Guest post ad

[adexinc +]

Hi,
I searched the forum for this (which seems to me like someone must have asked this before!!) but I haven't found anything besides a post from 2007 with no replies and a post from 2008 re: someone who overwrote their files and allowed a guest to register but wanted to revert back to the default . Soo here it goes...

Is there a way that a guest can post an ad?

Thank you.

Joanna.

Running 4.1.5 on localhost, deepsea template

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by adexinc

Is there a way that a guest can post an ad?

Nope, not without extensive modification.

Truth be told if you do not require people to register within months your site would be flooded with spam and you would be spending all your time deleting the spam unles you have a private website only available on an intranet or the likes.

Even in cases where registration is required, like this forum for example, there can be literally dozens of spam posts a day that get deleted.

[adexinc +]

Ok Thanks for your advice. It is appreciated!

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

In addition to what Lhotch has already indicated, how would a guest who hasn't supplied any contact information be contacted for an item posted?

[damiun +]

Hi,

maybe i dont understand it correctly,

but what if you make two different checkout procedures,
one (with only the listing details) for the registered people,
and the second with an extra page, so the visitor (guest) can add his 1.name, 2.email, 3.phone, 4. place.

Dominick

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by damiun

Hi,

maybe i dont understand it correctly,

but what if you make two different checkout procedures,
one (with only the listing details) for the registered people,
and the second with an extra page, so the visitor (guest) can add his 1.name, 2.email, 3.phone, 4. place.

Dominick

Sure, sounds easy typed out here, go ahead and create it. Then you can sell and support it as well.

[damiun +]

Sure, sounds easy typed out here, go ahead and create it. Then you can sell and support it as well.
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Larry.

Did i hurt your feelings?

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by damiun

Did i hurt your feelings?

Nope, not at all.

Im just saying that if you think its so easy, go ahead and whip it up.

[seymourjames +]

1. unregistered people pacing ads = SPAM
2. if a person doesn't register or provide some form of contact details somewhere then a buyer cannot contact them. It doesn't matter whether it is through a registration or checkout process - it amounts to the same thing. Details have to be supplied at some point. There would be no point otherwise unless it is effectively a site posting logos or just an image in a business type directory. I think it is a silly idea.


A more interesting idea is to focus on visitors in a clever way. Allow visitors to view certain parts of the site and not other parts. In other words , using user groups to decide which part of a advert listing can be viewed. This is easily achievable with very little customization.