Shortys for ClassiPress
A tool for sorting your ads, SEO and targeted advertisements.
Have you ever wanted to change how your users browse your site? Create pages with unique content, and targeted advertisements?
And do that with the ease of shortcodes, that you create instantly, yourself?
With Shortys you can!
1. Create custom made pages with the ads you selected using shortcodes
Organize your ads by:
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- City
- Region
- State
- City & Country
- Price
- Date, date ranges(!)
- Ad status (featured / sold)
- Ad category & Status
- Ad tag
- Authors
- All custom fields!!!!
Shortcode Builder
To help you build shortcodes, Shortys provides a simple to use Shortcode Builder so you can build your own shortcodes instantly!
2. Huge SEO help, control the title, the permalink(url), the description for your pages
Hummingbird and Useful Content
The Panda asked us to provide unique content. What makes content unique? A big part of it is originality. Original content that offers a creative and interesting read for traffic and engages the reader to the point that they want to share it was the goal. Now Hummingbird want us to change that thinking just a little bit by broadening our aim to include content that is useful. (The more useful, the better.) The five things that we should take out of the release of Hummingbird are as follows:
- Content
- Long tail keywords
- Useful information
- Increased Entrance Portals
- Continued SEO
3. Make your site unique and control what Google indexes
ClassiPress by default adds in every category page the ‘ad-category’ link so eventually your menu categories have this structure:
http://example.com/ads-category/restaurants
With Shortys you can get rid of it and create your own menu links
http://example.com/restaurants
You can change it to anything you like and do that for all the pages you create to organize and promote your ads!
Examples:
Shortys with WordPress SEO plugin.
Create a page with ads from 2 users
Create a page with ads priced between 1000$ and 10000$
4. Place your banners, links text in every page
Additional benefits:
- Using the Shortys Builder you can create any shortcode you can imagine.
- Compatible with most child themes.So far we haven’t found any child theme that does not work with Shortys.
How does it work?
Shortys creates a custom wp_query via a shortcode. It accepts most of the parameter available in WP_Query
Example #1:
I want to filter all ads from New York and display them in a page.
1. Create a page and add this shortcode
[cp_shc meta_key="cp_state" meta_value="new york"]
2. Select the plugin’s template and save, that’s it!
Example #2:
I want a page with all ads with prices ranging from 200$ to 500$
1. Create a page and add this shortcode
[cp_shc meta_key="cp_price" meta_value="200,500" meta_compare=">="]
2. Select the plugin’s template and save.
Example #3:
I want a page with all featured ads of user Dimitris and Sebet
1. Create a page and add this shortcode
[cp_shc author__in=”2,3″ featured=”yes”]
2. Select the plugin’s template and save.
Example #4:
I want a page with all featured ads of user Dimitris and Sebet in category Autos
1. Create a page and add this shortcode
[cp_shc author__in=”1,6″ featured=”yes” taxonomy=”ad_cat” terms=”auto” terms_operator=”IN”]
2. Select the plugin’s template and save.
Check the demo for more examples : )
3. Where can i use the pages?
In your menus or your sidebar using the ‘custom menu’ widget.
4. Can i use it with my custom fields?
Absolutely!
Example:
You have a custom field ‘color’ which is a dropdown with 3 values and you want a page to show all ads that have the color ‘blue’.
[cp_shc meta_key="cp_color" meta_value="blue"]
Manual Installation:
- Download the Plugin zip file
- Open WP Admin dashboard -> Plugins -> Add new -> Upload
- Upload and activate the Plugin from the Plugins page.
- Shorty’s will be available from Classipress’s menu
http://forums.appthemes.com/shortys-classipress/
1.3.1
Changes:
- Security and performance fixes (update is highly recommended!)
- Calendar popup being displayed on the builder page footer
1.3
Changes:
- Added support for listing and widget templates
- Display Shortys custom page template on the quick edit panel
Fixes:
- Added ‘esc_url()’ to ‘add_query_arg()’ calls to fix WP vulnerability
1.2
Changes:
- Added support for meta type in custom fields
1.1
Fixes:
- Changing ClassiPress menu name causing JS/CSS issues
- Parse error with PHP versions prior to 5.3
- Content added before the shortcode showing after the shortcode output
- Display only non-featured ads param being ignored
- Pagination when using a static page with shortcodes as the front page
Changes:
- Use a shortcode page as your front page
- Use <input> as the shortcode placeholder to avoid pasting shortcodes with CSS styles attached
Comments (83)
Hi,
The plugin is compatible with the current version of ClassiPress ?
Hello,
I bought the plugine and is giving the error ” Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted ( tried to allocate 8388608 bytes) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line 896 ” on the ” Shortys :: Builder ” . Need help.
The version of My ClassiPress is 3.5.1 .
Marcos, we’ve replied to your related post on the support forum. This seems to be related to the very large number of users on your database.
Quando será a atualização para classipress 3.5.4?
@wzoj, Shortys is already compatible with ClassiPress 3.5.4.
Hello
Your Plugin isn’t compatible with 3.5.7?
Cause it crashes my page.
Hi kbieri, we have no reports with problems.If you have any issues, please open a ticket in the forums to assist you.
Thank you.
hi
i have a pre order question
deos this plugin allows to have advanced search options for specific categories, for instance search by price range or by brand (for cars) ?
thank you for your help
hi i m following all the step but when i look to choose the provided template to select Shortys Page Template , the Shortys Page Template it is not on the list how i can fix that
@Bridge, with Shortys you can create multiple pages with specific content using simple shortcodes. For example, you could have a couple of pages for specific price ranges and then create a menu option called ‘Price Range’ that links to those pages.
Shortys does not provide any search options that ClassiPress doesn’t already provide. It does allow you to have content filtered and organised to your specific needs and your customers.
@oachour, please see this post: http://forums.appthemes.com/shortys-classipress/fix-custom-shortys-template-not-95670/#post401346, on the support forum.
thanks Bruno Carreço , now it is work fine
looks interesting. But…the demo site is not working….
Thanks.
hi looks good, are you still developing this, would hate to dive into something and dev ends etc.
Hi Franky, the plugin works with the current version of ClassiPress.We still support it, if you are worried about support 🙂
Thanks
Hi … do we need to use the shortcode template only as shown in your videos ?
Actually I was looking for something that can create shortcodes that I can use anywhere in my blog posts or even in existing pages without changing the template.
Hi, you can use the shortcode without changing the page template if you like. The page template is used for the layout of the page and style ( CSS ) only. If you do not use it you may need to add CSS.
Thanks. Is there a live demo available to check how it would work in a default page template
The plugin is compatible with the current version of ClassiPress 4.1.3?