The days of rummaging through tables of goods at garage sales early on a Sunday morning are diminishing as those items are now being listed on virtual marketplaces also known as classified websites. If you live within an area where you see a large pool of interest in second hand buying and selling, creating a Classifieds website can allow you to not only earn advertisement income but also gives you a platform where you can post your own second hand items for sale. In this article we will look at how the ClassiPress AppTheme can be used to create a second hand classifieds website where the administrator can earn listing income and third party advertisement payments.

Perhaps you dabble in dog breeding on the side and wish to create a site where you can list the puppies you currently have available?

Or maybe you have found that many local breeders cannot find a site where they can specifically post the dogs and puppies they have for sale?

If you plan on creating a WordPress classifieds website either to list your own puppies for sale or create a place where other locals can do so, why not use the ClassiPress AppTheme? ClassiPress is a powerful WordPress theme that includes functions required to create a classifieds website. This AppTheme allows you to edit and design your very own classifieds website in under an hour. Not only does a ClassiPress website look professional, but it also includes all the necessary features to begin listing your own ads, and collect revenue through visitors listing their ads.

If you have visited the ClassiPress Demo recently you may have noticed some color and pizazz that you hadn’t seen before. If you take a closer look you will see that…wait, there are icons for every category!

Wow, that’s great. But how are you going to get icons onto your ClassiPress site? Well, we are here to give you a small tutorial on how to add one icon to one category, giving you the knowledge that will allow you to create categories for ALL your icons!

Before attempting this tutorial, you should have already read and completed the “ClassiPress Child Theme Tutorial Part 1“. Assuming you have done this you will already have a folder for your child theme which leaves us right where we left off.

What we will Cover in Part 2

• Creating the functions.php file.
• Overwriting an existing function (the prices function in this tutorial).
• Creating your own new function in the function file.
• Use the child theme to modify the index-directory.php file so that our homepage is modded.
• Build a new dashboard template to show confirmation messages and activate it.

Step 1: Creating the functions.php file

Navigate to the child theme folder you previously created. Now we need to create a new file in it. You can do this a variety of ways, but we are going to use a technique that is the most “universal”.