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Make sure this is in your functions.php (one of these lines should have already been there, one is new)
add_theme_support( ‘woocommerce’ );
add_theme_support( ‘genesis-connect-woocommerce’ );
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I receive a 404 every time I reply. The most recent URL that I was redirected to was http://www.studiopress.community/topic/new-genesis-plugin/page/2/page/3/#post-20498.
And again for this reply: http://www.studiopress.community/?s=404+posting/#post-20499
It does not happen when I edit a post.
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Eric,
I watched the demonstration video on your site and it does seem like a very nice plugin, which simplifies a lot of things for the end user. I don't think I would personally use it, as I have the ability to do the the things the plugin would do for me, but for someone who is not a developer, it does seem like a great option. I'll probably buy a copy to play around with it because I'm sure I'll run into clients who are using it in the future.
Where was this plugin announced? I have not heard anything until I saw this thread.
If something saves you just a few hours of time, it's well worth $44 (or more). I actively seek out premium plugins for my sites, as they are typically maintained much better and have better support (Gravity Forms for instance).
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DP's site is a good example of "www" being a subdomain of its own. He's using "hickoryrealestate.com" for wordpress and then using "www" for his IDX subdomain. You can name the subdomain whatever you want "idx", "search", "properties", etc...
The only reason I don't like using "www" is because if someone adds "www" to one of your WordPress links it will 404.
http://hickoryrealestate.com/local-market-experts-serving-the-greater-hickory-metro.html - this works
http://www.hickoryrealestate.com/local-market-experts-serving-the-greater-hickory-metro.html - this 404s because its trying to look for the page on IDX Broker's server, since you CNAMEd "www" to the IDX servers.
There's certainly nothing wrong with that method, and it makes a cleaner looking URL, I just prefer to use something like "idx" or "property" and use "www" for WordPress.
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IDX Broker Platinum handles the subdomain the same way as the older version of IDX Broker.
They do provide benefit to the primary "domain" but not necessarily the primary subdomain. Everything is indexed under yourdomain.com. But remember that "www" is a subdomain, just like "idx" is. (www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com could be two separate sites if you wanted them to be) So when you link to a WordPress page, you're building link juice to your "www" subdomain. When you link to a property, you're building juice to the "idx" subdomain. So in some ways, it's like optimizing two different sites that happen to look the same.
What IDX Broker was telling you is basically that if you do site:yourdomain.com you see results from both "www" and "idx". It used to be that your site might be at http://www.yourdomain.com and your idx pages were at yourdomain.idxbroker.com. The way it is now, they are both on your domain, but on separate subdomains.
When a property goes off the market theres a page that says "sorry this listing has gone off the market" or something like that.
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Joseph, you misunderstand.
Site:waterpointerealty.com includes pages from BOTH the primary domain and the idx subdomain NOT duplicates of the same page (some with and without a subdomain). Scroll through the results and look at the URLs.
Redirection is irrelevant in this case because there is no attempt to combine the subdomain and primary domain. The WordPress pages are on one subdomain (www) and IDX pages are on the other (idx). The same property page does NOT exist at both http://www.waterpointerealty.com and idx.waterpointerealty.com. It only exists on idx.waterpointerealty.com.
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Joseph, that is not true ( I'm not intending to sound rude). There is no duplicate content.
With IDX Broker, your subdomain uses a CNAME to point to the IDX servers. So your domain might be http://www.josephlee.com (this is where wordpress lives) and your idx pages, landing pages, property details, etc, are all on property.josephlee.com.
Look at the site http://www.waterpointerealty.com/. (this is not my client, I'm not trying to promote myself, I saw it on an IDX Broker webinar this morning).
http://www.waterpointerealty.com/ - wordpress
http://idx.waterpointerealty.com - where all the idx pages live
Now go to Google and type this:
site:waterpointerealty.com
You will see 80,000 indexed results from both the WordPress pages and the IDX pages.
There are no duplicate issues.
The solution you are promoting may be better, I have no idea, but IDX Broker certainly is not a problem. There are many, many people running successful websites using it.
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There is some misleading information in this topic. "RETS is vastly superior to IDX" does not make sense. That's like saying "Wordpress is superior to CSS". Any good IDX provider can, and does, use RETS. RETS is just the standard that a lot of MLS's use to provide their data. If your MLS provides a RETS feed, then IDX Broker, Diverse Solutions, etc will connect to that RETS feed, pull out the listing info, do some formatting, add some functionality, and provide it on your website, using their own IDX solution.
There is no such thing as saying "I'm not going to use IDX, I'm going to use RETS".
I think part of the confusion is that the plugin Joseph is recommending is called "SEO RETS". It is possible the plugin called "SEO RETS" is the best solution (I've never heard of it until now), but RETS itself is a standard that all IDX providers use.
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cmueller733, I'm not terribly familiar with Diverse Solutions/IDXexpress as I only work with IDX Broker . But Agentpress has built-in CSS styling for dsIDXpress, so depending on your skillset, that might be easiest for you. For me, that has no bearing, as its just a relatively small chunk of CSS I could just write myself. Diverse Solutions vs IDX Broker is a long standing debate (that's been talked about on the old forum a few times) but I started with IDX Broker years ago and I've stuck with it ever since for clients because, for a developer, it gives you a lot of options for customizing and the tech support is very friendly and helpful.
Some people will swear up and down one is better than the other. Or that their lead generation improved after switching from one to the other. I personally think you could build a successful site out of either one just as easily (although building a successful site isn't easy).
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That looks nice DP. I just started a responsive IDX Broker Platinum project today, using a custom child theme, although I'm thinking of not using their mobile solution and just customizing the IDX CSS to make it responsive. I used to live in Hickory by the way 🙂
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I created a responsive Agentpress site using Minimum with a customized Agentpress Listings plugin here: http://www.hellerusa.com
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Anitac, in this instance, I have an outer div tag that has the big image set as a background. And then the widgets are located in nested divs within that outer div. The quicksearch is floated right and the slogan is absolutely positioned.
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Nictech, you're right I should probably at least put two menu items per line. I thought about the expandable menus you see on some sites but it was more difficult to implement and there was limited time available for this project. I think I read somewhere that Genesis is supposed to have a built-in improved mobile menu system in the near future as well.
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