Important: You are required to install the Houzi Rest Api Plugin on your Houzez wordpress. To install the Plug-in, click on Houzi Rest Api Plugin Link.
A Mobile App View is provided in the center of screen, so you can see how the modifications will look on real device.
This guide consists of following sections:
Home Designs
Add New Section
Edit a Section
Delete a Section
Re-arrange a Section
Let’s dive into the details of each section.
Home Designs
Houzi provides you wide range of home designs. On the top right side of Home section, Home designs are provided. Click on any Home design, and you will be able to see, how it will look on real device in the Mobile App View. (By default, selected design is Home Elegant, one of most popular designs.)
There are some additional customizations related to Home designs as follows:
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If you select Home Carousel or Home Location, you can increase or reduce the Search Type options e.g. For Rent, For Sale etc. with the help of stepper.
Above displayed Search Types are generic houzez List-Type: property_status options. You may encounter these options, according to the data of your website.
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If you select Home Tabbed, you can replace the quote ‘What are you looking for?’ with your custom quote, in the Quote text field.
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If you select Home Carousel or Home Elegant, you can change the Location Picker Hierarchy.
Above displayed taxonomies are generic houzez taxonomies. You may encounter these options, according to the data of your website.
Add New Section
For adding new section in Home Screen, follow these steps:
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There is a Add button at the bottom of the column, press this button and a dialog box will open.
- First of all, you have to define the Widget Type of the section. There are many widget types as:
- ad: If you want to show ads.
- recent_searches: If you want to show Recent Searches.
- property: If you want to show Specific Properties e.g. Properties by Rent etc.
- term: If you want to show Particular Properties e.g. Properties by property_Type or property_city etc.
- agents: If you want to show Agents.
- agencies: If you want to show Agencies.
- terms_with_icon: If you want to show Terms on a circular view e.g. For Sale, For Rent etc.
- place_holder: If you want to show your Custom Widget.
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partners: If you want to show Partners.
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Second, you have to define the Title of the section.
- Third, you can define Design of any Property related section. Property related sections are as follows:
- property.
- term.
You can choose from Design # 01 to Design # 08 for the property sections. term section has only two designs i.e. Design # 01 and Design # 02.
[Only for property type widgets] If you want to Change design of Property listing via Hooks, select the “item_design_from_hook” dropdown menu option.
Design for non-proprety related sections can not be defined.
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Forth, you can define List-Type of any Property related section. List-Types are as follows:
- all: If you want to show latest listings. (It is by default selected option).
- property_type: If you want to show listings by their Types e.g. Apartments, Offices, Shops etc.
- property_status: If you want to show listings by their Status e.g. for-rent, for-sale etc.
- property_feature: If you want to show listings by their Features e.g. Air-Conditioning, Swimming-pool etc.
- property_label: If you want to show listings by their Labels e.g. hot-offer, open-house etc.
- property_state: If you want to show listings by their States.
- property_city: If you want to show listings by their Cities.
- property_area: If you want to show listings by their Areas.
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property_country: If you want to show listings by their Countries.
Above mentioed List-Types are generic houzez List-Type options. You may encounter all or some of these options, according to the data of your website.
- Fifth, you can define List-Type Value of any Property related section. List-Types Values are as follows:
- all: If you want to show all the listings of specific List-Type.
- If selected List-Type is property_type and you want to show listings according to some particular property_type e.g. Apartments, Offices, Shops etc.
- If selected List-Type is property_status and you want to show listings according to some particular property_status e.g. for-rent, for-sale etc.
- If selected List-Type is property_feature and you want to show listings according to some particular property_feature e.g. Air-Conditioning, Swimming-pool etc.
- If selected List-Type is property_label and you want to show listings according to some particular property_label e.g. hot-offer, open-house etc.
- If selected List-Type is property_state and you want to show listings according to some particular state.
- If selected List-Type is property_city and you want to show listings according to some particular city.
- If selected List-Type is property_area and you want to show listings according to some particular area.
- If selected List-Type is property_country and you want to show listings according to some particular country.
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Check Show Featured to show Featured Properties in property section type only.
- Check Show Nearby Properties to show Nearby Properties in property section type only.
Please consider the fact that you won’t have properties available for all user locations. Also consider location permission and other gps related issues as well.
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Click Done to add the new section.
- Click Cancel to discard the action.
Edit a Section
You can Edit any sections just by clicking on edit icon of respective section.
You can perform following opertions while editing a section:
- You can change the Widget Type of any section.
- You can Rename any section.
- You can change the Design of any Property related section.
- You can change the Listing Type of any Property related section (e.g. you can show all properties or just the properties based on their property_type or property_status etc.).
- You can change the Listing Type Value of any Property related section (e.g. you can show all properties of particular selected Listing Type or just the properties based on that selected Listing Type Value (i.e. if selected Listing Type is Property_type, you can choose the selected Listing Type Value to be all or one of the selected Listing Type values (e.g. apartment, office etc.))).
Delete a Section
You can Delete any section just by clicking on delete icon of respective section. A delete confirmation dialog will open.
Click Delete if you want to delete the section.
Click Cancel if you want to discard the action.
Re-arrange a Section
You can Re-arrange the sections on Home Screen. Hold the section that you want to re-arrange and move it vertically (upwards or downwards). Place it on desire position in sections list.
