Regarding this specific post, and the new feature that allows users to view and control their ads inside their account, I have a specific question about how ads that have expired will be handled in version 3.x versus version 2.x (the last version you have in the live demo before the 3.x release). FOr purposes of making my question clear, I am refering to the text found in the live admin demo of version 2.9.3 (below):

Admin Dashboard > “Configure” (“General Configuration”) >
“Ad Pruning” (2 options to select from, if selected “Yes”): “Removes the classified ads from your site after a certain number of days.”

“Prune Status”: (2 options to select from)
“Draft – Changes the ad status back to draft. Good option if you want to keep a history of all your ads (recommended).”
“Delete – Completely erases all expired ads.”

My question is if in the new version (3.x), now that users will have a page in their account to manage their ads, will they be able to see expired ads back in their list with the option to renew instead of those ads be “Deleted” like in version 2.93? It is a very useful feature for most site owners running ClassiPress to allow ads to be renewed over and over (i.e. in a classifieds site, if the item did not get sold), especially for those using ClssiPress to run a directory/listing type site (i.e. a website directory, whether it is paid or free, running listings for 1 year, owners of the site will want to continue listing it, however not redo the entire listing all over again). Nobody wants to have to go through the entire process of listing the same ad all over again, causing possible loss of petential revenue to site owners in renewed ads just because peole felt lazy about redoing it even if interested in it (renewing it is fast and convenient for anyone).

So, in the admin panel, under the “Prune Status” dropdown options, the “Draft” option could instead allow the users to renew it (change into “Published” in WP lingo), or maybe offer it as a 3rd option while leaving the other two perhaps?

@Webmango – Thanks for the plugin link. Reading the plugin author’s post he’s right to be surprised that WP doesn’t have this built in.

Hopefully his plugin, or the other one David has mentioned, can be implemented in CP, and hopefully WP build it into the core.

I have not tested either plugin with CP so I’m not sure how it will work.

thanks for information. I did some research and found a solution for my problem To share knowledge an close this request here is the link for the right plugin. Hard to find but doing a good job – It´s free:

http://www.emediamark.com/econfirm

BR webmango

like classipress very much and bought dev-version

But in my eyes there´s one thing still missing also in 3.0 – we´re all waiting for. It concerns user registration.

It´s very good, that they are mandatory now. BUT: There should be an acitvation mail for getting an “double opt in” User registration. Like in most forums or communities -> So after registering on the page the user should get confirmation Mail including unique activation-link. This data must be saved to proof registration in case of friction.

Can you please implement this for 3.0, so user fills out registration form, gets a mail (as actual with username and password) and must activate account through activation-link. So email-adress is verified. So called “double opt in” (registration IP and timestamp / confirmation IP and timestamp) is necessary for legal security (at least here in Germany).

Thanks for your feedback and good luck with further development and sales

webmango

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/menus-merge-patch-sprint/