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April 20th, 2010 #1

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A work in progress
Setting up this site, first time using classipress, I am having trouble figuring out how to modify the Meta widget and get the wordpress links out of there
http://www.swampbuggyforsale.com
A few other items are needing some work as well, but it is a work in progress.

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April 21st, 2010 #2

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Re: A work in progress

Originally Posted by skye1

Setting up this site, first time using classipress, I am having trouble figuring out how to modify the Meta widget and get the wordpress links out of there
http://www.swampbuggyforsale.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A few other items are needing some work as well, but it is a work in progress.

I like the site, great color scheme, but what about adding custom permalinks? It would look better than http://www.swampbuggyforsale.com/?p=84

Just a suggestion

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April 21st, 2010 #3

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Re: A work in progress
Download the plugin Called Mini Meta Widget
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimeta-widget/

And then move the "mini meta widget" to the sidebar instead of the "meta" widget.
You can then customize a new mini meta widget and select it from the widget theme options. They have good documentation I'm sure you won't have a problem figuring out how to use it after visiting there website.

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Re: A work in progress
Yeah, it looks very nice indeed.

I agree about the custom permalinks. You are hurting your SEO by using what you are using now.

The only issue I noticed (if you can call it that), is that the background for your header loaded much later than the rest of the page. Like about 1 to 2 seconds later. It was very noticeable. You may want to see if you can optimize that image a bit more.

Other than that I really like it. Great job!

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April 23rd, 2010 #5

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Re: A work in progress

Originally Posted by Danny

Originally Posted by skye1

Setting up this site, first time using classipress, I am having trouble figuring out how to modify the Meta widget and get the wordpress links out of there
http://www.swampbuggyforsale.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A few other items are needing some work as well, but it is a work in progress.

I like the site, great color scheme, but what about adding custom permalinks? It would look better than http://www.swampbuggyforsale.com/?p=84" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just a suggestion

I agree it would look better, but I have tried every combination of permalinks I can think of and everyone results in page not displaying. I type /%postname%/ in the custom field, but it will not work for me.

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Re: A work in progress

Originally Posted by scarstens

Download the plugin Called Mini Meta Widget
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimeta-widget/

And then move the "mini meta widget" to the sidebar instead of the "meta" widget.
You can then customize a new mini meta widget and select it from the widget theme options. They have good documentation I'm sure you won't have a problem figuring out how to use it after visiting there website.

Thank you for the suggestion and link. I will try this out.

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April 23rd, 2010 #7

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Re: A work in progress

Originally Posted by NetPotion

Yeah, it looks very nice indeed.

I agree about the custom permalinks. You are hurting your SEO by using what you are using now.

The only issue I noticed (if you can call it that), is that the background for your header loaded much later than the rest of the page. Like about 1 to 2 seconds later. It was very noticeable. You may want to see if you can optimize that image a bit more.

Other than that I really like it. Great job!

~ NetPotion

Thanks for the props and I will work on that header. There are a couple things that I'm really having a time with and that is the permalinks can not get this to work and the other is ad editing the user just gets page cant be displayed if they try to edit their ad which may be related to the permalink issue.

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