WordPress Classifieds Plugin
DescriptionWith this plugin, you will be able to add a Classifieds Advertising for Personals, Auto or Business in to your wordpress blog. Installing the plugin:Please test the plugin with your theme on a develop machine or a local machine, if the test is successful install it on the production machine.
Click here to download the: 1) last release (classifieds Page in one column) 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 plugin works successfully with the latest version of wordpress 2.7.
Demo:
Upgrade Instructions
- Deactivate the plugin from your Wordpress admin panel.
- Backup Database tables *_wpClassified_* and files.
- Upload the files to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder and overwrite the existing file.
- Activate the plugin from your Wordpress admin panel.
- 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:
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 1.3.1-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.)
This is a badly needed plugin, wish someone could write one that is not so buggy. I have struggled for a week
trying to get this to work “completely” only to find one bug after another.
Since some people seem to have got it to work I assume it has to do with whatever other plugins you are running, templates, versions of Word Press, and maybe the humidity ?
I will say it is well designed and easy to use..if only it worked !
I will keep looking.
i cannot get the Captcha to work, always says incorrect
I found what causes Error 404 on my website
It is an incompatibility with another plugin called Global Translator. If you have this plugin installed, you deactive it and wpClassified will work properly, without necessity to change anything in the .htaccess. My wordpress version is 2.7.1 - Global Translator version 1.2.3 - wpClassified version 1.3.1-b
Is anybody able to find a fix now that we know what’s the problem? If yes please email: webmaster at newz.it
Thanks
I use wp 2.7.1 and custom permalinks /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/%post_id%/
error 404 . i tried to modify .htaccess but still error 404
any fix?