FWRE Saved Searches

Version 5.0.7: 2 updates, 4 fixes.

Update: The add-on pages look finished on a phone too. The property manager's filters, its inquiries and bookings tables and the agent's profile form no longer run off the side of the screen. Their buttons, fields and tabs are at least 44px tall, and so are the share and brochure dialogs'. On a property page the title gets its own row, with the share, favourite, print and brochure buttons under it. Compare lines its row labels up with their values, and the listing's tax switch sits after the currency menu with its full label. The white text on the Latest module's photo cards sits on a darker shade, so it's readable on a bright photo, and the mortgage calculator's chart and legend line up with its fields. Your account pages, saved searches and favourites use the design's buttons instead of plain blue ones. On a phone the manager's lists and the compare table read well, and the slideshow listing shows its photo again. The PDF brochures look exactly as before.

Update: The agents page and My account are easier to use. Each agent card now shows the phone number, the Show Profile button and quick links to email, WhatsApp and the agent's properties without hovering, so they work on a phone too. A site with no agents yet shows a proper "No agents listed yet" page with a button to the listings. My account shows your favourites, saved searches and listings as three cards, each with its count and a button to open it, and your own listings show prices in your site's currency format.

Bugfix: Updating an add-on before the component no longer breaks your site. Agents, Custom Fields and Floor Plans showed an error in the admin when they were updated ahead of FW Real Estate itself. A few other add-ons and the search module did the same on some pages. Each one now works with the component you have and does what it did before, and you'll get the new behaviour once you update the component too.

Bugfix: Emails carry your site's name and working links. Enquiry replies, shares and alerts now sign off with your site's name, link to the property with a full address that opens from any mail app, and show the property's type and status.

Bugfix: Every real estate page has exactly one main heading. The agents list, compare, favourites, saved searches and the account and agent pages now show their own title, and on WordPress the page title your theme prints above them is no longer repeated. Search engines and screen readers get one clear heading per page.

Bugfix: Save search stores your search again. On some sites the Save search button opened the account page and stored nothing, and the alerts and delete buttons on the saved searches page changed nothing. Saving a search, turning its alerts on or off and deleting it now work everywhere, and the alerts and delete buttons work without JavaScript too.

Saved searches from your old site keep working. A menu item made on version 6 for your visitors' saved searches opens their list after the upgrade.

Change alerts read a property's status from its status labels, so an alert names the status the site shows.

The saved searches page can be added from the first steps and the Site menu card.

A maintenance release. The note at the top of the saved searches page has been rewritten: it now describes what a saved search does on your site.

Nothing else changes, and saved searches themselves are untouched.

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.

No change you will notice. This release rebuilds Saved Searches 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.

No change you will notice. This release rebuilds Saved Searches on the current engine — escaping, scripts and styles now go through each platform's own pipeline — and adds no features and changes no behaviour. It is published so the add-on stays in step with the rest of the product.

Saved searches, and the alerts that tell a visitor when something matches.

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.