Thread: A Few Questions Before Purchase

A Few Questions Before Purchase

Hi,

I'm looking at Purchasing Vantage, but have a few pre-sale questions:

1) Is it a prerequisite to use maps, or can they be omitted from listings and the site as a whole?

2) In the search, is it possible to remove the keyword search altogether and use categories instead?

3) Images - can a restriction be placed on image uploads by an advertiser to - lets say - a maximum of five uploads per post?

4) Advertising packages - can these be removed completely, allowing all ads to be free, but with optional paid-for enhancements?

5) Is it true that there are AppTheme advertisements installed by default, and if so, can these be removed?

6) Image galleries within a user posted listing - can these be edited to remove the lightbox, and/or customise the style of the gallery?

That's about all for now, thanks in advance for any help!

Hi

You can hide/disable the maps.

You will need to do this manually, the theme does not have a function to remove the search bar or modify it.

By default all listings can have up to 5 images.If you need to change that you will need to modify the theme.

You can turn off charging for posting a listing completely or create plans that are free and add 'featured addons' which make the listing featured on the home page or category.Here is a relevant link http://docs.appthemes.com/tutorials/...pricing-plans/

You can place ads in various places in the theme, when you install it the first time you can remove all the default AppThemes ads and place your own.

All code is open for modification, you can modify the theme and remove the lightbox if you prefer, but that requires programming experience.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Ok, so there are two unresolved queries out of six:

1) I've had a mess around with a couple of the 'Showcase' sites, and its pretty easy to remove the main search bar. Is it possible to place a category search towards the top of the site? Or is it possible to even HAVE a category search? By 'category search', I'm envisaging placing three or four drop down boxes, each containing a list of categories such as -

Car make (drop-down containing car makes)
Engine size (drop-down containing engine sizes)
Colour (drop-down containing colours)
etc, etc.

2) I was looking around at a few plugins written for Vantage earlier, one of which was an image slider. Rather than re-programming the present image viewer, I'm supposing that a plugin would do the job just as well? Or is there a special trick to disabling the default image viewer?

1) I am sorry but there is no functionality like that with Vantage.
2) If the plugin does the job then you can use it.If you need to change the way the image is displayed then you will need to change the javascript used, i am not mistaken Vantage uses the colorbox.js.

Are there any of the AppThemes themes that have an advanced search by category?

With Vantage you can search by keyword and/or location.When you search by location you can refine your search by radius and category.Each theme handles search differently but you can check ClassiPress 'advanced search' which is more 'customizable'

That actually looks like a viable alternative!

I'll have a look around some of the ClassiPress showcases and make sure it's what I'm after.

After having a look through the video tutorials, ClassiPress looks ideal for my needs, but one question that I presume applies to all themes:

When a user views the website (presumably this applies only to those users that have posted ads), there is a section at the top right that can be clicked on to go to 'My Dashboard'.

In the User Options within this new page, there is:

My Dashboard
Edit Profile
Wordpress Admin
Log out

Three of these items are fine, but does 'Wordpress Admin' show up for users that have posted ads?

If so, how can you get rid of it?

The WordPress admin is visible only to admins not users and it takes you to the back end of ClassiPress.

I know, I just seen that bit :0/