BRAND NEW 4X beta released!
- Brand New admin UI – future proofing ourselves for the next 4+ years.
- Brand New Multi-RETS Solution – Now you can import/export all of your RETS and can even join multiple RETS into single data base now – while still maintaining their own custom image settings/paths – and YES you can still hot-link images as well!
- Brand New Search Form Builder – We took a bootstrap 12 column grid-stack and made you a custom drag/drop/size option to make building custom responsive “Advanced Search Forms” a snap using Select2 w/bootstrap3 forms that now includes autosuggest text boxes and ajax loaded selects and multi-selects.
- Brand New Auto Suggest builder – Now you can easily configure your own custom Auto Suggest box on your home page (watch our new video – pending).
- Brand New Stats Options for the Short Code Builder for creating Area stats that can even be applied to the polygon drawn areas (watch our new video – pending).
- Brand New Listing Alerts Beta – Will be released with first stable 4x version (about a week away – watch our new video – pending).
What to expect with the beta release?
- Not much in the way of documentation >YET< as this is the very first “beta release” – but – those of you who want to check out our https://youtube.com/retspro channel will be able to get up to speed fairly quick. – We are currently working on a New [in-line tool (?) tips] that are going to popup every place needed in the UI to either provide “basic info” or “embedded samples” or “direct links either to a FAQ or to the video” for technical items that require more details.
- Possible cosmetic CSS/HTML or “possible” minor bugs that we are already flushing out. Any bugs currently within this release are going to be minor, nothing is currently preventing us from using the plugin to build out our projects so we felt its time to share.
PLEASE NOTE**
If you are currently using 3x then – Do Not Overwrite it with this 4x Version!
How to test and what needs to be tested?:
We would like all of our developers who are “real” developer/programmers to download and install the plugin according to the Install/Setup video below.
- First is the new Multi-RETS – check out new tab-1 settings and options to pre-set the mapping box (i’ll post video here later)
- Check out new image options are now in tab-2 for downloading or hot linking (i’ll post video here later)
- Check out new tab-3 option – ONLY OPEN 1st RESI property class – then spend the time to do 100% of your your fields you want and set the rest to trash etc and get everything to successfully SAVE. – THEN – open another property class and you will discover that all the trash fields are already gone and all the matched fields that were already mapped are now mapped for you in the new property class as well.
- NEXT – we need you to try out the new Search Form Builder – We know we have a few ideas left to apply to that but we would LOVE some good feedback on it as well so we can wrap up any request prior to next weeks first release.
- For those of you who have already have a great deal of experience with our 3x will not ever want to go back to it after this – so go ahead and test everything out and you will find that the overall time to setup and do a project has just been cut by more than half with this new version –
- Also – New stats shortcode in this version and NEW auto suggest builder and New Listing alerts is currently being beta tested and should be ready for next weeks first stable 4x release.
New 4x version coming soon!
New 4x version coming soon!
If you already have a Developers License with us GREAT! – then your investment is now going to be worth 3k! (was only $199 in 2007)
As we get ready to release the New 4x Beta, I’d like to go ahead and let everyone know about some important New License changes coming with this release.
As many of you may already know that when we started with our first commercial 2x version in 2007 it was encrypted and contained a license key. When we released the 3x version in 2011, we removed all encryption and all license key requirements completely from all of our products.
Now that we are getting ready to release the New 4x version we have decided to create (2) ways to buy it:
- Developers License $2999 (non-branded – non-encrypted & bundled with current and future modules/products included).
- Basic-Version $499 (Branded – Encrypted and includes (2) domain licenses – core plugin and RETS module only)
We will begin selling the 4x Developers Licensed bundled version now starting at $2,999 – and the developers license price will go higher by end of 2017.
In addition to changes to the 4x versions developers license, we’ll also start offering a new branded, (2) single-site-licensed, base-version (plugin and the RETS module for only for $499). That will allow small firms to get up and running with up to (2) licensed domains included w/purchase so that the developer can set up at least 1-dev-test site and up to 1 more site. But please note – this version will be domain locked, core obfuscated/encrypted and branded via html markup code.
Note* You will be able to purchase additional site licenses keys, as needed, for only 299 each.
Note** No other modules are included with the 499 purchase.
Module Sales –
All add-on Module purchases are going to work with all of your installations without any type of license keys required for them to function – So pay once for any Module of your choice an use it on as many projects as you want to – period.
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Anyone who wishes to just stick with the current 3x version should know that we will continue to only provide fixes over the next 2 years as needed but there will not be any new features added once the 4x version is released.
Anyone wanting to upgrade from the 3x to the new 4x version will only need to deactivate current 3x FTP in and drop in 4x version – activate – enter key (if one is needed) – and done. That’s all that will be needed. So, no need to worry about backwards compatibility as all of that will be already built into the new 4x since we are using the same db tables and only adding in a few new ones.
This is our FINAL NOTICE – Once we make the 4x release all pricing will be changing – Anyone who is considering purchasing the Developers license should do so before the price more than doubles – We can easily claim that the 4x version will easily be the winner of the 2017 Best WordPress Real Estate Plugin! So if you’re into saving money then now is the last chance to get our Developers Licence at the current price of only $1299.
RETS PRO Hosting Servers For WordPress Real Estate Sites
Over the last few months we’ve been busy running promotionals and in the process we’ve added a lot of new host clients on our servers, but growing our hosting side of the business means that there was some additional work needing to get done.
Now that we are the primary hosting for our clients I thought I’d dive into some server security hardening over the weekend via mod_security tools and settings. The first thing I always do is slap in my http://www.projecthoneypot.org/home.php – api key and then turn on and configure (tweak) the process settings of some of the other tools/options – then when your done a simple restart of your httpd – DONE.
I mention all of this so that anyone else doing their own VPS should know some basics of running a non-managed server so I thought I’d add some MUST:
- First thing is to recompile apache with all of the proper server hosting requirements.
- Next to do is to install and configure a firewall – I use this one http://www.configserver.com/ (along with 3 of their other items as well).
- Next login and modify the server php.ini AND my.cnf file.
- Configure server backups for daily,weekly,monthly.
- Next thing I do is to log in to servers root CRON and I add in the ability to delete all domains+backups error+debug logs every night. (if you don’t do this then customers sites will grow MASSIVE log files that they don’t even know about that ultimately waste valuable server space. )
- Finally login and configure the mod_security tools and settings and be sure to add in your honeypot api.
That’s the “basics” of what’s needed to properly setup your own server or VPS – SO – unless you know what the freak you’re doing you really should let someone else handle it for you or pay for a “Managed” server or vps until you’re a DIY IT pro.
If you’d like to hire us to do your Server or VPS setup for you we charge 100 dollars to do the whole process and we only do Cpanel setups and installs.
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