Property Hive

Good afternoon. So sorry for the delay. For some reason we didn’t get email notification of this topic being created.

You might’ve already sorted this or moved on, but for the benefit of others reading this, re the issue you’re facing it sounds like either:

• The properties are missing a title, excerpt AND content. At least one of these must be present for a property to be imported
• The only other time I’ve seen issues with properties importing and this error occur is when there is an encoding issue and the data sent is in a different encoding than the database. Without seeing the data it’s hard to comment. If I could get your API key sent through (please send through via email, don’t post on public forum) I would be happy to have a look to see if this is the case.

Thanks,

Steve

Are you able to confirm which format you’re using please and I’ll advise accordingly.

Try:

If development_company/name is equal to * then set
Owner Name to {development_company/name}

Good morning. We can import properties in the OpenImmo format, but not export (yet). In future I would love to add this, but it’s just not possible at this time.

Thanks for getting in touch. A snippet like so might be better:

https://gist.github.com/propertyhive/98d59e83e4b142528c111e1c66c06432

This uses the the_title filter to amend the title accordingly throughout the frontend.

Hope that helps,

Steve

Good morning,

The label isn’t stored in the database. It’s just hardcoded. We know the meta field is storing bedrooms, so everywhere inside the application we’ll just hardcode the label ‘Bedrooms’. It’s not stored in the database.

Do you have more info as to your use case and I’ll see if I can assist further.

Thanks,

Steve

Perfect. So you should be able to use the ‘Another Houzez site‘ option from the dropdown of available formats and enter the URL accordingly.

Can somehow the property title to be different in the second site without having to login to the CRM and change it manually?

Your idea of creating a field using the Houzez field builder and then a field mapping would work. I’ve tested it here and can see that custom fields ARE included in the REST API so would work.

If I can assist with this part of the integration do let me know.

Steve

Good afternoon,

Apologies for the delay. It looks like you’ve created a custom field called ‘Let Type‘ that is either ‘Non-Student‘ or ‘Student‘.

If you want to show a completely different Elementor template based off of this you could use a snippet like so:

https://gist.github.com/propertyhive/3f12c4e05b2795f1eb92a32297c29966

Or if you want to output this let type somewhere on the page and use that you can use the ‘Template Assistant Additional Field‘ Elementor widget:

https://prnt.sc/_O-MlUsJrW4M

Hope that helps but let me know if I can assist further.

Steve

Good afternoon,

The thread you linked to was about transferring data from one site that DOESN’T use Houzez, to one that does.

Is this the same case for you?

If site A isn’t using Houzez then yes the best format is probably BLM.

If site A is using Houzez then you can do that by, when setting up an import on site B, selecting ‘Another Houzez Website’ from the list of formats and entering the URL of site A:

https://prnt.sc/Uf8IjK2Tl-VL

Please do let me know your scenario. I’ll then come back to you on the other points accordingly.

Good afternoon,

I know you sent this via email too but for purpose of this ticket, and for others reading it in the future, yes we’ve recently added support for PropCtrl and can import properties from them.

Thanks,

Steve

Thanks so much for your kind words. Glad we could help.

Steve

@jamaicahomes If the property was imported by Houzez Property Feed originally then any updates that come through in the feed will be reflected in Houzez.

If the status changes, or price or bedrooms etc, then it would update the existing record with the new data.

If a property changing to sold is no longer sent in the data feed by the third party, then it would be removed from Houzez as well. Essentially whatever is in the data feed will be imported/updated. Anything not in the data feed will be removed.

Hi Jamaicahomes,

Thanks for getting in touch.

In response to your question about handling up to 5000 properties and daily syncing, I’m happy to confirm that our plugin does not impose any inherent limitations on the number of properties it can handle. We store properties using standard WordPress post types with post meta, and store media as standard WP media items.

Any limitations are therefore often not at our end, but instead at a server/hosting level. It’s essential to consider that the performance and scalability of our plugin may be influenced by various factors related to your hosting environment, such as PHP settings, disk space, and server resources.

While our plugin is designed to efficiently manage large volumes of properties and accommodate daily (or quicker) syncing requirements, it’s important to ensure that your hosting infrastructure meets the necessary criteria for optimal performance. This includes having adequate PHP memory limits, sufficient disk space for storing property data, and a robust server configuration to handle the data transfer process effectively.

We recommend working closely with your hosting provider to ensure that your environment is properly configured to support the demands of importing and storing so many properties.

In terms of the API you mention, if there is a particular API you are referring to please send through details and I’ll confirm if we can work with it, or can at the very least, look to add support for it.

Do let me know if you have further more specific questions.

Steve

My apologies. After looking into this further we don’t use get_the_excerpt(). We call strip_tags directly in the template:

https://github.com/propertyhive/WP-Property-Hive/blob/master/templates/search/summary.php#L19

As a result the best this would be to either:

1. Override the above template into your theme and remove the strip_tags() references.
2. Use a snippet like so: https://gist.github.com/propertyhive/23d99af7378a4239a43a3d0ae57b5153

We use the WP function get_the_excerpt() to output the summary in search results. This will strip HTML by default.

I’ve done a Google for “get_the_excerpt() allow HTML” and there are lots of discussions about this. Here’s just one I’ve found:

https://wpwhatnot.com/allow-html-excerpts/