Thread: installing on existing site and other questions

installing on existing site and other questions

Here's my situation: I have spent many hours installing and setting up a free classified WordPress plugin, as well as paying someone to help me customize it, with the end result being that everything works EXCEPT the e-mail notifications to the customer who places an ad or to me as the administrator. Despite 5 months of asking questions and trying to fix it, no luck. Not good. I guess I've learned my lesson.

So now I'm seriously considering Classipress because of its reputation and many people have recommended it to me. I just have a few questions.

1. My site is already set up, and I understand from searching the presales forum that if I want to keep my additional pages as they are, I should probably install another instance of WP in a subdirectory with the CP theme. I know nothing about WordPress MU - is this necessary in order to install in a subdirectory or is that only for some purpose beyond what I want? If it's possible to add extra pages to the CP theme with non-classified-related stuff on them, then I would just replace my whole theme and stick with one WP install, but I don't know which is possible or best. Incidentally, one of the pages I have is a forum - does that affect the answer to the question?

2. Is it possible to make fields required but not have them displayed for other customers to see, just me?

3. I also want to sell advertising to businesses in the form of 125x125 or 125x250 ads in the sidebars. Is this built in to CP to where they would use the same type of sign-up and payment form as those who place classifieds?

Thanks for your help :)

1. Classipress will work just fine with your existing Wordpress pages. It is just your ads from the classifieds plugin you are using that will require some porting to do.

2. Yes you can just use the Wordpress backend in making changes to the fields.

3. No default option of these but it can be done through the use of a plugin such as this OIO plugin OIOpublisher Ad Manager - Control Your Ad Space .

I haven't launched the site yet, so there are no ads or customers to switch over - I guess there's a silver lining here.

So just to confirm - I could replace my entire theme with Classipress, and my regular, non-classified pages would still behave as normal? I don't need two installations of WordPress or anything like that?

And that includes the existing forum? There will be no issues there?

Yes, regular WordPress pages will still be regular pages once you update the theme. We don't officially support third party plugins, so if your forum software is not compatible with ClassiPress, then it's possible it may not necessarily work. Perhaps if you can confirm what you're using though we can check and see if other customers have mentioned using the same plugin..

I'm just using phpBB 3.0.9 - I'd love to hear if anyone else is using it without problems.

Another question occurred to me as well: Is there an RSS feed of the classifieds posted so I can tell site visitors they can get new listings in their e-mail?

If you refer to this thread, there is a customer using phpbb in conjunction with a ClassiPress installation. It is an earlier version of ClassiPress, and there is some customization involved, but it's the only example I can recall at this time.

Yes, there are RSS feed icons on the homepage, and categories which people can subscribe to as seen on the ClassiPress demo.

Hello, I'm kinda new here, hope I can gain alot of informational ideas here and hope that I'm welcome here ^_^, I just want to know if it is ok to replace my entire theme with Classipress, and my regular, non-classified pages?Thanks.

If you intention is to set up a Classifieds website, then that's what ClassiPress is for. If you have specific pre-sales questions about the theme you may ask them here.

Thank you for that example. It appears, though, that the only reason he did this was to make having only one log-in possible? If I don't care that people have to sign in separately for the forum as opposed to any ads they place, it wouldn't matter, would it?

Also, he said he installed two versions of WP so one could handle Classipress and one could handle the rest of the pages - so now I'm confused - is it necessary or not? Thanks for your continued help.