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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It can be changed within index.php using the theme editor in the dashboard. You just have to search for the following codes;
wp_list_categories('show_count=0&title_li=&depth=1');
and add the “hide_empty” parameter to the list. Just put after depth=1 the &hide_empty=0
To make it look like this;
wp_list_categories('show_count=0&title_li=&depth=1&hide_empty=0');
Let’s start with the basics. This post is just going to explain what Classipress theme is and what you need to do to set it up in order to start your Classifieds ad site. Specific strategies to optimize or modify will come in later posts.
What is Classipress?
Classipress is the first and only professional classified ads theme for WordPress. Others call it the Craigslist for WordPress. You can use it for Jobs site, Classifieds site, an online store and anything you can think of.
It has a lot of features that include PayPal integration, five color schemes, multi-language support, AdSense, and much more.
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