| Number of days an ad considered new |
Amount of days and ad is labeled NEW and appears in the NEW ads section of the system. |
| Number of days ad is kept |
Amount of days an ad is kept in the database after its expiration. Useful if you want to allow ads to be renewed after they are expired. |
| Use ad credit system? |
Use "Ad Credit" system, if you would like to enable members to upgrade to an account with more ad, gallery, message allowances and these allowances will be ADDED to your members existing ones, this means, for example, if a member orders an account that allows him/her to post 2 profiles, and order this very account again to post another 2 profiles. |
| Deduct ad credit for ad renewals? |
Whenever an ad is renewed do you want to use an ad credit for this purpose or should members be able to renew ads after ad expiration without using an ad credit. |
| New ad activation method |
If someone posts an ad, you can choose here whether you want it to be approved instantly, or set on pending, waiting for your approval. Pending ads can be reviewed in category manager section for each category. |
| Notify of a new ad being posted? |
Enter your email address here if you would like to be notified if someone posts an ad to the system. |
| What to do with member's ads after member expires? |
Determine here what to do if a member expires but his/her ads are still active in the system. You can completely delete the ad from the system, suspend it, expire it or just keep it active in the system until it expires too. |
| Maximum number of saved search matches sent at a time |
Maximum amount of saved search matches sent to the member via email per time. |
| Notify of a new member's application? |
Enter email address here if you would like to be notified upon every new member registration. |
| Delete pending / expired members after |
Amount of days after you want pending or expired members to be deleted from the database. |
| Delete members if they haven't logged in during |
Amount of days after you want members to be deleted who have not logged in once during this period. |
| Delete members if they haven't posted an ad during |
Amount of days after you want members to be deleted who have not posted an ad during this period. |
| Notify members about their future expiry? |
Amount of days you want members to be notified via email about their upcoming account expiration. When using recurring subscriptions, this only applies to the last and final term of their membership. |
| Allow duplicate emails? |
Set here if you want to allow duplicate emails in your system. This applies if you want a member to have more than one account with the same email address. |
| Minimum username length |
Minimum length usernames in your system should have. |
| Minimum password length |
Minimum length passwords in your system should have. |
| Maximum word length? |
Maximum characters a word can have. This is to prevent members from trashing your classified section by putting down somthing like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", etc... you get the idea... |
| Maximum description length? |
Maximum characters in ad description. This is to prevent someone from posting a 2 MB description to bring your site down. |
| Minimum description length? |
Minimum characters in ad description. the opposite of the above where you do not want members just put down "looking for a friend"... |
| Description summary length |
In short ads summary text, we cut descriptions to certain length. Enter the number of characters you want to display in short ad summary format here. |
| Allow html tags in ad? |
Set here if you want your members to allow to place HTML code in their ads. |
| Bad words (enter one word per line) |
Enter each word here you would like to have substituted (****) in member ads. |
| Forced linebreaks in private messages after |
Amount of characters after you would like to force a linebreak in member messages, so that messages do not break the screen width. |
| Display ads with images before ads without images? |
If set to "yes", ads with images will be ranked before other ads in category browsing and search results. Encourages your users to upload images to their ads. |
| Display sub-categories that do not have any ads? |
If you have tooooooo many categories which do not have ads in it, you may not want to display them. Whatever your choice is, you can select it here. |
| Hide skipped ("No answer" and blank) ad fields? |
If set to "yes", fields that did not get an answer or are left blank
will not be displayed on the full ad view page. |
| Number of ad post pages |
This number determines how many steps your profile
posting process has, you can set this to "1" to make one large single page to collect your
members profile or spread the user input on
several pages. The default is "4" pages: user profile data (post1.html template),
profile description data (post2.html),
additional user characteristics (post3.html) and media upload (post4.html). The next step is always the
ad preview followed by ad posting. You can even extend the signup process to more steps, in
this case copy a template such as "post4.html" and name it "post5.html" and so on.
Important: If you change this setting, make sure the database field you want to display
on your ad posting page is set to be displayed on the correct template. You can verify the
field setting in admin area > database fields > ad database section. More about this in the
database section of this documentation. |
| Send user after registration to |
Here you can determine where you would like to sent a user immediately after registration. You can send him/her to the control panel or force to post a profile right away. |
| Allow non-members to mail to members? |
Set to "yes" if you would like "guests" or "visitors" contact your members too via private messaging. If you enable this, please note that your members do not know the identity of guests or visitors, also your members obviously can not reply to this message. |
| Maximum message length |
Maximum amount of characters a private messages should have. This helps to prevent users sending megabytes of text to each other. |
| Convert links to Search-Engine Friendly URLs? |
If set to "yes", your ad pages will be converted to search engine friendly URLs like "mojoAuto/2/0/2" instead of
"mojoAuto.cgi?mojo=1&action=browse&cat=2&parent=0&number=2". This helps pages getting picked up by search engines. This requires mod_rewrite support on your server, check with your server admin if you are getting problems here or if you are unsure whether you have mod_rewrite support or not. |
| Run user area script on mod_perl? |
If you have mod_perl support on your server, set to "yes" to increase productivity of 5-8 times. Check with your server admin if mod_perl is supported on your server. |
| Datetime format |
Set date display according to your needs, the default is "%A, %B %d, %Y" which displays "Sunday, March 13, 2005". "A%" = weekday, "B%" = month, "d%" = day, "Y%" = Year. |
| Currency sign |
Set currency sign that is displayed on various pages throughout your system. |
| Use Anti-Robot check |
Turn on to activate anti-robot image on registration screen to prevent bots and robots
from registering fake users. Needs image magick or gd.pm perl modules pre-installed on your server. |
| Registration bonus |
Amount of money that is credited to user account balance after registration. Leave empty for 0 or enter any value. |
| Count stats from non-registered members too |
If turned on, the system will also count actions from non-registered members when viewing ads or replying to ads. In off status, only actions from registered users are tracked in view ad, saved and replied stats. |
