Open Classifieds 2.7.0. released!

Hello friends!

We are thinking that you will love our new and improved software. In this release you will find an awesome feature that many people have been asked for some time. Memberships. With Memberships you can create customized plans for your customers in order to get recurrent payments in exchange for ads posted in a period of time.

Let’s see an example: Momart is a marketplace for buy/sell art. The admin set 2 plans (with our new membership feature)

• First plan 0$: You can post for Free, but only 1 ad per day and Momart gets 20% commission for all transactions
• Second plan 59$/month: You can post unlimited ads  day and Momart won’t get commission for any transaction.

With this tool we open a new world of possibilities for marketplaces and classifieds site and that is why we wanted to share it with you. But is not the only update in this release, following here is the full update list:

What’s new at 2.7.0

• Membership Plans
• Marketplace fee using Stripe Connect
• Responsive Images for all the themes
• Choose Language Widget
• Custom fields search a range of values
• Filter by distance advanced search
• Fraudlabs update JS agent
• Geonames improvement
• User custom fields on profile page
• Buyer instruction Custom Fields
• Updated Stripe library
• Stripe Bitcoin
• Improved performance SQL queries and PHP code
• TLS support for email configuration
• RSS feed for a particular user
• Select how many ads to display per page
• Recently searched widget
• Many more stuff and bug fixes! read more

We really hope that you are happy with what we have been working on. Find the instructions on how to update your Open Classifieds website below.

The OC-team

How to update?

Please read these instructions carefully. If you can’t update your site we offer the update service for $55 if you have a 2.x, Please before get the update service, contact us.

In this new version the themes API has changed slightly and your custom theme will not work on the publish new page. If we did the custom theme we will be contacting you really soon with instructions.

Since 2.4.0 we are requiring PHP 5.5.x as minimal version. We do this since we need to assure you have a decent updated version of PHP installed at your hosting. So before you update be sure you have 5.5. you can ask your hosting for this.

We can not be responsible for fail updates during the update process and we won’t fix those issues for you. If you are not sure, how to do it, please buy our professional update here.

Website is running on Open Classifieds 2.2.1 or higher:

By following this way you will just need to follow the normal automatic update steps:

• Make a backup of all your files and DB (recommended)
• Log in to your OC admin panel
• go to tools > update and click Update
• If you have a newer version, click on check for updates and then go to http://yoursite.com/oc-panel/update/latest
• If you have premium theme, download it from the market and reupload it from there.
• Done! ;)

Manual update for lower versions and advanced users only:

Please follow the instructions to prevent from getting into any errors.

1. Make a backup of all your files and DB (recommended)
2. Log in at your OC panel
3. Activate the default theme if you had a premium theme
4. Download latest 2.7.0 and extract the files in its folder
5. Enable maintenance mode
6. Open your FTP or your website file manager
7. Delete all files in your website folder except for the following:
   1. robots.txt
   2. /oc/config/auth.php
   3. /oc/config/database.php
   4. .htaccess
   5. /images/
   6. and /themes/ if you had a custom theme.
8. Now upload to your folder all files we extracted earlier except for the files we mentioned in the previous step and the “/install” folder
9. Run in your browser http://yourdomain.com/oc-panel/update/database?from_version=2.0.3 (here put your current version)
10. If you have premium theme, download it from the market and reupload it from there.
11. CONGRATULATIONS !!!! 2.7.0 is Ready!

Please for any problems or questions use our forum for this release or open a support ticket if you have support. You can buy a support package now, and we will update your site to the latest version!

Feel free to give us any feedback or kudos we are happy to hear and help you!

thanks ;)