Essential addons for a classifieds forum?

[Agent]

desperate for one

 

[rafass]

Tweaking the resource manager is the best option.

 

[Agent]

any good guides on doing this ?

 

[rafass]

There are not a specific and full guide to transform the RM to a classifieds manager.
but editing the templates to remove some elements, changing the phrases and installing some others addons you can have a decent classifieds manager using the Official Resource Manager of Xenforo. that's what I'm doing now.

 

[Agent]

when you say addons they be ?

 

[Daniel Hood]

@Mr. Goodie2Shoes is working on one. Think he has a decent amount done. People seem happy with the progress so far.

 

[Agent]

ok let me look at that thanks for the heads up

 

[Agent]

looks like that one could be some time in the making looks good tho

 

[Mr. Goodie2Shoes]

And it's finally done
Beta - GoodForNothing Classifieds

 

[MISC]

I just moved 5 sites from vBulletin to XenForo. Has gone very smoothly. I wish I had done this a long time ago.

The last major thing I need to do is to get my classifieds boards going again on each of the sites.

I plan to use one of the forms addons to post listings to the forum. Have purchased a copy of both available forms addons and am testing to see which one I'll use.

I plan to buy the "Up Thread" addon to give members a bump button for their listings.

I've installed XenTrader for feedback and imported the feedback from my vB iTrader installations, but XenTrader doesn't seem to be working on my boards, so I'm waiting for an update on that one. I know there is another feedback system addon, and I will probably shell out for that if the XenTrader update doesn't come soon.

Lastly, I am looking for an addon that would let my members closed their own threads and mark the transaction "completed" with the push of a button. Mark Threads as Solved seems like it would do this, but it looks like there are problems with that addon, so I'm looking for an alternative.

What are others using for these purposes? Anything I am missing?

Did you succeed with your approach?

 

[Amin Sabet]

Did you succeed with your approach?

I had to change my approach. This is working for me:

Simple Forms - lets members fill out a listing form to generate a thread: https://liquidpro.net/xenforo-addons/simple-forms/

XenCentral Trading System - for feedback: http://www.xencentral.com/

Mark Threads as Solved - lets members easily close their listings: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/mark-threads-as-solved-by-waindigo.2891/

Cron to automatically move threads - moves closed threads automatically to an archive forum - https://xenforo.com/community/resources/how-to-create-a-cron-entry-to-move-threads-with-options.317/

Bump Limit - self explanatory: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/bump-limit.94496/

Here is one of my Buy & Sell forums using the above: https://www.mu-43.com/forums/17/

 

[MISC]

Here is one of my Buy & Sell forums using the above: https://www.mu-43.com/forums/17/

Looks interesting, thank you very much!

 

[empire]

Ours is similar to the above. We're using:

LiquidPro Simple Forms – customizable forms
Sonnb Up Thread – adds 'bump' link and limits bumping to once per day
CMF ThreadAutoMove – cron to move threads as mentioned above (private add-on)

We just use regular threads for feedback. I would like to switch to GoodForNothing Classifieds when that's finished.

Compared to VB, this works better from a front-end perspective, but creating the forms is a lot of work because there is no simple 'copy form' functionality in Simple Forms, and we have a lot of long, complicated forms in our classifieds area.

 

[AndyB]

I use forums and threads for my classifieds, works great.

http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/#83

In addition I use the Auto Delete v1.4 add-on to delete older classified threads automatically:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/auto-delete.3073/

 

[Skylined]

I do the same thing as @AndyB.

http://mtb.uy/foros/venta.10/

 

[snoopy5]

I use forums and threads for my classifieds, works great.

http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/#83

In addition I use the Auto Delete v1.4 add-on to delete older classified threads automatically:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/auto-delete.3073/

Hi Andy,

how did you get this trading history in your ads above the seller avatar? What plugin is this?

Is there any plugin out there, to display the product which is for sale in the thread-overview instead of the user's avatar?

See screenshots...