When we began creating custom & semi-custom websites in 2010, we would take the original DispletReader plugin & modify the horizontal scroller sidebar widget heavily to match the site we designed. This resulted in featured listings management that was in the widget section of the CMS and that looked like this:
Over time, we ended up moving the featured listings to the theme options section of the website, which we felt was a better place to manage them. We also anticipated that upgrading the DispletReader plugin would prove problematic with the heavy customization of the plugin we’d done over time.
We’ve just released a new version of the DispletReader 1.0 RC1 that we think is really sweet (blog post on it coming soon.) Unfortunately, some of our past web design customers won’t be able to use the new plugin without breaking their current site (or without making some major customizations to the plugin, which wouldn’t be efficient.)
We’re offering a “featured listings” upgrade at our programming cost of $100 (total fee) to any site design clients who currently have their featured listings managed in the widget area. We’ll move the featured listings to the theme options so that you can easily upgrade DispletReader in the future – there’s nothing foreseeable that would prevent you from doing so from this point forward.
We have some new cool options to the featured listings theme options, as well, so this turns into a nice upgrade. If you want to let your featured listings run on auto-pilot by entering your agent or office id, you can do so. You can also add additional criteria like price & zip code. So, if you want to feature your office listings above a specific price point in only a few zip codes, that’s available.
We hope everyone likes the new DispletReader plugin!
