Custom Listing Template

  • We have had a custom single listing template in place for a year and it has worked well. We updated the IMPress Listings plugin last week and our custom template option no longer shows in the Listing Template drop-down box. We followed the instructions on the following page for creating a custom template: https://support.idxbroker.com/support/s/article/Troubleshooting-IMPress-Listings. Are there different steps we need to follow now in order to use our custom template? Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by ktech.
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  • Hi:

    I was having the same issue and noticed your post. I think I managed to figure out a solution and just wanted to pass it along in case it’s helpful.

    In the prior version of this plugin, the instructions from the plugin developer were to go to \wp-content\themes in your file manager… and then go into the folder for active WordPress theme (or preferably the folder for your child theme if you’re using one). Within one of those two theme folders, you should see your custom single listing template as a php file. You’ll want to copy this file.

    In the current version of this plugin, where that file needs to reside is in a new location. In your file manager, go to \wp-content\plugins\wp-listings\includes\listing templates. Take the file you copied above and paste it within this folder. Once you do this, you should be able to go back into the WordPress dashboard for your site, add a listing and see your custom template within the list.

    By the way, if the above works, I think you can feel free to delete the custom template from its old location in either your theme or child theme folders.

    Hope this ends up being helpful!

    Thread Starter ktech

    (@ktech)

    Thanks @gnarzilla! I placed my custom single listing template in the \wp-content\plugins\wp-listings\includes\listing templates folder, however, the system never added it to the drop-down list in the WordPress editor. As a work around, I ended up replacing all of the code in the Luxurious template file with my custom code and that worked (we now select Luxurious in the drop-down list and that applies our custom template). Thanks again for the tip on looking in the \wp-content\plugins\wp-listings\includes\listing templates folder, appreciate it!

    Interesting @ktech! It seems like something else was preventing you from seeing the change you made. Maybe the reason for the absence of the addition to your dropdown list was either a WordPress site caching plugin or browser caching? However, it sounds like you’re all set at this point and don’t need to experiment any further at this point.

    One extra thing that just occurred to me… If there’s ever a developer update to this plugin, it’s possible all of the changes we made in our respective listing-templates folder will be overwritten and that our listings will appear to be “broken” again. Just something to be aware of in the future and potentially check on.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by gnarzilla.
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