How to Build A Real Estate WordPress Website with IDX

You Are Tech Savy And Want A Custom WordPress Website

Use this step by step guide that we use to build our pro and custom real estate WordPress websites with IDX. We cover the Domain Name, the Hosting, the WordPress install, the Theme, the IDX, the Plugins, and the Content.

DOMAIN NAME
HOSTING
WORDPRESS
LOGO
THEME
IDX
PLUGINS
CONTENT

BUILD YOUR WEBSITE WITH G.L.A.M.R.

Our goal is to guide you to the highest quality website, using the highest quality coding, themes, servers, plugins, and techniques. At the same time we understand that our niche clientiele does not have the same budget as a big corporation. We want you to have a quality product in both a timely manner, and at a reasonable price.

GENERATE

Your Website Should Be Capable Of Generating Leads. We add forms, lead capture tools, and landing pages.

LEGITIMACY

Your Broker Website Should Define You as A Legitimate Real Estate Professional. We professionally brand your website.

AUTHORITY

Your Personal Website Should Present You As An Authority On Your Local Market. We add blogging, local listings, & community pages.

MULTIPLY

Your Business Website Should Make It Easy To Multiply Your Web Presence. We add blogging, social sharing, and syndication tools.

RESIDENCE

Your WordPress Website Should Be Your Permanent Residence For All Your Marketing Efforts. No better residence than a Self Hosted WordPress CMS.

www.DomainName.com

I HAVE A DOMAIN NAME

Before you point your domain to your website be sure to check with your Local MLS to make sure that it does not break any rules.
Try to keep your domain name short, simple, and easy to spell.
It is best if it has your name business name in it, but it is not required.
Try to use .com extensions
It is not important to have keywords in your domain.

I NEED A DOMAIN NAME

Research Name Availability and purchase your domain name.
See suggestions from the I Have A Domain Box

Start Your Domain Search

Once you get your WordPress website all set up you will come back to the domain to “Launch The Site“.

WEBSITE HOSTING

NOT ALL HOSTING PROVIDERS ARE CREATED EQUAL

Renting space on a server must be a highly profitable business model because there are a ton of hosting providers. Not all hosting providers are created equal… and a good majority of them are just not good at what they do.

I have used and or worked with most of the popular hosts at one point or another. Many of them I refuse to work with… I will leave them nameless.

There is one that I use to host my website and all websites that I build… WPEngine.

Learn More About Hosting

WordPress.org

GOOD NEWS

When you sign up for WPEngine you get a fresh install of WordPress.org all ready to go.

Business Logo

I HAVE A CUSTOM LOGO

Congratulations You Are Ahead Of The Game.

If you did not have a professional design your initial logo, maybe now is a good time to take a look at a re-brand.
Make sure your logo is available as a .pdf or vector, a .jpg, and .png