Shortys for Vantage
A tool for Sorting your Listings, 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:
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 (this is the permalinks of your pages/site)
- Useful information
- Increased Entrance Portals (this is the pages, more pages more entrance portals)
- Continued SEO
3. Make your site unique and control what Google indexes
Vantage by default adds in every category page the ‘listings/category’ link so eventually your menu categories have this structure:
http://example.com/listings/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:
Create a page with featured listings from 2 users
Create a page listings 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 a page with claimable listings only.
1. Create a page and add this shortcode
[va_shc meta_key=”listing_claimable” meta_value=”1″ meta_type=”CHAR”]
2. Select the plugin’s template and save, that’s it!
Example #2:
I want a page with listings posted on June.
1. Create a page and add this shortcode
[va_shc date_span=”month” date_compare=”=” date_span_num=”6″]
2. Select the plugin’s template and save.
Check the channel 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!
5.Is it compatible with my child theme?
Our tests show that it is but we cannot guarantee it for every child theme available.
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 the Vantage menu.
http://forums.appthemes.com/shortys-vantage/
1.2.1
Fixes:
- Security and performance fixes (update is highly recommended!)
Changes:
- Keywords search improvements
1.2
Fixes:
- Incompatibility with Vantage 3.0
Changes:
- Add radius support.You can create shortcodes now based on location and radius
1.1
Fixes:
- Week number not working correctly
- Events sorting
- Date picker being displayed immediately after clicking the ‘date’ checkbox, on the Builder page
- Other minor fixes
Changes:
- Display additional custom fields for events (allows selecting event date, location and/or attendees)
- Introduce About page
4 reviews of “Shortys for Vantage”
This plugin is really good, also the support is excellent, im using bfinder and the developer helped me to integrate my site.
My new created pages using this plugin are ranking extremely well in google, gives me the hability to target some specific niches, wich is great, so this is a very good plugin i recommend it 100%
Hello,
I realized an update Vantage (last version) and WP when I Shortys active Vantage, I get a blank page. Is your plugin works with these versions, I’m very bothered
@francois974, can you please give more details on this issue? Please use the support forum so we can help you further: http://forums.appthemes.com/shortys-vantage/
Guys,
This plugin is a must have, seriously. Ok I got it early on as I ahve it also for Classipress, and built pages that targeted what people are looking for in search. The pages rank extremely well. You cna quickly target a myriad of long tail phrases. Ad the plugin is easy to use, you can quickly upskill an outsourced worker to use it. I would highly recommend it.
Gmac
Could use a few more options such as short-code for single listing based on listing ID. But it is worth $29
Comments (37)
Hi sebet,
A couple questions.
In my case, is it possible to search for plumbers, in San Francisco and within a certain radius, I.E 5, 10, 20 miles?
Can I add an image on a per city basis in the section that reads ” You can add your page description here, you can include images, links and banners”
http://simplesteps.gr/sort/vdemo/by-city/
I would like to offer per city ad spots if possible.
Hi @tbase!
Right now, it’s not possible to specify the radius in the shortcode but it’s something that we’ll be adding soon.
Yes, you can add ads on a per city basis. Each location shortcode can be added to it’s own page meaning that you can make each page unique.
Once that radius function is included – let me know – than it’s a must have.
But myself still waiting for a plugin (Vantage / Classipress/ Jobroller 7 aso) which allows to display radius based 125×125 times 4 banners based of search areas
with radius – so localized banners could be shown – in this case local based alternatives might be shown in sidebar as feature ?!!
regards,
Enrique
Thanks for the feedback, i opened a thread for suggestions and ideas, if you don’t mind please post your idea there to review it.
Thanks.
what does this sort? doesn’t vantage already include listing sort functionality?
Yes it does but in a traditional way, Shortys allows you to query your database (listings) and create pages only with the listings you need.So for example you can pull from the database all featured listings in a category A and present these listings in a page you created.You can check the demos of course to get a better idea.
Do you support multi-site?
@earthbliss, yes, multi-site is supported.
is it possible to use this plugin for clipper?if no are you planing to create one of this for clipper?
Not sure yet to be frank : )
what is the value for current logged in user? i assume it has to go into author=
i am trying to display events created by logged in user (just like “my events” that can be selected from dashboard)
Hello,
Your login in the demo does not work with demo / demo.
Thank you
Bodo
Sorry about that, i will fix this during the day, please try again tomorrow to be sure.
Thanks for the heads up!
Please try again now with
username: dimitris
password: demo
after you login you will need to add the ‘wp-admin’ at the end of the url like so:
http://simplesteps.gr/sort/vdemo/wp-admin
The builder is in the tools page.
is it possible;e to create a RSS feed from shorty?
@tradeamillion, apologies for the late reply.
No. Shortys does not provide an RSS feed. It would need some custom development to add it.
hi,
what is the handle for that files
shortys-for-vantage/includes/js/scripts.js
http://forums.appthemes.com/shortys-vantage/shortys-vantage-includes-javascript-scripts-90743/
didn t work, shorty is the only plugin i cannot deregister style or js
function my_deregister_styles() {
wp_deregister_style( ‘va_shc-custom’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘my_deregister_styles’, 100 );
function my_deregister_javascript() {
wp_deregister_script( ‘va_shc-custom’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘my_deregister_javascript’, 100 );
I have a problem – the images overlay the profile name not only for mobile option – http://siga-siga.com.cy/nursery-schools-and-kindergartens-in-larnaca/
I have written on forum.
Do you have support?
How can I make thumbnails invisible and lift to the left main description as I did for listings?
And one more problem even more serious, option – next page doesnt work at all for shortys page http://siga-siga.com.cy/paphos-restaurants-cafes-bars-and-pubs/
Bruno! Question…
As you may be aware, Google will index just about any link it can find with Vantage. Much of the links indexed in Google are duplicates. Anything from “orderby” parameters to user dashboards, you name it . I’m looking for a solution (plugin) to help me clean up this mess. I want some control over what is indexed and what isn’t. I’d also like local based pages (cities) to be indexed vs dynamic strings (?=isthis&that) but rather example.com/this/that/.
Being a local directory, I’m finding it not 100% local friendly for search engines. I will say this, the site indexed in 24 hours and indexed 12 links. 6 of those links are duplicates. I don’t want to get slapped by panda or hummingbird. Will this plugin help me?
@joggly
This has little to nothing to do with Shortys, there are some settings in GWT to prevent duplicates when using orderby.I propose you google a little about GWT and how it can help you with indexing and crawling.
Hi, is still active this??
https://plus.google.com/+Appthemes/posts/HajKXy2F5ep
@guiadelamujer, unfortunately it’s not longer valid. That link relates to an old promotion.
Hi, im using vantage with bfinder child theme
I want to know if could work with this child theme, bfinder from spartac
Best regards
Hi i just Bought your plugin SHORTYS for vantage
the thing is, im using bfinder child theme for vantage, and the featured ads doesnt look well with your plugin
This is an example of a page of mine using SHORTYS
http://guiadelamujer.com.mx/colegios-preescolar-en-guadalajara/
as you can see the featured ad looks bad
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my site is guiadelamujer.com.mx
you sent me this before
Hello again Joaquin,
Shortys for Vantage should work fine with any child theme. If you have any issues please report it in the support forum and we’ll help you fix it.
Thanks for your interest.
Kind Regards,
@guiadelamujer, I’ve replied to your email. Please use the support forum for further discussion of this issue. It’s easier to give you support if the discussion is centered in one place.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot Bruno, it is working great
Hello, does it work with vantage 4?
Hi Wibowo,
Shortys works with V3 at the moment, it needs updating to work with V4
Dimitris / Bruno
I see on the forums Dimitris’ arrangement with Appthemes ceased in feb. (big loss for them) but what’s that mean for Shortys?
Are you guys developing for V4 and selling?
It’s a great plugin!
– michael
Thanks for the kind words Michael.
At this time we don’t have plans to port the plugin to Vantage v.4.0.
Why not? This really sucks.
Hello buddy, ths should work on vantage 4, please let me know if it will
I am sorry but V4 is not supported.
Quando teremos a versão atualizada do plugin para a versão 4 do vantage?