AgentPress WordPress Theme Review
If you’re a realtor I bet you already have a website and/or blog. That’s good, but it’s just a start. If you hired a service to build it for you, then you know that getting a realtor website going is expensive. You also likely pay ongoing fees.
But, imagine if you could build your own website and blogs for no cost and build them in less than a day? You can and I’ll show you how with a very good realtor WordPress theme. First I’ll answer the question why you might want more than one or two websites. The reason is you can target your prospective clients much more effectively if you build sites that cater to them specifically.
Let me illustrate with an example. Suppose you sell both condominiums and detached homes in an urban area. You know the demographics of those people. You also know that the benefits offered by a condominium and detached home are different. Instead of writing about both in one website, why not have one site dedicated to condominiums in your area and another site dedicated to detached homes. You can break it down even further such as waterfront, estates, home for under $100,000, etc.
These separate microsites serve two important purposes. First, you look like the condo expert. Second, you can target condo buyers easier when your website is dedicated to condo buyers and sellers.
I can tell you that the best thing I ever learned in running an offline service-based business is learning how to build my own websites and blogs.
Now to the heart of the matter – the AgentPress Theme review.
A great WordPress theme for real estate agents is …
AgentPress by StudioPress. Click here to visit the AgentPress official page to see for yourself. This review outlines what I like AND don’t like.
This realtor WordPress theme is built on the StudioPress Genesis Framework which results in outstanding flexibility, customization, and extremely easy-to-use features. Click here to read my Genesis theme review.
The AgentPress theme by StudioPress is an ideal WordPress theme for realtors / real estate agents because it’s designed for optimally featuring your listings. In addition, you can incorporate a blog and your visitors can search your listings with a multi-variable property search function.
Because this is a WordPress theme, you can add as much content as you like whenever you like without knowing any computer / html code. In fact, you can get this theme for your real estate business up and running without knowing any computer / html code. It’s incredibly easy-to-use and very professional looking.
SEO Integration for Search Engine Rankings
This realtor WordPress theme comes with a built-in SEO configuration panel which makes it very easy for you to properly optimize your real estate website and blog for search engine rankings. You still need to do some off-site SEO or hire it out, but the on-site SEO is very easy to properly configure with AgentPress theme by WordPress.
Navigation Made Easy for Your Prospective Real Estate Clients
StudioPress themes offer numerous methods for you to customize the navigation menus in your website and blog. Additionally, the AgentPress theme offers a property search function that is ideal for having your website visitors search your property listings.
Ramp Up Your Realtor Marketing With Built-In Twitter
AgentPress includes a built-in Twitter widget that you can connect with your Twitter feed so your posts and tweets are tweeted to your followers. If you’re into social media marketing, this is a must-have feature on all your realtor websites.
Incredible Property Photograph Display Options
When you check out the demo of this theme, you can see all the options for displaying your property listings. You also have the option to have large featured property listings at the top of the home page that can be configured as a slideshow creating a dynamic-looking website.
What if you simply want a WordPress blog?
Perhaps you already have an established realtor website with all your listings. If that’s the case, then consider starting a blog or a real estate WordPress website on something topical that targets your prospective clients. You could write a blog about local businesses, attractions, schools, the economy, detached home prices, condo-living, staging, etc. If this is where you wish to take your realtor marketing, the consider any one of the StudioPress WordPress themes (my favorite WP theme developer by far). You convert pretty much any of the themes into a personal blog very easily or use the default layout.
What I Don’t Like About AgentPress
- You can’t do multi-variable searches for listings. For example, if your visitor wishes to search by price and number of bedrooms, it can’t be done unless you install the “custom search” WordPress plugin and configure it for searches.
UPDATE October 16/11: AgentPress Theme 2.0 offers multi-variable searches for listings when you use the free AgentPress Listings plugin. END OF UPDATE!
- The drop down menus can be sticky.
That said, I’m of the view AgentPress is one of the best Realtor WordPress Themes available. 4 Other solid real estate WordPress themes are:
- Estate by WooThemes
- iReal Estate by iThemes
- Elegant Estate by ElegantThemes
- RealEstateThemes by iThemes
- Real Estate by Templatic
Take your real estate agent services marketing to the next level with a AgentPress or any one of the other realtor themes today. Once you build one site, you’ll be able to take complete control of your Online realtor marketing campaign.
Click here to visit the official AgentPress website
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Great review. Did you find that the other themes were built as well as the Studiopress ones?
Thanks for your comment. All realtor themes listed are developed by high quality WordPress theme developers with solid support.
Do you know if there is a plugin that you can use to create a header with multiple rotating pictures in it?
Petra recently posted..405Cassingham
Hi Petra,
Search in Google the phrase “wordpress plugin for rotating header image” and you’ll find many free plugins available.
I’ve never used such a plugin so it will be a bit of trial and error.
Does AgentPress use the MLS IDX to get access to the latest listings?
Hi Eric,
Yes. It’s not really AgentPress that uses MLS IDX. Instead, MLS IDX services provide the code you place in your website. It works universally.
Thanks for your question. It’s a good one and an important one for realtors.