10 Suggestions for Improvment
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Nice plugin. Liking it so far. There are many rooms for improvement, though.
A few suggestions if you don’t mind.
1. Option to display contact form only to login user. Log out user will see a message, “Login or register to contact the seller.”
2. In addition to the “Browse” and “Manage” submenu under the Profile listing page, add an “Add” submenu for the user to easily and quickly add another ad.
3. Add the “Listings” and its submenu to the Profile dropdown menu that is available in BuddyPress for the user to easily access them.
4. Place Advert CSS stylesheet before WP’s or Theme’s Custom CSS to let Custom CSS override Advert CSS without having to add “!important” to every rule.
5. Option to add a default image for ads without an image.
6. Option to set the main display image (image in the listing/search view) for ads with multiple images.
7. Include an “Add” or “Post” button on the main listing page to make it easy for the user to add an ad at any time.
8. Give the option to filter items by category name in the main listing page.
9. Give an option to change the slug for the item page. Right now it defaults to /adverts/item-name. Notice you have this option for the BuddyPress Integration when viewing them under the user’s Profile section.
10. Option to require an image for each ad.Thank you, that is all I have for now. I might have more once I use it longer.
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Actually, let me take that back. It works for the item page, but now my main page /classified/ is not loading. It says err_too_many_redirects.
The trick is to name the main slug to /classifieds/ when editing it in Page.
So it looks like this:
Main Page: https://example.com/classifieds/
Item Page: https://example.com/classified/item-name (note, the “s” is removed)I have a quick fix for my #1 above (show Send Private Message only to logged in users). For a site with the BuddyPress Integration addon installed.
Add this to the theme functions.php
/* check if user is log in or not */
function ajax_check_user_logged_in() {
echo is_user_logged_in()?’yes’:’no’;
die();
}
add_action(‘wp_ajax_is_user_logged_in’, ‘ajax_check_user_logged_in’);
add_action(‘wp_ajax_nopriv_is_user_logged_in’, ‘ajax_check_user_logged_in’);Add this to your theme custom JS
var data = {
action: ‘is_user_logged_in’
};
jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) {
if(response == ‘no’) {
$(‘<p>You need to log in or create an account to contact the seller</p>’).appendTo(‘.adverts-single-actions’);
} else {
$(‘.adverts-single-actions’).hide();
}
});Add this to your theme custom CSS. BB Integration adds a Send Private Message button so I hid the Send Message button and the Contact Form altogether.
.adverts-single-actions {
display:block !important;
}
.adverts-show-contact-form, .adverts-contact-box {
display:none !important;
}Greg,
I found a bug. Not sure if it’s your plugin or not. When I private message another member through the Member page, the name of the user and their picture show up next to the Send input field, but when I private message through your item page, the username and picture are not there, and I can’t send the message because it says user was emptied.
Update: It’s not your plugin. I changed my nicename to something else after I posted the ad. I edit the URL to my new nicename and the username and picture showed up.
Greg, actually it is your plugin. I was able to private message through the Profile page but not on your item page. Through the profile page, it recognizes my correct username (nicename that appears on the URL), but on your item page it detects the login name. It’s not a big deal right now, but just letting you know WP core was able to recognize the correct one.
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