Need You to clarify a few things, thanks.
(Time duration would not permit me to edit my above post, so here it is again)
Hi Antonio. Thanks for the quick reply via email. I sent one back to you. My main concern lies with CP sites set with the pricing model, using a fixed ad price with a time duration. i.e. $30 for 30 days. You mentioned your plugin resets the initial posting time and date to the current time and date. With regards to the pricing model I mentioned herein, would your plugin still respect the initial time duration of the ad? In other words, your plugin would reset the time to make the ad appear in the top of "Just Listed" Lists, but still would permit the ad to expire. Is this correct?
If not, is there perhaps another parameter we could use, to allow the ad to be bumped to the top, while retaining the time duration of the ad being posted? Kijij dot com's bump up works this way, so I know it can be done. They must have placed a separate function call, or used something other than the initial post time. Because I have placed ads and bumped them several times a day. But I still get a notice to repost my ad every thirty days.
It would appear to me, your plugin would need to do the same to be used on CP sites with the above pricing model. Does it? I think this is not that difficult. You can use the intial time stamp at the time of teh ad being posted. Then when you use your plugin to bump up the ad, all it needs to do is, use this initial time stamp, and before resetting the time to current, uses the current time and resets the ad duration first.
i.e. Sept 1st, ad is posted for 30 days, set to expire on the 30th. Ad owner bumps up the ad on the 10th. Your plugin would use the expiration date/time of the 30th minus the current time of the 10th, thus resetting the ad duration for 20 days.
Then reset the initial post date/time of the 1st to the current time of the 10th. So that everytime an ad is bumped, the
ad duration is recalculated and reset everytime. And then the intial post time is reset to the current time.
Programming your plugin to work this way, will make certain the true ad expiration time is always the same. And not changed to restart for another 30 days, each time the ad is bumped up. This allows site owners to continue to use the above pricing model and other which use a time duration to post an ad. While they enjoy ad owners bumping up their ad.
Devil's Advocate here:
You mentioned in your email, you had originally set the ad owner as the only one to bump up the ad and make the button visible. You said, We could not think of one reason to keep it this way. And that you would allow anyone to bump up the ad. well I have one reason for you to change it back. Why would a third party want to pay to have someone else's ad bumped up? No one is going to do that are they? So why have the bump up button visible at all on the ad?
You also mentioned you thought the featured ad option was manipulative and not appreciated bu site visitors.the current CP theme, V.3.19 does nothing to the ad. The featured ads are not highlighted. They look the same as non-featured ads. Therefore, the site visitor is unaware of any featured ad option. Nor are they aware the featured ad is placed above non-featured ads in a descending order as they are posted. However, having your bump up button visible to site visitors does exactly what you said the featured ad option does in CP. Because it is visible to everyone.
Can you explain how you came to the conclusion, that the featured ad option is manipulative and not appreciated by the site visitor; while your plugin which places a bright orange "Bump Up This Ad" isn't seen as manipulative to the site visitor?
Originally Posted by seoagent
