Originally Posted by
paulocustas
Hi,
Your carousel theme is very interesting but I still don't see a classipress website with a good working advanced search. I'm talking about, for example, a visitor is looking for a car, and he should be able to search by price, make, region, etc. But if he's looking for another product's category, the search should be adjusted to the product that he's looking for. That would be great in a very good theme like Classipress. Unfortunately I didn't found yet this kind of plugin.
Another thing is to have languages flags in the front end, because, in my case, I live in Switzerland (there are 3 national languages) and visitor should be able to switch for his own language. I've already made this request in the forum for the next releases of Classipress, meanwhile I'm looking for a developer that is able to do so.
While I've never tried to program multiple languages into the front end, I'm sure it is possible. I don't particularly know how you might activate multiple languange files based on a parameter, but have you asked in the forums if any of our customers have done this already?
Agreed that the search capabilities of ClassiPress are lacking. Only bad thing about the specific needs you are looking for is the search will require many hours of development to build and test, most of the people who want this functionality just can't afford the mod. Consider that users can create any number of "custom fields". This means that the upgrade to using "field filtering" would require a serious overhaul into the
wp-admin pages to allow users to actually control all this new search / filter functionality. I'd love to do work on the project, but I've already estimated between 14-20 hours to completely build out this functionality. I'd imagine you would have to find 15-20 people who all want to invest in the project before it would make sense to move forward on a custom build.
I would however keep your eyes out for ClassiPress 3.1 as there will be significant amounts of new features and you get the update for free. Problem is you have to wait for the release, and there is no guarntee it will work exactly like you want, since we have to consider the whole community when we make our updates.