Rating: 1 star
I wasted over $400 thinking that IDX Broker and this plugin would take care of my needs of integrating IDX into my self-hosted website. The documentation is almost non-existent, leaving you fumbling in the dark. Their website advertises included themes that should work well with this plugin, however, in 2024 these themes do not exist. I spent a fair amount of time on the phone with an IDX service tech who, when asked about the themes, stated “I don’t know, these were installed on my system when I started here.”
The system as a whole is very clunky and outdated. Once you do get a search created, it will default to a subdomain in the idxbroker website instead of natively on your own. Overall bad experience and waste of money. If you really do want a self-hosted IDX website do some research and find a provider that is plug and play ready and doesn’t require countless hours of your time just to end up with a 10 year old looking website.
Rating: 1 star
I’ve never felt compelled to leave a WordPress review, but the service provided by IDXBroker is so non-existant I’ve felt the need the need to notify others that are considering this is as an IDX solution. They will take your money and quickly onboard your MLS feed, but after that, good luck getting a response to an e-mail. They simply ignore you. Plugin has not been updated in a long time. Free plugins have better support than this with a fairly high monthly subscription fee.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This is the best IDX plugin for WordPress. Is it perfect? No, nothing is. But they have been really improving things for about the past year (new features, updated templates, etc.). The Market Reports feature is really nice and loved by many clients.
You can customize many things through the UI. With code you can customize just about anything.
]]>Rating: 2 stars
It does indeed integrate with wordpress, however there are several “imperfections”
1. You can integrate ALL info, which completely overwrites any SEO efforts on a listing
2. All images will come in with the same title. Any local changes will be overwritten
3. “De-Unselecting” option to overwrite all results in ALL properties changing to SOLD status.
Integration should be based on property ID information with the option to select which information is updated upon synchronization.
Unless you are listing and turning many properties a week, this entire process is probably best to do manually
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I want to personally thanks to Nick Leech from the support team.
He does brilliant support and diligent work for archive success in custom solutions.
Rating: 2 stars
I decided to give this tool a try. The search was good, and although I had a few issues installing the plugin, it was not too bad. I was told that the IDX content was SEO friendly, but found that not to be the case. I was also very disappointed that I could not use cache tools to make my website faster. It seems that this plugin slowed my website down.
]]>Rating: 2 stars
I’ve tried IDX broker. It’s okay, but did not help me extend my business. Little to no SEO, minimal traffic and no leads after 6 months.
]]>Rating: 1 star
Google will consider your search and the real estate data on it different than your real estate website. It will be extremely difficult to rank any real estate website using a subdomain for local terms. All the SEO benfits will go to IDX Broker and not the agent’s website. Our office did a search on Google organic pages ( 10 of them ) and not one real estate agent website was listed. I know IDX Broker will blame the agent for it or say that IDX Broker is not in the SEO business.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This plugin certainly extends the addition of IDX Broker’s offerings to the WordPress platform with extra widgets that are available specific to this platform, including the Omnibar. The widgets offer lazy load unlike the previous dashboard widgets and are easy to target for styling and customization.
Being able to create specific parameters from saved links and power the impress widgets via the saved link makes this a clean solution for any wordpress/idx needs paired with your subscription and allows you to take your site to the next level.
]]>Rating: 1 star
IDX Broker is the industry standard from my research.
Think very hard before you jump into using their product if you haven’t before.
The way it works is after you or your client provides them the necessary info your account is set up.
Then their system generates a bunch preconfigured pages and widgets on their subdomain, which you can customize a little. Fine.
Just know to implement things into your site you are going to need to bounce back and forth between your IDX account to configure or create widgets and pages.
There is very little you can do on the WordPress end except access widgets and shortcodes, which again, have to be created over at IDX Broker in your account.
There is no universal or global area to set colors. Which means if you are implementing it into your site branding you have to go through every little element with your browser inspector and figure out how to override the css. Have fun with that.
Beyond the CSS nightmares you have to configure page titles and meta descriptions at IDX Broker. Your IDX pages show up in WordPress through the plugin but anything configured there, even in Yoast SEO, doesn’t show up.
Finding information about configuring and styling everything is another huge problem.
To access their developer forum they want you to become and official developer and pay $99.
I’ve had several tech support phone calls where support told me things that were not true which I eventually had to figure out on my own. Don’t get me wrong, they are really nice people.
It feels like a product from the early 2000’s.
]]>Rating: 4 stars
Works fine. Steady eddy.
]]>Rating: 1 star
This software is constantly breaking our themes due to poorly written code.
Buyer beware.
Rating: 1 star
If 2 stars is “works” then my rating is 1 star. The plugin works, more or less. There are issues supporting sites with SSL and random bugs that take it into the “not working” zone.
Support is not very responsive. Because this plugin interfaces with a paid subscription, I expect much better. But what can you do? Nothing. There is no good alternative.
]]>Rating: 3 stars
I’ve been using IDX Broker for years for clients and am impressed with their dedication to making the service more useful with the Impress plug-in. I would rate it higher if there were a bit more useful features, like the ability to import supplemental listings via Impress and if you could import Impress listings without forcing publishing.
1) Supplemental listings: If you can’t access listings more than 60 days out from starting the service, it leaves clients at a disadvantage since they can’t tap into their previous work. Allowing supplemental listings is the easiest way to add listings (much more straightforward to input all data on one form as opposed to adding as a listing – especially for agents who are time-strapped) – but if you can’t import these listings through Impress, it’s not helpful. Then you have to use a-non Impress, IDX widget that is not as visually friendly as Impress listings.
2) Forced publishing: Since all of the images for a property and the video are not part of the data IDX Broker pulls in from the MLS, I have to add this and other info – like what goes into those cool detailed description boxes, after import. When I publish posts on WP, I also publicize on FB, Twitter, Google+ (as many do with this cool Jetpack feature). I have to scramble to get more photos uploaded (separated by room type), the video, details, etc. to try to beat visitors from social – which never happens, there are always visits before the listing is completed. I’m not willing to turn off publicizing, it’s too great a feature – I hope the developers at Agent Evolution can find a way to import a listing without forcing publishing.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This is really the best WordPress IDX Plugin out there. Together with the admin options in IDX Broker, there is not a better all around solution.
]]>Rating: 1 star
Functionality of this suite of plugins is theoretically nice, but is crippled by a bad implementation of admin-ajax.php. Basically as soon as you log into the WP Control Panel to edit your site, you get a “Your account has exceeded the hourly access limit for your API key” error and are unable to use any of the plug-ins. What seems to be happening is simply logging into the control panel is enough to cause IDX Broker to record an exponential spike in API calls, beyond what seems to be a arbitrarily low limit. I made the developer aware of this issue 5 months ago and they seem to have not addressed it; perhaps they want to get customers to buy higher API limits than they really need. I will not recommend this suite to future real estate clients.
]]>Rating: 2 stars
The plugin works – pulls MLS data in. Took about 4 days to get approved. However what’s not clear is that all data runs on a subdomain of IDX Brokers website. You can make an alias of the URL however the data IS NOT pulled into your website in any way.
We didn’t want our customers leaving our site, even if it is masked and they can wrap the site.
]]>Rating: 3 stars
It’s ok. The learning curve to customize is too time consuming. The platinum version has limitations. The out put is not appealing, even with lotsa customizing. It’s not a bad plugin, but I was expecting more. I do not like the wrappers on every page. I would prefer to use shortcodes on my own pages.
]]>Rating: 3 stars
I have used idxBroker for about a year and love the look and functions of the plugin. It looks great on my site, however I am still waiting for leads. I have only had a handful over the last year with over 200 widgets and over 550 saved links built. I have paid for idxBroker developers to make everything look amazing, just wish there would be some leads. Also we do not rank very well even after doing much work on the website. I am at a loss to try and figure this out.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This plugin is a MUST for real estate brokers/agents. I installed, activated, filled in activation key and I was up and running. THANKS for a great plugin.
** Site owner needs approval by MLS. The plugin developers have no control over MLS access.
Rating: 3 stars
Overall this plugin is good to some extent. It still needs a lot of polish to be great. One of the things I’d like to see is better documentation for developers and greater flexibility with their markup. One example is the search map icons which I was only able to override with JavaScript but would have preferred CSS. The spam review is amateur – develop and design things people actually want to review because of its usefulness or feedback on future enhancements.
]]>Rating: 1 star
Unchecking the “no thank you, I don’t want to submit a review” 1,000 times is just bad form. I literally had to go out of my way to create an account, check an email, confirm my account and log in just to be FORCED to write a review so I’d stop seeing the banner asking about it.
]]>Rating: 4 stars
I wish this plugin would stop asking me to review it.
Wish the Advanced Search page as tidier looking. Having the search button in the middle confuses people. Maybe you should just have some features visible and then have the rest “appear” from an “more options” click. Then put the search button at the bottom.
Also, the control for how many listings to show via a widget shortcode seems to be ignored, causing many, many listings to appear when used.
Otherwise, pretty happy with it.
]]>Rating: 2 stars
I was told this plugin would transfer all my Idxbroker content on their subdomain to my main website.
This doesn’t happen. Still on Subdomain and worthless for seo.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
What is the most important factor when adding IDX to your website? That it is accurate and stable. I have tried all the IDX Plugins and this one just works.
This last year they have been adding a ton of cool new toys. There are almost to many.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
James says it well and since then IDXBroker has really stepped up what they offer. If someone says they haven’t been innovating they haven’t been looking. The new IMPress version of what is now their flagship has a lot of features that make it easier for the do it yourself types to have a great looking site but a smart site. The Omnisearch is incredible and gives users a better way to search. At the same time it gives content creators a flash quick way to get more enticing content. There HAS been some growing pains along the way the past few months but they have a ton of tutorials to help. The biggest thing is that they have a private group that you can join and get help from people like you, IDXBroker developer partners and sometimes staff. With more things coming out it’s an exciting time to be using this IDX Solution.
]]>Rating: 4 stars
We have been using IDX Broker integrated with WordPress for several years now. It is excellent! Great support. It is not simple by any means, but doesn’t require in-depth coding knowledge. I manage our site and did all the integration myself a few years ago. We keep it updated and this latest plugin is fantastic and much easier than integrating in the past. Our web site is one of the busiest in our market and we get dozens of very qualified leads from it per month, and always show up fairly high in search rankings, especially long-tail searches. Having a domain and subdomain doesn’t seem to affect our rankings at all and I have confirmed that with Google support. We have been tracking analytics on our site for several years and the more integration work I do with IDX broker, the more our traffic stats grow and the more leads we get.
Don’t expect to build your web site once, integrate it with IDX broker, then sit back and watch the leads roll in. You have to constantly update, tweak, and improve the site over time, but if you do that, then IDX Broker and WordPress will for sure bring in the leads and send you to the top of the search rankings.
WordPress + IDX Broker = A fantastic combination. We are very, very pleased.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Works Great! If you need an IDX Broker account, you should check out my employer, imFORZA.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This is an extremely powerful plugin. Its fully-customizable, search engine friendly, and integrates within your existing site design (or simply use one of our many developer partners).
This plugin does everything real estate agents, teams, and offices need – and more! Call us with any questions, we’re happy to help.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
First off WordPress is not for newbies trying to get an IDX website up and running. That being said, if you know WP then you’ll love this plugin.
The subdomain issue in a non issue in my opinion. It works seamlessly with my current WP site and it still retains my domain name. You do need to learn how to create wrappers but they make it so easy anyone can do it if you read the directions. I currently have two Platinum WP site and they look and work GREAT!