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    Ad shows up on home page before approved

    There may be a setup done wrong but I set up ads FREE and posted an ad in my new classifieds and it does not show the page (it is set up as draft) but it does show the thumbnail and excerpt listing on the homepage list! This happened instantly even before I approve it. Maybe this is because it was set up as free...but looks like an ad link would not show up on the homepage if it is not approved yet by the admin. Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    I had used a user email that was registered prior to setting up the classipress, but then I decided to try another email address and I don't understand why it shows the frontpage ad but not the link. I know I have't approved it but it looks like it wouldn't show anywhere if it has to be moderated. It shows a hyperlink that goes to a page that says... Page Not Found

    http://tinyurl.com/mxpl3r That is a link to the page... (doing the tiny url just to hide my domain from searches by competitors. It will be on a temporary subdomain anyway.)

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    Which of your ads specifically is this happening to? Have you gone through and saved each page within the CP admin panel? Are you using price per category or just all ads are free?

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    I had the same problem for a little while, when people would post an add it would instantly be published, even thought I had set it to go into draft stage first so I could approve the ad.

    Don't know what I did to fix it but it just started working, I think it was near the time I upgraded to 2.92. Are you using this version?

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    I am using the latest version. I have been trying to resize the width on the index data... (and it aint going to change right) so I need to put this back. But yeah, it just goes ahead and shows the link when new ad posted, and it appears like in the admin it is showing up as "published" but I never had approved a draft. I have Wordpress 2.7.1

    By the way is the admin the regular Wordpress admin? That is what I have been using.

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    Are you using price per category or just all ads are free? If you are using price per category then you will need to set each category with a price. For the free ones set it to 0.

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    Be sure to have Default New Ad Status (Configure) set to "Draft" and NOT "Published".
    Also do not forget to click "save changes" after make that change.
    Hope this helps.

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    Also having this problem - settings are:
    Config:
    Default New Ad Status: draft
    Prune: yes after 60 days
    Payments:
    Featured Ad Price: $10
    Pricing Structure: Price per category
    individual categories: 0
    Wp version: 2.8, Classipress: 2.9.2 single
    I want to have payment for featured ads, other ads free for 60 days but ads submitted for my review and approval
    Any advice welcome

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    If all your ads are free, why have it set to "price per category"? You should just use the fixed price option and set it to 0.

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    Re: Ad shows up on home page before approved

    Hi Dave,

    I had already tried that but when a user posts an ad (with fixed price = 0), the dashboard shows that the advert is "awaiting payment" and has a Paypal Buy Now button in the options column. I don't want users to be confused as this indicates that they could think they have to pay for the ad (even though the Paypal amount is ) when you click through the button.

    Is that the way the fixed price = 0 option is supposed to work?

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