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-content/plugins/wp-classified/cache

NEW in THE VERSION 1.4
Add a public directory and upload the images public resources (the public folder must have write permission)

- wp-content/public/wp-classified/

If you upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4 please move all public images  form the folder wp-content/plugins/wp-classified/images into the wp-content/public/wp-classified/

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 plugin works successfully with the latest version of wordpress 2.7.

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

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 wordpress root directory.

Q: Who can I collapse the categories as default instead of expanded as default.

Open the file ./includes/main_tpl.php in your favorite text editor.
Edit line: ca. 34
update the ’showAll();’ to ‘hideAll();’
That’s all ;)

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:

Normally you should not edit the htaccess, the Permalink link will be detect by plugin automatically.
The htaccess is a way to add the category name to the url or display the post title in the blog url.

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 wordpress root folder in your favorite 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]

May be by using  the ‘/%postname%’ or ‘/%category%/%postname%/’ as permalink structure the plugin must work correctly and you do not need change anything.

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’ check box  in admin interface

Changelog

Changes 1.4 – January 17/01/2009
- January 18/01/2009 fix for Internet Explorer and xampp
- fixed for plugin auto-upgrade
Note: This bugfix release hove to install Manually.
- fixed for the plugin auto-upgrade. (must test with the next coming version)
- moved directories public resources to wp-content

Changes 1.3.1-b – February 09/02/2009
- modify to approve posts before they are published
- fixed the problem with re-size of thumbs images

Changes 1.3.1-a – January 25/01/2009
- update to cover changes between WP-Version  2.6 and 2.7
- fixed the widget control

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

TO-DO-List

- comments on individual listings/ads?
- implement the paid service and pay pal options?
- preventing the Bad languages

Email: wpclassified@forgani.com
(Please include wpclassified in the subject of your email.)