This addon is a free add-on included with every FW Real Estate installation. No subscription required. Subscribing unlocks premium add-ons, priority support, and automatic updates.
Yes. The Official Design operates as a separate design layer inside any Joomla template. Compatible with virtually any Joomla site template.
FW Real Estate includes basic unstyled default templates. Official Design adds professional styling on top of those defaults. Most sites look much better with it installed.
Yes. Override specific layout files by creating a custom design plugin in the fwrealestatetmpl group. Inherit from Official Design and modify only what you need.
Yes. Official Design includes templates for all supported FW Real Estate plugins and modules, ensuring a cohesive look across your entire portal.
Yes. All layouts are fully responsive and optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop viewing. Touch-friendly controls and readable typography across devices.
Version 7.1.10: maintenance and stability improvements.
Version 7.1.9, a hotfix: 2 fixes.
Bugfix: Property photos open faster. The page loads the first photo and small previews, and fetches the rest as you browse.
Bugfix: Photos you upload together keep their file-name order. Photo 2 now comes before photo 10, on the property form and on the agent's own edit form.
The sort order carries on to the next page.
A visitor who sorts the results and moves to page 2 sees the same order there, and Back keeps the price range and the ticked regions they chose.
Update FW Real Estate to 7.1.7 at the same time, because the fix is shared between the two.
Pages that follow your menu settings, and a sort menu that tells the truth.
Your own page headings. If you gave a menu item its own heading, visitors now see it at the top of the list.
The sort menu shows the real order. When a visitor hasn't picked an order, the menu names the one the list is using.
Page links from your old site work. Moving between result pages works from links made on version 6, too.
A switched-off add-on no longer shows through this design. With an add-on off, property cards and pages no longer show its data: the featured highlight, a status, the investment and rental rows, the map layouts, open house times or coordinates. Home page bands with an empty module print no heading. A site that has customised this design keeps every customisation.
Nothing about this design looks different.
A panel any add-on can replace. The property page's specification panel can now be supplied by an add-on, so a design that wants its own version of it no longer has to hold the only copy. A site that has customised this design keeps every customisation.
Nothing about this design looks different.
The video and virtual tour panes now come from the add-ons that own them. They were part of this design and are now part of the Video and 3D Tour add-ons, so exactly the same panes appear on exactly the same properties. A site with those add-ons sees no change. A site without them no longer carries their markup at all.
The property enquiry form now comes from the product itself, and the Contact Form add-on adds its extra fields on top. The form you see is the same form.
A design still has the last word. Where you have customised a template, your version continues to be used.
The rest of the release is work inside the source that a site cannot observe.
Nothing about this add-on behaves differently. Its site templates now travel with the add-on itself rather than living in the design, so exactly the same markup is rendered from a different place. A design still has the last word: where a design offers its own version of a template, that version is used, as before, and a site that has customised one keeps every customisation.
⚠️ This version requires core 7.1.0, which is the release that knows to look inside an add-on for its templates. The add-ons catalogue will not offer it to an older core, so update the core first.
The rest of the release is work inside the source that a site cannot observe: the English catalogue was rewritten into the form the WordPress directory extracts translations from, and comments were shortened. The fifteen languages this add-on ships are unchanged.
A stray line of text has been removed from three places it should never have appeared. A sentence from a template's own notes was being printed onto the page instead of staying out of sight: on the contributor dashboard, underneath the map on listing pages, and on the home page of a site that uses this design's home layout. It was harmless but plainly visible, and it is gone.
Print, quick view and the brochure preview now load their styling through the platform's own handling. Each of these opens as a page of its own rather than inside the site's normal layout, and its stylesheets were being requested in a way that let a browser go on using a copy it had already cached. A change now reaches them straight away.
No other change to how anything looks. Every page was captured before and after and compared element by element; nothing else moved.
No change to how anything looks or behaves. This release carries a correction to the notes inside one template — the description of where its structured-data block is rendered from, which had been wrong since the design was renamed. It is published so that what the update server holds matches the product exactly; there is nothing to do after installing it.
Maps work everywhere the design is installed. The map on a listing, a property page and the module layouts loaded correctly on the reference site and could fail to appear on a packaged installation; the design now hands its scripts and styles to the platform instead of writing them into the page itself, so they arrive in the right order wherever it runs. The date picker used by availability and booking moved into the shared framework for the same reason.
Nothing about the design's appearance has changed.
Requires FW Real Estate 7.0.2 or newer.
The design your site renders through, rebuilt on the new engine. It succeeds agency, which is retired — same role, same look, new foundation.
FW Real Estate 7.0 rebuilds the product on a new cross-platform engine. What this add-on does for you is unchanged — the features you use in 6.x are the features you get here. What is new is where it runs and how it reaches you:
See the component release notes for the 7.0 story and for how to bring your data across.