Whats New

Easy Property Listings 3.5

This release is packed with fantastic new features that is perfect for real estate professionals. Built for WordPress developers and used by real estate agents around the world, take a look at some of the standout additions in Easy Property Listings 3.5

[listing_results] Shortcode

The [listing_results] shortcode allows you to display listing search results in popular page builders and themes like Elementor, Divi, WP Bakery, and Visual Composer.

Upgraded Search Shortcodes and Widgets

The search shortcode and widgets have been enhanced to support multiple instances on the same page with tabs, ensuring a seamless experience for users. You can also filter results by ‘status’ to help you find the perfect property.

Improved Map Functionality

When you manually adjust map coordinates in the Edit Listing feature, a real-time map will update automatically. This ensures precise property locations for our users.

Display Hidden Fields

Hidden fields are now displayed in the admin interface for a smoother workflow when troubleshooting imported listings and images.

Custom Template Actions

Take full control of your listings custom templates with additional arguments for hook actions. This feature provides increased flexibility in showcasing your custom templates displaying properties.

Also in this release:

Support for Conditional Fields: Extension settings now accommodate conditional fields.
Enhanced Accessibility: New accessibility labels.
Twitter X Integration: We’ve included the Twitter X icon in SVG and sprites PNG, enhancing the social media appeal of your profile.
Reduced translation strings: We’ve removed the whats new page to reduce the translation requirements across the plugin to make it available in more languages.
Czech translations included; Along with currency support.

Easy Property Listings version 3.5 not only introduces a range of new features and enhancements but also ensures compatibility with the latest PHP 8.2.

Full Change Log

Easy Property Listings 3.4

Easy Property Listings 3.3

Major Maintenance and Security Upgrade

This release is light on new features as it is primarily focused on keeping your real estate website safe from potential security threats. We have edited every line of code to ensure WordPress coding standards and security precautions have been implemented throughout the plugin.

Highlights from Easy Property Listings 3.3

Easy Property Listings 3.3 is a major release with a huge number of new features for your real estate website. Whether you are a developer helping clients or you manage your site yourself, these features will help you showcase your listings.

Standout Upgrades

Gutenberg enabled with REST API.
Price slider search and major search upgrades.
New super awesome [listing_advanced] shortcode.
Re-created Social icons and several others.
Agent profile links for Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.
Minified code with production and development mode.
Listing administration screens slimmed.
Set listings as featured even with imports.
Tools to import and export settings.
Unified search.
So much more.

Gutenberg Support

Now that WordPress Gutenberg has been out and compatibility issues solved with the core WordPress team, we have enabled Gutenberg as default for Easy Property Listings. This also enables the REST API for all the custom post types.

Prefer classic WordPress? We have you covered. If you have the Classic Editor WordPress plugin installed and activated your listing entry screens will revert to the classic WordPress experience.

Grid Mode and Enhanced CSS Styles

Major changes to underlying front end CSS is always a challenge. We know a large number of Easy Property Listings developers have applied a considerable amount of customisations to the default look and feel of the plugin. This is exactly what we hoped would happen and have seen some stunning examples.

Saying this we understand that making wide sweeping changes can have unintended consequences to your site. We do not want that to happen to you. So we have added an option to enable Enhanced CSS from the Advanced Settings page.

One of the changes this applies to is the grid mode view of your listings. Structurally this converts a float left block into an inline block for better wrapping of listings in grid mode and prevents white space appearing if your listings are not the exact same size.

Improvements for Everyone

Listing Entry

This release contains a number of improvements to the listing entry screens to trim them down in size significantly which should aid you with listing entry. We have also optimised the experience if you are using classic WordPress or Gutenberg.

New Social Icons

Social profile icons has been altered to a more modern flat style that can be easily customised with CSS when using SVG versions or modify the PNG file. Any existing customisations are preserved.

Search

Unified price and listing type search is now possible. The result URL now only contains the options selected and you will also find a price slider solution.

Production and Development Mode

Optimising your sites performance and keeping it running as fast possible has been a key cornerstone in development of Easy Property Listings since the beginning. We are further enhancing this with a production and development mode option that will use minified JS and CSS files. This is enabled by default and can be easily disabled from the Advanced Settings of Easy Property Listings.

WordPress Developers

Import and Export Settings

Now you can visit the Tools page and export your settings and import them into another project. This also exports and imports your extension settings.

Shortcodes Updates

Often you want to easily set the default sort of your shortcodes to feature current listings first. Well now you can with the sortby=status option.

Code Upgrades

There have been major code upgrades applied across a large number of functions and features in the plugin, improving extensibility, performance and ease of use.