FAQs

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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Do follow to install plugins:

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Go to menu Essential Real Estate -> Real Estate Options screen to configure the plugin

HOW TO OVERRIDE TEMPLATES VIA A THEME

Essential-real-estate template files contain the markup and template structure for frontend of your site.

When you open these files, you will notice they all contain hooks that allow you to add/move content without needing to edit template files themselves. This method protects against upgrade issues, as the template files can be left completely untouched.

Template files can be found within the /essential-real-estate/public/templates/ directory:

You can edit these files in an upgrade-safe way using overrides. Copy it into a directory within your theme named /ere-templates/, keeping the same file structure but removing the /public/templates/ subdirectory.

Example: To override the contact agent in single property page, copy: wp-content/plugins/essential-real-estate/public/templates/single-property/contact-agent.php to wp-content/themes/yourtheme/ere-templates/single-property/contact-agent.php

The copied file will now override the essential-real-estate default template file.

Note: Do not edit these files within the core plugin itself as they are overwritten during the upgrade process and any customizations will be lost.

CAN I MODIFY ERE PLUGIN TO FIT MY WEBSITE PURPOSES?

We have been spent more time to survey how customers demand in a Real Estate plugin so we can confidently affirm that Essential Real Estate (ERS) is a Powerful plugin to match with all your design with 100% Responsive and Mobile Ready, easily integrated to any WordPress website, compatible with all kinds of Themes and Frameworks, quickly set up, publish and update.

ERS provides a full-featured system to turn your real estate website into a Real Estate website for community (marketplace), or Real Estate website for Agency.

In this documentation we will give you 2 options to use ERS plugin with detailed instructions to modify the default behaviour of the plugin that match to using purpose in your website

REAL ESTATE COMMUNITY

When you use your website for Real Estate brokers, it means that you will empower for clients to create an account and proceed to exchange real estate deals on your website, from here agreement entered into by two parties for their mutual benefit.

Clients can register and log into the website by their accounts or via social accounts. There are many different packages with specific features suitable for users to choose the best one for their business goal. Users do not only manage their profiles, properties listings but also can quickly search properties or agents based on filter location, type, packing,bathroom, bedroom (Advanced Search feature)…

REAL ESTATE AGENCY

The Real Estate Agency website is a network offering exclusive real estate services to buyer, it focuses on showing information and helping clients buy real estate that best suits their needs.

IS ERE PLUGIN FREE?

Yes! it’s always will be free for all premium features included.

WHAT IS SERVER REQUIREMENTS OF ERE PLUGIN

The first step in setting up your Real Estate website is to install WordPress and the ESSENTIAL REAL ESTATE plugin itself. It’s highly encouraged for you to always have the latest version of WordPress installed, this will also keep your site being more secure. But before doing so, you should check that your hosting environment meets our minimum requirements.

  • PHP 5.6 or greater
  • MySQL 5.6 or greater
  • ESSENTIAL REAL ESTATE requires WordPress 4.5+
  • WP Memory limit of 64 MB or greater (128 MB or higher is preferred)

DOES ERE WORK WITH ANY WORDPRESS THEME?

We didn’t test it with all WordPress themes that are available in the Internet but we tested it with many themes developed under WordPress quidelines and can confirm that the plugin and its widgets will work smoothly on them.

HOW CAN I UPDATE THE PLUGIN AFTER CUSTOMIZATION?

If you have customized the plugin slightly such as changed CSS or made some slight code change, you can update BUT before that please make backup to save the changes you have. After the update was done, transfer the changes to new version.

If you have customized the plugin greatly such as added new features which can conflict with new code of the released version, we wouldn’t recommend to update the plugin. The only way to add new features/fixes to new version is to repeat customization process on the new version.

However you can still use the new version on multiple other websites.

Practial Observation

You can user these account below to use ERE plugin factly as an user (on the frontend) and an admin (on the backend)

DEMO USER ACCESS

=> account: demo / demo

=> account: agency / agency

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