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Hometown is a Premium WordPress Theme for Real Estate related websites. It has elegant & clean design and comes with lots of features like property search, property slider, property map with stylish markers, front end user login & register, front end property submit & edit, payment integration with PayPal, dsIDXpress IDX Plugin support, WPML plugin support, custom widgets, various templates, well designed theme options & meta-box, Google reCAPTCHA support and much more …

Current version: 2.6.13

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Key Features

  • Property Slider
  • Property Map – with stylish marker
  • Front End Submit & Edit Property – selectable paid (with PayPal) / free listing
  • Front End User Login & Registration
  • Property Compare – with stylish marker
  • Agent Contact – with reCAPTCHAR integrated
  • dsIDXpress IDX Plugin Ready
  • Optima Express Plugin Ready
  • Slider Revolution included
  • Page Builder – powered by enhanced version of Visual Composer
  • Mega Menu
  • Sticky Header
  • 2 Header Layout – logo on the left & logo on the middle
  • Boxed & Full Width layouts
  • Responsive Ready
  • Retina Display Ready
  • Custom Icon Font Importer – generate your own icon set at fontello.com
  • AJAX MailChimp subscribe form
  • All section support Dark / Light background
  • Unlimited Colors & Fonts
  • Code with SEO in Mind
  • WPML & Polylang Tranlatation Ready (.po file included)
  • RTL text direction ready (can switch between LTR & RTL in theme option)
  • Great support

Credit

  • Nice Pattern: Subtle Patterns
  • Icon Font: Fontello
  • Slider: Owl Carousel
  • Marker Icon: Gaston Figueroa
  • All images used in the preview are just for demonstration purposes and not included in the Theme. They require an appropriate license to be used.

Update History

Version 2.6.13

FIX: minor bug fix
FIX: clean some code

Version 2.6.2

FIX: Visual Composer element not load properly issue

Version 2.6.1

FIX: minor bug fix
UPDATE: Revolution Slider plugin to version 5.4.5.2
UPDATE: Visual Composer plugin to version 5.2.1

Version 2.6.0

ADD: replace reCaptcha with Invisible reCaptcha, please update reCaptcha site key and secret key to new version
FIX: solve all PHP warning
FIX: SSL issue
FIX: location map touch issue on mobile
UPDATE: Revolution Slider plugin to version 5.4.5.1
UPDATE: Visual Composer plugin to version 5.1.1

Version 2.5.0

FIX: custom menu meta issue on WP 4.7
UPDATE: Revolution Slider plugin to version 5.3.1.5
UPDATE: Visual Composer plugin to version 5.0.1

Version 2.4.3

UPDATE: Revolution Slider plugin to version 5.2.6
FIX: property sorting issue

Version 2.4.2

FIX: Google Map missing API key issue (please fill your own API key at "wp-admin > appearance > theme options > advance > Google Map API Key")
FIX: social share buttons

Version 2.4.1

ADD: Back-end translation ready
UPDATE: Visual Composer plugin to version 4.12
UPDATE: Revolution Slider plugin to version 5.2.5.3
FIX: 404 error on single post page

Version 2.4.0

ADD: Back-end translation ready
UPDATE: Visual Composer plugin to version 4.11.2
UPDATE: Revolution Slider plugin to version 5.2.4.1
UPDATE: Hometown CPT plugin to version 1.2.0
FIX: Visual Composer JS error on WordPress 4.5

Version 2.3.0

ADD: option to filter property map by property
ADD: now you can assign multiple agent to property
ADD: add custom link option for images carousel
FIX: Visual Composer tab style

Version 2.2.3

- FIXED: minor issue which caused by previous update

Version 2.2.2

- UPDATED: update Visual Composer to version 4.7.4

Version 2.2.1

- FIXED: property location tab bug

Version 2.2.0

- ADDED: option to change map style color / black & white
- ADDED: now you can add video on single property
- ADDED: location string field
- UPDATED: search result will also include property with price & area as "0"
- UPDATED: hometown-cpt & revolution slider plugin
- UPDATED: remove theme_front.pot, add theme_front.po
- FIXED: minor issue

Update Instruction

1. Update theme
2. Update hometown-cpt plugin
3. Update property's price & area which have blank value to "0" (zero)

Version 2.1.2

- ADDED: option to filter post by category in "VC post list"
- ADDED: option to show sort dropdown in "VC property list"
- FIXED: minor issue

Version 2.1.0

- FIXED: dsIDXpress appearance on mobile
- FIXED: Facebook share wrong thumbnail
- IMPROVE: slider performance

Version 2.0.8

- FIXED: carousel not working properly with Optima Express IDX Plugin

Version 2.0.7

- FIXED: dsIDXpress plugin compatability
- FIXED: minor issue

Version 2.0.6

- Fix: error in class-wpb-map.php

Version 2.0.5

- Fix: property search & sort issue

Version 2.0.4

- Fix: Visual Composer "Button" element

Version 2.0.3

- Fix: footer widget issue

Version 2.0.2

- Fix: various issue

Version 2.0.1

- Fix: various issue

Version 2.0.0

- Add: RTL text direction support
- Add: "Property Compare" widget
- Add: theme options now translatable (work with WPML or Polylang)
- Add: floor plan meta for property post type
- Add: attachment meta for property post type
- Add: pricing table element
- Add: agent list element
- Improve: property list element
- Fix: various issues

Upgrade Instruction
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1. Update the theme
2. Install & activate "Hometown CPT" plugin via "wp-admin > appearance > install plugin"
3. Navigate to "wp-admin > appearance > theme options" and press "Save Options" button

Version 1.4.0

- Include Revolution Slider
- Add option to set "General Slide" vertical padding
- Add option to set "Property Slide" height
- Add option to set "Property Map" height and zoom
- Update "Visual Composer" plugin, please follow this instruction: http://kb.leafthemes.com/knowledgebase/how-to-update-visual-composer/
- Fix various issue

Version 1.3.0

- Add share button to post single & property single
- Fix plural noun issue
- Update bedroom, bathroom, garage now support float value
- Add "read more" link after post excerpt, you can manage it at "wp-admin > appearance > theme options > blog"
- Add sort by alphabet option
- Rework the price field, now accept only number
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.2.2

- Add button link fields to "Teaser Box" & "Icon Box" element
- Add option (wp-admin > appearance > theme options > property > listing > property per page) to set amount of property to show on property listing page
- Update "price" field to accept non-numeric string, for example: POA.
- Fix JS error when slider contain only 1 slide
- Fix various issue on property search form
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.2.0

- Add new slider for general content (text with button) : http://demo.leafthemes.com/hometown-1/home-with-general-slider/
- Add full-width & sidebar left layout for single property page, you can set it at "wp-admin > appearance > theme options > property"
- Add option to disable front-end login menu
- Add option to set autoplay timeout for slider
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.1.2

- Improve theme options page to prevent "clear all data & importing demo content" by accident
- Update "Visual Composer" plugin to version 4.4.2
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.1.1

- Update "Visual Composer" plugin to version 4.4.1
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.1.0

- Add "Agent Listing" page template
- Update .POT file (for translation)
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.0.3

- Add "Contact Note" which will show on "Property Single Page - Contact Tab" and can be managed at "Theme Options > Property > Contact"
- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.0.2

- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.0.1

- Minor bugs fix

Version 1.0.0

- First release

Compatible Browsers:
v.9
v.10
v.11
Compatible WordPress Versions:
4.8.x
Compatible Plugins:
WPML
Visual Composer 4.11.2.1
Tags:
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business
corporate
flat
homes
houses
listing
offices
property
property search
real estate
real estate agent
realtor
rent
sale

Performance

PageSpeed Score
75

A score calculated by Google Pagespeed Insights - testing various aspects against best practice.
A bad value is not necessarily a general elimination criterion as there will be a lot of space for improvements.

YSlow Score
86

A score calculated by Yahoo - testing various aspects against best practice.
A bad value is not necessarily a general elimination criterion as there will be a lot of space for improvements.

Load Time

Load time should be as fast as possible ( less than 3 seconds ) - every additional second will cost you visitors and google ranking.

Requests

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