The Link

The project

I was approached by Sarah from Hexagon Webworks regarding the programming of a bespoke property management plugin for a site build project that she was working on for Adkin. Top priority of the project was to be usability, both on the front end and in the admin area.

The client needed the plugin to allow them to manage all aspects of the listings, and to do so in such a way that fitted in with their existing systems. It was also necessary to devise an email subscription system that allowed users to  register to receive email notifications of new listings matching their chosen property criteria, to be able to register the same email address across different sets of criteria, and to be able to manage each registration individually.

The Geek Stuff

The plugin has been built from scratch and includes the ability to manage each individual listing in a WordPress Blog Post fashion, but stored completely independently of the blog section of the CMS.  The plugin hijacks the WordPress Media Library to its own ends for image management, and has a seperate facility for managing listing subscribers outside of the WordPress User database.

Safe.