Contact Agent Button?

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I agree that there needs to be a request more info or contact agent button within each listing. The form should automatically populate with the MLS# in the subject line so that way the broker knows exactly what listing visitors were looking at. Even slicker would be to use a modal window, so the form appears, fill in the details and submit and the form vanishes and they continue browsing.

A good way to easily meet the requirement (easy for me to say since I'm not programming the solution) - enhance the plug-in so we can specify a "template" page that would be selected when creating the IDX page. Right now, the 'default page template' is chosen. If the plug-in allowed the user to chose a specific page, then we could put a contact form at top -- or anything. We would have max control over what's presented, and it allows us to use whichever WP contact form we choose. Two templates would be ideal: one for the list of properties, and one for an individual listing.

Personally, I don't want yet another contact capture system in place with this plug-in. I've got more than I would like already.


Second/simpler idea: Add a contact link in the idx-created page and individual MLS listing that would re-direct to the contact our page of choice. So, when adding the plug-in, allow the entry of our contact form page giving me complete control over the contact form.

I'd like to tag another suggestion onto this thread. My current contact form plugin collects lots of of information on the user, including previous pages viewed before making the contact, and most importantly, the referring site (usually a search engine), including the search phrase used. So, when DS implements their contact button, it would be cool if they could include this feature.

The contact form I'm using on pages generated by the plugin, while not nearly as elegant as some of the solutions proposed above, works very well. In the email it sends me, it tells me the page the visitor was on when the contact form was submitted.

Example:

http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/i...

Brian, where did you get that "Request Info" widget? Thanks

Mike, I've been trying to use the Enhanced WP-ContactForm. I don't know if I'm going about this all wrong, but it's not working. I installed the plug-in, then
dragged a text/html widget to the side bar and put [wpcf] in the text widget. Then, when I view the site, all I see is "Contact Me" and [wpcf]. Ideas?

If you host your own WordPress blog, it's pretty easy to add a contact button for free that includes the title of the page - I drew this up in about 5 minutes. Feel free to steal it :)

You will need to have some things for this method to work:

1.) Have FTP access to your site because you need to add a PHP page.
2.) Have a JavaScript widget installed to be able to include JavaScript in your sidebar (I use Samsarin PHP. It's free.)

Here goes:

1.) Install the Samsarin PHP widget.
2.) Navigate to your widget page and place the Samsarin on your sidebar.
3.) Open the widget to edit.
4.) Insert the following, replacing 'www.myblog.com' with your blog's root directory"

/

Name *

E-Mail *

Phone

Question

 
* = required field



5.) Create the following file using a text editor: submit.js
6.) Insert the contents below, save it to the file, and upload it to your blog's root:

function validateFormOnSubmit(theForm) {
var reason = "";
reason += validateEmpty(theForm.contactName);
reason += validateEmail(theForm.contactEmail);

if (reason != "") {
alert("Some fields need correction:\n" + reason);
return false;
}
alert("Your question has been submitted. An agent will respond shortly.");
return true;
}

function validateEmpty(fld) {
var error = "";

if (fld.value.length == 0) {
fld.style.background = '#FFFF99';
error = "The required field has not been filled in.\n"
} else {
fld.style.background = 'White';
}
return error;
}

function trim(s)
{
return s.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/, '');
}

function validateEmail(fld) {
var error="";
var tfld = trim(fld.value); // value of field with whitespace trimmed off
var emailFilter = /^[^@]+@[^@.]+\.[^@]*\w\w$/ ;
var illegalChars= /[\(\)\\,\;\:\\\"\[\]]/ ;

if (fld.value == "") {
fld.style.background = '#FFFF99';
error = "You didn't enter an email address.\n";
} else if (!emailFilter.test(tfld)) { //test email for illegal characters
fld.style.background = '#FFFF99';
error = "Please enter a valid email address.\n";
} else if (fld.value.match(illegalChars)) {
fld.style.background = '#FFFF99';
error = "The email address contains illegal characters.\n";
} else {
fld.style.background = 'White';
}
return error;
}

7.) Create the following file with a text editor: 'contact.php'
8.) 6.) Insert the contents below, save it to the file, and upload it to your blog's root. CHANGE THE CONTACT ADDRESS TO YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS AND THE $headers TO REFLECT THE APPROPRIATE SETTINGS:

You should now have a call to action on your sidebar.