Forgive me, maybe I'm stupid, but: I don't see any way for a viewer of a classified ad to directly contact the poster - and no, a comment doesn't cut it. Does anyone know of a contact-type form that could be easily attached to the script to get it to do this? I'm interested in using this script; but this issue is a dealbreaker if not solved. (BTW, for my uses the responder should not have to be logged in to respond to an ad - although I would like to require the ad poster to be logged in to post one, as is now.)
Are we missing something?
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Posted 8 months ago #
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Hi;
Why couldn't comments do the job ? I don't see where it could be a problem.Anyway; I'm developping this first for my own use; which is a community with ads for logged users.
Maybe I could try to implement this LATER; when all the other stuff will be ready.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Gordie: Obviously, you're coding this primarily for your own use; so what you want goes. I am grateful for anyone that releases any code to the community; too many people just take this for granted.
That said, comments don't work because of the intrinsic nature of how classified ads work. Comments are by default all public; so now the communication between the poster and the responder is public, too - including discussions on pricing, location, contact info, etc. The very idea of classified ads is that this communication remain private. And for broad use, you can't assume the parties will pick up the thread in BuddyPress messaging; many admins - me included - have our messaging set so it can only happen between friends.
So without private communication, your classifieds basically become just another discussion forum. Think about it: With the exception of your geolocation (very nice, BTW), everything you can do in Your Classifieds can also be done in BBPress. So for someone like me it becomes: what's the point?
Otherwise, though, I really like what you've done. Do you know of another plugin or form I could graft onto your work to provide the private response I need? It would not have to post to Buddypress messaging; a form that would send an email to the poster would be great. I'm not expecting you to include this; I can do the work myself, I'm just wondering if you would know of a good starting point. My thanks again for releasing your work into the wild --
Posted 8 months ago # -
Hi Onkhead; thanks for your reply which is very instructive.
+1 for you...
Well, no; I don't know any good form you could use.
Tell me if you find something; but the implementation should be quite easy to do.
I'll see later if I could do it once the plugin works well with the features i'm currently working on.For the specific plugin capabilities, yes there is geo-location: but also subscriptions (not available yet in the plugin but you can see the demo on our website); expiration; and other stuff. But yes it's not so far away than a forum...
Posted 8 months ago # -
My idea would be to extend comments with a double solution :
1) send a notification to the author when there is a new comment on his Ad (already implemented I think; I should check the code) - BUT also to the comment author when someone replies to it.
2) Add an option to the comment to HIDE comments from others users ("private comment"). Should not be difficult to do since there is already plugins doing almost the same thing : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/semi-private-comments/
If the user is not logged, the notification email would give a specific url (/my-classified-ad/comments/?key=12345) which would allow him to read the comments.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Gordie: Now you're onto something. Private comments would very, very definitely get the job done - it satisfies all the parameters I outlined above. That not only would work for me, but would also be a nice twist on the standard classifieds setup - something to distinguish your product, if you will. Now you've got me excited again.
I'm going to look into the plugin you link to, and some others, to see if I can come up with something workable. Will report back if I do. In the meantime, if you want to pursue including this, I heartily encourage you, Thanks so much again --
Posted 7 months ago # -
Gordie: Just found something I think might work, out of the box: the Send E-mail plugin...
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/send-e-mail/
According to the instructions, if you add the shortcode to any post, and *don't* specify the email address to mail to, it will automatically send to the author of the post.
That should work with your classifieds plugin, shouldn't it? (NB: I have NOT tried this yet... :-)
Posted 7 months ago #
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