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Shout-out to any developer or web wizard who might be reading this: Does anyone have a spare cycle* to develop a Wordpress plug-in? Here’s the idea: Develop a plug-in that would retrieve a Zestimate without leaving the Wordpress blog they’re on. I envision some type of small search box module displayed on the sidebar. When the user enters an address and hits "submit," then it would open a page in the main section of the blog that displays all the property details along with a Zestimate and a Google map showing the properties’ location.

I’m not going to say the majority of real estate bloggers use Wordpress, but there are certainly a very large number of them. Realivent realized the need for enhancements for real estate bloggers using WP and developed a featured listing plug-in back in January.

FAQs:

Q. Why doesn’t Zillow just do it — you have a ton of developers
A. We do, but they’re all busy playing Ping-Pong.

Q. What do I get if I do this?
A. You get a mention here in this blog that some cool dude built a cool plug-in to provide a cool blogger with a cool Zestimate plug-in. Plus, you might see your plug-in on other real estate blogs running WP and a Zillow t-shirt sent to your front door! Cool?

Interested? Leave a comment and we can make beautiful plug-ins together.

*Spare cycle = Time. (This is just another buzz phrase to confuse everyone.)

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