We are proud to announce we finished the beta testing phase and we are introducing the release candidate of Open Classifieds 2.0! So this mean not any big change before 2.0. stable only bug fixing.
During last weeks we were working really hard on all of the improvements. We had 69 beta testers and we received a lot of feedback. Thanks for all who got engaged in the process! It helped us to eliminate some bugs and to include few enhancements. In total we made 61 changes comparing to the Beta version. Some of the new features are listed below.
We’re getting really close to the launch of a stable version. Probably it will happen in about 2 weeks so keep your fingers crossed and be patient! In the meantime get familiar with the release candidate and feel free to comment and give us your feedback.
Best, Ewa
[section_title]What’s new in RC1[/section_title]
- Theme and Language selector
- Pages and mail have language (locale)
- Mobile theme selector/detector
- Maintenance mode
- Statistics per user and contacts made
- Terms and conditions on publish new
- Amazing translation system, it allows you to change any text easily form the panel
[section_title]What’s new in 2.0. [/section_title]
- CMS to create pages, emails
- Pay to feature ad, or to bump to first page
- Easier admin, with drag and drop locations & categories
- Widgets drag and drop and multiple sidebars support
- Public users profile
- New orders to see payment statements
- Simpler configuration system
- Users roles and ACL
- Allow users to login from a Email Link
- New Ad field, website.
- Contact an Ad can include an attachment like a CV for example.
[section_title]How to Install[/section_title]
- Download RC 1
- Unpack
- Run the installation in http://yourdomain.com/install/
- Follow the steps
- Login in admin, create some categories and locations
- Working!
[section_title]Upgrade 1.7.x/1.8.x to 2.0[/section_title]
- Create a backup of your files and DB
- Download Beta 1
- Delete all files except folder /images/
- Uncompress and upload files
- Run the installation at http://yourdomain.com/
- Follow the steps
- Choose a different Database or use a different table prefix, we recommend using oc2_
- Got to the admin for migration of data http://yourdomain.com/oc-panel/tools/migration
- Put the details of your old DB connection
- Please wait can take a while…
- Enjoy ;)
[section_title]To do before stable release[/section_title]
- Translations. Main languages, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian…
- Fix bugs, please report them here or in the comments of this post.
- More widgets!
- We need your help! please check here
[section_title]Professional customers[/section_title]
Paid customers with premium themes, please wait we will migrate almost all the themes, currently working on Modern Deluxe. When you upgrade just let us know which theme you will be using and we will be sending it to you.
If you buy the PRO version you get free theme upgrade to 2.0. that would costs $69.99 each so you have nothing to lose. buy now! ;)
[section_title]Download[/section_title]
We ask for your name and email to keep you posted of further developments. I hope you understand.
- Demo available here
- user: [email protected] pwd: 1234
- If you want to test you can use free hosting here. Warning really slow.
biggest advantage of open-classified was its speed but it was, not it is.
i tested it (RC1) speed goes down as compare to version 1.x .
its speed equivalent to osclass which currently i am using.
OS ver 1.x was easy to install. But I had issues installing version 2 beta. gave up on that. Was hoping the RC 1 would be easier to install. Unfortunately not – Not sure if there you have had issues with it being installed on Zend :(
Hello,
Can you please elaborate about the speed matter? if you are testing in the demo reoc.clashost.com I need to say that work terrible since it’s a free hosting solution.
So far the tests we’ve done we get same results even better since we improve the DB design and the cache control + minified files + tons of optimizations if your server can handle gzip etc…
Hello,
What kind of trouble are you facing?
The installation is done in 1 step, I tried in 5 different hosting even in windows environment and not any problem. Actually if you check the code you will find that the installation is one of the few things that we reused.
Please elaborate so we can improve. Thanks
This is what initially gets displayed in the browser when attempting to install
* @copyright (c) 2009-2013 Open Classifieds Team * @license GPL v3 */ include ‘functions.php’; include ‘install.php’; ?>
I’ve looked at the code and attempted to try and resolve but it just gets worse. I’m running a a windows machine with Zend Apache running on it.
Your server is not interpreting the PHP. I tried in 5 different places and 1 windows not any problem, the installation is super simple. You can try it at clashost.
For windows if I remember well people uses normally xamp or wamp.