Rating: 5 stars
The support team is top-notch and very responsive. The plugin itself is a bit overwhelming at first, but definitely does what it’s supposed to.
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Hands down the best IDX search! I have 10 clients using this IDX search and they all love it. I previously used another IDX search, IDX Broker, but their support and product went downhill after they were acquired. I was fed up with them, so after some research, I found iHomefinder and haven’t looked back. The iHomefinder team has been great and the product is top notch.
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The Support is good once you get in touch with them.?
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I’ve been using the premium package idx for 8 months and I’ve been very impressed. My clients love the search, I get leads every month and support has been fantastic. Setup was easy as well. I purchased on a Tuesday and was 100% setup by Thursday. This is really a great idx product.
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If you love wasting your time and money, this plug-in is for you! The only thing worse than the code this company has written is their service. Stuff breaks all the time and they are very slow to fix it. I don’t mean hours slow…I had a problem that took several months to fix. I don’t even know how many customers I lost. Their code is so bulky and poorly written that it will slow your site down badly which means google will penalize your site and you will have big difficulties ranking well. If you want to give this a test, speed test their own demo site.
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I’ve been a client of iHomefinder for 4 months and couldn’t be happier. I’ve tried other IDX options, but this is the best in my opinion. The map search is excellent and was really easy to setup. I have a Facebook campaign driving traffic to my website and am generating a lot of leads. I recently joined their affiliate program and like the referral fee revenue for clients I sign up.
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I have been a client for 6 months and really like the map search. It’s easy to setup and works great with my Divi website. My clients compliment me on my overall website, especially the search tools. I’m a very happy iHomefinder client!
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Do not use this company or plugin!
Just awful all the way around. JS classes make it so you cannot change CSS easily and creates a completely new DOM on every page visit!
Pretty close to worthless…….
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I’ve tried just about every IDX tool out there and really like iHomefinder. It was an easy installation and the search tool looks great on my website. I’m also generating leads now, which is a huge added bonus!
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Optima Express started off good with great support but it has gone downhill in the last few years. Creates lots of bugs and breaks and does not work with other popular plugins.
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I’ve been a customer for the last 8 months. The plugin was easy to add to my website, the search product works well, and the support has been excellent. I’m a big fan of this plugin.
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I’m new to this IDX search plugin but really like it. I was able to easily add this to my new Divi website, and I’m not an expert with WordPress. The search was added to my website in a few minutes, and I was able to add additional short codes for widgets. I’m really happy with how my website turned out. Their support team was also great to work with. My interactions with the team at iHomefinder have been nothing short of excellent.
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I’ve used both the iHomefinder Optima and Eureka search and both are poorly written code. The code slows down your site and there is no consistency in the way listing are displayed. For instance the Eureka gallery listings look different then the listings on the map search.
The support is absolutely the worst of any plugin I have ever used. They don’t get back to you and don’t listen to common sense recommendations.
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Easy to learn, good idx plugin, until something doesnt work and you need help. Unresponsive tech support.
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Support = Patronizing then non-existent. Could’ve been a great product too. AVOID!
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I’m new to WordPress and started with Optima Express about 2 – 3 months ago. I’ve been very impressed so far. The Plugin installation was easy, and the approval with my board was completed in a few days. I attended a product webinar with iHomefinder that was well done and very informative. I now understand the product enough to be dangerous. I just need more time to create all my markets, and my website will be ready for prime time. If you’re looking for an easy, high-quality IDX solution that works great with your WordPress website, this is a good option.
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I think this is probably one of the best IDX plugins for wordpress. However, their support is really really really bad. I’ve sent about 6 message in a few different ways to support and they don’t respond. You have to wait until you can get someone on the live chat and then they do reply but don’t expect good follow-up.
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I’ve used a number of IDX solutions, and I think optima express is the best. The installation is very easy, and the product is great overall.
First, the IDX search is beautiful and easy to use. I often receive comments about the search experience from my clients. They seem to enjoy everything about the property search, and they keep coming back to my website, which is the point of having a real estate website.
Second, I’ve received excellent Custer support with this product, and I’ve attended a few free webinar trainings that really helped me get the most out of this product.
I’m regularly generating business with this IDX (new leads and referrals). I can’t recommend this plugin enough.
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I strongly recommend people reading this, not going for this plugin. I struggled for 2.5 years with their horrible solution until my desperation took me to rebuild the site with a good solution.
This plugin has terrible if not the worst support. They have several errors in the markets, texts, image loading, and others. When you request it to be fixed or bettered, they tell you it’s a new functionality and they do not guarantee the change. Several months later they say they do not recall the request.
I have spoken to them over the last year and when they answer, they never got anything fixed or changed. Its functionalities have been the same for about 2.5 years now. It’s a complete static plugin that doesn’t evolve, they just want to cross-sell or upsell their customers but do not bother to get the functionalities of other IDX plugins which are evolving faster.
It’s the worst plugin for SEO, they intentionally dofollow all links, do not have a listing sitemap to show to google, the search loads slow, etc, etc.
I strongly recommend evaluating other solutions. This plugin is far from being good. For lack of a better word, it sucks!
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I just started using the iHomefinder Premium package, and I’m very impressed. It only took a few minutes to install the plugin and the map search looks great on my website. I was able to find everything I needed online, and from the webinar I attended. I couldn’t be happier with this product.
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I’ve used iHomefinder for about a year. It’s a fast, user-friendly plugin that looks great. Installation was easy, and my clients really enjoy the search experience. I’m even getting about 5 new leads a week. I also enjoy using their mobile app.
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Client had a site setup with this. A quick code audit resulted in scrapping the project and starting over.
The amount of spam email you’ll receive with no option to opt-out is ridiculous.
Should be criminal to have software like this offered toward the public.
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Two months this company has not addressed a self-admitted, update-introduced bug that caused map search to not work correctly.
They’ve had two updates since and neither with a fix. Just empty promises.
Rating: 1 star
Recent update caused site to not load and throw up errors. Had to restore site.
Had to restore site multiple times in the past due to this plugin. Site was recently redesigned as well.
You might wish to look elsewhere before using this plugin. Anytime there is an update, it’s cross your fingers time.
AVOID THIS PLUGIN if you wish to avoid site conflicts, costly downtime and extra development costs. Every time a major site issue has occurred, this plugin has been the culprit. I have a long trail of bug issues related to iHomeFinder.
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I am just getting started with this program and I have to say, the support I have gotten has been great. They have gone above and beyond for me.
All of my issues have been resolved quickly.
I added this to my existing WordPress site and they have resolved incompatibility issues for me.
I highly recommend this program.
Rating: 1 star
I find this hilarious. You have to pay for ihomesfinder and then still have to pay a monthly fee. This is such a joke! Who pays to use an API connect. Hidden costs get lost!
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This plugin has many great search features, and many more filters than the competetors.
Their support team is decent, but what really kills this plugin is how it affects site speed. Even on pages that do not contain iHomefinder content, your site speed grade with Google (Which is a ranking factor) will be affected tremendously. I had to install a plugin organizer to address this.
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I’ve been using this plugin on my website for many, many years, and it’s been working great and getting me about 20-40 leads every month on average. And the plugin works best using the “Markets” feature to create individual shortcodes for every community, neighborhood, city, or county that you want added to your website.
I painstakingly, over the course of 4-6 months, created a page for just about every community in my area. I have nearly 500 “markets” which equates to about 500 neighborhoods that I created in iHomefinder. After creating those markets, I then had to create 500 website pages for each community.
With each page, I included an SEO-friendly page title, SEO-keywords, meta data, and SEO-friendly community description too. Doing this will help get a page indexed by the search engines, in additiona to having the IDX on the pages too. But that indexing will take anywhere from 6 months to two years — providing you also create analytics accounts with Bing and Google to make sure they index your site and pages.
I’m a real estate agent, but I’ve been messing with websites long before I was an agent (since the early 90’s). And I’m just saying there’s a lot more involved with using this plugin than just activating it.
Using an IDX plugin from any provider does not guarantee your site will be found. It will take a lot of work and time, or money. I have more of the former than the later, and the time I devoted into building my website would have cost me tens-of-thousands-of dollars, if not more.
What many users are complaining about is the older IDX page creation that iHomefinder was offering, that more easily created IDX pages. Unfortunately, those IDX pages are not SEO friendly and they would not get indexed by the search engines, ever. So I eventually learned the hard way that I had to create SEO-friendly pages myself for every community in my area, but it paid off years ago.
To see the plugin and my work i action, Google “brighton park condos chesapeake va” and my web page for that community will appear in the 2nd position, and it’s not a pay-per-click page either (it’s the mrtownhome.net website). Also try “homes for sale in ridgely manor virginia beach” using Bing and I appear on the first page in about the 5th or 6th position. And I get this placement for just $59 a month with the iHomefinder IDX plugin.
Trust me, I know iHomefinder isn’t perfect and I’ve had my issues with them too. iHomefinder is real slow with support, even when calling in (support available noon to 8pm EST weekdays only). There’s no forum or open discussion to speak of, and they are slow to update their plugin as WordPress rolls out updates, which has caused some slight problems for me but nothing I couldn’t work through.
In fact, as of 12/17/2018, Optima Express has only been tested up to WP 4.9.9 when WP 5.0.1 is already out, and I think that’s causing some forced sign-up issues with IE and Firefox, but not Chrome.
I tried IDXBroker and what I didn’t like was they did not allow all “sold” listings to be displayed on a web page, only my personally sold listings. But allowing sold listings to be displayed is a must-have, to help keep a web page indexed by search engines… just look at some of the larger brokerages and you’ll see what I mean.
Unfortunately/fortunately, whether you can display sold listings on your website will depend on your local MLS and fortunately, my MLS allows sold properties to be displayed for up to 12 months. And that keeps the leads coming in and the pages indexed in Google and Bing.
I don’t work for iHomefinder and as mentioned, I’ve had my share of issues with them. I’m not getting anything out of providing this Hemingway novel feedback either, but I’ve tried other IDX plugins and this is the best it gets for now.
I was reading through a bunch of negative feedbacks, and I remember not knowing anything about IDX, WordPress, SEO, or plugins. So I’m providing this with the hope to help someone else who may be considering this plugin. I even noticed some negative feedbacks said they would never use this plugin again yet, when I went to their website, the agent is back to using it.
I’m just saying that for the approximate $59 I spend each month, is money well-spent. But you’re just going to have to devote a little time in creating a website that can utilize all of the features this plugin provides, to maximize the results it can and will produce.
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I have used this terrible plugin and service for the past couple of years. They tried to add a CRM to their poorly programmed IDX—turning a bad situation into a complete disaster. Then when you cancel they continue to charge you. You have been warned!
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Built a nice search page using the [optima_express_search] shortcode. Once I registered the plugin and paid for it, all I get on that page now is a “Feature Unavailable” message.
This wouldn’t qualify for a 1 star review, but upon attempting to contact support to get this resolved in a timely manner (client is waiting for results), I’ve gotten no response, and no help at all. No accountability for their plugin.
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