Showcase IDX Real Estate Search & Lead Capture Plugin

THE MLS SEARCH PLUGIN THAT HELPS YOU GET MORE CLIENTS

Showcase IDX is the leading platform for real estate search and consumer engagement. Our powerful combination of listing-portal-quality real estate search and lead capture tools help agents, teams, and brokers stand out among their competitors and grow their brand. This top-performing MLS search plugin is SEO-friendly, mobile-responsive, and fully integrated with WordPress.

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Everything a Real Estate Agent Needs on Their WordPress Website:

USER-FRIENDLY REAL ESTATE SEARCH

Upgrade your WordPress website with portal-quality MLS search capabilities that delight both buyers and sellers. Unlike with other real estate listing plugins, your website visitors can find listings across multiple MLS feeds and enjoy the quickest and most user-friendly real estate search experience available.

WIDGETS AND SHORTCODES

Easily add property search, maps, and galleries anywhere on your site using shortcodes—no complicated coding is required!.

CAPTURE LEADS

Prominent calls-to-action turn visitors into leads. Customize where, how, and when visitors are prompted to register for new listings that meet their search criteria. And since they can sign in using their social media account, you’ll get leads with accurate contact information.

GET HELP TURNING LEADS INTO CLIENTS

No more missed opportunities! Our IDX WordPress plugin is equipped with drip emails that feature new listings, status changes, and price changes to listings that fit the criteria of the search that a lead is subscribed to. Have a past client? Set up a search for them for listings in their area.

LIVE SUPPORT FOR QUICK & EASY RESOLUTIONS

Get one-on-one help when you need it. We’re here to give tips on how to get more clients with our plugin and answer any technical questions you might have during and after installation.

SEO THAT WORKS

Our customers see an increase of 79% in Google traffic, on average. Thanks to server prerendering, we’re uniquely equipped to ensure Google sees all your content (including listings) as fully being part of your website. As a result, your site’s SEO performance will get a significant boost that no other IDX plugin can offer.

MLS SEARCH THAT’S EASY TO ADD & EASY TO USE

Showcase IDX will enable your leads and clients to browse listings with lightning-fast response times using the fully integrated map-based search. And In addition to price and bedroom and bathroom count, they can even drill down to look for detailed MLS search features (such as square footage and amenities)—quickly, easily, and without ever feeling overwhelmed.

STATE-OF-THE-ART MAPPING TOOLS

With Showcase IDX, you get the #1 polygon search available for real estate websitesand the only IDX plugin that allows for multiple polygon search. Your website visitors will benefit from unparalleled precision and customization options when searching for listings.

SHOWCASE EXPERTISE WITH NEIGHBORHOOD PAGES

No other agent knows your local market like you. Prove it with neighborhood and community pages showing listings matching your predefined search criteria—location, price, keyword, and more.

REVIEWS: DON’T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT

“Since switching to Showcase, my bounce rate is down 20%, time spent on my site has doubled, and most importantly I am getting 4x more registrations on my site.” – Will Rogers, Alper Real Estate Group

“Best IDX plugin by far! Showcase IDX is now the only IDX I recommend to my clients. Visually, it is stunning and so much better than the other IDXs. To top it off, customer service is top notch.” – Sinoun Chea, ShiftWeb Solutions

“Converts website leads at a high level. Showcase IDX is leading the way in the world of WordPress IDX solutions. Clients love utilizing the Showcase IDX product with original features not found in any other product.” – Wayne Stratton, Wayne Stratton Consulting

FREE TRIAL—NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED

Take a closer look at Showcase IDX (without a credit card, startup fee, or commitment): Start your free 10-day trial today! Want to learn more first? Visit ShowcaseIDX.com to get more details or chat with a member of our U.S.-based support team.

1. Sign up for an account at Showcase IDX.
2. Once you have an account with Showcase IDX, we will go through a paperless MLS confirmation process to confirm your valid MLS membership.
3. After validating your MLS membership, you will receive a welcome email with instructions on how to download, install, and validate your Showcase IDX plugin.

Installing in WordPress:
1. The simplest way to install is to click on ‘Plugins’, then ‘Add New’, and type ‘Showcase IDX’ in the search field. Navigate to our page and click ‘Install Now’. WordPress will handle the rest.
2. You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully. Click the ‘Activate Plugin’ link.
3. Navigate to ‘Showcase IDX’ which can be found near the bottom of the left navigation in your WordPress dashboard.
4. Click the button to activate your site.
5. You can now set up your default search page and start using our shortcodes to add hotsheets and other widgets to your site.
6. Sign up for an account at Showcase IDX. Once you have an account, we’ll again go through a paperless MLS confirmation process.
7. After we’ve validated your MLS membership, we’ll send you a welcome email with instructions to activate your Showcase IDX.

1. 

   Add IDX search to your real estate website using our powerful search widgets and shortcodes for your MLS.

2. 

   Built for mobile. Responsive design adjusts to look incredible on any screen.

3. 

   With Showcase IDX, your clients receive a powerful, mobile app-like experience for phones and tablet.

4. 

   Unique set of consumer tools that are designed to engage visitors to your site quickly and turn them into willing leads.

5. 

   Powerful lead capture tools will capture visitors and our integrated CRM will help you turn them into clients.

3.2.11

• Improve documentation formatting and fix links.

3.2.10

• Update readme.txt for plugin description.

3.2.9

• Added compatiblity with WordPress 6.4.

3.2.8

• Fixed warning message.

3.2.7

• Added compatiblity with WordPress 6.3.

3.2.6

• Enhancing the error handling capabilities for listings, further aligning with SEO best practices.

3.2.5

• Added compatiblity with WordPress 6.2.
• Addresses a PHP issue that occurred for some sites when installing the IDX plugin on PHP 8.

3.2.4

• Fixed an Elementor theme conflict.

3.2.3

• New Map Display – Take advantage of Showcase IDX’s new side-by-side map display option on all Premium Accounts!
• WordPress 6 made changes to how plugins can build custom pages. It introduced a new and better way, however, it caused our existing solution to throw a 404. While listing pages loaded without issue on sites, there was an underlying 404 and affecting Google results. As a temporary fix, we force a 200 status when we render the search page.
• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1.

3.2.2

• Corrected PHP 8 issue during plugin activation.

3.2.1

• Added shortcode for a mortgage calculator widget.

3.2.0

• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.0.

3.1.8

• Tested with latest WordPress.

3.1.7

• Improve SEO compatiblity with Yoast and Jetpack so that they use our SEO metadata for listing pages.

3.1.6

• Add support for new showcaseidx_nav attributes to control what items are included.

3.1.5

• Fix bug caused by AdvancedPostCache (built-in to WordPress.com) which caused the search page to display the home page instead.

3.1.4

• Fix compatibility with WordPress 5.5 when WP is configured with certain permalink structures.

3.1.2

• Tested with WordPress 5.5
• Improved error handling.

3.1.1

• New Javascript loading engine reduces plugin incompatibilities.
• Improved SEO compatibility with latest WordPress API (fixes bug with duplicate titles for Yoast users).
• Sign up for Showcase IDX directly within the plugin admin.

3.0.46

• Addressed spelling error on error page.

3.0.45

• Updates to error page when plugin subscription is in a revoked status.

3.0.44

• Removing images not relevant to plugin

3.0.43

• Ensuring compatibility with WordPress 5.1
• Updates to Readme
• Screenshots added

3.0.42

• Showcase widget added in admin dashboard.
• Showcase dropdown added into wordpress menu bar.

3.0.41

• Add new shortcode for search results count widget.

3.0.40

• Fix issue with duplicate open graph tags when used with Yoast.

3.0.39

• Update plugin read me text.

3.0.38

• Bug fix

3.0.37

• Fix bug with canonical tags

3.0.36

• Add canonical tags for Yoast on Listing Details Pages.

3.0.35

• Add shortcode for a nav widget

3.0.34

• Properly render as a 500 error when the plugin fails to load.

3.0.33

• Fix nested sitemap index error.

3.0.32

• Update the Tested up to, to signify that this plugin works on the latest version of WP.

3.0.23-3.0.31

• Bug fixes

3.0.22

• Text change

3.0.20

• Add ability to reset plugin

3.0.19

• Bug fixes

3.0.17-3.0.18

• Add new short code options

3.0.10-3.0.16

• Bug fixes

3.0.9

• Fix problems with menus and other widgets on the default search page

3.0.7-3.0.8

• Improve the plugin activation process
• Misc Bug Fixes

3.0.5-3.0.6

• Bug Fixes

3.0.4

• Fixes social sharing tags for 3.0

3.0.3

• Bug fixes for users upgrading from 2.0

3.0.2

• Bug fixes

3.0.1

• Bug fixes

3.0.0

• 3.0 is live!
• New Customers: You can sign up for an account now at https://showcaseidx.com/pricing/
• Existing Customers: This plugin will continue to work with the previous product (2.0), so you don’t need to do a thing. If you want to move to the new 3.0 product, we will be emailing you information on the upgrade process and one of our upgrade concierges will reach out to you soon.

2.7.12

• 3.0 launches Tuesday, May 30th!

2.7.11

• Bug fixes

2.7.10

• Fix for improperly-configured HTTPS sites.
• Support PHP versions with short open tags disabled.
• Better handling of multiple widgets on the same page.

2.7.9

• Note: The minimum version of PHP required is now 5.3. We check for this on plugin activation.
• Fix for hotsheets when multiple widgets are used on the same page

2.7.8

• Fix a small security hole

2.7.7

• Allow nested URLs for the default search page.
• Fix up SEO pages for certain MLSs.

2.7.6

• Tested on WP 4.3 and higher
• Updated admin UI
• Removed the disable routing option. This will make all search results pages use your page template as intended.
• Listing limit support on slideshow widgets
• API Key check performs better when the Showcase IDX service is unreachable.
• Implements an XML sitemap index, which will fix timeouts and errors for MLSs with large numbers of listings. You do not have to make any changes.

2.6.4

• Fix a bug where certain pages would unexpectedly show the search results.
• Slideshow widget [showcaseidx_widget_slideshow name=”XXX”]
• Fix for servers with outdated versions of OpenSSL
• Fix some shortcode attributes not pulling through
• Allow more shortcode attributes

2.5.0

• Contact form and new listings widgets

2.4.0

• Use SSL for increased security
• Last updated widget

2.3.3

• Don’t encode canonical URL
• Omnibox widget
• New SEO implementation

2.2.3

• Tested on WP 4.0
• Register and Login shortcodes: [showcaseidx_widget_register] and [showcaseidx_widget_login]
• SEO fix for Apache
• Add option to disable router for main search
• Fix custom hotsheets with quote characters

2.1.9

• Support Yoast SEO plugin with canonical URLs
• Fix SEO for certain WordPress installs
• Fix SEO listings for some MLSes
• Use SSL for API calls
• WordPress 3.9 compatibility
• Fix for network timeouts
• hide_map and hide_search for hotsheets
• Improved SEO

2.0.0

• Complete upgrade of Showcase IDX
• Added responsive templating and mobile versions
• Upgraded search to ElasticSearch
• Redesigned search and agent admin interface

1.4.0

• Initial public version of Showcase IDX.