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Yes. The core is free and always has been: download it from the FW Real Estate product page on fastw3b.com, pick the package for your platform, agree to the terms and install that one file. There is nothing to buy first and no account needed to get it.
What a paid subscription adds is add-ons. The core covers properties, fields, dictionaries and the front end on its own, and a great many sites never need more than that.
Automatically. Install the core package for your platform, then connect the site to your fastw3b.com account, and every add-on you are entitled to is downloaded and switched on for you. There is no per-add-on Install button, and nothing to download by hand.
To connect, click Connect in the FW Real Estate admin header. The lock icon and the red This website is not verified text beside it do the same thing, and the Add-ons screen offers the same action as Connect to install. It is one click: your fastw3b.com client section opens, the store registers this website and sends the key straight back, and the admin returns already verified. There is nothing to copy and no key to paste.
From that moment the free add-ons and whatever your subscription covers install and enable themselves. The only manual actions afterwards are enabling, disabling and updating; add-ons cannot be deleted, so one you do not want is simply left disabled.
Connecting pairs this site with your fastw3b.com account. It is what makes the following possible:
One button does it: Connect, in the FW Real Estate admin header. It opens your client section, registers the site and brings the key back by itself.
Free add-ons come with connecting alone, no subscription required. An unconnected site keeps working, but it receives no add-ons and is offered no updates.
Add-ons are extensions that work only with FW Real Estate and add to what it can do. They come in three kinds: plugins (features such as maps, agents, favourites or rentals), designs (how the front end looks) and modules (blocks you can place on a page).
They are not Joomla extensions or WordPress plugins and will not appear in your platform's own extension or plugin manager. They live inside FW Real Estate and are managed from its Add-ons screen.
FW Real Estate is self-sufficient on its own: the core holds everything a property site cannot work without. Every other feature is an add-on, so that each site carries only what it actually uses.
That split is also why disabling an add-on is clean. Turn one off and its fields, its output and its columns disappear from the site; turn it back on and they return with the data intact.
Connect your website to your fastw3b.com account, using the Connect button in the FW Real Estate admin header. The add-ons your subscription covers are then downloaded and enabled on their own, and the free ones come with connecting by itself.
If the add-on you want is not among them, it needs a subscription that covers it. Take out or extend one on fastw3b.com and it will arrive automatically on a later visit to the admin, with nothing to download or install by hand.
Everything the site has received is listed under Admin, FW Real Estate, Add-ons, where you can enable, disable and update each one. Add-ons cannot be deleted: an add-on you do not want is simply left disabled.
If you can dream it, Fastw3b will design it. It is almost a year since I started working with Fastw3b. In fact, having started on the Joomla journey (three months prior) and with no development experience, Fastw3b was the perfect first date.
After the initial – dancing around – trying to understand each other, we quickly established a relationship based on frankness and directness and this was probably the single most important trait that I respect them for. It would have been easier to repeat the “customer is king” mantra and get paid for the job. Not with Fastw3b. It seemed as if they genuinely were as interested and excited about the project as I was. It was as if I was working with my own inhouse team, rather than distant consultants.
If you are new to Joomla or indeed to development and are looking for a professional yet empathetic partner, I highly recommend Fastw3b. They deliver on time, are willing to own-up to errors and fix them, and best of all are as invested in your project as you.
Solid extension with great support
Functionality. This extension had every function available that my client requested and a lot more too.
Ease of use. Even a beginner could configure it right out of the box.
Support. If I could score them 110 here I would. The support has been fantastic, even though I am on the other side of the world.
Documentation. Documentation is a little thin, but the support makes up for it.
Value for money. Yup. Definitely worth it. Going to have them install IDX integration next.
Buttons on the back-office screens work again. On this platform every script the product added was being placed at the top of the page, before the controls it was meant to attach to — so the control was drawn, looked normal, responded to nothing. Check updates on the Add-ons screen was the one people noticed; the search box and the status filter beside it were dead for the same reason, as were the CSV import form on Data Management and the message strip on Translation. Nothing was wrong with the site or the data: the page simply ran its instructions before the thing they referred to existed. All of them respond now.
A profile no longer changes an existing account's password. Creating an agent or contributor profile on an e-mail address that already had an account reset that account's password — an address match was being treated as proof of ownership. An existing account is now left untouched. If you created a profile on an address belonging to someone else, that person's password was changed at the time and they will need to set a new one.
A repair release for sites upgrading from 6.x.
FW Real Estate 7.0 is a complete rebuild, not an incremental update.
The component has been rewritten on a new engine: the database tables have been rebuilt, template and layout names have changed, CSS class names have changed, and several features that used to be built in are now separate add-ons delivered with your subscription.
Your content is migrated for you. Properties, agents, categories, dictionaries and enquiries all carry over. Nothing you have entered is discarded.
What does not carry over is anything written against the old component — template and layout overrides, custom CSS, bespoke plugins or modules, direct database queries, and third-party extensions that read FW Real Estate data. These will need to be redone or reviewed against the new structure.
If your site has any customisation at all, do not update it in place. Copy the site to a staging environment, run this update there, and check the front end, the property edit form and your integrations before you update the live site.
A stock installation with no customisation can be updated directly.
This update cannot be undone from inside the component. Returning to the previous version means restoring your backup.
FW Real Estate 7.0 is a rebuild of the product on a new cross-platform engine — the same product, now built from one codebase for both Joomla and WordPress. See the component release notes for what changed.
Not an install-over: install 7.0, then import your 6.x backup from FW Real Estate → Data. The importer repairs the old archive's collation, settings keys and users as it goes, and stages everything in isolation so your live tables are untouched.
A profile no longer changes an existing account's password. Creating an agent or contributor profile on an e-mail address that already had an account reset that account's password — an address match was being treated as proof of ownership. An existing account is now left untouched. If you created a profile on an address belonging to someone else, that person's password was changed at the time and they will need to set a new one.
A maintenance release.
FW Real Estate is now available for WordPress — the same product as the Joomla edition, built from one cross-platform codebase, so both editions stay in step.
wp-content/uploads/fwre/ — property images, language packs, backups. A plugin update replaces the plugin folder and leaves them alone.Install the plugin, then import your existing backup from FW Real Estate → Data. The importer recognises an old-generation archive and repairs its collation, settings keys and users as it goes, staging everything in isolation so nothing live is touched.