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WordPress Plugins

October 24, 2016 by engageRE

NOTE: This article applies ONLY To:

The following plugins and extensions are installed and activated on all engageRE WordPress sites:

Front-end Extensions

engageRE IDX (Responsive IDX Map Search with SEO Friendly Listing Pages and Search Landing Pages)
Social Icons (via engageRE IDX)
Ninja Forms (Custom Forms on pages and sidebars)
Facebook Likebox Widget
Responsive Mortgage Calculator

Backend Extensions

Beaver Builder (Drag and Drop WordPress Page Builder)
Genesis Dambuster
Genesis Extender
Genesis Simple Sidebars (Manage Variable Sidebars Per Page)
Google Analytics (via engageRE IDX)
Image & Media Handling
Enable Media Replace
EWWW Image Optimizer
Image Widget
WP Rocket (cache control)
WordFence Security

These plugins and their options appear in the relevant area of the WordPress backend (on the main menu, Page Builder content, widgets, shortcodes, etc.)

WordPress Plugins for Advanced Functionality

The following have been certified for use on the engageRE platform:

- Yoast SEO - An advanced WordPress SEO plugin that, with work, will allow you to further optimize your WordPress pages for search engines.
- AJAX Search - A powerful post search widget
- Feedzy RSS Feeds - Aggregates RSS feeds onto your site.
- Local Market Explorer - Zip code level market stats via Zillow
- Message Ticker - A news-flash-style message display

Adding A New Plugin

We do not allow individual subscribers to install WordPress extensions or plugins on their own. We operate a large-scale, shared environment, and therefore we must certify any and all changes and additions to our platform that could impact other subscribers.

That said, we are always looking for ways to enhance our service and platform. If you feel you would benefit from a third-party plugin on your WordPress website, our Premier Support team is available to test and certify it for use on our platform. As a WordPress Premier subscriber, the easiest way to get that done is to make that request to premier@engageREmarketing.com.

The engageRE Plug-in Mergefields

July 26, 2016 by engageRE

NOTE: This article applies ONLY To:

The engageRE Plugin for WordPress supports a number of "merge fields", which, when used within text anywhere on your site, will be replaced with the text for your specific account.

To recall an account-specific value, insert the following short-code into a text area anywhere on your site:

[engageremergefield fieldname="some-name"]

Where some-name is one of the following:

accountid
address1
address2
city
displayname
email
engageredisclaimer
firstname
hasphoto
homefinderbar
lastname
officename
phonedirect
photourl
primaryphone
primaryphonetype
primaryphoneunformatted
regioncode
rnaccountid
rnapitoken
secondaryphone
secondaryphonetype
secondaryphoneunformatted
statecode
websiteroot
zipcode

Adding A Custom Form To Your WordPress Site

July 26, 2016 by engageRE

NOTE: This article applies ONLY To:

Your engageRE WordPress website was initially setup with two forms that your site visitors can use to interact with you - a general contact form, and a home valuation request form. Note: These are in addition to the lead capture forms used with the search experience.

With WordPress Express, you can also create new and specialized form for other purposes using the custom form builder that is part of engageRE WordPress. Creating a new form has three steps - 1) add a new form to the form library, 2) setup the desired actions that should occur when the form is used, and then 3) deploy that form to all the places where you want it to appear. The following provides step-by-step instruction for that process.

Adding a New Form

Sign into the WordPress backend for your website.
Select Add New from the Forms menu.
From the Template Fields section, tap the button for the first desired element. It will be added to the form at your right.
Adjust the settings for that element.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the form is complete. You can reorder elements by dragging them into the proper position in the form builder area.
Click Save to save the form. Click Preview Form to see your form on a sample page.

Processing Your Form

As a second step, you need to setup the action(s) you want performed after a visitor submits your new form.

After you have built and saved a form, click the Email & Actions tab.
Click Add New.
There are three types of actions:
1. Email the form field results to you.
2. Replace the form with a success message.
3. Redirect the visitor to another website or URL (advanced feature).
Generally, the first two are done on most all forms. Note that the last one is an advanced feature which may require some custom coding.
To create an email action, choose "Email" from the Type drop-down complete the remaining fields. Build the body of the email with the editor, embedding form fields from the drop-down as desired. Click Save when you are done.
To create a success message action, choose "Success" from the Type drop-down, and then create the message/content you want to appear in place of the form when it is submitted. Click Save when you are done.

Choose Preview Form to test your actions.

Using Your Form

Once a form is built it can be added to your site in one or more areas.

To add a form to a page or post:

Create or edit it using Page Builder.
Drag the "Ninja Forms Widget" selection from the WordPress Widgets area of the Add Content drop-down onto your page or post.
Select the form from the drop-down and click Save.
Save and Publish your changes to the page or post.

To add a form to a sidebar (or other widgetized area):

From the main WordPress dashboard, select Widgets from the Appearance menu.
Drag the "Ninja Forms Widget" control from the list at left to the target sidebar on the right.
Select the desired form from the drop-down.
Click Save.