This post is for the developers that are interested in accessing the RateWindow™ API. There will not be an open developer platform for this widget due to mortgage industry regulations and standards, but we will still give access to core programming functions to extend not only the RateWindow™ widget, but any plugin that accesses RateWindow™.

First of all, RateWindow™ will run on any website, but we think that RateWindow™ will be put mostly on Wordpress blogs as a plugin. RateWindow™ does not create any database tables in a Wordpress blog, and we will not allow access to the raw mortgage rate information that is pulled due to the possibility of exploitation, but we will allow additional marketing plugins to access RateWindow™ widget.

The process to develop for RateWindow™.

1. Contact us, and let us know about your plugin.
2. We will then give you access to RateWindow™ hooks and details how to connect
3. Once complete, contact us again and we will make sure your plugin is working properly.
4. We will then distribute your plugin along with the RateWindow™ widget.

Possible plugin ideas

• blog posts, news sources, twitter posts
• real estate related information such as foreclosure listings
• the real estate agent listings (we already have this, but if you make a better one, we will include)
• credit information
• mapping, images, videos

Most plugins will only need to access the newsletter that is built into the RateWindow™ application. The owners of the blogs in which RateWindow™ is located (installed) will always want to distribute more and more information, and with the co-branding aspects of RateWindow™, it is a good start to interconnecting Wordpress widgets