FW Real Estate – Documentation

Getting the Plugin

Download the plugin ZIP from the FW Real Estate product page on fastw3b.com. It is a free download — there is nothing to buy and no account needed. Your Client Section is a separate area that holds a different file: the subscription pack. Do not mix the two up.

Installing

1. In the WordPress admin go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
2. Choose the ZIP you downloaded and click Install Now.
3. Click Activate.

A top-level FW Real Estate menu appears in the admin sidebar.

What Activation Does

Activation is safe to run more than once — it never overwrites anything you have edited. It does exactly two things:

• Creates the database schema. The plugin creates its own tables and, on later installs, adds any missing tables or columns. It only creates what is absent and never drops or alters existing data. Default inquiry-email templates and the currency list are seeded where those values are still unset.
• Schedules the hourly cron job. This drives feed imports and alert emails (saved-search matches, price changes, favourite price drops, agent search matches, status changes).

The free add-ons ship inside the plugin ZIP and are ready the moment the plugin is activated. Nothing is copied anywhere and there is no per-add-on install step.

Activation does not create any pages. You create the pages yourself and place FW Real Estate blocks (or shortcodes) on them. The plugin then discovers those pages automatically. See Setting up the front-office pages for details.

Where Your Files Live

Everything you own lives under wp-content/uploads/fwre/, never inside the plugin folder. This matters because WordPress plugin updates delete the entire plugin directory and replace it. Anything left inside the plugin folder would be destroyed.

• wp-content/uploads/fwre/properties/ — property photos and generated thumbnails
• wp-content/uploads/fwre/agents/ — agent portraits
• wp-content/uploads/fwre/lang/ — downloaded language packs
• wp-content/uploads/fwre/backups/ — backups made from Data Management
• wp-content/uploads/fwre/addons/ — add-ons placed there manually

Two practical rules follow from this:

• Back up wp-content/uploads/fwre/ together with the database. That pair is your real estate content; the plugin folder is replaceable.
• Never put custom files inside wp-content/plugins/fw-real-estate/ — including template overrides. The next update will remove them.

The add-ons bundled inside the plugin remain inside the plugin. They are read directly from there, never copied into your uploads folder, and they update when the plugin itself updates.