In this tutorial, I’ll describe what are and how promotions work in DJ-Classifieds. I will also show how to assign them to ads and how they look on the website. I’ll explain what the relations between them are.
I assume that you already have a running website with DJ-Classifieds extension. If not, and you are just starting your adventure with Joomla, I encourage you to read
the documentation of DJ-Classifieds
.
Go to
Views
tab and set “
Default ordering
” field into “
Add date including promotions
”. Click Save and close.
I think the best way is to show you an example. This is the initial list:
I want to set “
first
” promotion for “
Bedroom Furnishes
” item. Go to C
omponents-> DJ-Classifieds-> Items-> Bedroom Furnishes
.
Go to the
Promotions
tab and set
Promotion
- ''
First
'' as
Yes
. Click Save and close.
Now, list od adverts look like that:
As you can see, “Bedroom Furnishes” is first on the list now. I do it the same for “Luxury Lakeside Living” item. Our list looks like that:
Of course “Luxury Lakeside Living” ad is first now (because promotion added later) and “Bedroom Furnishes” is second (because it “older”).
Now let’s try to use “Move to the top of the list” option for “Sunny apartment” advert. Log in to the website, find your “Sunny apartment” advert and use “Move to the top of the list” option.
List of adverts looks like that:
Why “Sunny apartment” advert is third on the list if we set it to the top? Because “first” promotion has a higher priority and it will always set at the beginning. Please move to the top-it means in first free space for items with the same priority (so for all others).
If you're a little bit confused, don't worry :). Just test in on your website, and in one moment you’ll understand what's going on. Fortunately, all the other promotions are much simpler.
The aim of this promotion is the too bold font in the advert. Go to
Components-> DJ-Classifieds-> Items
and choose any item.
Go to
Promotion
tab and set
Promotion
- ''
Bold
'' to
Yes
. Click
Save and Close
.
Let’s check how looks advert with promotion (first) and advert without promotion (second). This promotion doesn’t influence the order of displaying ads.
Go to
Promotion
tab and set
Promotion
- ''
Border
'' to Yes. Click
Save and Close
Let’s check how looks advert with promotion (first) and advert without promotion (second). This promotion doesn’t influence the order of displaying ads.
Go to
Promotion
tab and set
Promotion
- ''
Background
'' to
Yes
. Click
Save and Close
.
Let’s check how looks advert with promotion (first) and advert without promotion (second). This promotion doesn’t influence the order of displaying ads.
Go to
Promotion
tab and set
Promotion
- ''
Special
'' to
Yes
. Click
Save and Close
.
Let’s check how looks advert with promotion (first) and advert without promotion (second). This promotion doesn’t influence the order of displaying ads.
You can also use this promotion to publish the module on the front and show-only special offers. Instructions you can find in “
using the modules
” section. The only difference: instead of Only promotion ''
Border
'' you’ll choose Only promotion ''
Special
''.
In this way, I’ve described all promotions. We can combine it: one advert may have many promotions. I'll show you some examples:
the advert with “
first
” and “
bold
” promotions
the advert with “
first
” and “
border
” promotions
the advert with “
special
” and “
background
” promotions
the advert with “
background
” and “
border
” promotions
the advert with “
bold
”, “
background
” and “
border
” promotions
Choose
DJ-Classifieds Items
This is an example module, which displays only protomer adverts:
All promotions are published by default. However, if you don’t want to use some of them, go to
Components-> DJ-Classifieds-> Promotions-> Promotion “Border.”
You can easily change the description of the promotion to own one. Choose default (English) language in backend and go to
Extensions-> Language-> Overrides
. Click
New
. For example, type
Promotion “Background”
and click
Search
. You can change description by using a language variable and click
save and close
.
You create an advertising service, and you want to charge for promotions? Nothing easier. Go to
Components-> DJ-Classifieds-> Promotions-> Promotion “Background”