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New Property Hive users, this one’s for you.  One of our current aims, amongst many, is to make getting started with Property Hive quicker and easier for new users. Regardless of whether you’re a WordPress developer or an estate agent, we want our plugin to be accessible and usable by everyone. As a new Property Hive user […]

This weeks release of our core Property Hive plugin, version 1.5.4, is now available and contains the following: New ‘Per Day’ Rent Frequency For Lettings Properties When selecting the rent frequency for a residential lettings property we’ve added a new option of ‘Per Day’: We’ve also updated our Property Import and Real-Time Portal Feed add ons to […]

In this ‘How To’ guide, we’ll be showing you how to import your properties from Vebra Alto CRM into your WordPress powered estate agency website using our Property Import add on. Using this allows you to automatically import your properties with our easy to use step-by-step guide.   The first step is to install our Property […]

We’ve launched a new update to our Map View add on that allows you to display underground lines and transport links using data provided by Google on your WordPress powered estate agency website. Once you’ve updated your add on, you can navigate to a new setting under ‘Property Hive > Settings > Map Search > […]

You might’ve noticed that on sites such as Rightmove and Foxtons, when searching for properties, they display an advert or promotion amongst the property results: It’s a great way to cross-promote other services offered or to link users to other areas of interest on your estate agency website. With our brand new add on, Search Results Promos, […]

The broadband speeds available at a property is a key piece of information that people searching for property will likely want to know, especially now that more people are working from home following the Coronavirus pandemic. As such, we’re excited to announce that we’ve updated our existing free Locrating add on to have a new option so […]

Following on from the recent announcement of our property management module, we’re excited to announce a related feature which benefits users of our Maintenance Jobs add on. Add a ‘Report Maintenance Issue’ Feature To Your Website We’ve added a new shortcode [report_maintenance_issue_form] to show form allowing tenants to report issues via your website.   When a new maintenance […]

It’s Monday, which means release day here at Property Hive. Version 1.5.2 is now available and contains the following: Feedback Received Date Displayed On Viewings When feedback is added, either by a negotiator within WordPress or by the applicant using our Viewing Feedback Request add on, we’ll now record the date on which this feedback […]

TasteWP has emerged to join WordPress sandboxing solutions, allowing anyone to create a new WordPress instance almost instantly. Platforms such as these have been popular for some time and are convenient for testing out new plugins and themes, which can also be really helpful for people outside of the dev and tech world who want […]

Since the launch of Property Hive in 2006 we’ve had support for three departments allowing agents to categorise properties accordingly for displaying on their estate agency website, sending to property portals, and more. These departments were Residential Sales, Residential Lettings and Commercial: Although this has worked well, we’ve always had support requests that asked about how these can be […]