How to create and use Featured Plans

This feature allows you to give users the option to select among different length of their featured ad and pay according to your payment plans. If you don’t know how to enable featured ads, please follow this guide!

How to create Featured Plans:

Log in to your Admin Panel.
Settings -> Payment, enable Featured Ads.
On Featured Plans click Add a plan if you want to create a new plan or click to edit an existing plan.
Fill the fields and click Save plan.

From now on, when a user wants to mark theird ad as featured, by clicking on the option, they will be redirected to the checkout page to choose the featured plan they want to buy.

How to mark ads as Featured

There are several ways to mark an ad as featured.

The admin of the site can mark any ad as featured, even if it is published by a different user. Here’s how the admin can mark ads as featured:

Admin Panel -> Classifieds -> Advertisements -> Settings -> Featured.
Go to an ad page and click Go Featured!.
Click to edit an ad and choose Go Featured.

And here’s how users can mark their ads as featured:

Go to their ad page and click Go Featured!.
Click to edit their ad and choose Go Featured!.
Click the profile button on the top, choose My Advertisements, press Featured.

How to promote featured ads:

The goal here is to give more exposure to featured ads. By default featured ads are highlighted in the listing page. However, there are few more ways to promote featured ads in your site:

Featured ads slider on homepage: Choose to show featured ads in your homepage slider on Settings -> Advertisement -> Listing Options -> Advertisements in home, choose Featured Ads or Featured Ads Random.
Featured ads slider in the listing page: Enable slider on the listing page and choose to show featured ads. Go to Appearance -> Theme Options -> Listing -> Display slider in listing and choose Featured or Featured Random.
Featured ads widget: Create a Featured Ads Widget to show featured ads on Header, Sidebar or Footer. Here’s how to create a widget
Sort by featured in the listing page: Show the featured ads first in the listing page. Go to Settings -> Advertisement -> Listing Options -> Sort by in Listing and choose Featured.

Note that the Featured Plans are available only for the Premium Users. When you ‘re ready to have a Premium Theme, go to our market.