Brand and business sites Case study
Dirahspot: property listings on WordPress
A WordPress property-listings platform: listing submission and management, custom search with auto-suggest, paid listing packages and responsive design.
- MySQL
- WordPress
- PHP
- JavaScript
- jQuery
Overview
Dirahspot was a property-listings site built on WordPress. We reviewed the existing site, restyled it, and wrote the plugins it needed: a property search with location auto-suggest, package payments for listings and an advertisement post type, plus the submission, account and admin pages around them.
What we built
- Property listing, detail, submission and edit pages
- A custom search plugin with location auto-suggest and filters
- A package-payment plugin for paid listings
- A custom post-type plugin for advertisements
- Registration, login and account pages; e-mail notification templates
- Responsive layouts, reCAPTCHA on forms, server and SSL set-up
Technology used
| Layer | Choice | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | WordPress | listings site |
| Search | Custom plugin | location search with auto-suggest |
| Payments | Custom plugin | listing packages |
What happened next
- Delivered
The work described above was delivered to the client.
- Operational facts
- Our work on this project spanned 2017–2018.
Could this be your project?
- You need a web application with user accounts, admin tools and reporting. Website and web app development
- You want a realistic written estimate for something of this kind, based on comparable work.
- You work in brand and business sites and want a team that has built for it before. Brand and business sites work
Questions about this project
How long did this project take?
Our work on it ran from 2017 to 2018.
What technology was used?
MySQL, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery.
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