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Basic Forms

Your Lenderama website uses lead capturing web forms that integrate directly into your Surefire System. Please see this tutorial on how to setup your contact forms once your new site is setup.

Custom Web Forms

Watch this tutorial to learn all of the ins and outs of our custom forms engine (also includes information on 1003 loan application settings).

Social Media Links in Staff Profiles

If you want to incorporate social media icons into your staff profiles please read this tutorial. You can accomplish this using HTML in a staff profile contact block.

Property Listing Sites

Creating a single property listing site with your Lenderama website platform is quick and easy. These sites can be used to help your Realtor partners market their listings.

Custom Menu Navigation

The main navigation menu on your site, by default, is made up of various pages from your blog. However, you can customize what goes in your main menu, and the 3 menus in the footer of your page.

There are many steps involved with setting up a new Lenderama mortgage website, but the initial process of getting started with your new site has been designed to be as quick and painless as possible. There are only a few steps you’ll need to pay attention to in the beginning, and you can literally be ready to roll in about 30 minutes or less.

Setting Your Domain Name

Don’t own your own domain name yet for your website? Click here to purchase your domain name now from Lendomains.com and then watch this video on how to point your domain name to your new website.

Lenderama Theme Options

You can use the Lenderama menu on the WordPress Dashboard to control many aspects of the look and feel of your website. This tutorial also includes preferred images sizes for use in various places of your site like a custom banner header.

Publishing/Editing Overview

A blog is simply a web platform that is specifically designed for the purpose of publishing content to the web. You can organize the content as a page or post, and organize further via categories and tags.

Add License Info to Footer of Website

Whether you are a banker, lender, or broker; most mortgage professionals will need to list some kind of license information in their websites.

Updating Your User Profile

Your user profile with be displayed below each blog article that you write.

Mobile Listing Demo

This is a video demonstration of how the real estate listing sites you create from your Lenderama platform look when viewed via smartphone.

All In One SEO: Install and Use

The All In One SEO Pack is a WordPress plugin that can help you with SEO. This is a tutorial on how to use it.

All In One SEO: Strategy

SEO expert Mark Madsen goes over some of the strategy and best uses of the All In One SEO Pack plugin.

About Me Widget

Tutorial on how to setup the about me section on the sidebar of your website.

Widgets Overview

The sidebar, header, and footer areas of the Lenderama WordPress theme are Widgetized, which basically means we can put stuff stuff there like videos, photos, recent posts, HTML code, etc.

Staff Profiles and Agents

The Staff Profiles are used in the staff directory, the about me widget, and on single property listings. Agent Profiles are only used for the single property listings.

Adding Testimonials

Tutorial on how to create testimonials on your website.

HTML Cheat Sheet

A WordPress blog has two different editor screens for writing new pages or posts: HTML and Visual. We can leverage this to create things the way we want them to appear in the visual editor, and then switch to the HTML editor and use the code it generates.

Inserting an Image Into a Post

Adding in image within your blog/website content can be as accomplished in several ways, this tutorial covers how to do that.

Why can’t I add WordPress plugins?

Why can’t I add whatever WordPress plugins I want to my Website? There are a number of reasons not to have a ton of plugins installed on your WordPress website: website security, website performance, and code incompatibility.

Categories and Tags

How to use (and the difference between) WordPress categories and tags.

Adding a Clickable Sidebar Image

The blog sidebar widget area is a perfect place to put any shiny object / image that gets peoples’ attention and drives them deeper into your site to strategic educational landing pages.

WordPress Dashboard

http://NAME.lenderama.com/wp-admin.php is your initial login page, where NAME.lenderama.com is the URL of your new website. Your username and password should have been emailed to you. This tutorial will cover the basic options of your WordPress dashboard, which is the backend of your website.

Getting a GRAVATAR

Your Gravatar (globally recognized avatar) is a picture of you that is assigned to your email address and follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. GRAVATARs help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.

Importing FNM File Into Point

Once you get email notification that a loan application is complete (please note you cannot download incomplete applications), login to your Surefire account. Click "New Loan Applications", which is near the top right. Click on the name of the person who completed the application and save the FNM file to your desktop. Open your LOS and import the file.

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