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Have a problem. For some reason on our auction, when someone places a bid and hits the “place bid” button, nothing happens. Any suggestions.
Also, can we change the minimum bid amount when someone outbids someone else? We would like to change it to $1.00 instead of $.01.
Hi Chris,
You have too many auctions on the same post. You can only have ONE auction per page/post.
Try doing that and see if it works.
More information here: http://wpauctions.com/faq/
Can we change the default bid amount when someone outbids someone else?
In other words, if guy 1 bids $5 and guy 2 bids $7, when bidding ends then guy 2 would pay $7 for the item and not $.01 more than the previous bid…in this case $5.01
It’s possible yes, let me get with my developer and we’ll be in touch via email.
Basically you want exact bids. Correct?
That is correct….EXACT bids. Thanks
doesn’t work
you can not even create an auction because they “pretenders”
can not properly display the css
Can you point me to your URL. I don’t understand what you mean by “pretenders”?
Hi
I would like all my auctions to end at aspecific time, and as I know this is not yet supported, I specifying the end time in the auction description. what I would like to know is where can I remove the end time that shows in the auction in a post feature?
http://www.quaggabooks.co.za/auction/secure-the-shadow
The easiest way is to just block it via CSS.
Open up wp_apost.css in the wpauctions/ plugin folder. Look for:
.auctiondetails uland add this INSIDE the curly brackets
display: none;Save the file and it won’t be displayed on your auction anymore. Should you like to enable it later on, just remove the code you inserted.
Thanks so much
When I uploaded plugin, and activated it. It said “plugin does not have a valid header” what should I do?
Does it say that in the backend or the frontend?
After I try to activate it, it goes to a screen that says the error, its on the backend I guess. I am on the latest wordpress 2.9.2, I have tried numerous times to upload it. I have also tried on 3 other websites that I own just to see if it was something in my particular theme or plug ins. Not sure what else to do.
Looks like your plugin may not be in the correct folder. I Googled the error and found this:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278925
The plugin should be in /wp-content/plugins .. not in a sub-folder.
Can you let us know if this corrects your problem?
Regards
Owen
How do you change folders, so why is the initial file not correct? can you guys give me another file that doesn’t have the excess folders. I need more specific info
Try deleting the plugin from your install and then uploading it via FTP to wp-content/plugins.
Once you upload it, the file structure should like this – wp-content/plugins/wp-auctions/
Cool, I used the Ftp method and it worked, I have never used that way before, I am still new to wordpress hosted, I appreciate your help. Thanks guys!
Downloaded the zipfile, but when I install it this keeps coming up?? Unable to create directory /hsphere/local/home/churinga/rudelyinterrupted.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
It’s probably because you are on a local host, also the plugin should go under wp-content/plugins/ not wp-content/uploads/
Thanks Hyder, Hmmm, I’m confused and lost.. also the plugin should go under wp-content/plugins/?????
How/where is this. The only option I have is to upload under content. Or maybe not.. Please help.. R
Yes, all plugins go under wp-content/plugins/ You have the option to upload under the Plugins area as well.
Hey Hyder,
I have wordpress 2.9.2, when I upload the .zip file from the plugin section it responds with this still.
Unable to create directory /hsphere/local/home/churinga/rudelyinterrupted.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
i’m super excited about this plugin so i’ve been playing all day the plugin from the directory, however it seems to be having problems, when it’s posted on my blog page of the website, it says it can’t find the page requested?
Something’s amiss with your WordPress install, your plugins should be uploaded to wp-content/plugins/ try uploading via FTP instead of using the backend.
All plugins MUST go under wp-content/plugins/ if they are being uploaded to wp-content/uploads/ your installation of WordPress itself is messed up. Can’t help you much unless you upload to the right directory.
FTP Seems all good, thanks. One thing though, it’s not leading winners to our paypal as we requested? Hmmm..
Don’t know why the paypal link would not be working. Let us know if it persists.
I am using WP Auctions 3.3 in WordPress 2.8.6. It works great with auctions in posts. However in Manage Auctions, the delete function does not work. I cannot delete unwanted auctions.
Thanks
@Chris: are you using any admin-side plugins that may interfere with the code on the page?
Thanks for the fast reply. The only other plugins are Akismet and Google Analytics for WordPress.
Hmm, there should be nothing stopping it. When you click Delete you should be getting a Javascript confirmation. Is this coming up at all? Is your browser reporting any Javascript errors ?
My mistake. The delete functions does work. I had only tried it on one auction. It works fine on other auctions, but there is one which won’t go away. It is not much of a problem now that all the other old auctions are gone.
The bad delete link is incomplete. The link is
javascript:if(‘confirm(Delete auction\’
with nothing following it.
Maybe it will be there forever.
Thanks
Actually .. you might have uncovered a bug there
I’ll take an educated guess here: does your auction name have an apostrophe (‘) in it?
Excellent guess! The auction name is “Reclining Connected Forms”
It was the second auction I created, and I can’t remember the result, but I recall that I had to redo it for some reason. The new version of that auction has no quotes in the name and works fine.
Well, there’s a new version in the works, I’m off to squish the bug to make sure you’ll be able to delete auctions with quotes in them
When using the upload control to upload an image, I get the following message:
Http:error: with photoname.jpg:error #500
There are no errors in the error log on the server.
Folder permissions are set correctly.
Any suggestions?
Hi Darryl, this could be a server issue. Your domain URL goes to an error page though.
Ahoy mate…just purchased the plugin to use on our site…a couple of hiccups:
Styles don’t seem to work at all (tried changing permissions on style folder up to 777, but no go) I assume styles will change text colour for bid description (for example) which currently only prints black and that won’t work on our site.
Can the bid increment be changed? I see others have asked, but no solutions yet?
Otherwise, great plugin! Should be useful for many…
One more thing…we use the “shutter reloaded” plugin and the image popup for WP Auction fights with it – if ye click the image it opens in BOTH – shutter on top, if ye close, the Auction image browser is still there…somewhere I can change this behavior?
BTW, we are using “auction in page”
sorted out the issue with shutter reloaded, it has an option to exclude pages, did that WP Auctions photos work as they should.
Just noticed something with styles – although they don’t seem to change at all in either browser, in IE there is a white background for the text – not in Firefox, there is NO background and text is black.
FYI page is presently here…
http://nolapyrateweek.com/wp/jamaican-pyrate-hideaway-auction
Ahoy Capt. Swallow, the page seems to be empty. (btw, love your username)
Sorry mate – seems I had the page marked ‘private’ instead of just hiding the link, should work now:
http://j.mp/aKvJFZ
I see, that’s actually a CSS issue. Thanks for pointing that out to us.
Here’s the fix:
1. Open up wp_apost.css from the plugin files.
2. The first line has this bit of code in it
.wpauction { background: #fff !important !important;3. Remove the extra !important, so you should be left with:
.wpauction { background: #fff !important;That should solve the background issue.
Remember to save the file/re-upload it to the right folder should you need to.
Cheers, Hyder – that worked brilliantly!
Now…not to be a pest, but do ye have a solution to the styles not implementing – tried after the above fix, but still “plain”.
Looks fine, just might be nice to work the colour angle if possible…