Description

Estate

Woothemes Estate Theme – Download it from our site for a little value of money .
Estate Overview

The Estate theme is a hugely powerful app theme that enables your site to list real estate properties effectively and index them efficiently with an advanced search system. Estate has been coded taking full advantage of WordPress 3.0’s custom post type’s functionality.

Explaining the Estate taxonomies

A taxonomy is way of classifying data in WordPress. What this means is that you can better separate your data in both the frontend and backend. Until WP 3.0, there were only 2 major built in taxonomies – categories and tags, both of these for posts. However, with WP 3.0 you can not only create new taxonomies for posts, but you can also create new Post Types such as Properties. In Estate, we have created a Properties post type and 3 custom taxonomies – locations, property types, and additional features. This allows you to manage your data more efficiently and to extend the default usage of WordPress to include new powerful features.

Once you’ve installed the Estate theme you’ll notice two new panels become available to you in the WordPress backend.

Important installation note
Please note there is an important first step after installing with Estate theme. You need to navigate to Settings > Permalinks and click on the “Save Changes” button, even if you haven’t made any changes. This is to register the custom post types used in the Estate theme.

Setting up your layouts
With Estate you have a certain amount of flexibility with the page layouts for the home page, property single page, property archive page, property search page and property author page. In the screenshot below you will see you can choose a layout with or without the sidebar for these various pages.

Make sure you select your layout option for each of the pages when setting up your Estate website.

Setting up the homepage
The homepage of Estate can have 3 widgetized regions available for placement of custom woo widgets in the sidebar, if the sidebar is enabled under the “Layouts” theme options documented above. Also remember to add the footer widgets, the widgets you add to these footer widgetized regions will be used across all the site pages.
Adding a property post ↑ Back to Top
Adding a property to your website is very similar to adding an ordinary blog post, although you must navigate to the “Properties” custom post type panel in the WordPress backend. Then click on “Add New” and fill in the WYSIWYG editor with the property name and details about the property in the editor. Then make sure you fill in the Estate custom settings, like number of rooms, size of property, price, etc.
The features content is pulled from the “Additional Features” form next to the WYSIWYG editor when adding a property post. The rest of the content can be added via the normal post editor shown above.