Theme Installation
There are 3 ways to setup the Classifieds theme. You can use any one of the following methods. We have briefly explained the reason for choosing any of the methods. Details on each method is listed further down this guide.
- Easy Install
- Traditional Install Method
- FTP Install Method
1)Easy Installation Method
This method of installation via the WordPress admin dashboard is the quickest and easiest. The easy installer is designed to install all of the required components to get the Classifieds theme installed along with its parent Directory theme and the included 3 Tevolution plugins. This method might not be ideal if your hosting company has limited the values on your account’s PHP memory and the ‘max_execution_time’. In cases where these values are lower than required, the easy installer may not be able to correctly complete the installation of the Classifieds with its sample data.
2) Traditional Installation Method
This method of installation via the WordPress admin dashboard is ideal if for the reasons given above. That’s if the easy installer is not able to fully complete the installation of all theme components and sample data. Using this method, you will be uploading both of the parent Directory and Classifieds child theme and its 3 Tevolution plugins.
3) FTP Installation Method
This method of installation is ideal if you are unable to upload the required components via the WordPress admin dashboard. This is sometimes the case if your hosting account’s max_execution_time directive is lower than required. This value is set by your host on server level. Some hosting companies will allow you to change this value – some companies don’t.
1) Easy Install
Method 1: Easy Installer
1) Download the Easy Installer zip file to your computer.
This installer is found in the member’s area. You need to first login to your Templatic account and go to My Downloads ⇒ Themes
NOTE: What you will see might be slightly different depending on your license. The link to download the EasyInstaller .zip file is the same as the above screenshot for all licenses – that’s the bit you want.
2) Now go to your WordPress admin dashboard and navigate to Appearance ⇒ Themes ⇒ Add New ⇒Upload and upload the ClassifiedsDirectory-EasyInstall.zip file you have just downloaded.
3) Once the upload has completed, activate the Classifieds Directory theme.
4) In the next step, you will be prompted to enter verification key.
You can get your activation key to enter from the theme’s ‘Download’ tab. This is found in your Templatic account if you go to My Downloads ⇒ Themes.
5) After entering your activation key, you will see the option to insert the theme’s sample data.
You can skip this step if you do not wish to load the sample data. We do however advise that the sample data is inserted. This data is designed to populate your website with sample categories and ads along with default widgets and settings. The sample data will help you get started instead of starting on a blank website.
You can edit the sample, pages, blog posts or categories, ads or categories, submission packages. Deleting any of the sample data is also possible. We recommend that you do not delete the sample data from Appearance ⇒ Themes. Doing so will delete all of the sample data. To delete a page or post for example, do so by deleting the page or post individually.
(The first screen to install the sample data)
(The second screen to install the sample data)
Templatic provides an easy installation file for the Theme installation. The easy install is the simplest and recommended way to install and activate the theme.
- Download the Classified Easy Install file from the member’s area by logging into your account.
- From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Appearance ⇒ Themes ⇒ Add New ⇒Upload. Upload the .zip file you just downloaded.
- Activate the Classified theme and NOT the directory theme once the installation process is done.
Method 2: Traditional Installation
In the traditional installation method, each component gets individually uploaded via your website’s WordPress admin dashboard. Please upload all components first, (without activating any of them). The order to activate each component is given in the step after this one.
Uploading Themes
1. Go to Appearance ⇒ Themes ⇒ Add New ⇒ Upload Theme
Upload the parent and child theme (do not activate anything)
- Directory.zip
- ClassifiedsDirectory.zip
Uploading Plugins
2. Upload the 3 Tevolution plugins (do not activate anything)
Go to Plugins ⇒ Add New ⇒ Upload Plugin
- tevolution2.zip
- Tevolution-Classifieds.zip
- Tevolution-LocationManager.zip
3. Activation
Activating the 3 Tevolution plugins the Classifieds child theme in the order below.
- The Tevolution plugin
- Tevolution – Classifieds plugin
- Tevolution – LocationManager plugin
- Activate the Classifieds Directory child theme
Entering your activation key when you activate the Tevolution plugin
You can get your activation key to enter from the theme’s ‘Download’ tab. This is found in your Templatic account if you go to My Downloads ⇒ Themes.
4) Sample data
After activating the Classified child theme, you will see the option to insert the theme’s sample data.
You can skip this step if you do not wish to load the sample data. We do however advise that the sample data is inserted. This data is designed to populate your website with sample categories and ads along with default widgets and settings. The sample data will help you get started instead of starting on a blank website.
You can edit the sample, pages, blog posts or categories, ads or categories, submission packages. Deleting any of the sample data is also possible. We recommend that you do not delete the sample data from Appearance ⇒ Themes. Doing so will delete all of the sample data. To delete a page or post for example, do so by deleting the page or post individually.
(The first screen to install the sample data)
(The second screen to install the sample data)
Method 3: FTP installation
In this method you will be just uploading the Directory parent theme and the Classifieds child theme and the 3 Tevolution plugins. All activations will be done in your WordPress admin dashboard. Please follow the steps below to activate everything in the correct order.
Note: If you haven’t used FTP before, you can refer this FTP guide before proceeding to have a clearer idea.
1) Download all of the required .zip installers from your members area.
This installers are found in the member’s area. You need to first login to your Templatic account and go to My Downloads ⇒ Themes
2) These are zip files and you can extract them using software like 7-Zip. Use the “Extract here” option, don’t extract into a new folder. Because a folder in a folder may create problems during the installation process.
3) Now it’s time to upload the plugin folders in their respective location.
Login to your FTP, access your website’s WordPress installation and navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and upload all the decompressed plugin folders:
- Tevolution
- Tevolution-Classifieds
- Tevolution-LocationManager
Now it’s time to upload the themes folders in their respective location.
4) Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and upload the Directory folder and ClassifiedsDirectory folders.
- Directory
- ClassifiedsDirectory
Activation
- Activating the 3 Tevolution plugins the Classifieds child theme in the order below.
- The Tevolution plugin
- Tevolution – Classifieds plugin
- Tevolution – LocationManager plugin
- Activate the Classifieds Directory child theme
Entering your activation key when you activate the Tevolution plugin
You can get your activation key to enter from the theme’s ‘Download’ tab. This is found in your Templatic account if you go to My Downloads ⇒ Themes.
4) Sample data
After activating the Classified child theme, you will see the option to insert the theme’s sample data.
You can skip this step if you do not wish to load the sample data. We do however advise that the sample data is inserted. This data is designed to populate your website with sample categories and ads along with default widgets and settings. The sample data will help you get started instead of starting on a blank website.
You can edit the sample, pages, blog posts or categories, ads or categories, submission packages. Deleting any of the sample data is also possible. We recommend that you do not delete the sample data from Appearance ⇒ Themes. Doing so will delete all of the sample data. To delete a page or post for example, do so by deleting the page or post individually.
(The first screen to install the sample data)
(The second screen to install the sample data)
Users Management
For any website, user registration is one of the main modules. In this section we will see how we can manage the registration and users on our website. The registered users will be the ones to post classifieds on your website. So let’s see how you can manage them.
Enable disable registration
To allow or disallow registration, Navigate to Wp-admin ⇨ Settings ⇨ General settings ⇨ Membership. Checkmark “Anyone can register” to enable front-end registration on your website. If unchecked, the website will not allow users to register on the frontend.
Add users
From the back-end you can manage users from WP-admin ⇨ Users ⇨ Add user. Fill the required details in the form and register the users. The users can also register themselves from the front end.
Manage existing users
The existing users will be shown at WP-admin ⇨ Users ⇨ All users. From here, you can change the role of the users, add, update or delete the existing profiles. This page also shows the number of posts of the each user in each post type. From here bulk delete of users is possible.
Registration form and User profile fields
For the front end submission the user registration is already available at wp-admin ⇨ Pages ⇨ register. When the registration link is clicked, a pop-up will appear that will show the fields to enter the username and the email address. the password to login will be sent to the submitted username. To manage the User profile custom fields, navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Custom fields ⇨ User Profile fields.
Click here to know how you can setup individual custom fields.
Location Management
The classifieds added to the Classifieds website will be based on the location. Therefore, before we proceed with adding and managing classifieds, these are few location related settings.
Countries and States
To add and manage countries and states, navigate to “Countries” and “States” tabs inside the Tevolution ⇨ Manage Locations section. Probably, you’ll find the country in the preloaded countries but if you don’t you can create a new country easily. Similarly at Tevolution ⇨ Manage Locations ⇨ States, you can add the states to the country.
Add a city
Unless you add the cities, the classifieds won’t be submitted. Therefore, before we proceed on how to add and manage classifieds, we need to add the cities. Three default cities are provided with the Location Manager, but you can add as many cities as you want. To add cities navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Manage Locations ⇨ Cities. Before adding cities, don’t miss adding the Country and the state to which the city belongs. Click here to set up the cities.
Manage Locations
From here, you can set the general options for managing the locations of the website. The options are available at Tevolution >> Manage locations.
City selector style – To select the way the cities are shown on the homepage header.
City Selector levels – Control the level of selection offered to the users on the homepage.
Location Tracking Method – Select the location tracking method for the tracking location for the pinpoint functionality. Only change this if you are experiencing problems with the default service, i.e Freegeoip.
Homepage displays – Through this you can decide what the homepage will display. The “default city” option will show the classifieds of the default city. Default city can be set from the cities tab. With the “Ask to show nearest city” will show a strip at the top asking them to share their location. And the “Nearest city” will show the city nearest to them without the ability to stop the process.
Activate location Manager for – You can disable or enable location manager for each post type from here.
Track city visits (city logs) – To keep the track of visits of the users in each city. This will be useful in deciding the most popular cities of the site.
The country, state and cities tab will allow you to add and manage the countries, state and cities respectively. The City logs tab will allow you to track the visits on each city of the website.
The city logs
The city log will show how many times a city is selected and its listings are viewed. The report will show the city, state and the country name with the Total Count and view details. On clicking on views – the details of the city views will be shown. This includes the IP address and number of times the city is viewed from the IP address.
To turn on or off the city logs, navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Manage locations ⇨ and enable or disable the option Track city visits (city logs).
Map Shortcode
Use the below shortcode to display content (one or most post types) within a specific city. To create a page using this shortcode navigate to Pages ⇨ Add New and paste in the code.
[TCITY-DIRECTORYMAP cityid='1' post_type='listing' height='500'][/TCITY-DIRECTORYMAP] |
cityid – the ID of the city you want to show. The city ID is displayed when hovering over a city inside Manage Locations ⇨ Cities (tab). Screenshot.
post_type – enter the post type you want to show (e.g. Classifieds). To display multiple post types separate them with a comma. For example, to display listings and properties, enter the value like this: ‘events,posts,classifieds’.
height –set map height in pixels.
Bulk upload cities
If you do not wish to add the cities one by one, use the bulk upload option. Using the bulk upload feature, you will be able to insert a number of cities together using a CSV file.
Single-city mode
If you plan on using Classified theme for a single city only, deactivate the location manager plugin from wp-admin ⇨ plugins ⇨ Installed plugins. Don’t forget to replace your map widgets with “single city” map widgets. Without the Tevolution – Location Manager plugin, your URLs won’t have the /city/city_name slug within them.
If you do not require to display the Classifieds of multiple cities and only want to maintain a single city classifieds website, then disable the Location Manager plugin. This will enhance the performance and fetch noticeably faster results.
Managing Custom fields
With Directory theme you can add innumerable custom fields and manage them. These fields can be added to your forms and associated with the custom post types. To add/manage the custom field Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Custom fields.
Custom fields
First of all, you will need to select the post type in this tab. This will show a list of all the custom fields pertaining to that post type on the page. Hovering the custom field name will display an “edit” option. You can manage each custom field from here.
Refer this link for a detailed explaination on how to add or manage the custom fields.
User Profile fields
The user profile fields you can manage the fields a user will see on the registration and user profile management pages. These fields can be managed from here and new fields can be added as per the requirements. Refer this link for step by step setting up of user profile fields.
Post type
With this you can add and manage custom post types in your website.
When you create a new post type, the settings and configurations of the existing post type. Click here to know how you can create a custom post type
These are the articles to show how you can setup a custom submission form or a custom registration form with the Directory theme.
Monetization Options
The main characteristic of Directory and all of its child themes is its monetization facilities. With these options, you can charge your users for the classifieds they post on your website. With these ,you can set currency, create desired number of price packages, configure payment options. Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Monetization, to set up the pricing options in your website.
Currency
From here you can manage the currency of the website. Select a currency, that you want your users to make payment in. Enter the currency symbol and the currency code. Also set the basic currency settings, like position of currency symbol (prefix/suffix) and the specify the thousand and decimal separator and the number of decimals.
Price packages
With this option, you can create and configure number of price packages. You can offer different schemes for each package. These price packages will be shown to the users on the front end while submitting event. They can select the price package that suits them the best.
Free and multi-listing price options are available pre-installed with the Tevolution plugin. Click on Add a price package to create a new price package.
Clicking on the settings, will allow you to configure the payment package for use in your website.
Click here to learn how to configure the price package.
Payment gateways
To accept payment from the registered users, you will need to integrate payment gateways through which they can pay and you can receive the sum. This can be configured from this page.
The paypal and the pre bank transfer methods come pre-installed. Besides this, there are number of payment gateways compatible with Directory that you can integrate and use into your Classified website. All the payment gateways you integrate in your website will be listed into this page.
Clicking on the setting will open a page that allows you to configure the integrated payment option.
Managing transactions
With the user payments, it’s sure that you will have transactions in your website. This transactions can be managed at Tevolution ⇨ Transactions.
Click here to know more about Directory Transactions Management.
General page settings
Submission page settings
The submission page settings can be accessed at Tevolution ⇨ Settings ⇨ General settings ⇨ Submission page. From here you can define the default status for free/paid/expired status. Set the Terms and Conditions for submission and also specify how the categories will appear on the front end submission form. Click here to know how you can use this settings.
Category page settings
Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Settings ⇨ General settings ⇨ Category page to enable or disable the map on the category page. You can activate or deactivate the pinpoint functionality in your website from here. This setting also lets you specify the sort options for the items shown on category page.Click here to know how you can use the category page settings to setup your category page.
You can set to display city names inside the category title and page meta title from here . For example: Restaurants in New York.
Also you from here, you can change the color of the tags on the slider of images on the Home page of the Classified theme.
These are two additional settings specific for detail page of Classified child theme.
Detail page settings
Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ General Settings ⇨ Registration page for the detail page related settings. It will allow you to enable or disable the map tab on the detail page. Moreover it allows you to set the number of related posts to be shown on the detail page. Also you can enable disable social sharing, enable disable view counters,ratings on the posts from here. Click here to know the detail page settings in detail.
Registration page settings
Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ General Settings ⇨ Registration page, to set the options for the Registration page. From here you can set social logins details and set pages you want to show for registration, Login and Profile. Click here to get details of the registration page settings.
Map settings
Maps can be integrated into the Eventum website at various pages. Map variants are available according to the mode in which the theme is running (Single city mode with Tevolution Location Manager deactivated or Multi-city mode with Location Manager active.) From Tevolution ⇨ General Settings ⇨ Map Settings you can set the options for the maps on the website.
Click here to access the map setting options.
Captcha
To protect your website against spam, Captcha can be activated for your website. Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ General settings ⇨ Captcha. Refer this link to register for reCaptcha. Refer this guide to find out how you can configure the Captcha.
Classifieds Management
Classified is a theme that will allow you to create a full-fledged classifieds website in minutes. As an admin, you can add classifieds from the back end. You can also allow the users to submit their classifieds by registering on your website. To get started with the website, the first step is to create categories for the Classifieds.
Classifieds Categories
Classified categories are the types of the categories. While adding Classifieds (from the back-end or the front-end) you will need to select the category type for the classifieds. This facility is provided by integrating Classified add-on into the website. The categories can be added and managed at Dashboard ⇨ Classified categories.
Add Classifieds
Adding a new Classified into the website can be in two ways:
Adding Category from the front end
To add a category from backend navigate to Dashboard ⇨ Classifieds ⇨ Add Classified. A form will appear on the back end to add the Classified. Fill the relevant information and publish the category.
Adding Category from the back end
The front end users will be shown a form to add a classified by clicking on the “Post an ad” button. This page is auto-generated when you install the classified-add. In case you delete it, the page can be created by placing the “[submit_form post_type=’classified’]” short code into the page and naming it “Submit Classified”.
This form can be modified, you can manage the custom fields for the Classifieds. Navigate to Tevolution ⇨ Custom fields ⇨ Classified. From here add a new custom field according to the requirement or manage the existing ones.
How and where to moderate user submitted classifieds?
Once users submit classifieds, they will show up inside the Classifieds ⇨ Classifieds section. From there you can draft, publish or edit them. Another place from where you can manage them is Tevolution ⇨ Transactions. Use that section to bulk-confirm or bulk-deny transactions/listings.
To set the default status for submitted classifieds (publish/draft) head over to Tevolution ⇨ Settings ⇨ Submission Page ⇨ Default status for free/paid submissions.
Manage Classifieds
You can manage the classifieds at Dashboard ⇨ Classifieds. Here all the classifieds added from the backend as well as the front end will be listed.
Hover over the Classified title and the options will be visible. Click on the Quick edit option to open and set the basic options for the classifieds. Click on Edit to make major changes in the content of the Classified.
Manage Classified Pages
Home page
The homepage of your classifieds child theme is completely widgetized. So you can change it and organize the content on the homepage of your website with utmost ease. Each and every element of the classifieds homepage is editable.
1) The city selector drop-down : When your classified website is in multi-city mode(With the Tevolution Location manager on), this drop-down selector will be displayed. It will consist of the active cities for which the listings exists. So a visitor coming to your website can select the city right away.
2)Menu : This is the primary menu. To change it navigate to your Dashboard >> Appearance >> Menus. Select the primary menu and change the fields as per your requirements.
3) Logo: This is one of the most important part of your website, isn’t it? It is very easy to change the logo with your own logo. Navigate to your Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Site Logo.
If you want to display the name instead of using the logo image, you can remove the logo image and provide the site title. The text of site title will appear instead of the logo.
4) Search: This is a search bar through which the users can search your website. You can remove or re-configure this by navigating to Appearance >> Widgets >> Header >> T – Instant search widget.
5) The post an add button : This button appears with a code of button inserted into a text widget. This button will let your visitors navigate to the page from where they can submit their listing. You can access it at Appearance >> Widgets >> Header >> T – text.
6) Secondary menu (The main menu) : You can change or update this menu from Dashboard >> Appearance >> Menus. Select the secondary menu and amend it. Don’t forget to “Save menu” before leaving the page.
This menu is placed into the widget area “Mega menu Navigation”. You can change the look and behavior of this menu by Appearance >> Widgets >> Header >> jQuery Mega menu.
7) Popular Classifieds : This section can be used to show the features/most popular classifieds. This results are displayed by the T- Popular advertisement widget. You can reconfigure it by navigating to Appearance >> Widgets >> Above Homepage content >> T- Popular advertisement.
8) Categories : This section is designed to display the categories of your website with icons. The widget used is Navigation menu. To change it navigate to Appearance >> Widgets >>Homepage main content >> Navigation menu.
9) The sidebar : The sidebar contents come from the homepage sidebar widget area. You can change the widget content of this area to customize your sidebar. To change this, navigate to Appearance >> Widgets >> Homepage sidebar.
10) Browse categories : This section will show a hierarchical categories and sub-categories. You can make changes into this section through Appearance >> Widgets>> Homepage main content >> T- All Categories list.
11) The menu you see in the footer can be changed or removed easily. Navigate to the Menu section under Appearance. Select the footer menu. Navigate to the bottom of the page and uncheck the tick mark against footer at the theme locations.
You can change the footer text at Appearance >> Customize >> Footer.
The social media sharing icons displayed in the footer can be changed at Appearance >> Widgets >> Footer right>> T- social media.
Category page
The category page of the Classified directory theme is designed to show all the classified ads posted in the selected category. When the category name is clicked by the user the category page will show up. The design of category page can be very easily managed. Click here to know how you can manage each element of the category page.
Detail page
Detail page will show all the details entered by the classified owner while submitting the classified. The detail page will appear when you click on a classified name.Click here to know how you can setup each element of the Classified website’s detail page.
Frequently Asked Questions specific to Classifieds
How to edit/create category icons on the homepage?
- Go to Appearance ⇨ Menus and create a new custom menu by clicking on the “create a new menu” link.
- Add your parent Classifieds categories in this menu. If you can’t see your Classifieds categories inside the menu area click on the “Screen Options” button in the top right corner and enable them.
- With the menu items added, expand each individual item and edit the “Navigation Label” field.
- Insert a Font Awesome icon code before the text. For example:
<i class="fa fa-gamepad"></i>Video Games</li>
Available Font Awesome icons can be seen on the Font Awesome website. You can get the code for each icon just by clicking on it.
- With the menu created go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “Navigation Menu” widget into the “Homepage – Main Content” area. Make sure you select the correct menu inside the Navigation Menu widget.
Important note
You should use this menu/widget only for showcasing parent categories (or most popular categories in general). The menus section allows you to create a hierarchy among the menu items, but the widget won’t be able to display it (in the front-end).
How To Make The Missing Icons Appear
To make the icons appear on your website, please obtain and enter a Font Awesome key. You can do this from Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Font Awesome Setting.
How to add login, register and logout links to the secondary menu?
Install the Code Snippets plugin and add the following code inside a snippet.
add_filter('tmpl_logreg_links','tmpl_logreg_links_return');
function tmpl_logreg_links_return(){
return array('primary','secondary');
}
How to setup Classifieds so it looks like the demo site?
The quickest way to do this is to load the sample data from Appearance ⇨ Themes. Click on the big blue Insert sample data button to load the sample content. The content added to your site consists not only of listings, post and pages, but also widgets. Once you click on that sample data button your homepage should transform into one that looks very close to our demo.
Assuming you have the Classifieds add-on installed as well, activate the classifieds sample data from the wp-admin ⇨ Plugins section.
What is the perfect size for the logo?
The default logo size is 262×30 pixels. Ideally, that’s the size you should use for your own logo as well. However, the theme will work with smaller/larger logos as well.
How to set a custom background?
The background in Classifieds can be changed from the Appearance ⇨ Customize section. When you open the section, expand the Background Settings area, click on No Image and then on the select a file link. Locate an image on your hard drive and upload it. Once the upload is done tweak the available options (repeat, position, etc) and hit the Save & Publish button at the top.
Quick Tip: Use FullHD images (width = 1920px) for the background image. An image of that size should look good on the majority of screen sizes.
Directory Resources Page
We have an “all-in-one resource page” that will assist you to set up your Directory site. This page contains all the resources and information that you will possibly need while setting up the website. Click here to go to the resources page.
How do I show the latest ads on the home page?
Here is the detailed idea on this one for your reference: https://templatic.com/docs/display-widgets-latest-listings-homepage/?q=home%20page
How to show the premium ads on the home page?
You can use the featured options for this one. here is the detailed idea on the same: https://templatic.com/docs/featuring-listings-posts/?q=feature
Can I make the T – search to be able to search for a custom field?
Take a look at the following tutorial to get more details on this one: https://templatic.com/docs/search-features-wordpress-theme/?q=instant%20search