One of the key features of a successful theme (free or commercial) is not the amount of features that the theme has, the amazing back-office with all kind of ajax-drag-drop-without-refreshing-its-so-cool admin options or how pretty it looks, in my opinion a successful theme is the one that is extremely easy to setup and use. In other words a successful theme is based on its simplicity:
- Simplicity to search on one or multiple categories with exact filtered results in a breeze.
- Simplicity to upload your theme.
- Simplicity to upload and delete your logo.
- Simplicity to add a listing with any complicated custom field setup.
- Simplicity to upload 10 or 100 photos in a batch and sort them as you please.
- Simplicity to have your images resized without any external configuration.
I’ve listened to a lot of new and potential customers feedback and gathered all kind of requests in the support forums regarding our WordPress Real Estate themes and went back to the drawing board to start something fresh and simple to make it extremely easy to setup and manage listings and photo galleries. I’ve chopped plugins in a half and created new ones together with simple functions to make it easy to manage all the listings.
The result of all this work is the new WordPress Real Estate theme Broker, a classy 5 color theme with all the new and requested features available:
- Property Slideshow.
- Multi-Category Search for filtered results.
- Preloaded templates to make it easier to create new filtered pages.
- Logo Uploader.
- Individual Agent Photo Upload.
- One Click Google maps Inegration.
- Native WordPress photo resizing.
- Batch Photo Uploader.
- Native WordPress Galleries.
Stay tuned for the imminent availability of WordPress Real Estate Broker theme, follow us on Twitter to get notified of the theme release and Gorilla Themes discounts.