Hi @manfred-gallitz,
Sorry that you ran into issues here!
We have some great documentation that talks about how to setup and configure the plugin here:
http://awpcp.com/docs
And a quick-start guide for some common how to scenarios:
http://awpcp.com/quick-start-guide
I’d start with those.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or issues!
Thank you I got it started. Now several questions:
Is it possible to make the rows smaller, they are quite high?
Is it possible to hide the first column when you create a new ad? See image below because the first text will be present three times or can I rename the text (f.e. “Progress”) in the first column where you see the progress 1 to 4?
Can I reduce the Code for editing an ad (now: 6a689f0f196e52eb98f48040e4e28bb1)?
In the column Price field are only digits allowed. Can I complete the heading in this colums with this note?
Can I hide the columns owner because this is allways guest?
Do I Need the category Listings URL?
This so far I hope you can help me.
Manfred Gallitz
Hi Manfred,
Regarding many of your questions–AWPCP integrates with your theme as best it can, but when things aren’t exactly what you want, then you need to use custom CSS to correct it to your liking.
Here is an article about how to use custom CSS with AWPCP in a way that doesn’t get overwritten on upgrade of AWPCP: http://awpcp.com/forum/faq/how-to-use-custom-styles-with-awpcp/
That should handle your row and hiding column questions–that can be done via custom CSS, although when you’re hiding columns, you have to be careful that data is not required for the user to enter. If it is, then you can change some of those fields (but not all) under Classifieds->Settings, Form tab.
Regarding other questions:
Can I reduce the Code for editing an ad (now: 6a689f0f196e52eb98f48040e4e28bb1)?
No, this is an auto-generated key that is used to access the ad and making it shorter makes it less secure. If you don’t want users to have to use a key, then require registration for placing ads and they don’t need a key at all.
In the column Price field are only digits allowed. Can I complete the heading in this colums with this note?
Right now, you can only put text in the label for that. We don’t have a “description” area to allow for that under the price field.
Can I hide the columns owner because this is allways guest?
I presume you mean “Ad Owner” field in the Place Ad screen. This only appears when you are the admin placing an ad. Users do NOT see this when placing a listing.
Do I Need the category Listings URL?
I’m not sure I understand this question here–can you clarify what you mean? Listings must have a category associated with them, always. But I don’t think that’s what you meant…
Please let me know.
Thank you for everything, in the meanwhile I found out a several possibilities to change the frontend layout with the program POEDIT, that works very fine and easy.
So all questions are solved without the problem of he height of the rows in the ads.
I created a file awpcp_custom_styleshett.css and put it in the wp-content/plugins folder, but I really dont no what do put exact in this file.
Below the content of the file what I did, I looked for an example in the internet but nothing happens .
What I want to is to make the rows smaller, that means at the moment there are for example 200px high and the font is really big.
Can you tell me what I have to put in exactly in this file so that the row has only 50% oft he actual size? When I look at your site “http://awpcp.com/classifieds/browse-ads/” this is what I want.
I also tried to install the Firefox Plugin Firebug but that was no help.
What I just saw is that the symbols in front of the text “show ad page” or “search ad
page” that looks OK on your site, in our site the symbol covers the first letter. How can I solve this?
.Tab400 {
height: 400px;
background-color: #FAFAFA;
border: 1px solid #9F9F9F;
border-collapse: separate;
}
.Hoehe100 td {
height: 100px;
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #BF00BF;
padding: 10px;
text-align: center;
font-weight: normal;
}
