IDX Pages Missing Your Header and Footer
IDX pages showing up without your header and footer, or with the wrong ones? The Dynamic URL field in IDX Broker decides the frame, and this is where to fix it.
In short
- IDX pages take their header and footer from the wrapper.
- An empty Dynamic URL means no frame at all.
- A wrapper pointing at an old page means the wrong frame.
- One field in IDX Broker fixes both cases.
What is happening
Search results, single listings and the lead tools are generated by IDX Broker as standalone pages. The frame around them, your header and footer, comes from the dynamic wrapper, a page on your site that IDX Broker reads. When those pages show up bare or with someone else's frame, the wrapper is either not set or pointing somewhere it should not.
Check the wrapper in IDX Broker
Log in to IDX Broker and go to Design then Website then Wrappers, open the Global tab and look at the Dynamic URL field. Two things can be wrong there. The field is empty, so no wrapper is applied and the IDX pages stand alone. Or the field points at a page that no longer matches your site, an old wrapper page, a previous website, a page that was redesigned, so the IDX pages carry an outdated header and footer.
Set or fix it
The wrapper page itself is two small tags on a page of your site, and IDX Pages and the Dynamic Wrapper on Any Website explains the whole mechanism. For the exact clicks, the Elementor and Gutenberg guides cover WordPress, and Webflow has its own walkthrough. Once the wrapper page exists, paste its URL into the Dynamic URL field and save.
Check the result
Open any IDX page on your account, the search results are the easiest, and refresh it. Your header should sit at the top, your footer at the bottom, and the content between them still follows your IDX Broker templates, which is a separate setting.
Wrapper set and the frame still looks wrong?
Send us the address of one IDX page on your account and we take a look. Most of the fix happens on our side, and we usually reply within one business day.
Contact Support → Or email support@idxplugin.com