phpBay Pro: The Extended Manual – Testing

At this stage in the phpBay Pro Extended Manual, we have been through the installation and configuration steps. Now let’s test it out.

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation/Activation
• Configuration
• Testing
• Per-Post/Per-Page Settings
• Geo-Targeting
• Making The Images Clickable
• Replacing WordPress Search With eBay Search
• Inserting phpBay Code Into Theme Files
• Buy phpBay Pro (20% off coupon: DA9CD69F42)
• From Picking A Market To Building/Managing Your phpBay (Or BANS) Site

Let’s make a sample page (it doesn’t have to be published) with some auctions so that we can see the progress of the changes that we make when doing the upgrades (geo-targeting and image linking).

Just add a new page like you normally would…

1. Under ‘Pages’, click ‘Add New’.
2. Add a Title.
3. Click the ‘HTML’ tab on the editor.
4. Click the ‘phpBay’ button that shows up in the editor. You should now see the following code:

   

5. Erase everything between the tags so that you have:

   

6. Insert a search term between the tags…use a term that you might use when searching eBay for the auctions that you want to display. Then put a comma and the number of auctions you want to display. Example:

   

7. Click ‘Save Draft’.
8. Click ‘Preview’.

Now you have a basic working example of eBay auction listings for the country that was set in the phpBay global settings. You can manually switch to display different countries’ auctions if you like. I will explain shortly how to do it automatically.

In the next step I will go through some of the settings that you can specify at the post/page level.