Anyhow, the reason for this post was to provide a handy bit of mySQL code when migrating your ClassiPress site to another domain.

While going through the demo site migration process, we had to change a bunch of legacy meta_values which have the image urls hardcoded in them so the thumbnail and ad images weren’t showing up. Instead of manually having to go through hundreds of records, it made more sense to write a custom sql query to handle the same change in a matter of seconds.

I wanted to share this just in case any of you plan on migrating one of your web sites to a different domain. Keep in mind, this sql query would only be necessary if you were previously using version 2.9.3 or earlier since 3.0+ doesn’t rely on the “images” meta field.

So you’ll need to login to your mySQL admin and go to your SQL tab. There you’ll want to paste in the following code (replace the oldsite.com and newsite.com of course first). You might even want to do a test run on one record first just to be safe.

UPDATE wp_postmeta
SET meta_value = replace(meta_value, 'oldsite.com', 'newsite.com')
WHERE meta_key = 'images'

After you run this query, all your oldsite.com’s will be replaced with your newsite.com’s!

If your site is selected for inclusion, you will be featured in our ClassiPress Customer Showcase  which is one of our most popular pages. This will put you front and center and includes such benefits as a free link from an authoritative WordPress Premium Themes site (great for SEO), additional free traffic, and bragging rights. Interested?

To enter, please submit a comment below with a link to your site and a brief description. All entries will be reviewed and then selected by the end of May. Good luck and we’re looking forward to seeing a few of the thousands of ClassiPress sites being used all around the world today!

I also had the pleasure to meet Matt Mullenweg and Brian Gardner (who are both great guys, btw) to discuss WordPress 3.0 and Premium WordPress Themes. Lots of good stuff which has helped me strategize and better plan the direction of ClassiPress and the upcoming launch of our new theme business. It’s a very competitive environment and the sad part is lots of theme developers just aren’t doing a good job. It’s still the wild west when it comes to theming standards and guidelines. Hopefully that’s something WordPress will change in the future.

What I was surprised to see was the number of people who had iPads. It’s apparent that a majority of the attendees are early adopters and big fans of Apple. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised and in fact, I am one of those people as well sporting my new 3G iPad.

Overall this year was a great conference and if you’ve never been to a WordCamp before, I highly recommend going. Look for a WordCamp coming to a city near you.

Here are a couple pictures I took during day two at the “Unconference” for developers.

So if you’ve started a child-theme, finished one, or just need someone to help you, please start the discussion below. I’m excited to see what the community has done thus far. Once everyone starts to get the hang of this, I’d like to hold a challenge. There’s nothing like good old fashion competition, right? This time it’s on a global scale and the winner will receive a prize (not yet disclosed). Who knows….we might soon be offering a theme aftermarket place where you can sell your stuff on our site.

So what are you waiting for and start those engines. For those who are still new and need some help, I recommend starting with these two articles.

For the life of me I couldn’t figure out why only one certain includes file wasn’t getting translated correctly. I must say this was a sneaky little bug which actually turns out to be an easy fix.

The problem was the WordPress function that handles the translation, load_theme_textdomain was loading after one of the admin pages was being included.

I’ve written up a fix for this in the forum which will also be included in 3.0.3 next month.

On another note, I’ve also created a .po file that excludes the admin pages. This gives you the option to only translate the customer-facing web site pages which is much faster to do. This was a request by one of our existing customers, Magnus (thanks) and it makes a lot of sense.

You can download this file from our ClassiPress Resources page. It’s the Version 3.0.2 download link.

Below you will find a list of all fixes and changes in this release. For specific files affected, please see the changelog.txt file accompanied with the 3.0.2 download.

Anyone who has already translated ClassiPress into their native language will have to update their .mo file. I have written a tutorial on how to do this at the bottom of this page: How to Translate a WordPress Theme.

Bug Fixes

• fixed sidebars & footer widgets so they now work when cp is translated into other languages.
• fixed google maps get direction function so it no longer gives you a 404 page not found.
• fixed category bug for nav menu and directory home page view of sub cats options.
• fixed TinyMCE js validation on new ad submission form so you don’t have to click next step twice and the error message appears correctly.
• replaced all date functions with date_i18n for better internationalization support
• added body background color style to prevent white background on slower page loads.
• added a fixed height to the featured ads slider box so on page load, it doesn’t leave a huge space below it.
• fixed “% of sellers ad price” pricing option bug and spelling error. it now calculates the correct price.
• fixed ad inquiry form confirmation where body has quotes or apostrophes is adds a forward slash.
• fixed new ad submission form step 2 when clicking on the “go back” button in IE.
• fixed home page pagination bug where blog posts were making it seem like there were multiple pages

Enhancements

• removed title attribute from ad image so hover doesn’t show image file name.
• added function to automatically insert an expiration date on an ad if it’s manually or auto-script created. This fixes ads that immediately expired because they didn’t have a date set.
• added new ad submission form validation support for 30 default languages. new option added on the admin settings page.
• added new function (cp_make_clickable) to automatically hyperlink urls or email addresses found in custom fields.
• added new option to override the generic WordPress new user registration and forgot password email headers.
• added custom.css file so you can add their own styles without having to touch the core .css files. Thx Levi.
• added new admin section called advanced options which includes the option to disable core .css files so you can easily build child themes.
• added empty index.php files to the core directories for security to prevent directory browsing.
• on new theme activation, set the default new WordPress user role to contributor only if it’s currently set to the subscriber default.
• added new trim function to ad listing titles on the home page to prevent pushing the price field down.
• added new option to show zero sub categories in the main menu and index-directory.php page.
• added new plugin called “New User Email Setup” in the plugins folder. This allows you to customize the generic WordPress new registration emails.
• made some minor adjustments to the styles on how the background gradient image was loading.

Lots of good stuff packed in this update and I appreciate everyone who submitted their bugs/feature requests. ClassiPress gets more and more stable with each release which means a better product for you all.

NOTE: Any support questions should be posted in the forum and not in the comments below. We have a dedicated team that can respond much faster and usually with multiple answers from the community. Thank you.

Key Bug Fixes

• Issue where translated CP prevents widget sidebars and footer from working
• Admin page text is not included in the .pot translation file
• HTML TinyMCE editor requires submit button to be pressed twice
• Google maps get directions functionality gives a 404 error
• Home page pagination incorrect by counting blog posts

New Enhancements

• New option to show zero sub-categories in menu and home page
• Auto link (with nofollow) URLs found in any custom fields
• Auto set WordPress “New User Default Role” to Contributor
• Set a default expiration date for ads that have empty cp_sys_expire_date

The last enhancement is actually a big one for several customers. It appears not everyone is creating ads with the ad submission form which has caused them some problems. These customers are using automated scripts to pull ads from other sites (via rss or xml feeds) which is fine of course, but if the ad creation process doesn’t go through the ClassiPress ad submission form, certain fields and values are empty.

You might have read some threads about ads expiring on January 1st, 1970 and wondered why this was happening.  In most cases it’s because the ad didn’t have and expiration date set so when ClassiPress tries to compare an empty date value to the current date/time, it uses the January 1st, 1970 12:00 date which is the start of Unix time and immediately expires the ad listing.

This new enhancement will check to see if the ad came in with an expiration date. If not, it will create one based on your “Ad Listing Period” value. That should help prevent these customers from ads expiring immediately.

It is recommended to always upgrade to the latest version, however there aren’t any security or stability issues that will be fixed in 3.0.2 so it’s not mandatory.

Existing customers will be able to download this updated version by using their original e-junkie download link. I know it’s a pain to keep going back to this email but we will be moving to a new portal system in May at which time you will be able to login and download any updates from there.

Not only will this make it much easier for you, but also for myself and the forum support staff. Having to manually look-up, verify, and resend download links for customers is not the best method. We have just outgrown our customer management system so it needs to be upgraded.

In addition, the forum will be moving to vBulletin which is a much better forum platform. It will also be restricted to customers-only which will allow us to provide you with better support.

Reminder – Support questions are not to be posted within the comments below. Please use the forum for anything related to product support.

You will need to replace your existing /themes/classipress/ folder with this new version. Deactivate the theme first before doing this. Then reactivate 3.0.1 because there are some items that need to be updated in your database.

Below you will find a list of all fixes and changes in this release. For specific files affected, please see the changelog.txt file accompanied with the 3.0.1 download.

Anyone who has already translated ClassiPress into their native language will have to update their .mo file. I have written a tutorial on how to do this at the bottom of this page: How to Translate a WordPress Theme

Bug Fixes

• fixed the “access denied” error that some people were experiencing.
• added parameter for uniqid() function to comply with php 4.3 or earlier.
• added substr function on directory home page featured titles to help prevent wrap.
• fixed problem with some profile fields not saving data.
• fixed profile sidebar twitter and facebook urls so they now show updated links
• fixed minor css bug by removing the float: left for ad thumbnails
• fixed disappearing nav drop-down issue. changed z-index to 999
• added two new currency position options so you can have spaces
• fixed image uploads so more than six now correctly get uploaded.
• fixed search so it respects the category selected and shows those results.
• forced image names and extensions to lowercase on file check. some systems threw error if .JPG, etc
• add inquiry emails were missing the reply-to email address.
• text on search button wasn’t setup for localization. added correct _e wrap.
• added missing custom url logo field to the settings page.
• when using ad packs, ad length wasn’t getting passed into paypal correctly. it was using prune length instead.
• price per category wasn’t showing up for new CP customers. replaced legacy get_option tags with correct ones.
• changed admin alert to check for “contains” /%postname%/ instead of exact match so other permalink styles can be used

General Changes

• changed security check from user levels to roles. also added new value to disable this feature
• moved featured home page ads price under the image and removed the (). Added a trim function so long titles get cut down.
• added a “pending listings” total to the account statistics profile sidebar.
• added a new option to hide/show the featured ads section on the home page.
• added a new option to control the featured ads title length before trimming occurs.
• setup single ad page to display custom fields in order they were set in custom form layout. created new function and moved duplicate code from edit item page.
• added two new sidebar widgets called “top ads today” & “top ads overall”. made the search widget usable on multiple sidebars. unregistered the default search widget.

If you discover any new bugs or something that should be working that isn’t, please post it in our 3.0 bug forum. First make sure you do a quick scan to see if someone has already logged that bug to prevent duplicates.

For one of my ad categories called “Boats”, I created a custom form layout and then added my two custom fields.  I then reordered the fields and made them mandatory all within a matter of seconds. I also demonstrate how the new form validation works for both fields and image uploads.

In step two of the new ad submission form you’ll see a summary of the ad as well as a breakdown of how much it will cost. There is also a “terms of use” text box that you can easily modify to your needs. Once the ad has been submitted, you automatically get redirected to PayPal to make your payment. After payment has been made, you’ll be sent back to ClassiPress to see your new ad published.

In addition on the new ClassiPress dashboard, the developer’s edition (professional edition) will show you how much money you’ve made thus far. Watch the demo below to see it all in action.

Not only is that process a real pain, but it takes time and allows the opportunity for mistakes. It also means those who don’t like to read instructions or cannot read English will have a lot less trouble getting their site setup. It also is a good thing for those who are new or aren’t very comfortable with WordPress in general.

This functionality is revolutionary with premium WordPress themes and in 3.0, all this will be fully automated once you activate the theme. We like to lead by example and you’ll see several other trailblazing features including the WordPress custom fields GUI built into 3.0. Yes, you will still have to go in and adjust the ClassiPress setting pages but the manual process of creating pages and assigning templates will be done behind the scenes within the install script.

Oh, and for those of you who noticed the screenshot, the featured ad listings will be much smaller and located across the top on the home page. This is one of two available home page layouts in 3.0. It’s also using a jquery carousel which automatically rotates through your featured ads. You’ll also notice that ClassiPress is by AppThemes which will be a premium wordpress theme site launching later this year.