Bellaina – A Powerful WordPress Theme for a Real Estate Website
Choosing the right WordPress theme is essential when taking your business online and withstanding the competition. The wide variety of themes on the market makes it hard to make the right choice. There are lots of multipurpose templates out there that you can customize for any type of business. But there are cases when it is better to choose a niche template designed specifically for your business. Today we are going to review such a template. Meet Bellaina – a revolutionary real estate WordPress theme from TemplateMonster. This brand new template was designed specifically to meet the needs of those who buy or sell property online. Its extraordinary and uncluttered external look is enhanced by powerful inner functionality.
What makes Bellaina stand out? Its sleek, modern design uses colors that please the eye. The clean white background and sky-blue elements make effective use of whitespace, focusing attention on the content.
Scrolling down the homepage, you’ll uncover a full-width slider where you can showcase your hottest deals or other important information. Just under the slider you will find an advanced search form and Google Maps widget, showing the location of selected properties.
Next, there are functional blocks leading to the property pages for more detailed information. Then, the Our Agents section provides users with quick access to contact information. Testimonials from satisfied clients help to raise the trust level of your company. A handy contact form is also located here. The theme also has an informative footer, featuring an About Us section, links to the recent posts on your blog, a newsletter subscription form and social buttons. The dropdown menu and back-to-top button make navigation easy.
The theme’s inner workings certainly don’t detract from its outer look. It is built on Cherry Framework – the powerful foundation providing you with loads of advantages. Even better, it is licensed under GPL v3.0. So you can use it for your projects without any limitations. The theme is fully responsive and retina ready to perform flawlessly on any screen. Bellaina is written with clean, valid code and is SEO friendly. With such a powerful foundation it should be easy for you to bring your website to the top of the search engine results.
TemplateMonster provides free, lifetime 24/7 support for all their premium products and Bellaina is no exception. This means you can turn to professionals at any time, day or night, if you are faced with a problem at any stage. This company also creates a lot of free useful stuff, like free eBooks, YouTube video tutorials and so much more.
The invention of Cherry Team’s Cherry Real Estate Plugin will truly turn any website into a professional one. It was designed to benefit both you and your clients. It allows you to seamlessly add properties online and home buyers can find ones which match their criteria perfectly. Thanks to advanced live search, users will be able to set the parameters, filter the results and see the property location on a map with preview markers. There is also an opportunity to submit a property by filling the respective form and assigning the submission to one of the agents.
Another Cherry feature is Cherry Projects Plugin. It provides you with numerous opportunities to present your projects in a stunning manner using different layouts, filtering and sorting options. You can easily set up your creative portfolio using 5 variations of the project listing layout, pagination mode, hover and loading animations, along with many other features.
With the help of TemplateMonster’s Power Builder, you can build pages without touching a single line of code. This flexible tool allows you to arrange elements on the page by simply dragging and dropping them. Also at your disposal is a library of presets. Advanced configuration options allow you to customize the design of the theme and observe the changes on the fly using the WordPress Customizer.
Bellaina fully supports the dsIDXpress plugin. It allows you to embed live real estate information from the MLS into your website or a blog post with a shortcode. This plugin is not included in the package, but you can get it for free by following this link.
To diversify information on your website, use Content Modules. They allow you to present multiple content types such as buttons, audio and video materials, images, contact forms, maps and many others. You can edit each module to fit your website’s style.
Custom Widgets will enhance the functionality of your website. Take advantage of the simple slider, post carousel, social media widget and many others. RE Search Widget will be appreciated by your customers due to its combination of advanced search and map functionality. You can also present recently added properties through a special widget.
On the property page, your clients will find all the detailed information about their selection: the preview marker shows the property location, a gallery presents stunning photos and to learn more about the property there is contact information for the agent. The sidebar of this page is an ideal place for the Recently Added Property widget to keep your clients updated.
On the agents’ page, you can present a list of the agents with whom you currently work. There, your visitors will be able to access the agent’s work experience, biographical information, contacts and links to social media profiles. The markers on the map show the properties assigned to the agent.
The simplified registration process will make your clients happy. Nobody likes filling out long forms. To sign up here, your clients only need to provide their e-mail address. To connect with any specific agent they can use a special contact form. It is extremely handy and easy to use, which will save time both for the client and the agent.
The theme features a fully functional blog to provide you with an opportunity to share interesting and useful posts with your clients. You can personalize its look by choosing between 6 blog layouts and 6 different post types. Different header and footer styles are also available.
Taking into account all of great features mentioned above, Bellaina seems to be the perfect foundation for your real estate website. Its uniquely powerful functionality takes into consideration all the requirements of the real estate industry and helps you to save your time and effort.
For those who are interested in buying this theme, there is an opportunity to save 10%. Use the code SPC10 before the checkout and get your discount. This code is valid until November 30th, 2016
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