SimplyRETS

Hey @nickiova — thanks for the the update with v3.0.2! Glad that fixed the the link issue for you.

The first time I click the link, everything works, and then subsequent reloads show what you’re seeing. Fortunately I know what this is and it is not actually related to this plugin and is easy to fix:

The issue happens when there is a lazyloading conflict on the site. The listing slider already lazy loads itself, but some other plugin (or sometimes a theme) has a lazy load setting that is causing an conflict trying to load the image.

See if you can figure out which plugin is doing the lazy loading. Most caching, optimization, performance, etc, related plugins may have this functionality.

Once you know who is causing the conflict, there _should_ be a setting to bypass certain images by class name (.sr-listing-slider-item-img) or URL (https://media.crmls.org/). This is the easiest solution. For example with Smush, Elementor, W3 Total Cache, etc, all have this setting with the option to bypass I mentioned.

I’ll go ahead and close this since it’s not related to this specific bug, but feel free to reach out via email or open another thread if needed!

Cody

Hey there, thank you for the detailed report on this! Just wanted to post a quick update that we do a have patch for this coming shortly, you should see a plugin update available today or tomorrow with a fix for the issue. I’ll leave this open for now and let you know once that’s available.

Thanks again.
Cody

Shyama, one more quick thing: there are some examples and documentation for the shortcodes here:

• https://wordpress-demo.simplyrets.com/sr-search-form/
• https://wordpress-demo.simplyrets.com/sr-listings/

Hope this helps!

Hey Shyama,

Thanks for the ticket – we’re happy to help! For some reason the screenshots you sent is only showing the first picture of the settings page. Can you paste the specific warning message you’re getting?

Also, we generally recommend using a normal WordPress “Page” with the SimplyRETS shortcodes. For example, create a normal Page and add this shortcode:

[sr_search_form]
[sr_listings]

That should get around the warning for you, but let me know if you hit any other issues.

Thank you – looking forward to your reply!
Cody

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by SimplyRETS.

@irichards1320 last thing, here’s a list of all the parameters we support on [sr_listings] short-code: https://wordpress-demo.simplyrets.com/sr-listings/#search-filters

Hey @irichards1320 thanks for reaching out — this is possible! In addition to the cities filter, we also support a neighborhoods filter. For example, you can use it in a short-code like this:

[sr_listings neighborhoods="NEIGHBORHOOD_NAME"]

You can use it alongside the cities filter, if necessary (ie, if the neighborhood name appears in different cities, you can narrow it down like: [sr_listings cities="CITY" neighborhoods="NEIGHBORHOOD")].

This will of course work only if your data includes subdivision/neighborhood information. Most feeds do, so that shouldn’t be an issue. But if you have any trouble getting it to work feel free to reply here, or send us an email!

– Cody

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by SimplyRETS.

Thanks, @srscott!

Marking this as resolved, but please let us know if you have any other questions @at4446.

– Cody

Hey @mercury168 – good question! We don’t currently have a direct integration with WooCommerce to use the plugins in conjunction. I’m also not super familiar with integrating with WooCommerce, but I’ll definitely put in some notes to our team for future reference!

For a bit more info, the SimplyRETS plugin works completely by using short-codes. You should be able to use the plugins at the same time, for sure, but they will probably not be able to interact with each other at this time. That said, if you’re more familiar with WooCommerce, it could be worth checking out how SimplyRETS works to see if there’s any way to use SimplyRETS’ short-codes as WooCommerce products, or something like that. Here’s the user guide for SimplyRETS, which may help: https://wordpress-demo.simplyrets.com/documentation/

But again, I’ll put some feedback in to our team for you – thanks for asking!

– Cody

Hey there, thank you for following-up! I just actually posted a reply to your other thread, and I wanted to put a link to that here in case anyone else comes across the question and wanted to see the answer:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/listing-filters-page-load-times-layout/#post-10931596

Thanks again!

Hey there, thanks again for the thread! I’ve got a bit more info for you below:

We want to display all of our Broker’s listings separately

Absolutely, just to start, check out this page: https://wordpress-demo.simplyrets.com/documentation

That page will show you all of the “filters” we support. The one you’re looking for here is “brokers”. All you need is to give the short-code your broker’s MLS ID, and the plugin will take care of the rest.

You can, if it helps, provide multiple broker IDs in the same short-code.

and we also want to display other local listings from other brokers in categories by town (Orlando, Miami, etc.) or even by type (Beachfront, Waterfront, etc) in a different section on the same page like this website:

Right, so the only limitation you will hit here is that you cannot filter *out* your brokerage from the list. So, one a page like this you would just omit the “brokers” parameter I mentioned above, and it will show listings from all brokerages in the MLS.

And just to clarify – your broker’s listings will still show up on this page/section.

Is categorizing by areas or other search filters possible to do with your plugin? Will this slow the page load time?

Categorizing by area and property type is for sure good to go. We have a pretty robust set of “location” related filters (city, neighborhood, postal code, counties, etc), so you can definitely build pages specific to these areas/filters.

For page load time, actually no, it won’t slow it down at all! In general, the more “filters” you use the faster it will be since you are “narrowing down” the amount of listings that need to be searched.

Also, do you have variations on how to manipulate the layout of the listings – 3 columns across, 4 across, etc.?

Great question. The plugin doesn’t support a grid-layout out of the box (but I will put in a +1 to our team, we’ve heard the use-case before).

Right now the best way to do this is with custom CSS. We actually have a CSS style guide here so you can see all of the classes and IDs the plugin uses: https://docs.simplyrets.com/simply-rets-client.html

I do know many other users have done this, but personally I have not set it up this way myself (though we can usually help with CSS issues if you hit them).

Hope this helps!
Cody

Hey there, thanks for the question! We guarantee a 2 hour refresh rate on all of our plans. In reality, updates are done in ~30-60 minute intervals, depending on that area. Hope it helps!

Hey Kenny, thanks for the thread! I believe I sent a reply over to an email you sent, and not then my apologies for the slow response here!

Fix: Use the “q” filter instead of the “mlsid” filter. Like this:

[sr_listings q="######"]

There are two ID fields in our API: the public MLS # for a listing and the internal SimplyRETS ID for a listing. The mlsid filter searches the SimplyRETS unique ID, which is usually not the one you’ll have, which is the public MLS #, and for that you can just use q instead of mlsid.

Hope this helps — let me know if I can clarify anything!
Cody

Hey Adam, thanks for the thread — good question!

We don’t have anything specific set up to set that image, but we do actually have an internal ticket open to make some improvements there so I’ll see if I can get those pushed through.

To confirm – is an image of the listing showing correctly in the facebook preview, but you want to customize which image is shown? Or is it not showing a property image at all when you share it?

Let me know, we’ll get it fixed up! Thanks,
Cody

Hey there, thanks for the thread – good question! Sorry about the slow reply, I realize you probably got your answer already, but wanted to leave one here in case you didn’t (and for anyone else): We do indeed support TREB, so if you’re at that MLS you’re good to go. We’re a vendor there, so just ask to “set up a RETS feed with SimplyRETS”, and you’ll be all set.

Thanks again!

– Cody

Hey @pixaque – good question! It’s currently hard-coded to 1,000 in the plugin code, so it’s no directly available to change via an admin or short-code setting. But, it is right here in the code for reference.

Do you think 100 makes more sense, generally, than 1000? Is it specifically for rentals or anything like that? I’ll definitely get some feedback put in to our team!

– Cody