Classipress WP Theme
 

Does anybody use this wordpress theme for classified sites?
http://www.appthemes.com/themes/classipress/ The licence it`s 100 bucks but the costs for customizing are huge. I`m talking about 3k for a simple childtheme without categories + sms billing payment implementation , offers that i received them today. :Oh crap
Any suggestions ? :helpme

I am actually looking for a classified script at the moment as well.

I just installed www.open-classifieds.com to play around with it.

I am looking for something which is easily modified as I intend to add lots of custom features which I cannot find in existing scripts.

WP based would be a plus also.

we can do the first one for $1300, 100% custom with any requested feature and something like the second one for $1000. In both cases with modular built so you can add, take and modify elements at will. Billing implementation possible, but no idea about SMS billing, I'd need to take a look. Anyway, just lmk if interested :)

I have had it in http://www.clasificadoanuncio.com for about two years, but never developed the site, lol.

I have one of the first version there and remember it was a really nice theme.
There's been lots of improvements and new versions since then and i have been following them, lots of functionalities and stuff. I would say it is a really nice classifieds theme for wordpress.

can wordpress handle the load, i mean a 500k visitors a day?
How about ad verification and other management tools?

I remember that classipress theme, even it`s older it looks better than the newest one IMHO. Feel sorry the AppTheme Team changed that simple design.


@st0ned
I found a classified plugin also http://www.awpcp.com/ Looks nice, i`m going to give it a try tomorrow morning to see how it`s working. I noted your suggestion open-classifieds.com , thanks, i will try it too.

@harvey
Thanks for offer. I will think about it.
:winkwink:

Yeah, me too. I really love the original design, don't know why they changed it to the ugly new design...

traffic:yes.
ad verification: no idea what do you mean, but anything (and I mean ANYTHING) that can be done with any CMS can be done with WP, and that's not exactly a secret

And btw, I doubt anyone would have to worry too much about WP handling 500k visitors a day, I doubt 99.9999% of sites get that amount of traffic. Just saying :winkwink:

ad verification:

can ad be aproved or disaproved by the site manager.
500k visitors a day on buy / sell / bidding site is heavy traffic

open classifieds looks brilliant I think I'll give it a spin over the weekend.

Thanks for that!

Theres also http://www.premiumpress.com/classifiedstheme/

hit me up this weekend i might have something for you.

Been using http://www.awpcp.com/ for awhile now on a mainstream site cars-sales.com and the guy who codes it is real helpfull if you have problems with it

Thanks halfpint. I received couple of emails from him and he do accept custom work as well :winkwink:

Classipress is a pain in the ass to work with. We heavily customized it for a client. Granted, they changed the specs halfway but $2-$3k for the customization isn't all that out of the world for what you're asking. Like harvey said, might be cheaper to build a custom theme than to try and bend classipress to your whims.

Don't you own Xhampster.com? You can afford it. :pimp

anyone is using www.oxyclassifieds.com ?

Great thread. Going to try out a couple of the suggestions here.