages would always start with http://www.yourblog.com/idx/. You can display search results from the MLS based on a number of […]

Using our link structure for loading MLS content with dsIDXpress, you can simply link to the “virtual page” URLs that dsIDXpress automatically creates for every city, community, zip code, and listing in the MLS. You can use these links anywhere you could use a normal web hyperlink. For example, we recently featured Bill McCue in […]

You’ll notice that when using shortcodes, the MLS disclaimer is inserted at the footer of your page instead of at the bottom of your blog post. Currently, this is not something that can be changed. Getting each MLS to approve the display of their data this way was a bit of a challenge and part […]

We’ve provided (3) three widgets which you can add to your blog to bring people and visitors to the MLS listings. IDX Areas: The IDX Areas widget allows the blog owner to display a simple list of links to the different areas (cities, communities, tracts, or zips) they service. This makes it super easy for […]