This tab represents most of the settings revolving around the ads themselves. It is comprised of three main sub-sections:
- Moderation
- Notifications
- SEO
Moderation
This section controls how you want to handle ads after items are posted. You can do the following here:
- Only admin can post ads: Prevents the Place Ad link from working and displaying. Only you (admin) can post anything.
- Disable listings until administrator approves: New Ads will be in a disabled status, not visible to visitors, until the administrator approves them.
- Disable listings until administrator approves modifications: Listings will be in a disabled status after the owners modifies them and until the administrator approves them.
- Enable paid ads that are pending payment: Enable paid ads that are pending payment.
- Have non-registered users verify the email address used to post new Ads: A message with an email verification link will be sent to the email address used in the contact information. New Ads will remain disabled until the user clicks the verification link.
- Number of days before the verification email is sent again: default is 5
- Number of days before Ads that remain in a unverified status will be deleted: default is 30
- Awaiting approval message: This field can be customized. Default text: "All ads must first be approved by the administrator before they are activated in the system. As soon as an admin has approved your ad it will become visible in the system. Thank you for your business." This message is shown to users right after they post an Ad, if that Ad is awaiting approval from the administrator. The message may also be included in email notifications sent when a new Ad is posted.
- Allowed domains in Ad poster email: Only email addresses with a domain in the list above will be allowed. *.foo.com will match a.foo.com, b.foo.com, etc. but foo.com will match foo.com only. Please type one domain per line.
- Duration of listings in free mode (in days): default is 0. The end date for listings posted in free mode will be calculated using the value in this field. You can enter 0 to keep listings enabled for 10 years.
- Delete expired ads: Check to delete ads after the number of days configured in the next setting have passed since the ads were marked as expired. If not checked, ads will continue to be stored in the system but won't be visible in the frontend. They'll remain disabled.
- Number of days before expired listings are deleted: If the Delete expired ads setting is checked, the ads will be permanently deleted from the system after the number of days configured in this field have passed since each ad was marked as expired.
- Allow users to edit the start date of their listings?
- Hide images until admin approves them. If you would prefer to moderate ads with images to verify content before displaying it, check this box. You will then need to approve the ad in the Listings view.
Notifications
User Notifications
Users can be notified of:
- Posted ads
- Expired ads
- Expiring ads (giving them a chance to renew). You can set the threshold when you want these renew emails to go out in days.
Listing Created | |
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Listing Edited | An email will be sent when a listing is edited. |
Listing Enabled | Notify Ad owner when the Ad is enabled. |
Listing Needs to be Renewed | An email will be sent to remind the user to Renew the Ad when the Ad is about to expire. |
When should AWPCP send the expiration notice? | Enter the number of days before the ad expires to send the email. |
Listing Expired | An email will be sent when the Ad expires. |
Moderator Notifications
Listing Created | |
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Listing Edited | |
Listing Awaiting Approval | An email will be sent to moderator users every time a listing needs to be approved. |
Admin Notifications
This section represents what kind of email notices you want sent out with AWPCP. You (the admin) can be notified of the following:
Listing Created | An email will be sent when a listing is created. |
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Listing Expired | An email will be sent when the Ad expires. |
Listing Edited | |
Listing Renewed | |
Listing Awaiting Approval | |
Listing Was Flagged | |
New media was uploaded |
SEO
Search Engine Friendly URLs
If you want to use URLs of the form /something/like/this instead of /something?like=this, which Google prefers, then you need to check this option AND set a non-default permalink option (we suggest /%category%/%postname%/, but anything that isn’t one of the defaults will do nicely)
Turn on Search Engine Friendly URLs | Turn on Search Engine Friendly URLs? (SEO Mode) |
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Redirection
Redirect deleted listings | Perform a 301 redirect to the main classifieds page when landing on a deleted listing url. |
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Window Title
These settings affect the title shown in the title bar of the browser for the listing. You can include or remove certain elements if you wish.
Window title separator | The character to use to separate ad details used in browser page title. Example: | / - |
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Show city in window title | Show city in browser page title when viewing individual Ad |
Show state in window title | Show state in browser page title when viewing individual Ad |
Show country in window title | Show country in browser page title when viewing individual Ad |
Show county/village/other in window title | Show county/village/other setting in browser page title when viewing individual Ad |
Show category in title | Show category in browser page title when viewing individual Ad |
Listing URL
These settings affect the URL path shown for listings. You can include or remove elements for SEO purposes.
Example path: /my-awpcp/classifieds/id/listing-title/city/state/category
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Display listings on their own page | Enable this setting to display each listing on its own page, instead of showing the listing's content inside the Show Ad page. |
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Listings slug |
Portion of the URL that appears between the website's domain and the listing's information. Example: classifieds in https://example.com/classifieds/id/listing-title/city/state/category/ . |
Include the slug of the plugin's main page in the listing URL | |
Include the title in the listing URL | |
Include the name of the category in the listing URL | |
Include the name of the country in the listing URL | |
Include the name of the state in the listing URL | |
Include the name of the city in the listing URL | |
Include the name of the county in the listing URL |