jtgolden54's Blog: Website Management

An interesting development within a very conservative and slow to change Association of Realtors.

After several years of voting down the public display of listing addresses on IDX/RETS sites, the measure finally passed a week or so ago with a ~52% yes vote. We don't have all the details on IDX field changes yet but more information will be forth coming.

More detail can be found: Huntsville Real Estate Map Search

This past weekend I finally got around to upgrading an older Wordpress site (version 2.3) to the latest and greatest version 2.7.1.  Like most of you, who self-host your own Real Estate blog, I had dreaded doing this for fear of screwing it up, perhaps even inadvertently modifying post URLs and I envisioned search engines sending potential clients to the dreaded 404 page not found result.

Then I ran across a new Wordpress theme that I simply loved; Thesis by Chris Pearson. I had previously used his Cutline theme but Thesis is in an entirely different class and so much better than his previous work. Needless to say the new theme was not compatible with the older version site, there in explains my decision to finally upgrade.

Anyway long story short,…