Thread: Announcing "Statify Ultimate" – A plugin to Add State Sub-sites to ClassiPress

I do agree with pablocustodio. as programmer/developer you should respect your client and their projects.

If you want to sell other ideas/project publicly you should mention that earlier to the original client and negotiate with project price (only if they agree).

Otherwise, you shouldn't sell it to others in any situation.

State, City, Country... Add country please.

Pablo,

I did go beyond the criteria you requested. You did not ask for a plugin, but I made it into a plugin. It is much much easier to incorporate this in the theme itself. I am listing the features within the plugin against what you explicitly requested:

Gives your users the ability to select a state and only browse listings from their region - REQUESTED
The selected state becomes highlighted in the main navigation - NOT REQUESTED
Homepage, category page and search listings filter by states automatically - REQUESTED
Optional Groupon like state selector popup for new visitors - NOT REQUESTED
Customize title and message on the state selector popup - NOT REQUESTED
State selection can be easily cancelled from the main navigation - NOT REQUESTED
Integrates with default, customized or child theme versions of the ClassiPress - NOT REQUESTED
No need to enable "States" in the Refine Results form - NOT REQUESTED
Compatible with ClassiPress 3.1.8 - REQUESTED

The benefits of what you requested versus what I delivered are far greater. The excerpts from the emails prove nothing except that I am making sure I have not
misunderstood your requirements and that it is different from the solution we achieved for Nigeriads website for it's 1.0 version. I am sure you will hear soon from my client at Nigeriads.com.ng who got this idea from his competitors' websites. Your claim that it is your idea that was stolen is utterly false I am willing to offer this to the AppThemes community for free just so that people can benefit from it because if I wouldn't have put this out, someone else would have eventually and made money out of this.

This is dannyogolo of Nigeriads.com.ng
Seems im late to the drama.
Its ironic that Mr Pablo will call this his idea while he got some inspiration from my site, which I also thought out myself, and pressed Mohsin to code for me.
Like you stated: "I like the mods but I would like a few changes if possible." Those are my mods you are talking about.

I had this exact idea to implement in my website, but the prices Mohsin charged me was more than my budget at that time, so I decided to implement it together with a few more Mods in a v2 of nigeriads. Infact even with what I have seen Mohsin add to your request, my idea about the state/region stuff is still much advanced.

Well, you can claim it for all you want, im yet to see your patent filing.
Just like my ideas inspired others to start implementing state on their home page, now the state selection is cheaper for me now with this plugin, im off to implement it right away.

Daniel

Danny, I have to say I did not think about this before, but what you said here is 100% correct. Just to let you and others know, this was Pablo's initial request:

And this is him again referring to your website:

Thanks,
Mohsin

Very interesting because Nigeriads state modifications on the site at the time would only show all RECENT listings through a column on his home page.

Our projct went a lot little more:
1. We wanted the navigation to look exactly like Classipress dropdown Category menu --- keeping it uniform looking. Nigeriads has a static column on the front page.
2. Each state that is chosen, has it's own state categories so users could view only ad listings for that state. Nigeriads doesn't even come close to this because Nigeriads only shows recent listings. Ours shows Category listings and shows ad counts for that particular state, just as we requested.
3. Here is what is in your email:

From: Reload Web <info@reloadweb.co.uk>
To: Pablo Custodio <me4otoyou@yahoo.com>

Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 2:12 AM

Subject: Re: Fwd: A comment from Pablo Custodio

OK, what is involved? We need to store the selected state in a cookie and modify all queries to only show results from the selected state, so the site becomes state-specific. The states can be switched from the category-like drop-down menu, so we will create the functionality. The cost of these changes will be $*****.


I see now, that is a completely different thing to what we did on NigeriAds.com.ng since once the site is state-specific, we will not need to do the mods we did on that site, the results will be filtered already and all the pages will only show results from the selected state unless the state mode is cancelled.


Now, if you require it to look like http://eddieslists.com/ which you say is your son's site and which I reckon is a quite heavily modified version, you will have to clone it for your site before we proceed to make our changes.


Please let me know your thoughts.


Regards,
Mohsin

4. You never stated anything about a plug-in for OUR project in any of emails except when I asked you to let me know about the changes in the files. Besides, I don't nothing about the coding process, that's why I PAID for YOUR services to develop OUR project! You never mentioned anything about the requests for what you were doing for OUR project.
5. I've seen Nigeriads website but don't know who he is, and quite frankly, I don't care! My problems is with you and how YOU are selling OUR project on the market that we PAID you to do.
6. You even stated: I see now, that is a completely different thing to what we did on NigeriAds.com.ng since once the site is state-specific, we will not need to do the mods we did on that site, the results will be filtered already and all the pages will only show results from the selected state unless the state mode is cancelled.
7. You changed the terms of our agreement at the end of the project.

Perhaps, I am missing something here! Did WE not retain YOUR services for OUR project? YES! Did Negeriads retain your services to do OUR project? NO! Did we ask you to go beyond what we requested? NO! Did we tell you it was some GREAT work? YES! Did WE pay you for your services ?YES! Did WE ask for OUR money back after WE found out you were trying to double dip on OUR project? NO! Did YOU offer our money back and everything else you have on the market for FREE? YES!

I uppercase certain words so YOU would understand that it was a project between YOU and US, not Nigeriads or anyone else!

I hope you have alot of money Mohsin, you're going to need it!

Yes, I stated this because you thought it was almost the same as the state mod on Nigeriads, but it's clear that you got the idea from Daniel.

Now that you have provided further information on the issue it makes it a whole different ball game. I can see why you are unhappy.

Daniel here again.
I am waiting to see what Pablo will do.
Whatever action he thinks he can take against Mohsin, it automatically means I can take same action against him, 'cos he also took my idea.
Then other people using other sites can also take same action against me for taking the idea from them, and the world goes burst. lol

Daniel,

I don't know nor heard your conversations with Mohsin but your too FUNNY!! Hey mom, could of, should of, would of.... hahaa

What's the basis of your argument again? Oh yeah, could of, should of, would of.

You and him are so so so FUNNY!!!

So, I took your idea? Excuse me but I paid Mohsin to develop OUR project and YOU were not even in the conversation!! Clearly, you think I took your idea???? You're toooooo funnny!!

I was inspired by Craigslist and how it performs. Keyword: performs! See, Craigslist performs just like the PROJECT I paid for. You choose a state/city, your redirected to that state/city page where it has a category list. You click on a category, it only shows you the listings in that state/city. The same request WE asked for!

Let me ask you something, Does your state mod that was done by Mohsin, act or even looks like what WE had done? Answer: NO not even close!

So, to even say I took your idea, is way tooooo funny!