Just a quick note that we have released Open-Realty 3.0.8. This is a minor fix which corrects a bug with setting the  image rank when using the media__create api command. This is the only change since the 3.0.7 update. 

Open-Realty® v3.0.7 has been released. This release is contains a number of bug fixes to correct a couple of issues with the previous v3.0.6 release.

Open-Realty® v3.0.6 has been released. This release is contains bug fixes to correct a couple of issues with the v3.0.5 release. It is important to note that this Open-Realty® release now includes a robots.txt file, if your site already has a robots.txt file please make sure to backup that file before you upgrade.

We have released Open-Realty® v3.0.5.  This release contains a security fix. All Open-Realty users are strongly encouraged to update to this latest release.  Along with the security fix, we have introduced the following new features.

We have released Open-Realty® 3.0.4. This release contains a number of bug fixes, as well as some very exciting new features.

One Click Upgrade

Your Open-Realty® administrator can install future updates for Open-Realty® by clicking a link from your Open-Realty® admin page. This single click will download any new files as well as update your database to the latest version. This feature should make keeping your site on the latest release of Open-Realty much easier.

We have released Open-Realty 3.0.3 This is the third set of bug fixes, which address all the issues found to date with the Open-Realty 3.0 release. Below is the complete change log. This 3.0 release should be very stable at this point, so if you were waiting to try it out I would say now is a good time.

Change Log v3.0.3

We have been getting some questions on how to upgrade templates that were built for Open-Realty® 2.x to be compatible with 3.x. I thought I would provide a quick guide on how to upgrade your templates. This quick guide only keeps the overall site design changes made to the main.html template. Any sub templates, like listing_detail_default.html  that were modified will need to be modified again after you complete this quick guide.

You should start by making a copy of your custom v2.x template. In the steps below  you will modify this template copy and not your original  template files. This way you have the original files left to compare any other custom changes you may have made to sub templates..  Now that you have your new template copy, follow the steps below.

We have released Open-Realty 3.0.2 This is the second set of bug fixes, which address all the issues found to date with the Open-Realty 3.0 release. Below is the complete change log. I would like to thank Eduardo (ebmarques) and the other language translators for their continued work on the language file translations. 

Change Log v3.0.2

Open-Realty® 3.0 has introduced a number of new features that improve search engine optimization.  First off, for anyone who does not know what search engine optimization is, wikipedia.org provides a decent description which follows:

"Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results as opposed to other forms of search engine marketing ("SEM") which may deal with paid inclusion. The theory is that the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine."

On behalf of Transparent Technologies, Inc., I would like to announce the immediate release and availability of Open-Realty® v3.0. 

With this release we have added many new and exciting features and optimizations, and re-written a considerable amount of the core, making this our finest and most powerful version of Open-Realty® to date. We have greatly improved our blogging system, added the ability to automatically post listings and blog posts to Twitter, enhanced our listing editor, rewritten our listing field editor to be much easier to use adding drag and drop support, and we squashed a big pile of bugs that were reported by the community. More than 100 user requested items/improvements were addressed alone. Of no small consequence, we have also changed the Open-Realty® license. Open-Realty® from this point forward will be licensed as a commercial product, backed with available commercial support. I will address our new license changes first, then I will discuss a few of the new features we have added.