Essential WordPress Plugins for Real Estate
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At the time of writing this, the WordPress repository for plugins has over 17,000 available – many of which are really cool and can work great for specific needs. For a real estate website, you do need a few to get you going, but there are many that perform similar functions. Here is a quick list of the essentials needed to get your site going:
- Jetpack – you can install Google Analytics or you can use Jetpack. It doesn’t have some of the custom functionality available from Google, but is easy to install and works great for site statistics. It tracks visitors, referring websites, search terms and more.
- All-in-one-seo-pack – This is a greta way to make sure that your titles, meta tags and keywords are controlled. Easy to use and highly recommended.
- Contact Form 7 – Simple and flexible contact form with customizable fields.
- WP-DB-Backup – Don’t run your website without it.
- NextGEN Gallery – Flexible photo gallery plugin.
- MapPress Easy Google Maps – flexible and very easy to use and embed in a post or a page.
Those are the basics. You may be interested in others for listings such as Great Real Estate or others, but you should get some of these installed and see what you want to do with your site first.
Suggestions?
Let me know what you use and what you recommend. My suggestion is to keep it as simple as possible and add things that will help users. Don’t worry any more about SEO than installing a plugin to make sure your titles, tags and descriptions are in order. SEO is not about keyword stuffing, etc, but I digress…
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