Add Agents, Agencies, Developers, and Users in WPResidence

With WpResidence, you can manage multiple user roles designed specifically for real estate websites: Regular Users, Agents, Agencies, and Developers.

This guide explains how each user type works, what they can do, and how administrators control permissions and workflows.

Videos

Learn how to add agents from the WordPress admin area and manually assign them to properties. Watch Video on Youtube

See how an agent registers, completes their profile, and publishes listings from the front end. Watch Video on Youtube

Learn how Agency and Developer user roles work, including dashboards and permissions. Watch Video on Youtube

Regular users

Regular users are intended for lead-generation use cases. They can register on the website to save favorites and saved searches, without submitting properties or having a public profile.

Regular users:

Can save favorite properties
Can save searches and receive alerts
Do not have a public profile page
Do not submit properties (optional)

You can control whether registration and login are available from: Theme Options → Header → Login / Register & Submit

To completely disable user registration and login options, follow this guide: https://help.wpresidence.net/article/how-to-disable-user-registration-no-register-and-no-login-options/

Single Agent. How administrators manage real estate agents

As an Administrator, you can manage agents in two ways.

Manually from wp-admin

Go to Agents → Add New
Create and publish the agent profile
Assign properties to the agent from the property editor

Allow agents to register themselves

Enable front-end registration from Theme Options → General → User Role Settings
Users can select Agent during registration
Agents register via the front-end registration form

After logging in, agents can:

Complete and edit their profile
Add and manage properties from their dashboard
Edit or delete their listings at any time

Agencies and Developers User Roles

Agencies and Developers have similar functionality, with additional management capabilities.

They can add and manage their own agents
They can enable or disable agents and their properties
All agents under them use the same membership package

Similarities between roles

All roles can submit properties if allowed by the administrator
Agents, Agencies, and Developers have public profile pages (with different layouts)
Administrators can create different membership packages per user type

Differences between user types

Agencies and Developers can add and manage their own agents
Agents under an Agency or Developer inherit that membership package
Regular users do not have a public profile page
User dashboard sections are controlled from Theme Options

Notes for administrators

You can require manual approval for Agents, Agencies, and Developers
Profiles must be published by an admin before property submission (if approval is enabled)
Membership packages can differ per user type
Regular users can save favorites and searches without public profiles