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We work hard to make sure adding Rover IDX to your WordPress website is easy. Here is a 52 second video of just how easy it is:
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Announcing Rover IDX 2.0
We are thrilled to announce that Rover IDX 2.0 will become available this week. A long time in the making, Rover IDX 2.0 is packed with new features you’ve been asking for: New, more modern looking Search Panels! Facebook login Ability to combine counties, cities, areas, subdivisions… into one drag and drop organized search control on Search … Read more
Display only Single Family Homes
To display only single family homes: [rover_idx_full_page prop_types=”singlefamily”] You can use additional valid shortcode parameters to more precisely define what you would like displayed. For instance: [rover_idx_full_page prop_types=”singlefamily,land” min_price=”300000″] [rover_idx_full_page prop_types=”singlefamily” waterfront=”true”] * If you do not include the prop_types parameters, Rover IDX will always assume the list of checked property types in Styling >> Search … Read more
Display my listings
Many offices and agents want to display their own listings on a dedicated page. This helps to give their listings more visibility.
Rover 2.0 Sneak Peak: Facebook login
Rover IDX 2.0 will allow the site owner to enable visitor login using Facebook. This feature has these benefits: Visitors are more likely to sign up on the site, since they do not need to remember yet another user / password. New logins using Facebook generate an email to the assigned agent. New logins using … Read more
Rover 2.0 Sneak Peak: Copy Settings from Another Site
Rover IDX allows one license-holder to use that license on up to 5 domains. Managing those domains is going to get a bit easier with this feature. Rover IDX 2.0 will allow you to copy your Styling settings from one site to another: Enter the domain id of the site source website. Go to that … Read more
Rover 2.0 Sneak Peak: Login / Register choices
Rover has always given you choices when setting up your Login / Register component. This important and visible component makes it easy for visitors to register on your website, so they can save searches and track their favorite listings. Previous choices were to add a dropdown button at the top of each page (automatically): You could … Read more
Where is the Search button?
Rover performs searches in real-time (immediately) as you change selections on the search panel. So you do not need a Search button when listings or a map are displayed on the same page. As you make changes to the search panel, the map and listings update almost instantly. If you have a page that … Read more
How to handle stray map markers
Listing addresses are geocoded to get the correct latitude and longitude. Sometimes, especially when the address was not correctly input by the agent during the creation of the MLS listing, that geocoding goes awry: Detecting that the geocode didn’t quite give us what we expected isn’t so easy. The geocode succeeded, we just got wrong … Read more
Diverse Solutions integration
We are happy to announce that Rover IDX will recognize Diverse Solutions dsIDXPress shortcodes and IDX Data Filters! So you can replace dxIDXPress with Rover IDX without having to worry about modifying shortcodes or Data Filters on all your search pages. This is a huge time saver! You can see examples here: Listings shortcode Search … Read more