Home Valuation Plug-in For Wordpress - Zillow API Idea #2
By: Drew Meyers, Zillow Business Development Specialist | April 18, 2007
Shout-out to any developer or web wizard who might be reading this: Does anyone have a spare cycle* to develop a Wordpress plug-in? Here’s the idea: Develop a plug-in that would retrieve a Zestimate without leaving the Wordpress blog they’re on. I envision some type of small search box module displayed on the sidebar. When the user enters an address and hits "submit," then it would open a page in the main section of the blog that displays all the property details along with a Zestimate and a Google map showing the properties’ location.
I’m not going to say the majority of real estate bloggers use Wordpress, but there are certainly a very large number of them. Realivent realized the need for enhancements for real estate bloggers using WP and developed a featured listing plug-in back in January.
FAQs:
Q. Why doesn’t Zillow just do it — you have a ton of developers
A. We do, but they’re all busy playing Ping-Pong.
Q. What do I get if I do this?
A. You get a mention here in this blog that some cool dude built a cool plug-in to provide a cool blogger with a cool Zestimate plug-in. Plus, you might see your plug-in on other real estate blogs running WP and a Zillow t-shirt sent to your front door! Cool?
Interested? Leave a comment and we can make beautiful plug-ins together.
*Spare cycle = Time. (This is just another buzz phrase to confuse everyone.)
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Ken @ Realivent on April 18, 2007 6:44 pm
This is very coincidental because we have already developed this plugin and were going to contact you this Friday to show you. Watch for it on Friday. Cheers!
matt on April 18, 2007 7:15 pm
We’ll trade our Zillow widget for your ping-pong table!
Drew Meyers from Zillow on April 18, 2007 7:24 pm
haha - I don’t know if I can send you the ping-pong table. Our developers are hooked.
Brian Brady on April 23, 2007 1:50 am
Can I put the widget on my typepad weblog?
Drew Meyers from Zillow on April 23, 2007 2:16 pm
That’s something the folks at Realivent will have to answer. If not, maybe some other kind developer will develop something for Typepad?
CindyM on April 11, 2008 12:56 pm
I use it and love wordpress. I like Ping Pong too lol. I want in!
Tony Neshtyak on May 20, 2008 7:56 pm
I like ping-pong too. lol.
Safi on June 4, 2008 9:02 am
I like word press. lol
Dallas Texas Mortgage on September 11, 2008 12:03 pm
That was a great post. I will have to bookmark this site so I can read more later.
Greg Watson on September 12, 2008 12:33 am
I will love to have all. Plugin and the ping pong table
Office Space in miami on September 17, 2008 12:55 pm
I am one of those real estate bloggers that use word press. LoL
Mike on September 22, 2008 12:30 pm
Hi
I saw you’re talking about real estate bloggers, i said you might find this interesting - a plugin for real estate, which actually “brings in” real estate listings into wordpress posts, allowing you to search, view the searchresults, listingview directly into wordpress
http://www.wprealestatelistings.com/realestate/wordpress
Jared on January 1, 2009 1:35 am
VERY IMPORTANT FRAUD NOTICE about WPRealEstateListings.com!
Mike is in fact a spammer, and his name is actually Vlad Dates Mihai, a Romanian programmer wanted by US Authorities for fraud. Dont belive me? check out the US FTC website where two serious complaints are levied against him for taking NAR Listings and selling the data elsewhere.
Vlad Dates Mihai, please quite promoting stolen software, you don’t even have the intelligence to write your own content for your demo, you stole it from my site WPFeatured.com and EZProRealty.com This is not ethical or honest and you should be ashamed.
You foolishly admit to stealing our code on your own blog. You then take NAR listings and boldly publish them where you do not have permission to do so to promote your hijacked version of my plugin (which I have already reported to the NAR) and you are unethical.
For anyone who cares about your business, your ethical standing in the industry and your reputation I plead with you, be very careful in how you entertain this guy by giving him access to ANY of your code, servers or software. I would certainly NEVER give him access to MLS, IDX and RETS details because NAR has sent out a broadcast last month to avoid this guy by name, Vlad Dates Mihai aka Mike.
I googled his stolen product to report his domain to ICANN and the owner of the domain to make them aware that “good ole Mike, still trying to rip off the legitimate real estate industry with more of his hijacked code”
Tragic really, the guy still finds ways to find a sucker who pays him and suffers.
Paul on January 6, 2009 7:18 pm
I liked the post as well! Just goes to show - The blogger out there doing the work comes up with the greatest inventions!
Bob on January 15, 2009 6:07 pm
I use word press for my blog and I think that linking to a value estimator is a great idea.
Vanessa | Prefabricated Structures on April 3, 2009 8:22 am
Jared, Thanks for your information. I am very new to all this and I missed that. Normally I keep track of such matters and I’ll keep an eye on it.
Costello | nike dunk sb on April 12, 2009 4:43 pm
I haven’t seen this plugin or API active somewhere over internet. Where can I find it?