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FWRE Search Module

Free Layout Joomla WordPress
Add a powerful property search form to any page on your real estate website with configurable fields, flexible layouts, and smart filtering.
FW Real Estate Part of the FW Real Estate product
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Add-on current version: 5.0.3 (Sep 10, 2026) Change history
Joomla 4.x 5.x 6.x
FWRE Search Module - FW Real Estate add-on
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What You Get

Two Flexible Layouts

Two Flexible Layouts

Full-width default layout for hero sections and compact minimal layout for sidebars. Both fully responsive and adapt to any screen size.
18 Configurable Fields

18 Configurable Fields

Toggle each search field on or off from the admin panel. Show only the filters your visitors need. Bedrooms, price, property type, location, amenities, and 13 more.
Smart Location Search

Smart Location Search

Separate country, region, and city dropdowns or a single combined location input. Cascading selections narrow results intelligently.
Range Sliders or Dropdowns

Range Sliders or Dropdowns

Choose between interactive range sliders and traditional select menus for price, area, bedrooms, and bathrooms. Visual or precise, whichever fits your audience.
Plugin-Aware Fields

Plugin-Aware Fields

Automatically adds fields when companion add-ons are installed: radius search from Map View, agent filter from Agents, amenities from Custom Fields, currency from Multi Currency.
Live Property Counts

Live Property Counts

Every filter option shows the number of matching properties in real time. Visitors know what to expect before searching.
Multi-Language Ready

Multi-Language Ready

Full translation support including right-to-left (RTL) layouts for Arabic, Hebrew, and other RTL languages.
Mobile Responsive

Mobile Responsive

Adapts seamlessly to phones and tablets with touch-friendly controls and collapsible filter groups.
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Is the Search Module included in my subscription?

    The Search Module is a free add-on included with every FW Real Estate installation. No subscription required to use it. However, subscribing gives you access to all premium add-ons, priority support, and automatic updates.

  • What platforms does the Search Module support?

    The Search Module is available for Joomla 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x. It is included in the main FW Real Estate package and installs automatically with the component.

  • Can I choose which search fields appear on the form?

    Yes. The module offers 18 individual search fields that you can toggle on or off from the Joomla admin panel. This includes bedrooms, bathrooms, price range, property type, location fields, lot size, MLS number, and more.

  • What is the difference between the Default and Minimal layouts?

    The Default layout displays all selected search fields in a full-width form, ideal for homepage hero sections. The Minimal layout is a compact horizontal form designed for sidebars or headers, with secondary filters collapsed into a dropdown.

  • Does the Search Module work with other FW Real Estate add-ons?

    Yes. The Search Module automatically detects installed add-ons and adds relevant fields. Install Map View to get radius search, Agents to get an agent filter, Custom Fields for amenity filters, Multi Currency for a currency selector, and Saved Searches for a save button.

  • Can I use range sliders instead of dropdown menus?

    Yes. In the module settings, you can switch between interactive range sliders and traditional dropdown select menus for price, bedrooms, bathrooms, living area, and lot size fields.

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FW Real Estate

33 Add-ons 13 Services
Real estate listing platform for individual agents, brokers, and agencies. MLS/IDX integration is included in the IDX Realtor and IDX Agency tiers, plus a full addon library covering search, property management, agents, SEO, and custom fields. Self-hosted on Joomla or WordPress, one subscription covers everything.
Responsive Property Listings
Image gallery
Batch upload
Dictionaries (customizable fields)
Sell listings
Multilingual support
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FWRE Search Module Changelog

All platforms

Version 5.0.3 (10 Sep 2026)

The search panel now offers only the fields your installation can actually answer.

Two filters were shown on every site: a Status picker and an Agent picker. Where the add-ons that provide statuses and agents are not installed, those pickers had nothing to offer and no effect on the results. They are now shown only where something can answer them, which is how the Lease Term and Amenities filters have always behaved.

On a site that has those add-ons, both filters appear exactly as before. The Agent filter additionally waits until at least one agent is published, so it never appears as an empty list.

Nothing else changes, and no setting moves.

Version 5.0.2 (02 Sep 2026)

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.

Version 5.0.1 (25 Aug 2026)

No change you will notice. This release rebuilds Search Module on the current engine: the markup it produces is now written the way each platform expects it, so nothing it prints can be mistaken for unescaped output. It adds no features and changes no behaviour — every page it draws was compared before and after, and they are identical.

Version 5.0.0 (23 Aug 2026)

The search module — the filter panel you place on a page or in a sidebar.

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:

  • It runs on WordPress as well as Joomla, from the same code, so both editions stay in step.
  • It has a version of its own. On Joomla that means it is delivered and updated from the store on that version, instead of arriving whenever the component happens to ship a release that bundles it. On WordPress it arrives inside the plugin if it is one of the free add-ons, or in the subscription pack it belongs to.

See the component release notes for the 7.0 story and for how to bring your data across.

Joomla

Version 4.3.2 (02 Jul 2026)

Added support for 11 new language translations. - Arabic (ar-AA) language pack - Czech (cs-CZ) language pack - German (de-DE) language pack - Greek (el-GR) language pack - Spanish (es-ES) language pack - French (fr-FR) language pack - Hungarian (hu-HU) language pack - Italian (it-IT) language pack - Dutch (nl-NL) language pack - Portuguese (pt-PT) language pack - Slovak (sk-SK) language pack - Turkish (tr-TR) language pack - Ukrainian (uk-UA) language pack - Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) language pack

Version 4.3.1 (02 Jul 2026)

Added support for 11 new language translations. - Arabic (ar-AA) language pack - Czech (cs-CZ) language pack - German (de-DE) language pack - Greek (el-GR) language pack - Spanish (es-ES) language pack - French (fr-FR) language pack - Hungarian (hu-HU) language pack - Italian (it-IT) language pack - Dutch (nl-NL) language pack - Portuguese (pt-PT) language pack - Slovak (sk-SK) language pack - Turkish (tr-TR) language pack - Ukrainian (uk-UA) language pack - Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) language pack

Version 4.3.0 (26 Jun 2026)

Added support for 11 new language translations. - Arabic (ar-AA) language pack - Czech (cs-CZ) language pack - German (de-DE) language pack - Greek (el-GR) language pack - Spanish (es-ES) language pack - French (fr-FR) language pack - Hungarian (hu-HU) language pack - Italian (it-IT) language pack - Dutch (nl-NL) language pack - Portuguese (pt-PT) language pack - Slovak (sk-SK) language pack - Turkish (tr-TR) language pack - Ukrainian (uk-UA) language pack - Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) language pack

Version 4.2.0 (25 May 2026)

New Features:
- Added live AJAX search results — results update without page reload - Added active filter chips — clear individual filters with one click; canonical SEF URL pushed to browser history

Version 4.1.1 (24 Mar 2026)

Bug Fixes:
fix: add Joomla 4 compatibility for File::getExt/stripExt/makeSafe

Version 4.1.0 (17 Oct 2025)

Updates:
Joomla! v.6.0 compatibility

Version 4.0.0 (20 Jun 2024)

Updates:
UIkit uk prefix in css classes was replaced to fwk, in scripts to UIkit class was added the fwk prefix to avoid conflicts with UIkit used in templates and others extensions
Bug Fixes:
fixed regions select prefilling in the case on one country in a dictionary which was not selected in a menu settings

Version 3.2.7 (09 May 2024)

Bug Fixes:
fixed displaying module on the menu item where FW Real Estate component attached

Version 3.2.6 (15 Mar 2024)

New Features:
bathroom and bedroom max value admin parameters

Version 3.2.5 (08 Mar 2024)

Bug Fixes:
fixed loading language file on the site side

Version 3.2.4 (29 Jan 2024)

Bug Fixes:
fixed search in the property Layout Anywhere module

Version 3.2.3 (11 Dec 2023)

Bug Fixes:
fixes in modules to make them working with advanced module manager

Version 3.2.2 (03 Nov 2023)

Updates:
Joomla! v.5.x compatibility
Bug Fixes:
multicurrency price search fixing search functionality improving and debugging

Version 3.2.1 (11 Sep 2023)

Updates:
supporing of the new 'minimal' layout in the 'Agency' design

Version 3.2.0 (26 Jun 2023)

Updates:
Moved all site template files (from the component, modules, add-ons) to the design add-ons

Version 3.1.0 (17 Apr 2023)

New Features:
prefill search fields with menu filter options settings

Version 3.0.6 (23 Jan 2023)

Bug Fixes:
- changed filtering and calculating qty properties by exact qty of bathrooms or bedrooms

Version 3.0.5 (18 Jan 2023)

Bug Fixes:
fixed displaying "read more" button on horizontal layout when there were no form fields

Version 3.0.4 (18 Jan 2023)

Bug Fixes:
fixied calcualting properties quantities

Version 3.0.3 (14 Jan 2023)

Updates:
udpated update server link in the module xml manifest file

Version 3.0.1 (16 Feb 2022)

Bug Fixes:
Icons fix after removing Font Awesome icons.

Version 3.0.0 (13 Feb 2022)

New Features:
UIKit (replacement to Bootstrap) layout redesign.
Updates:
Language constants revision and correction. Configuration parameters update and optimization. Bugfix clean up and optimization.

Version 2.1.0 (09 Sep 2021)

Updates:
Major Joomla! 4 review Joomla! 4 router update

Version 2.0.0 (22 Jun 2021)

New Features:
Major add-on review in terms of architecture and functionality. Joomla! 4.0.x compatibility.

Version 1.1.2 (08 Jan 2021)

Bug Fixes:
Search was not saving values on a form after page reload. Now it does.

Version 1.1.1 (27 Dec 2020)

Updates:
CSS clean up and optimization.

Version 1.1.1 (27 Dec 2020)

Updates:
Component styles loading update.

Version 1.1.0 (27 Dec 2020)

Updates:
Component styles loading update.

Version 1.1.0 (24 Dec 2020)

New Features:
Properties can be filtered with multiple statuses as a parameter.

Version 1.0.2 (13 Jun 2020)

Bug Fixes:
A fix for FWRE Saved Search add-on integration.

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