Real Estate Website System and WordPress Theme

Our real estate engine is a WordPress theme based system. It was designed for real estate companies and individual agents both. Of course your will create a real estate website with but it can also be used as vacation rentals. Means you don’t just sell properties but you also have a rental option along.

We have put in so much effort to make it work with anyone out there; who has used any website will be able to utilize all the features in our real estate WordPress theme. You have hundreds of options to customize each and every element in this theme. Do it on entire website at once or just change a single category look.
You have a much powerful listing search option which retrieves items based on location, types and all those entities you will define yourself.

Property listing:

Our real estate theme gives you different layout to choose from, you can display your property listings. Choose from grid, column 1, 2, 3 and so on. You don’t create custom pages to display different specific. It’s already done in the our theme. When you have install this theme, just visit yourdomain.com/properties

Integrated Maps:

We have integrated Google maps API in this real estate theme, which gives you powerful options. When you create a new listing it will automatically be listed on Maps.  By default maps is displayed on homepage and archive page. But you can change this setting to whatever. You also have options to change map pins.

Agents:

You can easily create new agents, edit and delete which you don’t need. It’s pretty simple just like creating a new post or page from your WordPress dashboard.
 

You have option to customize each agent’s profile. Add custom properties like image, nickname, phone number, address. 

Email address will automatically be inserted in agent’s single page in contact agent form.

Payments and Submissions:

You have option to receive online payments is well. We have integrated PayPal payment gateway. You just need to enter your PayPal account email, and you are ready to receive payments online.
Your visitors can submit listings from front-end. They don’t need to log-in or something. You can charge them for listing their property.

Other theme features:

• HTML5 and CSS3
• 100% Responsive design (mobile, tablet, desktop)
• Cross browser compatible (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari)
• 2 premium sliders included
• Google map API v3 integrated
• Custom profiles

Wordpress Development India

WordPress Development

WordPress is getting more and more popular these days. From blogging to Corporate and from Educational institutes to eCommerce companies, they're all using WordPress as a CMS for their website. It has all the capabilities that you can think of. And this is what we do.

We are WordPress development Company in India providing custom WordPress solutions to our clients in India.

We develope WordPress Themes and Plugins. Features needed on your WordPress site and that cannot be availed from the WordPress Plugin Directory can always be Custom Built ! We offer bespoke WordPress plugins and customized end-to-end WordPress development solutions to help you get that crucial edge to grow your business online as well as offline.

Our passion for WordPress helps us transform complex ideas into simple and easy solutions that seamlessly can integrate with your existing WordPress or WordPress Multi User (MU) setup. We strongly believe in giving back to the community through our work and have contributed to WordPress core time to time and helped in development of this wonderful web solution for mankind.

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Visit: http://www.webguruambala.com for any web design and WordPress development needs.

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Secure your WordPress Site [A Guide]

I've seeing a lot of people in technical community forums and other places keep on complaining about their WordPress sites are getting hacked. Even i have been a victim of this, in past. So i have collected some info about this a have come up with some tips and tricks.
In this post i will be sharing my tactics of securing a WordPress blog/site.

#1 Better Host

We all tend to choose the cheapest host, we can get. And this is the first move towards letting your site hacked by hackers.
Most of the cheap hosting (free hosting) providers do not have the folders Chmoded properly. You can actually enter another user's FTP using a shell script hosted on your folder. At-least 30 - 40% websites are hacked because of this vulnerability. Some of the well known Hosts like HostGator and GoDaddy have very strict Folder permissions. So, go with them if you can't afford a dedicated Server.

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#2 WordPress Installation

When you install WordPress on server, please DO NOT, Actually NEVER choose the default Username (admin) and database prefix (wp). Instead user a unique username, so it's hard to guess for anyone trying to mess around with your site.
Password should be long, Alpha-Numerical and special character included.
Remember Password hacking is increasing now a days. Because hackers are using GPU instead of CPU, which is 1000 times faster than CPU. So choose your password carefully.

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#3 Limit Logins

This plugin locks down login for the particular IP who is trying to login again and again with different username password combination. Which is called brute-force.
This plugin make hackers frustrated and they give up trying.

Click here to learn more about this plugin and install it from WordPress repository.

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#4 Password Protect WP-ADMIN Directory

When you apply password to your wp-admin directory, you kind of adding an extra layer of security to your site. To make your directory password protected, you need to have a htpasswd file.

www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/

Go to this site, Enter your username and password. It will create the htpasswd file for you. Once again choose unique, long, hard to guess, alpha-numerical and special character added password. Now save this file to your file manager outside the public_html folder.

Now placing this file outside if public_html makes it no accessible via web.

Create a .htaccess file if you don't have one with the following rule and upload the .htaccess file under your wp-admin folder.

AuthUserFile /full/path/to/your/htpasswd/folder/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthType Basic
<limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</limit>

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#5 Maintenance & Backup

Maintenance is important, keep an eye on your apache log files, to see something wrong happening with your site. Do regular backups. When you ever you update content, make a backup of your database and full site. So if something goes wrong, you can always revert back to the last working stage.

Keep the web secure.

Thank you!

Installing WordPress on Localhost

New to WordPress? Want to learn how to use this amazing CMS of all time. You might want to become a WordPress developer.  So anyways, whatever the reason is, if you want to install WordPress on your local host, read this post to help you manage WordPress locally.

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Things you need

You need a Server, PHP and SQL Database to make WordPress install and work properly. Now you have two options to go with, either download and install all these one by one and install them, or there is another easier way. Click here to download xampp and install it in one click.

It contain Apache Server, PHP and MySQL database, So you don't need to install them separately.

Once you installed xampp, open it's Control Panel and Start Apache, MySQL.

Now you need to download the latest package from WordPress site. Extract the package files somewhere and the copy 'wordpress' folder.

Now Go to C:\xampp\htdocs and paste it here.

You have added the WordPress files successfully, now you need to install Your local wordpress site.
Open up your browser, type localhost and press enter. It will show up default xampp screen. Now click on PHPMyAdmin under Tools

• Now click on users tab from header menu.
• Click Add user and
• Enter Your name in Front of Username:
• Select Local from Drop-down menu of Host:
• Choose a new password to create, in from of Password, and repeat it.

Now from the Database for user section.

Click Create database with same name and grant all privileges.
This is create a database with your name and all the database privileges will be provided to the user. Now click add user.

Database work is completed. Please note the details of database you created, Database name, Username, User password.

Now go to C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress
Rename wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php and open it.

Now you need to edit database details. File the below code in your wp-config.php file

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// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database name here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

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Once you are done, save your changes in the file.
Now open your browser and type, localhost/wordpress and press enter.

Wow! You just installed WordPress on your local host.

Have Fun!