The WordPress Auction Plugin is Paypal ready meaning you can charge your members to post auctions and or premium features. The admin area is professionally designed with everything you need to run a professional auction site. Features include auction listing, auction showcase, auction duration, reserve price, comments and tons more.
Required Plugins:
AmberPanther WP Include File
(Just do a search in the WP Admin, Plugins area for "Includes" and you should see that plugin come up. Install that plugin.
Optional Plugins:
I recommend installing these two optional plugins.
Sidebar Login � This allows you to add a sidebar widget with quick links to Home, and quick links to things like New Listings, Most Active and Ending Soon.
Peters Login Redirect � This allows your members to be redirected to the auction page once they login.
- Go to your WP Admin area and create a page. This is the page that you want the auction to appear on. Then copy the below code to it. This code will show the auction site on that page.
[include file="profile_header.php" masterpath="wp-content/plugins/mam_auction/"]
- If you are going to use the Sidebar Login Plugin then go to Settings, Sidebar Login and uncheck the "Show Logged In Avatar".
You should also delete all the Logged In Links. You can add custom ones later.
Also, you will want to put your Login Redirect and Logout Redirect URL's in the boxes above. Most people will just put the login redirect to the auction page and logout to the home page. Some people have the auction page come up on the first page. You can do that by creating the auction page then go to WP Admin, Settings, Reading and tell it which page you want to come up first. Be sure to put your Blogs (Posts) on the blog page. You have to create that page first if you haven't done so already.
- If you are going to use the plugin called Peters Login Redirect then you can set it up to redirect all members to the auction page. Go to WP Admin, Settings, Login/Logout Redirect. By default all new users are �Subscribers� so you can redirect all Subscribers to the auction page and yes, it's the same login/logout as the Sidebar Login Redirect. You want them both.
- You will need to setup a Cron Job that runs every 15 minutes. You can do this via your hosting company. This ensures that all the auctions will start and end properly. Below is the link that you want to use in your cron job. You will need to change domain.com to your domain and use your own path to the file.
php -q /public_html/domain.com/auction-demo/wp-content/plugins/mam_auction/cron_job.php
- All the photos from your users auctions will need to be stored in a folder called mam_photos so be sure to create that folder under /wp-content/uploads/ and also set the folder permission to 777.