With your website you have the ability to showcase “featured categories”. Your featured categories can be communities that you predominately work in or could be specific types of clients.
How to Access the Featured Categories Settings
If you would like the Featured section to be shown on all of your website pages, click on the Featured Categories Settings button.
Show the Featured Categories Globally
Select Global Widget and then click on Save & Refresh to save your changes.
Show The Featured Categories on a Certain Page
If you would like the Featured section to ONLY be shown on a certain page ie: Contact, click on the Contact page.
Now click on the Featured Categories Settings button
Click on Just for this page and then click Save & Refresh to save your changes
Remove Featured Categories Section
You also have the option to completely remove the Featured section from your website.
Click on Featured Categories Settings
Under the Hide From Public View option click on Yes and then click Save & Refresh to save your changes.
Change the Title / Name of Your Featured Categories
The website is automatically setup with a featured categories title of Featured. You can change this to any name. For this example, we will change it to Feature Communities
Click on Featured Categories Settings
Scroll down to the Title section and change the name to the desired new title.
Make sure to click Save & Refresh to save your changes.
Select or Choose the Featured Categories
Once you choose the Title for your Featured heading, you will have to select the pages which will be showed under this section. The selection options are pages that you have on your website.
NOTE: If you need to create / add a new page to your website, we will show you how to do this in a later step.
Click on FeaturedCategories Settings
Now click on the Select Featured Categories button
Now select the Categories you would like to feature you on your website. For this example we will be doing communities: Mississauga, Brampton & Milton. You will have to individually select each category. When you select a category, the drop down menu will close. Please click the red arrow button. Repeat this step for each category you would like to add.
You will now see the featured categories selected under Current Featured Pages. You will now need to select pictures for each of the categories. Click on Change Image to change the image for the Featured Page. NOTE: you will need to do this for each featured page. Please make sure you select a different picture for each featured page.
Your image gallery will open up and please select the picture you would like to use. If you would like to use a picture that is not in the system please click Your Images and upload a new photo. If you are using a picture that is already in the system, please find the category the picture has been filed under and select the desired photo.
NOTE: For new pictures that you will be adding, please make sure the picture is 440px X 240px.
Click Close & Refresh at the top of the screen
Add / Create New Pages for the Website
Now that you are getting used to using your website. You may want to start creating new pages. This is a really easy process that can be done in just a matter of minutes. Once you login to your website editor and turn on the Editing Widget, you will need to click on the main category on your menu bar of where you want your new subpage to go. will see the Add New Page link on the bottom left hand side of your screen. For this example we will be creating a page called Oakville Homes that will be placed under my Communities Section.
The page type should already be correctly selected. However if you change your mind and would like the page type you can change it here. For our example, the Page Type should be Community. For more information on the various Page Types and how they differ from each other, please refer below.
PAGE TYPES
Now we will add in the Page Title and Page Name. Also we will select which category we would like the page to fall under (be a subpage on.)
Now click Add Page & Edit
While still in the editing widget, click on the page you just created from the menu bar. Next, click Page Settings to make some additional changes to your new page.
The selected Category should be correct, therefore you shouldn't need to make any changes there. Next click Select Image, to select the image for the page Widget.
Once you find the desired picture from the Image Gallery, click on Select Image.
You will also have the ability to revise the Page Title, Page Name, have the ability to Hide the Page from the Public, Add Meta Keywords and a Meta description. Please make sure you click Save at the top after you have made all of your revisions.
Now you have created a new community page..Congratulations!! You may have noticed that when you go to that page, the results are for all the active listings available and are not specified to any particular area.
To fix this, please click on Select Listings.
A new page will appear to select your search criteria. For this example we will just tailor the search to listings in Oakville.
Click on City on the right hand side of your screen and then type in the city name you would like to search. Now click on Add Filter
As you can see the results have dramatically decreased. Before saving this criteria, we will be adding in another filter, to filter out rentals.
To do this, click on For Sale/For Rent on the right hand side and click on Save and Add Filter. You can add in as many filters as you would like for your page. Therefore continue selecting the desired filters from the right hand side. When you have finished selecting your filters, click Save This Criteria.
After selecting Save This Criteria, your website page will refresh/reload.
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