ClassiPress – WordPress theme for classifieds

It is amazing what can be done with WordPress anymore. With new themes, designs, and uses popping up every day the options for nearly any type of site are endless.

If you have ever wanted to create a system for classified ads, then I would highly recommend that you look into ClassiPress. This premium WordPress theme offers you the ability to turn WordPress into a classifieds ad site that looks great as well as providing all of the features that you would need to offer classifieds as a section on your site, blog, or even as a stand-alone website.

ClassiPress: Live Demo & Website

I have seen several different themes and options that are available out there for creating a classifieds site or section and this one seems to stand head and shoulders above the rest. Although it is a premium (paid) theme for WordPress, the functionality, aesthetics, time, and money it will save you trying to develop your own solution, is well worth it.

Understand that this is not just a plugin, this is a full-blown WordPress theme that allows you to offer and accept payment for classifieds for your site. There are so many variables and necessary elements in offering classified ads, that a plugin would not meet your needs when trying to offer your visitors a classified ad.

ClassiPress is ideal for anyone that has the desire to sell (or offer for free) classified ads online. It is robust and offers technical support, along with having tons of different options and features that make the price very, very reasonable. Seriously, this is THE WordPress theme if you are wanting to offer classifieds online.

Let’s go over some of the features that are offered with ClassiPress, there are an amazing number of ways that you can customize the theme to either integrate it with your current site or give it your own unique design and features:

ClassiPress Features

Payments & Pricing Options

PayPal Integration – ClassiPress is built with PayPal integrated right into the theme. This allows you to charge a fee for anyone who wants to post a classified ad on your site (or turn it off and offer free ads).
Accept 18 Different Currencies – Sell classified ads using almost any currency in the world. With PayPal as the payment processor, it is easy to accept payment from anywhere in the world.
PayPal Sandbox Mode – Test your PayPal account and process dummy payments before opening your site for business, so you can be sure that everything is going to run smoothly.
Category-Level Pricing – You can set individual prices for each category with no limitations and you can also have free categories if you wish.
Percentage-Based Pricing – Some people prefer to charge based on a fixed percentage, with ClassiPress you can offer this. The ad will be based off what price the seller is listing their product for (the percentage that you set). This is a great money-making feature.
Featured Ad Option – Charge an extra amount so customers will be highlighted in yellow and listed at the top of your home page. This uses the built-in WordPress sticky option.

Admin Area

Options Page – You get five option pages to give you more control.
Email Notification System – Receive an email when a new ad has been created and every time a payment has been made.
Widgetized Sidebar – If you’re not good with coding, this is great for you. Easily ad or remove widgets from the sidebar without having to touch any code.

Design

5 Color Schemes – Blue, green, pink, red, and classic colors. Change the scheme from an options page drop-down which means no need to have to touch any code.
New Icons – Allow visitors to quickly know what items represent.
Themed Login Page -No more need for themed login plugins since it’s now built into ClassiPress. The login, register, and forgot password pages are automatically styled with whatever ClassiPress color scheme you’re currently using and will give your customers a seamless experience across your site.
Header – You can find links to your pages, login, dashboard, site logo, and a 468×60 banner spot all organized at the top of your site.
Custom Logo – If you’ve got your own site logo it’s easy to include it without editing the code. Just paste your image URL in a box and it will replace the default ClassiPress logo. If you don’t have a logo, you can switch this feature off and just use the default WordPress text listing.

Posting Ads

Embed Video – Your customers can include videos in their classified ads. ClassiPress supports YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Vimeo or any site that provides “embed” code.
Ad Editing – Your customers can now edit/pause their own ads from a custom page without ever having to see your WordPress back admin area. Not only does this provide better security, it makes your site look much more professional and provides for a seamless transition.
Instant Image Uploading – No more having to wait for customers to email you their images before posting the ad. Your customers can attached multiple images directly to the ad submission form.
Image Manager – Easily see what images have been uploaded and moderate as needed.
Customer Dashboard – Your customers have one place where they can login and view, edit, and pause all their ads. Again, no need for them to access your WordPress admin area. It’s easy for them to see the status of each one of their ads line by line.
URL Field – Allow your customers to include a URL within their ad post. An ad form field called “URL” is on the ad submission form.
Customer Profile Page – Make your site more interactive and personal with customer profiles. Now any registered customer can update their own info, change password, upload a picture, and many other options. Anyone viewing their ad can click on the authors name to see their profile page. This feature leverages the WordPress author page functionality without providing access to your WordPress admin area.
Updated Image Viewer – ClassiPress uses Fancybox for viewing images within each ad. This is a smoother and preferred image viewer and also uses jQuery.
Countdown Timer – This shows the remaining time left for each ad before it gets pulled down. If you don’t want your ads to be removed, this will not show up.
Google Maps – See exactly where each ad listing is physically located. This feature utilizes the Google Maps API so each ad will show a map of the item location. Accurate down to the street number.
Auto Expire Ads – Automatically prune ads older than “x” amount of days. Makes it easier to set an ad price based on a specific time limit.
Seller Contact Form – Visitors can easily contact sellers right from your Web the site. The Ajax-driven contact form is neatly built into each individual ad page.
Integrated Login Box – Sellers can quickly login to post new ads right from your Web site header (optional).
Report Bad Listings – Visitors can report spam or inappropriate ads on your site. You will be notified by email when this occurs. This will help save you a lot of time and energy keeping your classifieds site clean.
Column Sorting – Now you can sort your listings by either ascending or descending. This allows your customers to quickly order the ads without having to browse through multiple pages.

Screenshot: Customer submit form

SEO & Sharing

Breadcrumb Navigation – See exactly how deep you are on a page with detailed navigation links, which is great for SEO.
Email and Print – You can now easily have your visitors print and/or email the classified ads by simply clicking a link.
Tags - Each classified ad supports multiple native WordPress tagging for improved organization and searching.
SEO-Friendly - ClassiPress was built with SEO in mind, so that you can get the most results from your site.
RSS Feed – Visitors can subscribe to an RSS feed and instantly see your latest classifieds.

Screenshot: Navigation breadcrumbs

Tracking & Statistics

Ad Visitor Counter – Shows how many daily and all-time visitors that have visited each specific classified ad.
Feedburner Support – The options page includes a field so you can instantly add your Feedburner URL.
Google Analytics – No need for a plugin. Just paste in your Google Analytics code and you’ll start tracking visitor behavior within seconds.
AdSense Support – Make some additional advertising revenue with Google AdSense. Just paste in your ad code and it will appear on each classified ad.

Categories & Pages

Subcategory Support – ClassiPress supports nested categories for those who are looking for deeper listing capability.
Categories – The category hierarchy supports multiple dropdown sub-categories. You can setup categories five levels deep without the need for custom styling.
Sub-Level Pages – If you have multiple pages on your site, you’ll need a neat and clean way to organize them. The theme supports two levels of drop-down navigation for the header pages.

Cool Extras

Language Support – ClassiPress supports nearly every language in the world. It uses the standard WordPress localization framework called GNU gettext. There are already several translation packs available today for free. Alternatively, you can easily localize the included .POT file and change ClassiPress into your native language. No editing the code required.
Advertising Plugin – Create additional revenue on your Web site by using the optional advertising plugin.
Slick Ad Form – Multi-step ad form with validation and very easy to add additional fields. It uses jQuery and Thickbox so it’s compliant with WordPress’ standards.
468×60 Banner Spot – Sell advertising on your classified ads site or just put your own affiliate marketing banner there instead. This is easily managed from within the ClassiPress admin pages without having to touch the theme code. If you don’t want to advertise at all, you can simply disable this feature.
jQuery Updates – ClassiPress has replaced the old prototype and scriptaculous with jquery which is fast becoming the industry standard in WordPress scripting. Now you’ll have a much easier time adding new plugins or building your own actions on top of just one scripting language.

Screenshot: Individual listings

As you can see, there has been a lot of thought and effort that has gone into creating this theme that makes it very easy and flexible for you to get your own classifieds site up and running. For the price and features, you really can’t beat it.

ClassiPress Pricing

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