How To Make A Real Estate Website With Wordpress

what's up guys my name is Darrell and in this video you are going to learn how to create your own real estate website with WordPress now if you are a real estate agent and you want to create a website for your listings and your properties or you are a web designer and you want to create a real estate website for your clients then this video is for you now I'm going to quickly go through all of the features of this website and show you what we'll be learning today in this video so here you can see we have our header on the top and again you can change the color you can change the font you can change basically anything that you would like here you can see that we have a slider with our properties and if your users come to your site and click on it it will take them directly to that specific property now here you can see that we have images of their property so right here I can see that this property is in Florida it is for sale and this is the price and again we can always change the colors we can change whatever we would like so here I can click on the image and your users can go ahead and scroll through the images and take a look at the property scrolling down here we have some features of the property so we have the square footage we have the number of baths the number of bedrooms the garages also the ear is built and you can add as many features as you would like and also here we have some more description of the house so you can go ahead and talk about you know whatever you want to talk about regarding the house on the right side right here we have a search bar where people can actually search through your website with this search bar right here we have additional details as well so right here you can see that we added just AC appliances bathroom description you know you can go ahead and list your additional properties and you can add as many as you would like over here we have the mortgage calculator so this was a to help determine you know if they can afford the house and they can you know get a better understanding of what they'll be paying for the house right here we have featured properties on the right side and then right here we have a common notes and then we also have more features as well so right here if I click on two stories it'll actually take them to all the properties with two stories so your clients can actually search through by features as well on your website and right here we have a property video so if you film the video of your property and you want to submit it to the listing then we can go ahead and add that same YouTube video or Vimeo video to our property look at that that is a beautiful video right there look at this that sold me that that right there sold me this isn't this isn't Dubai they're like the really expensive houses and right here we have a virtual tour so if you want to go ahead and list a virtual tour on your website you can go ahead and do that as well that looks really really cool below that we have the property map showing them the location and we also have the agents as well so right here would be the agent and remember we can specify and specific properties to specific agents if we choose to do that and right here we can actually share this to our favorite social media network but I think Google+ is going to be gone soon so you won't be using Google+ and right here of course they can always message the agents regarding the property and then they can go ahead and email the client and they can go back and forth and then below that we have similar properties so maybe you want to advertise other properties in the area to your clients now one thing I do want to note is that we have different templates of this so this right here is one template and this right here is not templates so depending on what you like we can actually change the style design for your real estate website and of course we can change the colors we can change the fonts we can change the text size etc so really quickly if your user comes to your site and wants to search through a property they can actually search by location by property type by property status just like websites like realtor.com and Zillow calm we can do the same exact thing on our websites so right here for instance if I want to go ahead and search through something we can see they here there's a map and I can even click on this and it'll take them exactly to that property which is really cool and then below here it'll actually filter out the properties to make sure that it navigates the user correctly so here are the list of properties and then kind of just go you know go through the list and check these all outs now let's go back over here so we you can list the properties we can list the you know whatever you want to list we can change the style of it so we can change the color now we can also list agents as well so if you have certain agents in your business we can go ahead and list them right here and every agent has you know their own personal profile we can go ahead and read more about the agents they can contact the agents they can get all the contact details and they can send them a message now we can also assign specific agents to that property so for example if you have Nathan James that he has all the properties in LA and this person has all the properties in Indiana you can assign those properties to specific agents now another really cool feature that if you choose to use for your website is agency list so if you have if you work with multiple partners you can go ahead and add their companies here and you can assign the companies to the agents and then the agents to the properties etc so here we have two different agencies of course this is totally optional you don't have to do this but this is just something that you can add to your website if you choose to do so right here we have the news page so you can always keep people informed about the you know the news and the real estate industries the house and the prices are going up or the interest rates are falling something to kind of encourage people to you know engage with your websites and I'll show you how to do this it's really simple it's all done with a drag-and-drop builder and then we'll fish it off with our contact form so the contact form again is right here people can see your location on the Google map they will have information about your your business so your phone your fax your email your address and they can also send you a contact form or fill you fill out a message that will go directly to your inbox as well if you choose to do so now going back over here so again we can always change the color now we can also change the homepage to various style so here you can see that we have one style and we can change it to other style so if you want a map with property markers you can go ahead and do that you can also change it to a slider base just like we had before and again making changes is all visual so right here you can see find your way home find your way to your house and these changes are live on the internet so when I click on publish those changes are saved so it's very simple to use now in case you want to learn how to actually use the Builder and you're not sure about it you're saying I don't know you know this seems like a little technical you know might be difficult everything here is done with a drag-and-drop builder so right here you can see that we have we are writing the best real estate deals I can just go ahead and change this to something like I'll just change this to offers alright and then maybe I want to go ahead and take this section right here and I want to drag it up here and then maybe I want to take this section and I want to drag it below that right there so everything is done with a drag-and-drop builder so it's really simple to use really really easy and you'll have no problem using this page builder in fact I teach many beginners who know nothing about websites or WordPress complete beginners you know how to make websites and they have no problem also I want to note that if you are a real estate agent and you want the ITX integration this theme is compatible with the IDX integration as well so if you are part of the ITX platform where you have like your your agent board or some like that's this theme is compatible with a plug-in where you can submit your MLS listings as well on your websites so if you're ready to learn how to create a real estate website so that's you know very user friendly mobile responsive in fact let me go ahead and show you really quickly right here is what your site looks like on a computer and then we can change it to a foam I'm sorry this is a tablet and then this is what your website will look like on the mobile device as well so it's totally mobile responsive so if your users come to your site on their mobile device and want to quickly go ahead and look through some properties it's very simple to set up it's very responsive and these are some of the nicest designs out there these were designed by professionals to help bring you value and this is all done with a one demo importer so you would literally click on demo import and your entire website is submitted and done it's that easy so in this video I'll be showing you how to set it up I'll be showing you how to list properties and just give me an hour and hour and a half and you will have your personal real estate website up and running so if you're ready to learn how to create a real estate website let's go ahead and get started now the first we're going to do is purchase our domain and hosting so for example your website com after that we are going to install a wordpress now WordPress is the number one content management system out there it powers more than one third of the internet because it's really easy to use after that we are going to purchase and install the real home steam now this is the number one best rated real-estate theme out there so we're all using the best you know on my channel I like to use the best of the best and after that we're going to go ahead and create our amazing real estate website now there is a link in the description of this video it'll take you to a page that looks just like this right here and this is Sai chrome com now in case you're wondering why are we using this web hosting company I actually compared this company against 15 others and this came out as number one as the fastest and the most reliable and you can always call them anytime you wanted the day 24-hour customer support was also a 30-day money-back guarantee now you can see right here that's me saying yeah I recommend it it's a great company and they really are they're a great company now if you scroll down right here we have choose your hosting plan and there's three plans but for this business I'm only gonna recommend one and that is the grow big because the grow big option you get to host unlimited websites rather than just a single domain so maybe later you want to create another real estate website or you have a friend and they want a website you can do that with this hosting plan but with the startup you can only host one so it's pretty limited and for the go geek I don't recommend that because for those of you who are doing real estate so you don't really need it it's not too much you know it's not too much work so right here you'll click on order so go ahead and give your websites a name so this is your official domain so when people type to sit on the search bar your site will show up so I'm gonna put Darrell Wilson real estate's comm and right here I'll click on pro Cee'd let's see if that's available a lot of the times okay good it's available all right awesome now right here you have your page so you have your email your password your information I'm sure you've seen many pages like this on the Internet's here is we're gonna put in your credit card information etc and also your social security number I am just kidding guys there is no social security number they don't ask for that it's a joke and right here we have the hosting services now I recommend the 12 month because the 12 month will actually give you a bigger discount and remember there's also a 30-day money-back guarantee also right here for extra services now I always recommend the domain privacy and I'm explaining what is this is basically protecting your domain against spam so if people see your personal information they're gonna send you emails are gonna send you spam they're gonna send you viagra ergo sent you a Russian sex dolls or whatever you don't want that so the domain privacy your protected people cannot see your personal information so I highly recommend the domain privacy protection and also right here the site ground site scanner this will actually monitor your website every single day to determine if it's been hacked or injected with malicious code and for 20 dollars a year for someone to watch your website every single day I would definitely go with that option so right here I'm a click on psych around site scanner now that's an optional thing you'll have to have that but I really really recommend domain privacy trust me just get that just get that you're gonna thank me later you really will and then right here you'll have to click on the Terms of Service I know you're all gonna go ahead and read this you know you're all gonna go ahead and read all this good stuff but you know how it is today especially in United States everyone wants to sue everybody so you know how that goes and then once you're ready you'll click on pay now also you can actually subscribe to the newsletter if you choose to do that but I already have enough emails so I'm not going to do that and go ahead and fill this out and I will go ahead and meet you on the very next page okay so I purchased my hosting and right here I can see that it says proceed to customer area so you'll click on that alright so right here it's basically trying to set up our website so saying okay you got a website let's set it up and they know that most people use WordPress so right here we'll click on start a new website and we'll go ahead and choose WordPress now right here this is your admin email your username and your password now this is to actually log in on the website and edit it so make sure you write this down alright so right here I'll put in my my out of an email there a Wilson realtor and then right here I'll put in realtor realtor and then right here you want to go ahead and put in your password so I'll go ahead and put in and see realtor 1 2 3 here I'll go ahead and put in my password and then right here I'll click on confirm all right so right here it's saying you've you have installed WordPress on your accounts and right here I'll go ahead and say ok I'll go ahead and confirm if they're trying to offer this I didn't purchase it so I'll just click on confirm and then I have read to the terms and then I'll complete setup right here so now it's actually installing WordPress onto our domain so it's basically doing all the technical stuff so we don't have to do anything this might take a minute or two psych grounds pretty quick okay so my hosting account is ready to use I'll click on proceed to customer area now this is basically your customer dashboard so whenever you log in to sycron comm this is your personal dashboard and you can kind of walk around and kind of take a look so right here is your accounts that's our domain if you ever need support you can always submit a ticket or you can just go ahead and call them this right here is your billing information if you want to add any additional services you can go and do that right here and also they have perks so they have special discounts for other services etc so right here I'll click on my accounts now before I click on go to admin panel I want to actually show you all how you can manually install WordPress just in case the setup didn't work correctly or there was an issue or something like that so right here we go to go to cPanel now for those of you who've already done this you don't have to follow me I'm just doing it just in case you want to restart or something went wrong or you know just things happen so right there I clicked on WordPress now I hear my installations now right here I click on closed and I'm going to actually delete this installation so right here click on remove installation now this is another way on how you can solve WordPress on to other domains as well so right here we have WordPress and now it says install now so I'll click on Install Now and this right here is the domain and this is your site settings don't worry about this you can change all this later right here you'll go ahead and put in your your username so I'll put your realtor 1 2 3 and then again here realtor 1 2 3 here I'll go ahead and put in my email address and also make sure that this is the correct email address because when you do forgot password it's going to go to this specific email and right here I'll just click on install so now I'm installing WordPress on to that domain it says it takes like three to four minutes but it really only takes like like 15 seconds we can count it out you know right with eight nine ten eleven there we go eleven seconds it's pretty quick so right here this is where you're going to log in on your website now for the other people you can just click on go to admin panel and for those of you who are here to click on WP admin all right so you'll be brought to this wizard right here now we don't need to do this I actually don't recommend this and we're going to undersell this plugin so right here just click on exits alright and this is your WordPress dashboard now what I want you to do really quickly before we do anything is I want you to go over here to plugins and click on installed plugins and I want to actually deactivate the WordPress starter so this is for people who are like totally beginners and everything but we don't need to use this it's just a plug-in that they've added just to kind of give you a better understanding now right here click on dashboard so this is it guys this is your back-end and if you want to look at your website right now or you click on View my blog and click on visit websites and voila this is your new websites it looks pretty terrible it doesn't look anything like it's supposed to look but it's not to worry about its we're gonna make it look amazing so what I want you to do first off is I want you to kind of familiarize with some of these settings so right here I'm gonna go to settings and I want you to go to permalinks now I want you to click on post name right here and the reason why we do this is because when you go to websites usually you see the payee or the website and then the page right so not 2:09 dot blot right so make sure a post name is set and click on Save Changes now also never you want to change your your password you want to change your settings right here click on users and click on your profile you can always change the the color of this you want to I personally like Midnight's and right here is where you can change your email you can change your nickname and right here is where you can change your password so right here click generate password and then you would just put it in the password and etc but I'm not going to do that and I'll click on update profile alright so that's basically it we've installed WordPress your domaine is live on the internet right now so people can actually come to the website and see it's now we're gonna go ahead and install our WordPress theme now so the wordpress theme is basically what gives it design what cuz it's a core and this is a default theme it doesn't really look good at all so we're gonna go ahead and change that okay so there is a link in the description of this video it'll take you to a page to purchase the WordPress theme we're going to be using now if you can't find the link right here we'll just click on or you'll go to Darrell Wilson comm - real estate and that should redirect you to the WordPress theme so this is the theme that we'll be using and this is the number one rated real-estate WordPress theme on theme forest it is by far the best it has a lot of good positive reviews you can just check out for yourself right here in to the reviews they just have tons of just tons of positive reviews and I do my work very extensively you know I make sure that I'm using the best so if you want to kind of browse around and kind of see for yourself right here we'll click on the bestsellers and I'll type in real estate that's already there real estate and you can see that this theme comes up number one so this is the theme that we'll be using it has the most sales it has the best reviews because it's probably the easiest to use no it is the easiest to use because I've actually purchased three or four and this one was by far the best so you'll go ahead and click on buy license and click on buy now now I have already purchased this so once you're actually done purchasing this theme it'll be in your downloads so let me go ahead and show you how to download it you'll go over here just to downloads I have a lot of sales a lot of products I purchased you can tell I'm a nerd so I buy a lot of stuff now this is the theme right here the real homes WordPress theme you'll click on download and click on install WordPress file only and now you can see that the file has downloaded all right so you'll go back to your work with your website right here once you're once you purchase it you download it now feel free to pause the video guys if I'm going too fast so now you have to enter in your your contact information and all that stuff so feel free to pause the video at any time right here I'll go to my dashboard go to appearance and go to themes now really quickly to want to kind of just show you around so I'll click on add new there's various themes so that's basically how WordPress works now a lot of these right here are free themes but to be very honest I've been in WordPress for a long time and the problem with free themes is that they're very very limited and they don't really offer much that's why they're free so we're gonna use a premium theme so right here click on upload theme choose the file and I'm gonna go ahead and select my my downloadable file so the one I have right here it's gonna be the theme forest real homes WordPress and I'll click on open alright and I'll click on Install Now all right so it is installing the WordPress theme on to our domain just give it like a few seconds it's pretty quick there we go now once you're done with that you'll click on activate okay so here we go we have the wordpress theme and it's fully installed so if you want to see your site how it looks like right now just go over here click on visit sites and this is your new websites so that's it this is what it looks like so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna go ahead and finish it off and we're going to import the demo content next okay I reduced my resolution so you guys can see a little bit closer now so now you can kind of get a better feel for it so right here I'll go to my dashboard and what we're gonna do right here is we have our icon right here so we have now real homes but before we do that right here it says this theme recommends the following plugins so right here we click on begin installing plugins and for those of you who don't know a plugins are they're basically apps for your website they're basically added features for your website so right here I'll click on all of them click on install and click on apply alright so now it has installed all the plugins right here I'll click on return to required plug-in installer now I'm gonna go ahead and activate all these plugins so right here I'll click on activate and click on apply alright so now it is as it's basically installed all the necessary plugins such as you know adding properties our page builder mortgage calculator one-click demo importer etc so right here I'll click on refresh that happens sometimes whenever happens guys just go ahead and just backspace right here and just leave it at wp-admin like that and they'll just log you back in it does that sometimes it's kind of weird I don't know why it does that that's that's this is a random error sometimes right here it's just setting us with like messages in case you see this I'll just click on clothes now we have these icons right here so now you can see that we have real estates real estate homes real estate CRM and also Elementor right here now what I want you to do first off is go to real homes and right here we'll click on the demo importer now you can see right here we have the two demos right here so we have modern and we have classic now you can always go ahead and change these later but for right now I just want to use the classic one you can always go ahead and switch back you can actually switch back to each and every one at any time you choose so but for this tutorial I'm just going to use this one right here just because just because I don't know just because I like the way it looks but you can always change it later if you choose to do that so right here I'll click on import and click on yes imports and now it's basically creating your entire website for you so on the bottom right here you can see how it says importing please wait and we'll go ahead and just wait a few seconds my dog's looking at me she's giving me the eye I think she's hungry alright so the dead part the the demo is all done we can go ahead now and check out our website so right here click on visit site like that and voila just like the demo that we had there it is so you can see everything is there we have the demo properties they have successfully setup all of our websites so you can kind of go around and you know just take a look at everything and get yourself kind of familiar with it and understand you know what they are what this is so this is our blog page our gallery our pages these are all just like categories so we'll set it up later and then right here is our contact form right here all right now the first thing I want to do to help you all familiarize with this website is I want to actually show you how to use the page builder before we go into the theme customizer right here it will click on edit with Elementor now this right here allows us to design our page so let's say for instance you want to go ahead and change this right here so this is the edit this is I'm sorry this is the classic slogan right here now this theme has specific I guess you can say modules for this specific theme so this right here is the classic slogan and if I scroll down right here we can go ahead and find the classic slogan see right here the classic slogans so I can just go ahead and what you can do here is click on plus and then I'll click on this and I'll drag it right there and now we have the classic slogan right here as well and of course just go ahead and put in whatever you want to put in so we are offering the the best real estate deals and then right here it would be your description so just like they put it in there we can go ahead and do the same thing so for example we'll just go ahead and copy this and then you give it a description like that so I'm just basically showing you how to you know how to add in your own stuff and you know I just want you to get comfortable with this right here so right here I'll click on plus right here and right here we click on the properties grid and this will display all of your properties now what you see right here is different options so for instance right here let's say you only wanted to display three properties or you could even display two properties or one properties so you see how this section right here controls this section right here and this style so whenever you want to change like the actual size or you want to change the property colors you can go ahead and do that so for example right here under the image overlay I want to change this to something like blue so now when I hover over it you see it has this blue color right and let's say for instance I want to change the will click that back to that property heading you can have colors for virtually anything so for the price as well we could change the price of this you can change it to green see how it's now green or we change it to black or you know any color that you want so there is a lot of customization that we can have for every specific one for box-shadow we can enable a box shadow and that basically puts in the shadow behind it I like that look I think that looks really neat actually so I went back over here if you want to go ahead and delete something just click on X and delete it you can also right-click on it and click on delete as well so that's another way on how you can delete certain sections so for instance right here the classic property click grid I'm going to say you know what's I want to delete this section I want to add in my own so the classic property section I'm gonna scroll down right here and find the classic property section we have the classic properties grid and just paste it in there and there you go now if you don't like that if you want to change it you can just go ahead and close this right here and right here I'll click on plus and we'll add on something else right there so maybe we want the carousel instead you can add in a carousel as well and number of properties so that means basically how many properties do you want to just to to rotate so you can kind of just understand what it's asking for like number of words right here so you put more words it's going to display more words you see that so you know because maybe you have a lot of description and you don't want to overload it so that's just an example of what you can do over here let's say for instance you want to add three columns so right here under add a section we'll click on this plus icon and then we'll add in these three icons and then you can find something that you like and you can simply just drag it and drop so right here we can add in an icon box and then over here we'll add in an image box and then we'll click on this again and then we'll go ahead and add in something like a I don't know what should we add here we'll add in a call-to-action to whatever that one is someone looks a little big so we probably don't want to add that one in so we'll right-click and we'll go ahead and delete that and we can add in something well but the classic slogan and then a and then what's up and then right here of course you can change the image so you'll click on deletes you'll click on this little icon and this is where you're going to upload your images so right here click on select file and then you're going to go ahead and select whatever follow that you want so right here I'll select this file click on open and then insert the media so there's my image and then you can always change the image size as well so there's various ways on how you can do that you know there's that sighs there's thumbnail etc so I just want you all to get comfortable with the page builder so you can see it's pretty simple now I'm not gonna go very very very in-depth on this page builder because I actually have a full tutorial on this specific page builder in the description below will recover all the advanced features because this page builder it's very simple to use but there's just a lot to talk about you know there there really is it's a very dynamic page builder so I'm gonna go ahead and delete this section so let's say for instance you want to change this section right here you know you can go ahead and go through these settings you can take off the background image or you can add it or you can actually take out that and you can take out the color overlay as well but without the overlay obviously you can't see it some of you want to enable the overlay and enable the background image and then for the style right here again under colors we can go ahead and change the cover overlay right there so right here we have featured properties and then right here we have our classic slogan and then right here is our news grid and these are basically your blog posts so whenever you have a blog post this is where they're going to show up under this classic news grid or you can just click on the plus icon and I believe you can actually do the add in the the post on just the regular builder so these right here the basic and the general are from the actual page builder it's from its like the default page builder icons you can use the real homes that's from the theme so the theme also creates special ones for the builder and then WordPress right here you have I think as a post right here recent posts so that's another way on how you can add your Europe your blog post to it but that looks really ugly now there is a pro version for this page builder as well we offer a little bit more features but I'll talk more about that at the end of the tutorial and quite personally for you people making this site I don't think that you personally need it all right so we're here I'll click on update now let's just say I want to create a whole new page I want a page and I don't want anything on it so let's go ahead and do that so right here I'll click on View page go over here to plus and go to page now you can also get here by going to your dashboard and going over here to pages and clicking on add new and then right here I'll just go ahead and give this a name right here so what's the title of this page so I'll do demo page one okay and right here we have various options such as featured image discussion and page of tributes now you don't need to use the featured image this is only for blog posts and you don't need to use the discussion but you might want to use the page attributes because this will actually design the actual page so they have this theme has specific templates for every page now let's say for instance you want this to be the home page you click on home page click on publish and now you click on View the page and this right here is your home page now if you've noticed right here we have this stuff right here and this and this is actually from the theme so it's not from the page builder so basically saying we want to create another page from scratch we can go ahead and do that but we will need to go to the theme customizer but we'll talk about the theme customizer in just a little bit I just want to show you how to create pages so also right here under plus new and click on page I'll make another one so this these are the actual pages that you make for your website so we have I'll put demo page two under templates I'll do element your full width and click on publish now right here go click on View the page now you can see there's nothing there right so let's go ahead and go back and when you have the elements are full width right there it doesn't really work well with this builder so you might want to select just like you know just just like one of their templates right here they have quite a bit but they've actually made our website forest and they've actually used all of the all the modules with it so let's go ahead and just do default templates go to updates and we'll view the page and this would be just like your default so this is pretty simple so now let's go ahead and talk about how you can actually use the theme customizer so basically I showed you how to use the page builder and the theme controls the top in the bottom okay so it controls this section and it controls this section everything else you can use with the page builder so right here I'm gonna click on customize and I'm going to introduce you all to the theme customizer now this is basically when you want to edit stuff so another quick way how to do this is by simply clicking on this element so I want to change this and we can change this information right here also right here I'll click on this and we can choose our logo now if you don't have a logo there is a link in the description to a web site called fiverr.com or you can choose your own logo over here we can change the phone number and over here is our site identity so remember earlier how it said my blog and then WordPress blog you can change that or you can even delete it as well okay like that but let's just go ahead and go to the beginning right here so let's just go ahead and go through each one to make sure that you understand how to use this WordPress theme so right here first we'll click on site identity and again this is where you can change your logo this is right here your site identity so if you don't have a logo whatever you put on the site title will display right here this right here is your site icon so you know when you go to a website you see these little icons that's what the site icon is going back over here we have styles then we have background image now we're not going to use the background image because we already have the page builder and we also have this slider default or custom now you can choose to use your own custom colors or you can use the default theme colors and for right now I just want to use my own custom colors and click on publish whenever you make a change guys I always make sure you click on publish going back here core colors so now I want to change these colors I want this to be something like blue you see that the menus now blue and then also right here the dark orange so it tells you what it basically controls so it this will control the main menu hover the footer area widgets and the sidebar widgets and up for those you don't know what a widget is it's basically these little gadgets right here and that's also the ones on your on your other page let me see if I can let me see if I going to show you really quickly it's these right here so that would be your widget right here so right here we can change the dark orange to something else like blue the orange glow will change that to blue the blue light right here so this color right here will change this something like black I think that might be for a different one and then also this one right here will do black there you go there it goes there it goes so you can see how you can basically change the color to virtually any color that you would like so a hero click on publish and go back topography so this is the actual font so if you want to go ahead and change the fonts of everything you can go ahead and do that so right here you can see the font has changed but I like the theme default and then this right here is for other secondary headers so you see right here Julia Roberts and then this right here is for the body font so it's gonna change the body fonts so that's just another way on how you can you know change the theme the the fonts to whatever you want header styles so this right here controls the the header cells up here so you want to go ahead and change the colors you can go ahead and do that I'm not really going to go too much into this guys because you can go ahead and change the colors on your own free will but this is how you would change the header right here so this section controls this section up here okay and where you want to change those colors you can go ahead and just mess around these settings the slider so this is actually pretty important so the slider again what this can change the slider title color so this right here will change this the title hover cover will change that the slide description text color you see how this is gray this is also great we can change that color if you choose to do that etc the banner this will actually change the banner color as well so you can see right here the banner color we can go ahead and change that and then also the home page so you guys can kind of go through each of these these are pretty self-explanatory I'm just changing you know the the property item the footer which is this section right here you can go ahead and change that color to whatever you'd like and everything else so that's basically a quick run out of styles guys so it's just changing the color menus so this is basically where you can create a menu and we'll do that in just a little bit's but you know maybe we can do one right now so right here we click on create a new menu and give this a name so menu two and we'll make this our main menu now right here under add items we can choose to make our own menu so right here I want to add the home the demo page to demo page one sample layouts I want to add I want to add the agent etc and I'll click on publish so you can see now that we have these pages right here now don't worry that was a little confusing we're gonna go ahead and create our own menu a little bit later but that's just an example of how you can add pages and then create a menu for your pages so I'm gonna go ahead and take this off right here and I'm gonna go ahead and go to main menu and we'll select this one as our main menu the default one just just for now guys we'll change it later don't worry we got we got plenty of time we have plenty of time home page settings you always want to make sure that your home page is your home page so what this means right here is saying when someone visits your websites what page do you want them to go to first well you can make them go to my properties first this can be your home page right here but most of us would probably want to say that to do just the home page right that makes the most sense going over here to header user navigation we can actually choose to hide the login and the register so if we choose to hide that it'll actually hide the login and register so now you can see that people cannot register on our website so you know for right now I don't people to register on our site so I'm going to leave that off a contact information this will actually change the actual contact information the banner right here I don't think most of us will use a banner so we're not going to use that and then others enable a sticky header so what that means is basically saying when I scroll down right here you see the menus gone right but if I enable the sticky header the menus gonna follow me wherever I go so that's just basically what that means I'll disable that maybe we don't really need that I'll click on publish here home page we have a sections manager so this is basically ordering the actual section manager how you can always you know how you can rotate for move stuff around but we already have the page boiler so we don't really need to do that right here slider area this is actually very important so for instance right here you want to go ahead and change the style of it so we can change various styles you can have it like this or you can have it like this or an image based banner or a slider based on custom post types this option right here is for the slider evolution plug-in and we're not gonna use that plug-in in this video because it's just it's a lot of work and it's very confusing so I'm just going to kind of leave it out so for those of you who want this section right here you can just go ahead and upload an image right here and this will actually display for the background form also right here if you want to go ahead and add in some description you can go ahead and do that like welcome to your home oh it's this X right here welcome to your home welcome to your home and then I'll click on publish and now if I make these changes guys everything is live on the internet so right here if I click on close you can see that this is now live on the internet and now this is our home page so I want you to understand that this section right here is from the theme customizer and everything below it is from the page builder okay I hope that's not too confusing you know it's very few themes do that so it's you know there's a learning curve to it but if you want to change the stuff up here you'll need to use the theme customizer if you want to change the stuff down here you'll need to use the elements or page builder all right so let's go and keep going so we have our home page the slider area this area again would control the slider the featured section features section on home page so this will actually show the featured section on the home page featured properties now another reason why we don't need to have these and why the author did default is because they've already made modules for the elements or page builder so remember this section right here controls the theme and these are actually the elements of the Builder so we don't really need to have these because the page builder can also do that okay property search now whenever you search for a property right here I'm click on search right here this section right here the property search page this section controls this page right here so for instance right here to the property search page we need to assign the page so whenever you make a page you'll need to pick the page and assign the property search page search results page header you can have a map with property markers or you can have an image banner so that's basically what this section is so the property search page guys it basically controls all of this section on this page so search form garages search for locations all these settings right here you can kind of mess around with these if you want to go ahead and take off certain certain categories you can do that but we haven't got into that yet so I'll come back to this in just a little bit's the footer so the footer is this section down here now the partners section are these little icons right here now you can make your own partners a little bit later but I'll talk about this in a little bit but I don't really think I want the partners section it will hide that the text right here so the text right here controls this stuff right here and then we have the layout so right here we have four columns right here so you can see we have one two three and four and we can only change that to something like two columns or three columns or four columns or however many columns you want I'll go back right here we're almost done with the theme customizer guys I know it can be a little discouraging in the beginning but ultimately it's a very simple process it's just you know it's just a lot of stuff to look at the property deep in the property details page so when I click on a property we see the details this section right here this theme customizer now controls this section right here so for instance breadcrumbs breadcrumbs are these things right here and we can choose to hide that or we can choose to show that the basics a property detail page variation so here we can have the agent below the Google map or above the Google map so now you can see the agent is not there and the agent now displays right there or we can display the agents on the sidebar right here okay so you know this stuff isn't really that complicated you can just see there's a lot of options so I want you to kind of go through each of these and kind of mess around with them just to kind of you know you want to hide the agents you can hide the agents I already can show the agents so just to kind of give you an understanding of the theme customizer so this is the property details page and then we also have various pages as well so these are like your your blog page so right here would be your news page and now this section controls this right here so you can change this to news or real estate WordPress news and then there you go you can see how it changes so whenever you want to understand what it is you can just click on like the news like right here gallery pages right here click on gallery this section controls this section right here so you can see it's the same okay all right so I'm gonna go ahead and go back we're gonna skip compare properties because I choose not to have that enabled you can enable that and kind of mess ratha on your own free time but comparing properties is basically where it's going to compare each house with each house here we have members and you know your members can actually choose to login they can edit their profile this is the page or they can edit their profile they can submit a property right here this is the my properties page and then payments right here we're not going to cover this in the tutorial because this procore this has to do with like developments so we're not going to we're not going to cover that back right here we have the contact page so click on contact right here you can see that we can actually choose our location right here so we have our latitude and longitude now the reason why they're using this section like this right here is because Google API or sorry Google Maps now requires an API key which cost money and it cost developments this right here is wage way it's a free service and it's easier to use so if you want to go ahead and use this service you can use this website right here and just type in a place name so I'll type in like a Los Angeles and now we're gonna go ahead and take this right here and copy it and then we're gonna go ahead and paste it so this right here is the longitude the latitude so this right here at latitude okay I'll paste that there and then this right here is the longitude so we'll go ahead and copy and we'll paste it right there and now it's going to display our dress right there and then right here you can go ahead and put in your contact information right here so that's basically what this section is right here going back social links you know that's basically the social links of the website so up here we have the social links that's what that controls we have the maps but we're not going to use Google Maps because we're using these guys right here or we're using this section Google reCAPTCHA miscellaneous so I want you guys to kind of go through these settings and kind of just mess around with them they're not too difficult to understand and that's basically a quick rundown of the theme customizer okay so in a nutshell you know we now know how to design the top we know how to design this section let's go ahead now and get into the Advanced section where we're going to talk about how you can actually start to create properties and how you can you know do all the technical stuff so we're gonna start from scratch alright so right here under agencies I'm gonna go ahead and delete everything all right and if that's if that's what you you know that's basically how you delete everything so that's how you delete everything for agents right here I'm gonna delete everything and we're gonna start from scratch to pretend that we are a company brand-new and that we're going to go ahead and just start it all from scratch so over here property features delete all property types I'm gonna go ahead and delete all and property cities we're gonna go and delete all and then property statuses we're gonna go ahead and delete all and then properties we're gonna go and delete all properties okay so guys now if you go to our website right here everything's gone so all the properties are gone we have no properties if you go to properties right here the properties are all gone so that's basically what that is so let's go ahead now and this is where you get your thinking key at pounds so this is where we start to think and we start to really this is where you've really got to pay attention alright so first we're gonna go ahead and go to agencies so what company are you first let's make your company all right so we're here click on add new my company is called Darrell Wilson real estate what's my email address well it's Darrell at gmail.com my number one one one there we go my whatsapp number I'll just leave a little thing right there now if there's nothing to fill out you could just leave it blank you don't have to put something in there the office number one eight hundred nine hundred something like that you're gonna go ahead and put in all your information right here so I'm gonna go ahead and kind of copy and paste this right here and I'll just go ahead and facebook.com - Darrell and then your Twitter now Google+ is gonna be dead soon so yeah it's gonna be dead the top banner area settings so this would be the top banner area setting so like our website or our company the best company ever now what I want you to do right here is this is probably very important so right here the agency logo image so click on this right here and this is where you're going to put in your logo or your company so the size of this is 350 by 350 I'm looking select and now that we're ready to do this I'm gonna go ahead and go to my secret website here dummy text dummy text and I'm just gonna simply grab some dummy content right here alright just for the tutorial now if you don't have a company logo you can go to Darrell Wilson calm - fiber fiber and this website right here actually will make you a logo for just $5 so it's really really cheap so right here just type in logo and these guys can make you a logo for just 5 bucks you know you can go ahead and find a really cheap one so here 20 bucks 20 bucks $5 etc so you can kind of go through this I mean this is a site I used to get logos so this is probably your best solution so over here we have our we have our title and then we have another you know a subtitle and then we have some information so let's click on publish right here and then we'll click on view agency so right here our company the best company ever we have durables and real estates and then we have this section right here as well okay so that's basically a quick rundown now we have this section right here in case you also wants to change your widgets I'm gonna show you how to do that really quickly it's really simple so right here we'll click on dashboard I'll go to appearance and go to widgets now the widgets right here controls these sections right here are the sidebar so I'm gonna go ahead and delete the search the recent posts we don't really need this stuff right here right this is the default search bar this stuff comes default WordPress now right here it says page the sidebar contact sidebar so we did the we did the the agency sidebar so what icon few wants on the sidebar well right here we can have the advanced search we can have the agents so right here we put the agents we can also have the witch the mortgage calculator as well all right so basically I'm putting widgets on the sidebar for that specific page only and that's an amazing feature about this theme a lot of themes don't do that a lot of themes it's global so whatever you put it on one page it goes on the all page but for this specific theme we can use widgets on every single page which is really cool so let's go ahead and go to our pages so right here I'll go to all pages now the pages that we made was the was at the Darrell Wilson real estate page so right here I'll click on next or it was I'm sorry the agency it's not a page guys so it's it's the agency so over here under real estate will click on agencies and right here this is where we reading everything so this is where you create your agencies so right here view agency and voila we have our agency and now you can see we have the mortgage payment there and then we have no agents yet and we're gonna do that very next step so let's go ahead now and add in some agents so we created our company now who works for your company so right here under agents let's go and add somebody in so I'm an entering Darrell Wilson alright and then right here you would put some description about the agents here you would go ahead and put in the agents email address you would put in all the information so right here I'll just put in you know just I'll just put in some stuff right here like that now what agency does this person belong to well he belongs to the Darrell will Darrell Wilson real estate right and then the best closer close 5,000 houses last year all right and that's basically it's now one important thing we need to do right here under documents set featured image so we need to set an image of him so we'll just say that this guy right here is Darrell Wilson okay looking at everything everything looks good everything ready to go I'll click on publish and I'll view the agents now so right here best closure close 5,000 houses we have Darrell Wilson and then we have the description and then we also have the contact details as well all right so that's basically how you would create an agent and you can always edit the agents if you want to change the sidebar you can always go to your widgets section right here and you see where it says agent sidebar this section now controls this area so maybe you you want to add in other features there you want to add in like I don't know featured properties or something like that so we already have that there but whatever you want to add in you can add that to the agent sidebar so for all your agents the widgets will display whenever you click on or whenever they click on agents it'll display those widgets alright and you can kind of mess around with this like a mortgage calculator or you know whatever you want to add in so okay so we added in an agent let's go ahead and create one more agents so agents so let's say this is a Stephanie I'll just play some dummy text here we'll go ahead and add in some information I'll just you know just put in there we go there we go there we go now this person belongs to the Darrell Wilson real estates over here in a doc you I'm gonna put a featured image and we'll put Stephanie there we go we got Stephanie here here we go and might he'll click on publish okay so let's click on it view the agents now you see right here out just as Stephanie we didn't really set anything so if you want it to look like that that's how it's gonna display if you don't choose anything to add and right here we have Stephanie alright pretty cool and our social icons right there and there we go alright so we've made our agency we've made our agents now we need to make properties so what properties is this person belonged to but before we do that we need to talk about the features of the property so what are features that are going to be in the property so right here will click on property features and then right here well do I think for featured properties it's something like any like two stories two stories and make sure that you have these guys because this will actually help people search through your website so you want to make sure that you have these and they're you know that they're listed correctly and they make sense you know so right here I'll put in central air and then you know a fireplace you know just something that's houses might have that you want to include and talk about and then swimming pool I hope I haven't lost you all I hope this is pretty easy to understand we're just making features for the property and this will make a lot more sense once we create the property but right now we need to basically say okay what features are in the property alright so right here we have property types so it was just an apartment this is the house is this what kind of properties I'm gonna put apartments and then we'll put a house okay now I also want to add in some cities so right here will do Los Angeles will do Ventura now we're gonna use this little section right here I'm sure you see man you're like what is that so I'm gonna put in in here at Valencia and Valencia is a parent of Los Angeles because Valencia is within Los Angeles County you understand that so what's another city inside of Los Angeles well we have Chatsworth and this is going to be for Los Angeles and also we have Hollywood Hollywood is located within Los Angeles so that's basically what that little section means right there all right and lastly we have property statuses so is this for rent is this for buying is this a timeshare what is this so right here I'll put rent and then I'll put goodbye okay perfect awesome so now that we've done that we can now go ahead and finally make our property finally right so right here under properties we'll click on properties and it will add a property now all right so this is the property that you are going to list right here all right so I'm gonna put you know you can put in the address like Oregon road and this section right here is description about the property so make sure this section right here is something that you can actually you know talk about that's actually about the property now I have this empty section right here so I want to go ahead and delete that so right here I'm gonna go to remove block now whenever you want to add a block guys so this is like the default WordPress just click right here and then just simply you know you can add on the list you know like amazing parades click on this block right here and you can use a paragraph and then we can just type in some more demo contents and you know guys congratulations because you're officially using WordPress you know this is the most popular platform for word for web design it controls more than one the Internet so if you know how to use this you're really ahead of the game so congratulations so right here we have basic information so you know what's the price well I'll just put in some information right here is this per month or is this total total you know the area size so we have 2,500 square feet the lot size so how big is the entire place so let's say it's like 4,000 square feet so basically saying that this is the actual house and this is like the yard and everything this right here three bedrooms three baths two garages it was built in 2019 brand-new house do you want to mark this as a featured property now why do we do this this will actually display on the widgets section when we have the featured property so we will go ahead and add that and I'll show you that in just a little bit over here property features now you can see that we have the little categories that we added right so right here I'll go ahead and add in some categories property types apartments house property cities I'll say that this is located within Chatsworth property status this is for purchase right and then set a featured image so we want to go ahead and set an image for this so I'm gonna go ahead and select select this one right here okay so that's basically covering all that information right here we have additional details now I'm not a hundred percent sure I gotta be honest I've used this team a few times but we'll go ahead and just put like demo one and then demo it to you we'll see where that displays on the page and we can add more as well I think they're just additional features so let's go ahead and check that out really quickly all right now right here at location on the map so right here you just type in the address and it will find it so right here up to Hollywood Hollywood California alright Hollywood there we go and it will display it for your visitors the gallery images now right here is where you're going to add in all your images of your place so this is the image they're going to see when they see the property but right here we click on add media we can go ahead and say well this is the outside this is all click on control right here control wait wait is it is it all right yeah there we go I'll just click on all of them there we go all right so I'm basically saying that these are the images associated with that property so click on select for plans here you can talk about like the ground-floor and you can talk about each specific floor so for example this is totally optional you don't have to do this but the theme is giving you an option so let's say for instance this is the first floor and then you can talk about like you know the floor price if it's this is more for offices because offices go by square footage so if you're doing an office this would be ideal if you're doing a house you can you can still include this but you're not gonna put a price the floor sighs mm or way that's way too much we'll do like 500 or 1200 square feet and then this right here is 2,000 square feet 2 bedrooms 1 bath so we're only talking about the first floor if you want to add the second floor you're gonna add more and then you can talk about the second floor as well all right but I'm not gonna do that because it's very lot of work but I'm just showing you that you can actually show the you know the floor plan for the first floor for the second floor etc and you might want to do that so that's a pretty good idea property video this is where you're going to enter in your YouTube video URL so you can go to youtube.com and I'll just go to Darrell Wilson this is my old one right here this this is my old real estate video but we're using a very old theme but you can see that I have a lot of views a lot of likes some people like that stuff over here we'll go back and we'll just go ahead and paste that URL in there and now people can actually visit the actual video agent information so whose property is this well this is Darrell Wilson's make this property sticky for a home page and listing settings so do you want this to display on the home page and the listing pages I'm going yes now you can also talk about the original owner name and owner contact but for those of you who are real estate agents you probably don't want to use this because they actually hire you to do that homepage slider do you want to add this property on the home page slider sure let's go ahead and do that now if yes you need to provide an image below so let's go ahead and add it this image right here okay sweet so now I'm basically saying that this property is going to display on the home page it's gonna be advertised on the home page top banner right here we're not gonna do that alright so that's enough for the property let's go ahead now and click on publish and see what has happened so right here I'll click on View the property and there you go guys look at this we have Oregon Road the address we have the city and the subsidy we have the images it can scroll through it right here we have the the amounts we have the category we have the address we have the square footage we have the text so this is the text Oh additional details remember that one section we're doing we can go ahead and put that in there that's probably a good idea to add in your additional details in there features these are your features and remember if someone clicks on these features like for example two stories I'll click on it it's going to display all the properties in your inventory with two stories how cool is that so it's just another way on how you can link various other parts to your website the floor plans you can go ahead and you know we didn't add any images to that but here you can talk about the floor plans we probably end up at a price that does make much sense the property map right here and then also we have you can leave a comment about it saying this is a beautiful place this is nice etc also right here featured properties it displays right there and yeah so that's basically it now one thing that you probably want to do for your properties is you probably want to have the agent right here right that makes more sense so let's go ahead and go over here to widgets and for the property we want to display agents so right here we have the property sidebar now I want to go ahead and find the agents so right here I'm gonna grab the agents okay and yeah the agents so now I'm gonna go ahead and go back to that property it's over here properties and view the property now you can see that we have the agents there okay so right here I added no description guys so I'm sorry about that so that's basically you know that's basically how you can add agents on the side right there okay also we can go ahead and click on edit property and you can always edit the property right here so you can always go ahead and you know change any information you want now right here under the agent information I probably should have displayed the agent information okay so that was one big mistake I made additional details you can go ahead and talk about like floor plan this floor plan that like demo demo 3 demo 4 if I click on updates and click on the view the property now this is actually makes a little bit more sense so right here the agent will display next to the property because we showed the information and maybe we can actually delete this section right here we don't really need that anymore you can see right here demo 1 demo 2 demo 3 and demo 4 so that's basically where your additional details will show up alright let's go ahead and get rid of those those agents right there we'd only need them anymore so right here Property sidebar and we'll go ahead and get rid of those agents ok now let's go ahead at the website now right here location now you can see that the search bar will show basically only what we have put in there so if I want to find something in Los Angeles and click on search now you can see that the property displays because this house qualifies because it's located in Los Angeles right pretty simple stuff you know it's pretty simple pretty easy so that's basically a quick rundown now right here you can see that the page builder will list all of the featured properties right here and right here you can see our property and yeah so also for the slides we chose to use a different slide so if you want to actually enable that you can click on customize and we can actually have that house listed on the front page but we chose a different one do you remember that so we chose something different so right here under homepage under slider area right here you'll click on slide our base with property custom post types and now you can see that our properties they're 1,400 organ Road so if you want that approach you can go with that approach if you want the search bar you can do that so I'm kind of leaving this in your ballpark you know whatever fits for your business this will basically you know you can kind of decide what works for your business so here click on publish now let's go ahead and create one more property let's go ahead and do that let's just kind of get you extra familiar with it and then we'll talk about the pages and we'll also talk about the menu so up here I'll go to plus new and we click on property now you can also access this to the back end by going over here to dashboard going over here to real estate and clicking on the new property it's just both ways ones faster than the other you know so it just depends on you know how fast you want to pump out properties here I'll do uh you know Taylor I don't know Taylor way and then here of course is some description about the actual oh no this is actual video I'll go ahead and remove this block and I'll go to my secret website and we will go ahead and copy some of this and paste that and right here we'll go ahead and put you know that's how much it cost here the square footage square feets the lot size square feet bedrooms three to one and then your built you want to make this a featured property so do you want this on the front page I'm saying yeah this time no no not this time location on map I'll just go ahead and put I don't know where you guys want to go let's go - I don't know will do of Ventura County summer matera County hide the map on the property details page no I want to show people or this is all right and then we have image gallery we'll go ahead and go ahead and upload some images so I'll just say it's these ones right here for plants I'm gonna leave this blank because by now you guys already know what this is this is for the first floor you can add one for the second floor etc I'll just go ahead leave this blank property video we can go ahead and embed the YouTube video onto their agent information I'll say this is Stephanie's this time so this this complex is Stephanie's for miscellaneous we can put the property on our name will do that will put them James Madden and then 800 or Eastway private note you can write your private note about this property this will not be displayed anywhere else so this is just for you good guy and then also a message to reviewer which we're not going to put anything there homepage slider do you want this to display on the slide our home page sure why not we will need an image so I'll go ahead and display this image right here let's do this one right here top banner image so you need to well go ahead and put this top banner image we don't really need to add a top banner image right now so we're gonna go ahead and not put that so for those of you who want to know where the top outer image is once you actually publish the image there'll be a second image above the title and I just feel like it's not no one really does it I mean headers are very old-school and no one really doesn't know more so here I'll put some amazing house close too close to schools so I'm just something like that something to kind of encourage you know just you know being friendly now over here we need to make sure you always add the property features so I'll say that this is a house this is located in Ventura and we'll set a featured image I don't want to allow comments for this one and paid your tributes we're going to leave that we can leave it as a property fourth layout or default layouts the difference is is that the property fourth layout will not have the sidebar and this one will have the sidebar so that's just basically you know that's basically what that is so let's go ahead and click on publish and view the property now all right cool so you can see right here now this is Stephanie's right here it's $300,000 one thing we should have done though is probably add in this sale right there so I think we can add that in I think that we forget to add that in on the right side here we go we put the to buy it all right and then we'll click on preview if you click on preview it just opens up in a new page and it just gives you an example so now it says by here's the description of its the features everything that we want to add and also similar properties as well because they're located in the same area all right so that's basically it now let's go ahead and go to its go ahead and update this really quick view the property now let's go to our home page so we have our home page right here and now you can see that both properties display now right here I'll click on edit with Elementor ok and whatever you want to edit this you know let's say for instance you just want one to display I'll click on one or you'll click on two and you can also you know go buy property cities you know so for example if you want to categorize these so for example you just want the houses on Ventura to show right here if you want just the houses on Los Angeles to show we'll just click on Los Angeles if you want all of them to show you'll just leave it like that and again you can go ahead and style this you know you can go ahead and mess around with this there's a lot of different settings and ways you can use to edit this so I'm not gonna really go too much into this guys because it's pretty self-explanatory you know it's pretty simple to understand and this right here something that you can do on your own free time but I will go ahead and take this and put it above that looks much nicer right so that's just an example of how you can add a second property all right now we're gonna go into some more technical stuff because I don't want you to walk away from this tutorial missing any information in fact if you're watching this guy right now give me a like you know give me a like subscribe and also leave me a comment below just say hey actually I don't know listen this is something uh say paddywhack that will let me know that you actually watched this video and you're making it and I'm not talking to myself alright so over here I'll go to view the page now what we're gonna do next guys is we're actually going to we're gonna go ahead talk about the blog post so whenever you want to make a blog post over here you'll just click on post and just like we made a page you'll put this in right here so top 10 trends in real estate and then just simply just go ahead and just just open open up this one just simply go ahead guys and just simply add in content so whatever you want to talk about just simply go ahead and put it in there you know talk about you want to talk about if you want to add in an image right here I'll click on this and I believe they have image you can upload this to your media library so right here we'll add in this and then we'll go ahead and you can actually drag this below by clicking on this button and they'll go below the content now we can add in another block right here and simply just go ahead and put in some more text and yeah there we go so this would be something like you know the top 10 houses and you can list a house for every single one this right here would link it so you want to link something you can put in a link URL right there and that will link to whatever property you want to talk about on your website now one thing I want you to do over here is under our featured image you'll need to go ahead and select an image and this is basically the image they see when they see the article okay and I'll going to click on publish and we will click on View the post alright and there you go so now we have the post let me see if I can actually edit this post and make this full width I believe we can so under template right here and click on Elementor full width and I believe that will disable the sidebar yeah I don't know about that I don't know if that's a good idea see default templates view the post let me actually check one more thing well go ahead and check the widget setting for the the post settings right here default sidebar we can go ahead and I'm going to delete these ones right here we don't really need these and I believe that might be able to get rid of the sidebar altogether let's go ahead and check out we'll go over here to News Now it doesn't really work well you can see that the theme basically structures it to have the sidebar so you probably will need to have the sidebar on there so it looks like there is no other way to have that so you know a blog posts you know you'll just have to have a sidebar that's all you know and Elementor canvas is basically deleting everything off the page and you don't want to do that so you want to make sure you have it just as default at a sidebar you know and see how that works out all right so that's basically how you can make posts and you can pick your post page by going to customizer and going to this option right here so right here we have the home page settings so whenever you publish posts what pays you want to display on well we're gonna go to news and don't worry about the pages guys we're actually going to make pages from scratch in just a little bit just to give you an example of how to use the theme if you decide not to use the demo okay but I highly recommend to use the demo because it creates all the pages for us and everything else so another showing you how to do that click on the contact page now we're actually going to make our own contact page and the reason why we're going to make our own contact page guys is because this contact form right here only goes to WordPress so if you want if you want this to go to your specific email we're gonna have to set that up and it's really really simple so here if I go to send a message now this right here is actually going to display on the customer CRM under inquiries so whenever you get a message from that it's going to display under inquiries and these right here are contacts where you can follow up on leads and this is just settings on you know if you want to change stuff and everything else but I feel that most of you probably want your emails to go to your email inbox right your actual business email box so let's go ahead and do that we're gonna go to dashboard right here and we're going to install a plug-in right here plugin add new now for those of you who have no idea what plugins are they're basically applications for your website so for example I'll click on popular right here this right here is Yoast helps with SEO this right here is a contact form this right here is commerce allows you to sell on everything now just click on our type in contact form and we'll just go ahead and grab one so we can grab in this one right here there's also contact form 7 and WP forms we'll click on this one right here and click on activate now there's various contact form so it's just really up to what you want to use everyone works difference but whenever you install a plugin you'll see on the left right here you'll see the plugins so right here click on forms and all you need to do is just copy this shortcode and will paste it now this right here are the actual form so they've actually made templates for us but we're not going to really use that if you want to edit it you click on edit and you can actually design your own contact form here I like and click on new field and new column and you can drag and drop stuff but I don't want to go too much into this guys because I can talk about this plug-in for you know another 20 minutes just like that so we'll go to pages right here click on all pages and I'll just go to my contact and I'll simply just go ahead and paste that shortcode in there and that's it all the work is done so here click on View the page and voila so when Darrell Wilson and click on send now you should give these these letters probably a few minutes sometimes they won't display right away I've seen the contact form 7 have up to a five-minute delay sometimes depending on your server the server sometimes they they're all like a fetch where they'll go ahead and fetch it every few minutes some servers you can call them and they'll they'll do it right away it's just it's less strain on the server going over here check the inbox we can see I don't have it yet check the spam now it'll probably show up in a little bits it does work it just takes a little while contact form 7 again it probably does take if minutes as well so if it doesn't work with one contact form you can always switch and use the other so this does work because I actually tested it before the tutorial it just takes a little bit of time and if they if they ever end up in spam I just contact your hosting company and they should just basically tell you what to do I think it's a plug-in called like Google SPT that will actually fix it but that's basically how you would basically send messages through your three this will go directly to your inbox now another plugin that you can install is contact form 7 so right here under add new and go to contact form 7 I'll go ahead and install this plugin right here and activate it now whenever you install a plugin it asks for short codes and all you need to do right here Oakland settings is simply take the shortcode and simply go ahead and paste it in there so when you take the shortcode you'll go to the pages I'll go to all pages I'll go to contacts and then I'll just simply delete this one and I'll paste this one right here now we're using the other plug-in right here so they're virtually the same thing it sets up all the contact form and you know the same thing so I'll just put Darrell Wilson patty then I'll click on send oh this needs to be filled out correctly all right so that is basically how you set up contact forms now if you don't get the email within a few minutes oh you can see I just got it right there so the email did just show up which is kind of strange that was from contact form 7 so it looks like contact form 7 just played right away you might want to use that one in that case the other one still hasn't shown up so that's a little strange but you can see that's we just sent that email I just got it so it's working alright so now that I've shown you how to do contact forms let me talk about one more thing or two more things which is the partner section and also the widgets so on the theme customizer we had that partner section you guys remember that that partner section I just want to quickly just touch over it before we go quit so right here we have the partners I'm going to display this and now we have the partners and we also have the witches at the bottom now whenever you want to change these logos for those partners section it'll be over here under partners or real real estates and then partners there it is so these are basically where your partners will show up so if you want to add a new partner and just click on that you can put in the URL you set the featured image right there so for example we can just put in something like this and voila I'll put in the there that little that little thing it just kind of works you knows I don't know so I go to visit site right here and I go to the bottom your partners will display it's just you know it's just something that you can have for your website it's not mandatory it's not required but it's just an extra feature the theme gave you so I'm just kind of you know just letting you know now let's talk about the footer right here let's talk about how to change stuff so these right here are widgets now over here we can click on widgets I actually know what we'll do the theme customizer we can actually see what we're doing instead of going to the backend so I'll scroll down right here we have the widget section and you see how it says the first column so you see right here it says they've already predefined text for us but we can delete this and we can add in our own in fact we can use any widget we want so right here add a widget just like the sidebar widgets we can go ahead and add in our agents or something like that or we can add in you know anything else we want to add and we can add in property types you know and whatever you want to add in there so this is just an example of how you can change the footer to basically whatever you want it to do so you know agent featured and then most recent featured properties I think you know I don't know if we have any I think I think we do have one I'm not sure I'm gonna be honest I'm not sure why it's not displaying I think so maybe it needs more space so that's probably why it's not showing up but again they have other widgets you know they have like a calendar the for maker you can add a form on the bottom you know this is actually from the other plugin so the contact form you know that's probably too big they just basically adding text and then they just basically did that along the cross cuz it looks pretty good property types we just did that's what does leave that agents will just do agents for now so we'll just put in agents and there you go so I'm just letting you know this is how you can design the footer and that's how you design the footer right there so it's under the widget section okay now let's talk about switching the demo and then let's talk about how you can restart from scratch so I'm gonna go over to the dashboard and we're getting close to the end guys so after this we're just gonna talk about the menu and pages and then we're pretty much done now over here in the design we have classic and we have modern now I want to switch so right here I'm gonna go to modern and click on save all right now over here I'll click on visit and you can see that it's now switched the theme but it hasn't switched it entirely it's only switched some of the stuff so that's one way on how you can switch the style of it and then you'd have to go to the theme customizer and you can start designing everything without completely resetting now if you want to completely reset you'll go over here and then you'll go to real homes and go to demo import and right here I'll click on import now when I do this guys it's going to completely erase everything and it's going to start over from scratch so if you do decide to do this method I'm just letting you know that it will completely erase everything and it's going to start over from scratch and I'm just going to give you an example because this is a tutorial alright it's importing hopefully a lot of - too much of a bore for you guys you know I'm just I'm kind of a nerd with WordPress I know how it works and I'm just really fascinated by it you know it's this it's incredible you can do today on the internet you know it's making a website with a demo importer charge five thousand dollars you know like you don't know people are paying for you know so we're here click on visit websites and voila now we have the full demo importer etc now there is one thing also before we go on to the menu we have this not secure thing right here and people see it on your website how do you fix that we install a plugin so right here under plugin go to add new want to say secured so right here we're gonna put simple there it is really simple SSL that's the one you want so right here I'll click on activate and right here it's saying go ahead and activate the the SSL now I'm not gonna go too far into SSL's basically the SSL could not be showing for several reasons could be due to an image but we do have an SSL for psych round so I want people to see the secured section so for example right here they have the secured icon over here they have the secured icon but for our web site we have the not secured so right here click on go ahead and activate the SSL now it might kick you out of WordPress once you activate it so you're gonna need to enter in your credentials again I don't like it didn't so now we have the connection is secure you see how amazing plugins are I mean usually you have to hire a developer they'd have to do this and do that but these plugins are made by developers so it's super easy to do this I mean it's we're so spoiled with WordPress alright so I basically I basically showed you pretty much all that information now I want to go ahead and talk about creating pages so over here at our pages I'm gonna go ahead and delete all of the pages right here I don't want these pages and I'm gonna show you if you decide to make them from scratch how you would do that okay so now if I visit my website right here we have no pages there's nothing there's no there's no pages I mean if we click over here there's just nothing you know or I'm sorry these are these are not not pages they are there from the plug-in alright so over here I'm gonna go to my pages so we have no pages so let's say for instance we want to add a page for a specific function so right here click on add a new page now let's say for instance you don't want to use the themes demo so right here this would be property search and over here under page attributes you need to select the template for the that what to call the property search alright so we're basically saying that this page will now be the page for the properties so now you can see that this page right here is basically the results of when people decide to search for something so if you do decide to make some pages and you assign something you need to make sure that you have the correct the page assigned to it's okay so that's basically a quick rundown of what how you can activate your own pages now these these right here are just they're not pages technically I mean I know they look like pages but they're technically property types you see right here property type over here again property status and then right here we have pages so I'm just letting you know that these right here are kind of not pages they're just property types okay so that's why it says property type all right now let me talk about the menu so let's say for instance you want to add a menu so you just maybe want the home the about in the contact us so I'm gonna do the about Us page and then here you can you know you can you can edit with Elementor and you can design the page if you choose to do that right here I'll just do contact form and then maybe right here we'll go ahead and use the the template of contact form I know we just talked about the the real contact form but this is the one for with the theme and I'm just gonna give you an example of what you decide to do with it so right here we have the contact form and we can view the view the page and of course the template creates everything for us automatically or we can go ahead and use the builder whatever one you want to use now over here I'm gonna go to dashboard we're gonna go to appearance and menus so you see right here are these so these are all invalid that's because we deleted all of the pages so there is we deleted all of the pages so there's no there's no pages so that's basically why it says you know invalid I'm gonna remove these all right now right here I'm gonna do we're gonna make a new menu we're gonna create a new menu from scratch so this is the main menu main menu on website so I want this to be the main menu on the website now what do I want on the menu so right here at our pages we have the home the belt and we have the contact form of the property search alright now if you want to add categories right here under categories these are basically the categories so remember earlier how we made you know Ventura County Los Angeles County this county etc that's basically what that's referring to so right here I'll just go ahead and select I'll select those right there these are just categories now if you want to create a drop-down menu what you can do here is simply just drag these under it and drag this right there and I'll click on save menu so now this is our basically new this is our new our new what you want to call it our new menu our new menu now whenever you want to make a custom link so let's say for instance you want to link someone to a specific maybe agents right so over here under the pages let me just do this really quickly I'm sorry we have the agents Stephanie I'll go ahead and copy this link ok I'm just going to copy this link go back over here we're gonna go down to our menu right here and over here I'm going to create a custom link I'm gonna paste the URL in there right and then right here I'll be the contact Stephanie or contact Steph there we go contact Steph and add this to the menu alright now let's go ahead and take a look at this so right here I'm gonna set a main menu and click on save menu so now this is our official menu now so whenever people come to our website you can see the home the about property search luxury and with the drop down menu contact Steph and then contact form and if I go to these pages you're gonna see that these pages are obviously empty except for this one because we don't have anything on this page contact Steph it's gonna take them directly to her profile and then the contact form which is that one right there so that's basically a quick rundown guys how to use the menu and assign its so now I've shown you all how to do this now for those of you who wants to kind of use elements or more if you want to actually you see the page builder right here now this page builder it basically allows you to do a lot of really cool stuff you know you can add uneven templates this this thing has a lot of templates and they do have also like pro features you know so they have a lot of templates you can use they have a lot of elements now they do have a lot of elements that aren't listed on here and that's in their pro version so if you do decide to purchase the pro version there is a link below to purchase it but let me just go ahead and kind of you know just kind of give you an idea of this right here you know you can design this and have fun obviously the site doesn't look anything like the other the template because these guys are way better yeah so that's basically a quick run out of how to use the Builder and then here you can just you know change this and you can make a new section etc now you can go to Darrell Wilson comm here Darrell Wilson comm - Elementor there's also a link below it's an affiliate link so if you do decide to purchase the pro version and you get a small commission now this is the actual page below that we're using but they do actually have a pro version of it so I believe there's only a free download on our website it's kind of hard to find out where or it is pricing that you have a pro version in fact it's kind of funny oh here we go they have the comparison so the pro version has actually 50 more widgets so it actually has 50 more of these little things right here so if you want more they have like a contact form they have like a menu they have a lot of more widgets that you can use that'll you know add some more functionality to the website you can go ahead and purchase the pro version as well and you can also enter in CSS but personally do I think you need it no but they do have a lot of amazing features like they have a pop-up builder I mean it's so much fun you know they have a lot of stuff so if you do decide to purchase it I do make a small Commission you know it helps you make free tutorials you know so that's basically it now one of the thing I want to note is IDX so we're going to ahead go back over here and go to this this theme right here now I'm gonna go ahead and just go to search I'm on an iMac they don't have that feature now for those of you who want to use the ITX integration they do have another plugin for it and I'm gonna go ahead and scroll down right here it's on their website and it is right here the optimum Express ID idx compatibility so this is the plugin that you will need to use and you know it integrates with it it's it's compatible with the classic demo and the modern demo so it's compatible with the actual with the actual demos that we use so if you do decide to use the demos it's fully compatible with it and I believe they have a specific plugin and website or you can actually download it I'll make sure to put it in the description I don't wanna leave you guys hanging because I know some people really might want to use the ITX plugin I think this is it right here and see right here well this is an example of the ITX with the theme so this is exactly what it looks like with the theme so it is fully idx compatible I just really want to give you all the name of it before we go it's on there it's on there it's on their main page I swear I actually went to the website I saw and I was reading all about it see right there it says idx give me one second let's find out really quickly let's see here alright I think it's it's somewhere there okay I'll go ahead and link it in the description I'm almost saw I'm 100% sure that's I'll give you the right plugin don't worry I'll put it in there I did see the plugin earlier for some strange reason I just can't find it which is really really strange but again they do have its let me see if there's a link to it somewhere see it is compatible with idx as well so I'll go ahead and put that link as well in the description because I know some of you might want to use the ITX integration but you know it's it's I don't know too much about the ITX guys I'll be very honest you know my job right here is to make you know websites for for you know for for tutorials like this but not for ID actually no I just saw it it's really bothering me now okay right here this is this is how I found it this is how I found it so it's this one right here so I I home finder calm they will give you the plug-in for it I will put a link to this website in the description below if they give me a discount code I'll go ahead and you know link that as well but this is the company that you would need to contact in order to use idx they do provide you with the plug-in and again with that plug-in you can basically combine your website and make it idx friendly so everyone I hope there's a tour is really helpful sorry if I drag it a little bit too long hopefully by now you guys know how to you know make your own real estate websites if you guys have any questions for me please feel free to let me know in the comments below this looks this looks pretty bad right here but yeah you know I I'm really just I'm really happy if you guys watched for this tutorial learn something from it I spend a lot of time making these videos so you can tell I do talk a lot and it's it's it's challenging guys you know it's it's not as easy as it looks you know so again guys thanks for watching you have any questions please feel free to let me know in the comments below if there's any I left out let me know in the comments below I'll probably make a second video if I get a lot of requests about it but other than that guys I will see you all in the next video everyone take care

Channel: Darrel Wilson

Views: 99,031

Keywords: real estate, real estate website, real estate marketing, real estate websites, how to make a real estate website with wordpress, how to, make a website, create a website, real estate wordpress website, how to build a website, wordpress website, darrel wilson

Id: ZFAPrG6Pv6g

Length: 101min 4sec (6064 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2019