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Property Search Website - Joomla or WP?

by fullmotiongroup
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I am in the process of building a property listing web site. The home page of my site needs to have some pretty advanced search functionality. Specifically, an advanced search filter needs to be implemented similar to mls.ca. Other landing pages need to show properties by developer, and by area.

Can someone advise if I should attempt to build this using WP or should I build my own site from scratch via Joomla or Drupal or similar?

Core functions required

- Filter properties based on price, location, map on home page (preferably dhtml autoupdate)
- Show properties from specific developers on landing pages
- Have ability to "feature" some properties

Wireframe diagram:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2nQ...GZ6NXRXRkFGZFk

I would really prefer to use WP as I'm most familiar with it. The site will have a news/blog section so highly prefer WP
#joomla #property #search #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Joe Crosbie
    WordPress could easily power a site like this and if you're familiar with it, that's another reason to go with WordPress.

    I'm curious to know, are you planning on building this site with a combination of plugins, writing the code yourself or hiring a backend developer? If you don't mind me asking

    Joe Crosbie,
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    • Profile picture of the author ClicProject
      I have built sites like these in joomla.

      The front end is no problem, all the work is in the backend, ie bulk uploading properties, thumbnail and image handling etc - you need to create a good workflow so non-techies can upload properties quickly and easily.

      Plus if you are concerned about SEO, you need to work out a good way to route your urls and avoid duplicate content (wise use of noindex or rel=canonical tags)

      Also, what happens when a property is sold, do you unpublish and show a 404, redirect to a cetegory page, or show a no longer available message etc.

      To be honest, If I were to build something like this again, I would do it in Yii (a php framework). If you only have a few dozen properties or so, you could use wordpress no problem, but if you are talking about several thousand properties with import functions an so on, performance starts to become an issue and the backend functionality becomes very important.
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