FW Real Estate – Documentation
FWRE Latest Module
FW Real Estate tutorial for Joomla!
The FWRE Latest module displays a chosen slice of your property listings anywhere on the site — the newest, the most viewed, a random selection, or whatever a combination of category, type, and status filters produces. It is how you promote listings on pages that are not the main listing page.
Use Cases
- Featured properties on the home page. Show the six newest listings as a rotating slideshow.
- A sidebar on the listing page. Display the five most-viewed properties from one category as a vertical list beside the results.
- "Just sold" strip. Ordered by Recently sold, this becomes social proof — evidence the agency closes deals, not just lists them.
- Open-house highlights. Filtered to properties with an upcoming open house to drive attendance.
- A compact map on any page. The Map layout places a small interactive map of the selected properties wherever you position the module.
Placing the Module
Enabling the add-on installs a FWRE Latest site module. Place and configure instances of it under Content → Site Modules, exactly as you would any other Joomla module — assign it to a module position, set its visibility, and apply its settings.
Settings
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Design (theme) | Site default | Which installed design renders the module. |
| Category | All | Restrict output to one property category. |
| Type | All | Restrict output to one property type. |
| Status | All | Restrict output to one status. Requires Status Labels. |
| Quantity | 10 | Number of properties to show. |
| Ordering | Newest first | Newest first, Most popular (by view count), Random, Recently sold, or Recently leased. |
| Display Settings | — | Which details each card shows: title, price, text price, address, status, open house times. |
| Featured properties | All | All properties, only featured, or only non-featured. Requires Featured. |
| Open house | — | Restrict to properties with an upcoming open house. Requires Open House. |
| Load UIkit | Yes | Disable if your site template already loads UIkit. |
| Properties Layout | Vertical | Vertical, Horizontal, Slideshow, or Map. |
| Slideshow pause (sec) | 10 | Seconds between slides. Setting this to 0 stops auto-rotation. |
| Map height (px) | 300 | Height of the compact map in pixels (150–800). Applies to the Map layout only. |
Layouts
| Layout | Description |
|---|---|
| Vertical | A stacked list — the natural fit for a narrow sidebar. |
| Horizontal | Cards arranged side by side — suited to a full-width band across a page. |
| Slideshow | One card at a time, auto-rotating on the configured pause interval. |
| Map | A compact map with a pin per property; clicking a pin opens a mini property card. |
Notes
- Filters combine. Category, type, status, featured, and open-house filters narrow results together, so a module can show something as specific as "featured apartments for rent in one category, newest first."
- Recently sold / Recently leased ordering sorts by when the status last changed, keeping the strip current automatically. Both options require the Status Labels add-on, which owns the status values.
- The Map layout requires a map key — the same key used by the Map View add-on, configured in its settings. Without a key the map cannot render.
- A property with no photo falls back to the default property image set in Configuration → General → Image settings, so no card ever renders blank.
To install this addon, open the Add-ons panel inside FW Real Estate. See Getting Started → Add-ons for details on free addons, paid addons, and site verification.
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