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This is a theme width issue. Car Demon uses hard widths for some of its pieces. You need to go into the themes Style sheet and add

.car_side_bar {
float: left;
width: 300px;
padding-left: 40px;
}

Not seeing any install of Car Demon on your page…

I totally understand as the last 2 weeks I have been buried. I sent you an email. Would love to discuss the plugin with you as there are some features I have put together that I’d hate to see go away.

My biggest worry right now is you put out a release and my client hits update. YIKES that would be scary to lose everything!

Hey BrickLayer, as far as I can tell the developer hasn’t been around for 6 months.

I solved the issue. I instead worked around the limitations I was having and used the default search.php and themed it’s output. I then added in functionality to have the default search look into the meta values so that stock number, vin, color, etc could be pulled.

Most web hosts can help you out with purchasing and installing an SSL. Personally I am not a fan of iframing in forms from other services. Especially if you are wanting a secure form host I imagine it will be a pay service. Might as well just spend the $50/year and have SSL installed on the site.

I have built multiple dealership sites now and use Contact Form 7 on all of them for applications with an SSL installed.

Sounds like your theme has set the main DIV (where car demon content is) too wide due to using the default theme files.

The way to correct this is to copy the single-cars_for_sale.php from the Theme Files folder into your Theme’s folder.

Under the Appearances Menu you can edit this “single-” file to make it work within your theme.

Without seeing your theme’s files I can’t tell you what to cut and paste. Whats the link to your site again? You can fake it with some CSS code, but modifying the “single-” file is the correct way to go about it.

Like I’ve said I am not the developer so my perspective might be a little different.

Car Demo is great for its inventory system. Personally I don’t use it for anything else. Especially something as simple as a form.

You might look into ContactForm7 plugin. You can create whatever fields you need and have them emailed wherever you want. If you want the form displayed next to each vehicle insert it in the sidebar. You can have it auto populate certain fields as well.

Hey Marc, did you get this resolved? Looks like a theme conflict. What is the site URL you are building on?

Hey Rusty, I looked at your page and used the search widget. It didn’t hang up for me and functioned properly. Did you correct this yourself?

Glad it all worked out for you! This plugin is pretty fantastic.

There are two sides to the label issue. There are the labels your client sees when they are inputting their inventory and there are the labels the customers see when they view the website.

You can modify the theme templates to make the information display on the page with whatever label you want for the customer. You can also hide any information you don’t want displayed due to it being inapplicable.

If you want to change the labels and fields for the client on the admin side you’ll need to modify the core files of the plugin. To give you a direction give me more info on which ones you are wanting to modify. There are custom fields and then their is the Meta Box (features, etc).

I am unsure as to what you are trying to do. From what I understand you just need to inset a menu item to that link.

IF all you’re wanting to do is to remove the sidebar than copy the single-cars_for_sale.php into your theme directory.

If you have a “full width” page template copy the section above the content and below the content. Make your single-cars_for_sale.php match.

As I type that out it doesn’t seem easy to follow. It’s hard to give you exact lines to copy though without knowing the theme. Is it a Cherry Framework theme by any chance?

I am not the developer but maybe I can help. There aren’t many responses in here lately.

The plugin creates its own inventory page.

https://www.YOURSITE.com/cars_for_sale

The plugin then also uses taxonomy so you can display cars by certain filters.

https://www.YOURSITE.com/condition/used

https://www.YOURSITE.com/make/dodge

https://www.YOURSITE.com/model/challenger

https://www.YOURSITE.com/body_style/sedan

Hope this helps!