When running a Classifieds site or a site in general, it is not only interesting but useful to know who is visiting your website, where these visitors come from and what they do on your site. You can use this information to optimize your site for keywords, targeted demographics and more. This is what we usually call as Search Engine Optimization, SEO in short.
Since WordPress do not come with any visitor statistics, every classifieds site owner has to implement and manage his own solution to track visitors and display statistics. And with this Statpress Reloaded plugin comes to the rescue. Yes, there are other available wordpress stats plugins but I find Statpress Reloaded intuitive and useful enough for my Classipress wordpress classifieds site.
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I have just updated my car finder site, www.cars.cebulive.com to the latest version of Classipress and every thing went smoothly. The whole upgrade process is seamless as long as you just follow the update instructions. I have not noted any bugs at all. Kudos to David, the owner of Classipress, for providing us one of the best update.
Classipress is one of the best classifies ads theme/platform there is. It is so because updates are provided free of charge forever. The customer support is also one of a kind as you are personally attended by David through the support forum for any concerns of your Classipress installation.
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Classipress is a great wordpress theme-classifieds ads platform. With it, you have to option to set a schedule when a particular ad will expire and subsequently deleted. It is a really great feature but it will also result to several error 404 pages when a particular page or posting is already indexed by the search engine.
There are several wordpress plugins to manage error for redirection but I find the easy way to do it is to change the Classipress default 404. Simply replace the Classipress 404.php code with the code below;
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Showing some random automated cosmetic activities will definitely make your Classipress site more exciting and never boring. A way to do that is to have random images of your ads displayed in the main page. Every time someone visits your site he or she sees different images displayed thus making your Classipress site visually dynamic. I used it on my site, www.cars.cebulive.com.
Random images can be displayed using a plugin called Random Image Selector. As with other wordpress plugin, it is every easy to install. You just have to put the provided code to where you want the random image to show. You can have many instances of the code and so you can display a number of random images. And in my site, I have four images that are displayed on the front page.
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To make your Classipress site more interesting to visitors is to make it look active taming with activities. One way to show it is to display members or users who are online. When a first time visitor sees that your site has a lot of activities he or she may be inclined to check and register to your site.
Members/users who are online info can be displayed using the plugin, WP UserOnline by Lester Chan. The plugin will also provide you with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are including Guests and Search Bots. As a wordpress plugin, it is easy to install. You can then display users online information by simply using a widget.
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Here’s a tutorial on how to put a text section in the main page (just right before the main listing). You can see this on my site www.cars.cebulive.com (below).
First you have to find the code below in the index.php using the theme editor in the dashboard. Simply click on Appearance then Editor and there you will find it.
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Here is a high-level list of features that you can expect from Classipress Version 2.9:
* Customer dashboard listing all their ads current status, edit & pause ad features
* Customer profile page where they can update their own info & include a picture
* Category-level pricing. Supports free categories as well
* Percentage-based pricing. Ad cost will depend on what item listing cost is
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