Andamio Kit

Andamio Kit is the companion plugin of the Andamio theme. The theme brings the design; this plugin brings the part a theme cannot: the properties themselves.

It needs the Andamio theme to be active. Without it, the plugin does nothing at all and says so, in one line, in your dashboard. Nothing on your site is changed.

Everything, on one screen

The plugin adds a single entry to your dashboard menu, with seven tabs: Overview, Properties, Visit requests, Lists, Set up the site, Settings and Help. No stray entries, no pages hidden three levels down: the properties, the requests, the lists, the pages of your site and the settings live together, and every screen has a way back to every other.

• The Overview tab answers “what have I got and what is still missing?”: how many properties are available, reserved and sold, how many visit requests are waiting, a checklist of the five things that make the site work (the theme, the pages, the phone number, the first property, the notification email) with a link to the screen that fixes each one, and three shortcuts to the tab you need.

• The Visit requests tab is where the messages are read: the tray of everything the form has collected, filtered by all, pending and answered —who writes, which property it is about, when it arrived and in what state—, and each one opening on its own page with the message as it was written, the property with a link to its page and to its screen, the consent date, and the buttons to reply by email, call or send a WhatsApp. One click marks it as answered; deleting sends it to the trash, so a slip of the finger does not destroy anything.

• The Lists tab holds the three lists that organise the properties —operations, areas and property types—, each one in its own tab: what is in it, how many properties use it, and buttons to add one, rename it or delete it. The same three lists the properties are ticked against, without going out to the WordPress screens.

• The Help tab explains how it works in four steps, what the plugin never does and what it needs.

What it adds

• A Property post type with its own fields: reference, price, previous price, floor area, usable area, bedrooms, bathrooms, floor, year, service charge, lift, furnished, garage, storage room, orientation, views, energy rating (A to G), status (available, reserved, sold) and address.

• A property screen, all on one page: the title and the description, what the grid shows, the details, the photos and the location, each field with the line of explanation it needs. It is where a property is written from now on, instead of the block editor, which is where someone who does not know it gets lost. It carries the checklist of what is still missing before publishing and a preview of the card exactly as your site will show it. The block editor is still one click away, for whoever prefers it.

• Three taxonomies to organise them: operation (for sale, for rent, for transfer), area (the neighbourhood) and property type (flat, house, etc.). They no longer take up room in the side menu: they are seen and kept in the Lists tab.

• A photo gallery per property, which you reorder by dragging.

• The live listings grid ( [andamio_kit_inmuebles] ), with filters by operation, area, type, price and bedrooms, and sorting by newest, cheapest, most expensive or largest. No JavaScript: the filters are a normal form, so the search can be shared as a link and works on any phone.

• The property page: gallery, details table, energy rating label, where it is, phone and WhatsApp buttons, and the visit form.

• Visit requests saved in your dashboard and read from a tab of their own —who writes, which property it is about, what they say, and whether it has been answered—, with an email to the agency for every request.

• A floating WhatsApp button and WhatsApp links with the property details already written in the message.

• Set up the site: one button creates the pages the menu points to, each one with the right piece of the Andamio theme inside, and leaves the menu ready. It can be undone from the same screen.

Four languages

The plugin is written in English, which is why that is its native language: it is the one that comes with the code. On top of it, three translations are compiled in the languages folder: Spanish, Catalan and French. That makes four languages in all.

Change the language of your WordPress and the plugin’s screens, its notices and the pages it creates follow along.

What it does not do

It does not call any third-party service, it does not load a single JavaScript file on your site and it does not track anyone. The embedded map is off by default: an embedded map makes the page ask an outside service for data, so while that is off the property page shows the address and nothing else —no map and no button to open one— and the box to paste a map is not shown when a property is filled in.