immonex Kickstart

immonex Kickstart provides customizable components for integrating imported OpenImmo®-based property offers in real estate websites built upon multi-purpose themes in an easy and visually appealing way. Beyond that, it's also a framework for add-ons, separate plugins that extend the functionality on the same foundation. tl;dr

• See it in action at base.immonex.one!
• Install the free Team add-on for extended real estate agency/agent data handling and property related contact forms.
• Download a compatible OpenImmo import plugin [2] and example data at immonex.dev (free of charge for testing/development).
• Read the docs for detailed usage/customization instructions.

immonex® immonex is an umbrella brand for various real estate related software solutions and services with a focus on german-speaking markets/users. OpenImmo® OpenImmo-XML is the de-facto standard for exchanging real estate data in the german-speaking countries. Here, it is supported by almost every common software solution and portal for real estate professionals (as import/export interfaces). immonex OpenImmo2WP [2], initially released in 2015, is a tried and tested solution for importing OpenImmo-XML data into WordPress sites with support for the specific data structures of various popular real estate themes and frontend plugins. Main Features

• Custom post type for properties
• Extendable custom taxonomies (property type, usage type, marketing type, project, location, features, labels)
• Special status flags per real estate object (reference, available, sold ...)
• Flexible real estate search form
• Area/Radius search (Photon or Google Maps autocomplete)
• Property list and detail views
• Animated photo slideshows and floor plan galleries
• Integration of YouTube/Vimeo videos
• Embedding of 360° virtual tours from common providers
• Extendable sort options
• Shortcodes for embedding real estate components (suitable for use in page builder layout elements)
• Simple but powerful templating system ("Skins")
• Clean and responsive default skin
• Property grouping (project taxonomy)
• Property location overview maps incl. clustered markers (OpenStreetMap/OpenTopoMap or Google Maps)
• Property detail location maps (OpenStreetMap/OpenTopoMap or Google Maps)
• Selectable map variants/views (road map, area map, topographic, satellite + streetmap layer)
• Customizable map marker image (SVG)
• Dynamic updates of property lists and location map views based on the current search parameters
• Integrated SEO features, i.a. meta tags for social media sharing (Open Graph, X/Twitter)
• Obtainment of user consent before loading external libraries (EU GDPR compliance)
• Various filter and action hooks for special adaptions
• Extension framework for separate add-on plugins
• Translation via translate.wordpress.org (GlotPress)
• Current POT file and German translations included as PO/MO files additionally
• Support for multilingual websites (Polylang or WPML)
• Compatible with immonex OpenImmo2WP (OpenImmo importer) [2]
• Compatible with immonex Energy Scale Pro (energy class visualization) [2]
• Compatible with immonex Notify (real estate e-mail marketing/automation) [2]

Add-ons

• Team: Extended real estate agency/agent data handling and property related contact forms
• Slideshows: Real estate slideshows for display presentation in shop windows and public areas [2]
• Print (to be released soon): Generation of PDF exposés for printing and sharing
• Elementor (to be released soon): Elementor widgets and dynamic tags for Kickstart frontend components

immonex Kickstart is available in the official WordPress Plugin Directory and can be installed via the WordPress backend.

1. Plugins > Add New > Search for "immonex" ... [1]
2. Check/Adjust the default plugin options under immonex > Settings.
3. OPTIONAL: Install the Team add-on for extended agency/agent data handling and contact forms.
4. Install immonex OpenImmo2WP or another compatible OpenImmo import plugin and perform a first import. [2]
5. OPTIONAL: Create pages as templates for property lists and/or detail views including the following shortcodes.
6. OPTIONAL: Add Kickstart shortcodes to arbitrary pages or page builder elements as needed, e.g. for embedding property search forms or teaser lists.

Kickstart Shortcodes Search Form: [inx-search-form] List View: [inx-property-list] List Sort Selection: [inx-filters-sort] List Pagination: [inx-pagination] Property Location Overview Map: [inx-property-map] Property Detail View: [inx-property-details] Property Main Image: [inx-property-featured-image] (See documentation mentioned below for attributes and further details.) [1] Alternatives: Download an installation ZIP file from the WP Plugin Directory or immonex.dev and select Upload Plugin or manually unzip and transfer it to the folder wp-content/plugins. In the latter case, activating the plugin under Plugins > Installed Plugins is required afterwards. [2] Current and fully functional versions of premium immonex plugins as well as OpenImmo demo data are available free of charge at the immonex Developer Portal for testing/development and demonstration purposes. Documentation & Development A detailed plugin installation/integration documentation in German is available here: docs.immonex.de/kickstart immonex Kickstart is free software. Sources, development docs/support and issue tracking are available at GitHub: github.com/immonex/kickstart

1.11.6

• Release date: 2025-05-19
• Fixed a property query compatibility issue.
• Updated dependencies.

1.11.4

• Release date: 2025-05-10
• Fixed a search form issue.

1.11.3

• Release date: 2025-05-09
• Added shortcode [inx-property-featured-image].
• Extended support for the regular WP [gallery] shortcode.
• Reworked determination of number of matches for search results.
• Reworked coordinate validation.
• Optimized gallery CSS rules.
• Fixed a provision title display problem.
• Fixed a minor search form value encoding issue. See changelog.txt for the complete version history.