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WordPress Classifieds Plugin

Description

With this plugin, you will be able to add a Classifieds Advertising for Personals, Auto or Business in to your wordpress blog.


Installing the plugin:

Click here to download the:

1) 1.3.0-g (classifieds Page in one column)

or you may check out a working copy over HTTP.

svn checkout http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-classified/trunk/

2) Extract the zip files


3) Upload folder to your site (./wp-content/plugins/wp-classified)
4) Login to the administration and go to “admin panel/plugins” and activate the plugin
5) Go to the “Manage” tab of your WP. You have now there a new tab called “WP-Classified Admin”.

6) Go into the Manage — WpClassified –
7) Click on “Add Category”
8) Categories are the MAIN sections of your classifieds. For example, Autos For Sale

9) Now that you have a category, click on “Add List” under the Add/Edit Categories menu.
10) Create a list and then choose its parent category.

Lists are your subsections on your classifieds. For example, “Trucks” would be a list whose parent category would be “Autos For Sale.”
Unless you create lists under your categories, you won’t see a thing on your classified page.


Configure the plugin

Make sure the folder images have the correct writing permissions.

You will need to make the following folders writeable (chmod 777) :

/wp-classified/images (user images)
/wp-classified/images/topic (plugin images)
/wp-classified/images/cpcc

Uninstalling the plugin

For uninstalling deactivate the plugin in the WordPress admin menu and delete the wp-classified directory from the /wp-content/plugins/ directory and the page and tables, which are installed by the plugins with drop table in phpMyAdmin.

IMPORTANT:

I create and tested on Wordpress version 2.3.2 on default and unchanged Permalink structure.
The plugins works successfully with the latest version of wordpress 2.6.

Demo:

- Wpclassified version 1.3

Upgrade Instructions

  1. Deactivate the plugin from your Wordpress admin panel.
  2. Backup Database tables *_wpClassified_* and files.
  3. Upload the files to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder and overwrite the existing file.
  4. Activate the plugin from your Wordpress admin panel.
  5. Please Note: in ‘Classified Options‘ page in admin interface, check that all the required fields are filled in and save!

Questions and Examples of Use

Frequently Asked Questions

For people who have the problem with Invalid argument supplied for
foreach() on line 1052 or line 731 for the older WP version

To fix this problem we have installed the plugin on different machine/environment, but we cannot reproduce it.

Mr. Derrick Eckardt have found a solution to the foreach() problem on line 1052.

The problem is caused by php 5. all you have to do is edit line 1052 and change

foreach ($array as $k => $v) {
to:

foreach ((array) $array as $k => $v) {
Found this by reading these pages by reading the comments post on the PHP documentation page for the foreach() function (http://us.php.net/foreach)

Q: Why the main site gives me the 404 or Not Found error message

This is a .htaccess 404 error message and you should update your .htaccess file in the WP root directory.

Q: I would like to put the last ads in my sidebar. is it possible?

Inside the WordPress admin ‘Design’ menu, ‘Widgets’ submenu, add the wpCalssifieds widget to your blog

where you want, then save the changes.

To support Permalink structure:

This is an example for .htaccess file to redirect to wpClassified for the people who use ‘ /%category%/%postname%/’ as permalink structure

Please open the .htaccess file in the WP root folder in your favourite editor and look for line

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

and replace it with:

#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule !classified/ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^classified/([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/? /index.php?pagename=classified [QSA,L,R,NS]

Q: Warning: imageftbbox() [function.imageftbbox]: Could not read font?

Enable the GD and FreeType Support in php configuration or unselect the ‘Show the confirmation code’ in admin interface

Changelog

Changes 1.3.0-a - October 13/10/2008
- Modify to expanded and collapses the Categories
- Modify to show the last post in footer

Changes in 1.3 - September 10/2008
- Update to display-style classified ads in one column
- Added the ad images viewer
- Allowed more images per ad
- All the pages using templates
- Added style sheet for page layout

Changes in 1.2 - August 10/2008
- Added some fields mail, phone, web
- implement the conformation code (captcha)
- added sent to his friend’s button
- included language file (The Work is Not Finished!)
- fixed some of the issues discussed and posted here’

- Tested with wordpress 2.6 and Internet Explorer, Firefox.
- Allow the guests (identify by IP-Address ) to delete/edit their ads.

Changes in 1.1 - May 12/2008
- initial version

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Graphic Plotter

 

Graphic Plotter is a useful program to draw different type of math.
It is written in Visual Basic 6 (ca. 18.1.2000), and consequently requires the Visual Basic runtimes in order to work.
You may well already have not these on your system, so I have included the files.

- Download Graphic Plotter
- Graphic Plotter “GraphPlot_2001.exe”
- Common Controls OCX “ComCtl32.ocx” 230K
- Visual Basic Runtime “Vbrun60.exe” 973K SP3

The files are compressed in .zip.

Installation instructions:

After you have downloaded graphic_plotter.zip, extract all the contents into the folder where you want it installed, z.B. c:\graphic_plotter for example.
If you have not to Visual Basic Runtime files on PC. you should be unzipped Vbrun60.zip, comctl32.zip and executed BEFORE running graphPlot.
Once all the files are in place, you can run GraphPlot_2001.exe.


Here are some screenshot of the Graphic Plotter