I don’t know if the local board in Phoenix allows agents to display recent sales transactions via idx feed, but it seems to me from talking to others around the land that most boards don’t.
Doesn’t it kinda sting that Trulia can display this info, but Realtor folk can’t?
Or can they?
How To Display Real Estate Transactions On Your WordPress Site Via Trulia’s Pretty Up To Date RSS Feed
1. Install and activate the “EXEC PHP” plugin
2. Do A General Property Search For Any Area On Trulia.
3. Click the “Recently Sold” Tab
4. Once the results are up, click on the link for more details on the first property.
5. When the info shows up, click “back.” – [This is key! 🙂 ]
6. Now there will be an RSS feed link at the very top right of the page.
7. Click On It, Then Grap The RSS Link That Pops Up Slightly Lower To The Left
7. Insert the RSS feed into the code below within a blog post, where indicated by “PUT YOUR JUICY SALES TRANSACTION FEED URL HERE”
< ?php // Get RSS Feed(s) include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php'); $rss = fetch_rss('PUTYOURJUICYSALESTRANSACTIONFEEDURLHERE'); $maxitems = 30; $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $maxitems);
?>< ?php foreach ( $items as $item ) : ?>
- < ?php echo $item['title']; ?>
< ?php endforeach; ?>
Phoenix Real Estate Sales Transactions
What you’re seeing below is actually a screen capture of the transactions on my own site… didn’t want to mess with plugins/php over here at bhb (or cause other trouble for ma and pop.)
Which leads to the point of all this. Can you see adding pages upon pages of dynamic content to your site using this little trick? Or is this content theft? Does Trulia own the data? Does your local board?
Benjamin Ficker says:
How do you get it to not link back to Trulia? I’m using a different RSS Plugin (Rss Short code: http://yoast.com/wordpress/rss-shortcode/). Is that the problem?
October 20, 2009 — 1:56 pm
Ryan Hartman says:
Not sure about the yoast plugin but will check it out…
Stripping out the link back to trulia is just php/html. [Plus what you see above is just an image. That’ll kill links too 🙂 ]
October 20, 2009 — 2:00 pm
Keith Lutz says:
Interesting stuff. I do not have a WordPress blog though. Wonder if there are ways around that. I know my MLS board allows a link to the sales data, which I took advantage of. I believe they are contemplating (in committee) about giving it out in the IDX feed. Hope they do!
October 20, 2009 — 3:19 pm
Benjamin Ficker says:
LOL, thanks for the image lesson. I get that it’s an image. I checked it out on REtechulous.com to see if they looked the same.
October 20, 2009 — 3:41 pm
Liz Voss says:
Go WordPress. Thanks for the great article and instructions.
October 21, 2009 — 11:23 am
Leanne Finlay says:
Hmmm. At the same time, does your CPA or Attorney list all his/her client “deals” on their website? Feels a bit tacky to me.
October 21, 2009 — 5:57 pm
Keith Lutz says:
I don’t think it is our personal deals, but ALL sales data, so clients can COMP stuff or whatever.
October 22, 2009 — 8:29 am