Beach Rental Real Estate + WordPress
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:22 pm
My local market has a lot of websites dealing primarily with beach rental real estate listings. The thought came to mind of using WordPress and some kind of integrated real estate listing widget, plugin, site script, or whatever, to make something that a realty agency can update. In addition to the site development, they can also pay me to be like a "backup" to update the site in the event the main person is on vacation or flying somewhere, etc.
I want to find something, but I want to stick fairly mainstream and integrate the code with what is time-tested here. What do you recommend? I don't mind if I have to pay a little something for it as long as I can trust it.
In general I guess the features would be:
- Browse rentals by price
- Browse rentals by feature
- Search rentals by keyword
- Browse/Search results appearing with images, price, and some feature info
- Map with driving directions
- Interior/Exterior photos as thumbnails -- click to expand as the 640x480 photo in a lightbox along with < and > buttons to cycle through them in large view
- Calendar to check availability and fluctuating rates
- On each rental, a form to request a rental reservation slot (just a form -- not fully automated; pay rental office when one arrives)
- Wish List feature for final review before a decision is made
- Callouts for certain listings to make them more well-noticed to people
- Some kind of integration for the home page to show the more lucrative properties
- Flag an item as a weekly special, of which the special expires
I want to find something, but I want to stick fairly mainstream and integrate the code with what is time-tested here. What do you recommend? I don't mind if I have to pay a little something for it as long as I can trust it.
In general I guess the features would be:
- Browse rentals by price
- Browse rentals by feature
- Search rentals by keyword
- Browse/Search results appearing with images, price, and some feature info
- Map with driving directions
- Interior/Exterior photos as thumbnails -- click to expand as the 640x480 photo in a lightbox along with < and > buttons to cycle through them in large view
- Calendar to check availability and fluctuating rates
- On each rental, a form to request a rental reservation slot (just a form -- not fully automated; pay rental office when one arrives)
- Wish List feature for final review before a decision is made
- Callouts for certain listings to make them more well-noticed to people
- Some kind of integration for the home page to show the more lucrative properties
- Flag an item as a weekly special, of which the special expires