Publishing options

Listings › Settings holds the rules for posting and for how listings are shown. This guide covers the Listing pages and Posting sections. The Form fields and Listing details sections have their own guide: Listing page and form fields.

To change any of these settings:

1. In the admin panel, go to Listings › Settings.
2. Change what you need. The section menu on the left jumps to each group.
3. Click Save changes in the bar at the bottom.

Listing pages

Setting	What it does
Listings per page	How many listings each page of results shows.
Default sort order	The default order of listings: Name (A-Z), Name (Z-A), Price (Low), Price (High), Featured, Rating, Favorited, Newest, Oldest, Distance or Event date. Visitors can still choose another order.
Home page listings	Which listings the home page shows: Latest Listings, Random Listings, Featured Listings, Features Listings Randomly, Popular Listings Last Month or None. Popular is only offered while Count Visits Listings is on.
Related listings	How many similar listings to show under each listing. Enter 0 to show none.
Listings on the map	How many listings the map page shows.
Listings in the RSS feed	How many listings your RSS feed contains.

Distance only works for visitors who have shared their location, and only for listings with map coordinates. Event date only makes sense if you have an eventdate custom field; with that order, listings without an event date are left out.

Posting

Setting	What it does
Require login to post	Visitors must sign in or create an account before they see the posting form. When it is off, visitors can post by entering their name and email, and an account is created for them.
Daily posting limit and Listings per day	Appear when Require login to post is on. Caps how many listings one member can publish per day.
Only admins can post	Only administrators and moderators can post. Other visitors can’t open the posting form. Useful for a directory or a shop you fill yourself.
Listings expire after	After how many days a listing expires. Enter 0 to never expire. See Listing expiry and renewal.
Allow reactivation	Lets sellers put an expired listing back online.
Let users delete listings	Lets sellers permanently delete their own listings. When it is off, they can only deactivate them.
Post in main categories	Lets sellers post in a top-level category (for example Vehicles) instead of having to pick a subcategory (Cars).
Captcha	Adds a captcha to the posting, contact, sign-up and review forms: Cloudflare Turnstile, which most visitors never notice, when it is available, otherwise reCAPTCHA or a picture to type.
Description editor	Gives the description a small formatting toolbar (bold, lists, links, YouTube videos). When it is off, descriptions are plain text. See Add YouTube videos to listings.
Warn before leaving	Warns sellers who try to leave the form before publishing.
Terms of service	Pick one of your pages. Sellers must tick I agree to the Terms of service to post. Deactivated turns it off.
Privacy policy, Cookies policy	Pick the pages with your policies. They stay readable even on a private site.
Thank-you page	Pick a page to show after someone posts. See Thank-you page after posting.

Login is required anyway when…

Members always have to sign in before posting, whatever Require login to post says, when you use membership plans, Stripe Connect or Escrow payments. Those features need to know who the seller is.

Only businesses, or only some members, can post

To let only business accounts post, or to keep some categories for businesses or for private sellers, use the business seller options instead of Only admins can post: see Private and business accounts. Everyone else can still browse and contact sellers.

How the daily limit counts

The limit counts the member’s listings that were published today. Listings waiting in moderation don’t count until you approve them, and approving a listing counts towards the day you approve it. The limit applies to every signed-in member, administrators included.

Requiring login doesn’t make spam go away by itself, but combined with a daily limit, email verification on sign-up and moderation it stops most bulk posting.

Banned words

The Banned words section at the bottom of the page blocks or replaces words in titles and descriptions. It is explained, together with the black list, in Black list and banned words.

Limits from your Yclas plan

Your plan sets the most listings your marketplace can hold and the most photos per listing. You can lower the photo limit, but not raise it above your plan. See Plans and billing.

Related guides

• Listing page and form fields — the rest of Listings › Settings.
• Moderation — how new listings go live.
• How members post a listing — the form your sellers fill in.
• Listing expiry and renewal — expiry, reminders and renewing.