Real Estate Blog Lab

I like big photos. I like them to fill as much of the space on the screen as possible. On an individual post the page size by K isn’t too bad with large images. But when there are 5 to 10 posts on the home page all with images on them, it can bloat the size of your home page and make it very slow to load.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thanks to Eric Blackwell for his contribution of Eric Blackwell’s Must Have WordPress Plugins . By the way Eric now has the distinction of the post with the highest number of comments at 22. (Talk about give [...]

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Maureen Francis of MIOaklandCounty asked “On another note, I am looking around for any must have WP plugins. Would like to see a bunch of us post what we are using to see what we can learn.”
Eric is the first victim volunteer to share his list of plugins and in so doing became [...]

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Has anyone found it odd that there is a CMA Request form on the lab?
I thought someone might ask me about it, but I haven’t had anyone inquire about it.
Yep, I’m running another experiment on this CMA Request Plugin from Realivant.
I like the results.

It is easy to install and Activate
Create a page (I suggest using [...]

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The other night I was getting the Scoop on Michigan Real Estate when I noticed Maureen had a new IM thingy (technical term) on her blog.  
Plugoo isn’t a plug-in.  It is a script that I put in a text box in the widgets setup screen once the Plugoo account was setup. 
You can see it at the bottom of [...]

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Have you seen this symbol on blog posts? It is usually located at the bottom of the post, but it can be put anywhere you want to display it, within reason of course.
This is from Alex King’s blog. It was about creating an icon for his share this plug-in.
There have been a lot [...]

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Sometime on May 18th I noticed all the avatars for mybloglog suddenly disappeared from all my blogs comments.
Oh, My!!
I quickly changed from IE to FF and they were still missing. I changed to another computer, gone.

I un-installed
re-installed
upgraded to 0.02a

Nothing, they are gone. I’ve left the plugin creator a message that the avatars have escaped. [...]

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Almost everyday I hit the links at the bottom of the dashboard page and check the new plugins and themes available for Wordpress.
On May 16 in the plugins post there was an archives plugin mentioned.
I had just been setting up a new theme one of our listings and found it had the ability to create [...]

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Plugins really make setting up a single property site much easier.  One Plugin I use heavily is the Sidebar Widget plugin, when you chose a theme you want to make sure it is “Widget ready” or “widgetized”  if not you will need to know how to go in and modify the theme code to include [...]

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I ran across this little beauty a few days ago.  The Comment Spam Trap is a Wordpress plugin that is simple and easy to install.  Once installed you just sit back and watch the spam disappear. 
When I first installed the plugin I set up the plugin to email me the trapped comments. I wanted to [...]

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