We have added several custom widgets to Vantage for the maximum amount of flexibility. Vantage also works with all the WordPress pre-packaged widgets. More info on WordPress Widgets can be found on the WordPress codex.
How to Get to the Widgets Menu
- Go to your WordPress Admin
- Click on “Widgets” under the “Appearance” menu
Areas Widgets Can be Used
- Main Sidebar (home page and blog)
- Listing Search Sidebar
- Single Listing Sidebar
- Page Sidebar
- Listings Pages Ad (458×60 ad banner at bottom of listings pages)
- Header (458×60 ad banner)
- Footer (four widgetized spots)
Vantage Custom Widgets
Here is a list of the custom widgets for Vantage
Widgets for Your Homepage
These widgets can be used on your homepage to add content to it.
Pay2Post Process Listing Button – Listing
This widget allows you to place actions on your site.
Here are some examples:
- Create listings
- Edit listings
- Renew listings
- Update listings
- Claim listings
Vantage – Home Featured Listings
This widget is used to add a featured listings section to your homepage.
- Title – This field allows you to set the title of this widget
- Description – This field is where you can specify a description for this section. Example: Check out our featured listings
- Number to show – This is the number of featured listings you want to show in this widget
Vantage – Home Latest Blog Posts
This Widget will allow you to display your latest blog posts on your homepage.
- Title – This field allows you to set the title of this widget
- Description – This field is where you can specify a description for this section. Example: Read our latest articles
- Number to show – This is the number of blog posts you want to display in this widget
Vantage – Home Latest Listings
This widget will show the most recent listings on your homepage.
- Title – This field allows you to set the title of this widget
- Description – This field is where you can specify a description for this section. Example: Check out our newest listings
- Number to show – This is the number of latest listings you want to display in this widget
Standard Widgets
These widgets can be used anywhere a widget is allowed to be used.
- Sidebar
- Blog – Sidebar
- Homepage
- Page – Sidebar
- Footer area 1 -4
- Single listing page – Sidebar
- Single listing page – Main Content
- User – Sidebar
- Search listing – Sidebar
Vantage – Listing Author Stats
This widget will display listing author stats.
The following listing stats are displayed by this widget
- Live listings
- Pending listings
- Expired listings
- Draft listings
- Total of listing
The following screenshot will show you how this widget will look:
Vantage – Listing Comments
This widget will display listing comments. The widget uses your WordPress comment settings. You can find these settings under “Settings” > “Discussion” in your WordPress admin. By default this the number of comments displayed is 50, you can adjust this in the “Discussion” settings mentioned above.
Vantage – Listing Refine Search
This widget will display a search option that allows the user to refine their search by category and how you want the results displayed (example: date, relevance and so on)
Vantage – Page Callout Box
The page callout box widget allows you to add a callout to your site. Here are some custom callouts you may want to use.
You can also choose to make your own custom callout.
Single Post Widgets
Vantage – Single Listing Author
This widget will display the listing author on a post. This widget is great if you want to highlight or feature an author.
You can specify if you want to show the biographical information about the author in this widget.
Vantage – Single Listing Custom Fields
The single listing custom fields will display the listings custom fields.
Vantage – Single Listing Description
This will show the description of your listings.
Vantage – Single Listing Map & Contact Info
This widget is used to display the map and contact information for listings.
In this widget you can specify the following options.
- Address
- Phone number
- Website URL
- Email address
- Get directions
- Social networks
Vantage – Single Listing Photo Gallery
This widget shows a gallery of photos that are linked to listings.