Steph Wells

Steve Wells

AWP Classifieds Team

<p><a href="https://awpcp.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Main Site</a> | <a href="https://awpcp.com/knowledge-base/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Classifieds Docs</a> | <a href="https://awpcp.com/showcase/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Showcase</a> | <a href="https://awpcp.com/premium-modules/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Modules</a></p>
<p>Add a classified ads section to your WordPress site, quickly and easily with AWP Classifieds (formerly known as AWPCP or Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin). Create classified listings from cars to yard sales.<br />
Lots of features, very configurable. Easy to setup. Great support.<br />
We’ve been the #1 WordPress Classified Ads Plugin for 10+ years.</p>
<p>Looking for other types of directories? Check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/" rel="ugc">Business Directory Plugin</a> for more easy WP directories.</p>
<h3>Classified Ads Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search your classified directory by city, state, country, username, or keyword</li>
<li>Allow AdSense ads to be displayed in your classified directory with configurable ad placement</li>
<li>Control over HTML use in your ads</li>
<li>Limit the text size of ad postings</li>
<li>Standard form fields can be enabled or disabled, depending on your needs (title, website, name, country, etc)</li>
<li>Allow or disallow image posting with listing ads</li>
<li>Automatic expiration of ads (free or paid)</li>
<li>Ads can have a “Tweet This” button in their layout</li>
<li>Ads can have a “Share on Facebook” button in their layout</li>
<li>Ads can be flagged by community for bad/offensive content</li>
<li>Ads can imported via CSV files</li>
<li>Ad listings support embedded videos</li>
<li>Ads can have character limits, supported by plans (different plans can have different limits)</li>
<li>Ads can be displayed on any page for a single category using shortcodes</li>
<li>Auto-verify ads with email links to post immediately upon click</li>
<li>Ads can be ‘Sent to Facebook’ inside of ad management</li>
<li>Support for displaying ad events in BuddyPress activity stream with <a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/buddypress-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress module</a></li>
<li>Ads can be edited via front end, back end with or without registration (depending on settings)</li>
<li>Multiple levels of directory categories supported</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Classified Plugin Notification Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow posters to be notified of expiring ads, renewals, and approvals of ads</li>
<li>Allow admin to be notified when new ads are posted, ads are edited and much more</li>
<li>Ad users can contact the ad poster without exposing the poster’s email (blind email system, similar to Craigslist)</li>
<li>Admin can (optionally) be notified of expiring ads</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ad Listing Payment Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allows for paid or free ads</li>
<li>Supports PayPal, PayPal Pro, Authorize.net, Stripe and 2Checkout for paid ads</li>
<li>Allow for image posting limits higher than free ads</li>
<li>Multiple fee scales for posting ads (allows you to have longer ad postings with higher fees)</li>
<li>Variable ad expiration lengths connected to fee scale (e.g. allow ads to run for 30 days for $10, 60 days for $15, etc)</li>
<li>Supports a “credit system” or pay with regular currency per ad. Mix and match if you want.</li>
<li>Support for ad memberships (packages of ads for a single price)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Posting Controls for your WordPress classified ads</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow admin to approve ads prior to posting</li>
<li>Allow admin to approve images prior to posting</li>
<li>Users can edit or delete their own ads</li>
<li>Admin can edit or delete all ads in the system</li>
<li>Secure system gives users a unique editing key to administer their own ads</li>
<li>Allows for limiting image posting (by image size, height, width and total count if desired)</li>
<li>Anti-spam checks for all ads posted via Akismet.</li>
<li>Flagged ads can be viewed separately to determine violations, and then deleted or unflagged.</li>
<li>Ad Management panel, visible by users and admins for easier ad creation/editing/delete.</li>
<li>Admin can post ads on behalf of other users with the ads displaying as if the user posted them initially</li>
<li>Email verification step can be used to auto-post ads upon successful verification link click</li>
<li>Ads can be posted to a Facebook page manually or automatically</li>
</ul>
<h3>Classified Directory Image Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow image posting or shut it off completely</li>
<li>Control the number, filesize, height and width of images posted</li>
<li>Allow for different numbers of images to be posted with paid ads vs. free ads</li>
<li>Allow for image approval prior to posting</li>
<li>Allow users to add a primary image to their ad listing (Great for car listings and real-estate listings)</li>
<li>Now supports multi-image asynchronous loading</li>
</ul>
<h3>Add-on modules, not included in our free classified website builder</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/extra-fields-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Extra Fields</a> – allows you to add any custom fields for display. For example, if you have a pet-related board, you might have “Sex”, “Breed”, and “Dam/Sire” as additional fields you require for display. Supports search and custom ordering of fields.</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/regions-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Region Control</a> – allows you to restrict viewing of ads based on locale, so users don’t see items they aren’t physically near them, also allows customization of the region types, such as village, borough, etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/featured-ads-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured Ads</a> – allows you to promote certain ads over others by charging a fee for them, featured ads are displayed using CSS to highlight them. Featured ads are always returned first in a category, the overall ad list, or in search results. Also has a widget for placement anywhere on your site. Full admin control of featured ads, too</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/buddypress-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress</a> – allows users to manage their listing ads in the BuddyPress profile directly, see events from ad posting in the activity stream and more</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/fee-per-category-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Fee per Category</a> – allows you to charge for certain categories and not others, giving you more freedom on how to configure your classified section. Allows for multiple fee plans per category, as well as a default plan to cover “all other unspecified” categories</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/subscriptions-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Membership to Post</a> – allows power users to place blocks of ads at a time, great for real estate agents, car dealers, anyone who wants to place ads in bulk</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/comments-ratings-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Comments/Ratings</a> – allow users to rate classified ads, and add ratings and comments on listings</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/rss-feeds-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">RSS Feeds</a> – allows you syndicate your ads for your users to download in their favorite RSS reader and come back to your site more often!</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/coupons-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Coupons/Discounts</a> – allows you to offer coupon codes for ad promotions to your users, coupons can be a percent off, or a fixed amount, have expiration dates and be tracked by usage</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/category-icons-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Category Icons</a> – adds small icons to give visual cues to your user for each directory category in AWP Classifieds Plugin</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/mark-as-sold-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Mark as Sold</a> – allows users to mark for sale items as sold to keep content in your classifieds, but clarify availability</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/attachments-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Attachments</a> – allows users to attach PDFs, text files or other images to their classifieds (great for job boards!)</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/campaign-manager-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Ad Campaign Manager</a> – add your own advertisements in 5 different positions</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/zip-code-search-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">ZIP Search</a> – search for ads that have address fields within a radius of a postal code</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Payment Gateways for Paid Listings</h3>
<p>Want to accept credit cards on your site for paid listings in your classifieds directory? Choose from any of our extra payment processors.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/stripe-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a> – accept payments via Stripe for ads</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/paypal-pro-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal Pro</a> – allows you to have an embedded payment form on your site for use with PayPal Pro accounts</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/authorizenet-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Authorize.net Gateway</a> – allows users to purchase ads and credit plans using Authorize.net</li>
</ul>
<p>These are just some of the features of our easy WordPress Classifieds Plugin.</p>
<p>For more information and support please visit <a href="https://awpcp.com?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">awpcp.com</a></p>
<p>If you love AWP Classifieds, <a href="https://awpcp.com/premium-modules/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">please consider purchasing a Module</a>!</p>
<h3>External Services and Domains</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following external services to provide its functionality:</p>
<p><strong>Google reCAPTCHA (www.google.com)</strong><br />
* Used for spam protection and form validation<br />
* Domains: www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js, www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify, www.google.com/recaptcha/admin<br />
* Data transmitted: reCAPTCHA responses and site verification tokens<br />
* Required for: Anti-spam protection features</p>
<p><strong>PayPal (paypal.com)</strong><br />
* Used for payment processing and IPN (Instant Payment Notification) verification<br />
* Domains: ipnpb.paypal.com, ipnpb.sandbox.paypal.com<br />
* Data transmitted: Payment verification data, transaction details<br />
* Required for: PayPal payment gateway functionality</p>
<p><strong>Facebook (facebook.com)</strong><br />
* Used for posting ads to Facebook and cache management<br />
* Domains: graph.facebook.com<br />
* Data transmitted: Ad content, user access tokens (if Facebook integration is enabled)<br />
* Required for: Facebook posting features (optional)</p>
<p><strong>Strategy11 (strategy11.com)</strong><br />
* Used for collecting anonymous onboarding feedback and usage analytics<br />
* Domains: feedback.strategy11.com<br />
* Data transmitted: User email, name, and plugin usage information<br />
* Required for: Onboarding wizard feedback collection (optional)</p>
<p><strong>HTTPBin (httpbin.org)</strong><br />
* Used for determining the server’s external IP address<br />
* Domains: httpbin.org<br />
* Data transmitted: Server IP address detection requests<br />
* Required for: Server IP address identification functionality</p>
<p><strong>Additional Payment Gateways</strong><br />
* <strong>Authorize.Net (authorize.net)</strong> – Payment processing gateway<br />
* <strong>Stripe (stripe.com)</strong> – Payment processing and subscription management<br />
* <strong>2Checkout (2checkout.com)</strong> – International payment processing<br />
* Domains: www.authorize.net, stripe.com, www2.2checkout.com<br />
* Data transmitted: Payment information, transaction details, customer data<br />
* Required for: Premium payment gateway modules (optional)</p>


AWP Classifieds

Create a classified listings directory, from auto listings to yard sales with AWP Classifieds plugin.

designinvento

<p>Plugin offer frontend listing submission, with extensive user control panel, author of the listing can manage their listing, edit listing, delete listing and many other features like upgrade, renewal, bump up/raise up option, further user can control their profile and their purchases.</p>
<p><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-wordpress-directory-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Addons</a> | <a href="https://designinvento.net/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Themes</a> | <a href="https://help.designinvento.net/docs/directorypress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a></p>
<h3>Required Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-wordpress-directory-plugin/" title="Directory Listing Plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress – Directory Listing Plugin</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Addons</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-multi-directory-addon/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Multi Directory</a><br />
Addon provides ability to create multiple directories within single WordPress installation, Each directory operates independently with own search engine, categories, locations, custom fields and packages.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-payment-manager/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Payment Manager</a><br />
Addon provide ability to sell paid listing packages with woocomerce, You can charge per listing or sell bungle of listings in single package, addon provide ability to create unlimited packages with different features e.g expiry duration, number of listing, number of categories, number of locations, number of images, number of videos, featured listing option, sticky listing option, Assign specific categories, Assign specific location, Assign specific Fields.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-extended-locations-addon/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Extended Locations</a><br />
Addon Extends DirectoryPress Locations with ability to create multiple levels of locations, location levels works with locations taxonomy levels to create your desired location structure.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-claim-listing/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Claim Listing</a><br />
Addon offers claim listing functionality for listings, user can claim a listing and author of listing can approve or reject any claim request, after approval listing status can be set to draft or publish depending on new author’s ability to post listing, listing can be paid.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/wcfm-integration-module/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress WCFM Integration</a><br />
Addon provides multi-vendor shop functionality with WCFM plugin free version, Author can turn on store feature and set any listing as purchasable, A parallel product will be created against that particular listing and user will be able to purchase that product directly just like woocomerce product.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/resurva-integration/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Resurva Booking Integration</a><br />
Addon provides booking functionality with integration of Resurva booking service, user can book a service directly from the website and author can manage their bookings from resurva dashboard.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-twilio-sms-addon/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Twilio SMS Service Integration</a><br />
Addon provides SMS notification feature with integration of twilio sms service, this addon also offer user/author mobile number verification feature.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-frontend-messages-addon/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Frontend Messages</a><br />
Addon provides front-end messaging feature for better communication, visitor can send a message to author of listing from single listing contact form and author will receive that message in user panel message inbox, then they can continue their discussion right from user panel, this addon also provide to end offers to author and display, minimum, maximum and average offers on single listing page.</li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorypress-faqs-addon/"" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryPress Faqs</a><br />
Addon provides ability to create Faqs for each listing from back-end and front-end listing submission form, Author of listing can create unlimited Faqs and system will display these Faqs on single listing page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Supported Themes</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directo-directory-listing-wordpress-theme/" title="Directory Listing Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Directo – Directory Listing Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/gadi-car-dealer-automotive-wordpress-theme/" title="Car Dealer Automotive Classified Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Gadi – Car Dealer Automotive Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/petclassified-pet-classified-wordpress-theme/" title="Pet Classified Ads Listing Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">PetClassified – Pet Classified Ads Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/classo-classified-wordpress-theme/" title="Classified Ads Listing Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Classo – Classified Ads Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/classimet-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/" title="Classified Ads Listing Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Classimet – Classified Ads Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/foodirectory-food-directory-wordpress-theme/" title="Food Restaurant Listing Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Foodirectory – Food Restaurant Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directorio-wordpress-directory-listing-theme/" title="Directory Listing WordPress Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Directorio – Business Directory WordPress Theme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://designinvento.net/downloads/directoryx-directory-listing-wordpress-theme/" title="Directory Listing WordPress Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">DirectoryX – Business Directory WordPress Theme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://themeforest.net/item/classiads-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/8625840" title="Classified Ads Listing Theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Classiads – Classified Ads  Listing WordPressTheme</a></li>
</ul>


DirectoryPress Frontend

This plugin provides frontend listing functionality for [DirectoryPress - Directory Listing Plugin](https://designinvento.

AWP Classifieds vs DirectoryPress Frontend