Inspection times, auction times, and general import tidiness

So main issues at the moment are:

Most important: Since updating to the new import template and the new WP All Imports plugin it no longer attaches the inspection date, or auction date to the property listing.
– Complete

Q. Do all images from each property get deleted from the media library any time a property is sold/leased/withdrawn? (We do not hold sold/leased products on the site, when it is sold it is just deleted)

A. Yes, there is an option WP All Import > Manage Imports > (YOUR_IMPORT) > Import Settings > You can set “Do Not remove images”

Q. We are considering starting afresh and removing all old images from the media library, and all properties, and re-importing them with the correct images, inspection time arrays, etc. We want to do this because we have a lot of images that are unattached and duplicates, from when we were incorrectly importing properties using the ‘update’ method of import, rather than the delete and replace method like we do now. Is this something that would be relatively straightforward to do, if we were to just backup the site, take the site offline, delete property images and listings, then re-import the feedsync_current.xml file??

A. No need, install a Plugin “Force Regenerate Images” that will clear everything up. And purge some duplicate images.
– Perhaps your sliders are generating images, Force Regenerate will clear that up.
– You should be importing SOLD listings, this is a SEO juggxrnaught where these listings are only found as the portals delete the data…

FEATURE REQUEST —-
Q. Is there a shortcode that we can use to display properties for auction? Only thing is we need it to show land, residential and commercial auction properties. At the moment I am using my own custom loop. It works fine, but I’d rather use the main property short code loop if possible.

A. Not yet, please provide the custom loop here as an attached zip of the php file, I can build a shortcode for Easy Property Listings to filter auction listings.

Q. How do I hook into the pagination of the standard shortcode loop in order to override the pagination with page numbers rather than ‘next’ ‘previous’?

A.Your theme folder should have a archive-listing.php and a single-listing.php file. If not follow this guide.

Q. I have a pagination function that I usually use on WP sites that goes in the functions.php file, and then is called after the ‘end while’ of a loop. Any ideas how I can hook in with this?

A. In the above guide step 4 allows you to add an additional hook into the template. This allows you to hook a function outside of a single listing entry just like the grid and sorter options.

<?php
function my_epl_loop_footer_function() {
     // Do something
}
add_action( 'epl_property_loop_end' , 'my_epl_loop_footer_function' , 10 );

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Merv Barrett.