How to Make a Service Finder & B2B Website like UrbanClap

How to Make a Service Finder & B2B Website like UrbanClap

Make a Service Finder

templates now select the home template as you can see one template is already given home template when you select the home template you will see new options over here home setting you will see these settings later on first let's publish this page.

 ok now let's View this page in a new tab now you'll get this page as you can see this is the page that we have just created now we have named it home but this is not the home page if you click on this icon you will see this is the home page and a page that we have just created this page is actually not the home page so we need to do one thing we, in fact, we have just created a page and named it home you can anything you can name it about you can name it to contact you.

 you can name it home but this does not become the homepage just because of the name we need to set this page as the official homepage so to do that again you will come back to your dashboard from the left-hand side you'll hover your settings and click on reading.

 now under reading the first option that you'll see is your the homepage displays so at present your homepage displays the latest post we need to select the second one a static page and select this home a home page that we have just created you will see there's just one option home select that and Click on Save Changes.

 now again come back to your website now again click on that link now as you can see you will see this thing okay now many things are already present over here as you can see this recent answered most answered answers no answers all these options are available it just says that nothing found because there is no question available.

 right now we haven't created any a question we haven't done anything that is the reason we are getting this option now let's do few changes or few settings so first of all, we need to do one thing is we have this option showing show question box which is fine that this question box is showing that is good but we don't have anything at the left hand side in the demo website we have so many options in the left-hand side here we don't have it so let's do those settings so for that again come back to your dashboard clicks on pages.

 now edit this page the home page that we have created edit that page now below this page you will see these home settings Click on that home settings make sure this thing is selected throw the ask question box and make sure this is on and this will display this box okay what's your question this box make sure that is selected.

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 now the select this as well make it on a show the tabs at the left menu okay so this will display these tabs at the left-hand side at the left menu and you have to select all the tabs that you want to display most voted a question bump new questions sticky question polls whatever you want to show you can simply just make it on okay whatever you want to show just make it on and click on update again come back to your website refresh it.

 now as you can see you are getting all these options at the left-hand side so that is the only thing that we need to do after that we have some more options related to the home page if you scroll down how to do you want to be displayed pagination load more or infinite scroll.

 now what this means is if you see the demo website if you scroll down as you can see it says load more question whenever we have around ten questions after that you will get this load more then again you'll scroll down more ten then load more so how do you want to load more or infinite scroll so infinite scroll is just kept on scrolling.

 you'll get either you will just keep on getting more and more questions so load more infinite scroll or pagination is like page 1 you go to page 2 you see 10 more page 3 10 more that is the that is how it works okay so how whatever you like to show pagination style simple pagination our load more or infinite scroll you can select that a load more is a better option so just make sure load mode is selected.

 now time frame for the tabs so there are few tabs that we have selected like the recent post tab so what is a recent post last 24 hours last 2 days last 3 days what is a recent post if we select all time so just the recent posts so basically you just have to select the all-time don't do any changes over here now also don't change these slugs just let it be as it is.

 now a custom setting for the question if you see over here when we click on this which we don't have an option over here we need to add some options so after for that, we need to select this thing yes custom setting for question and all the options that we need to show in the question so actively author image in question loop.

 now there are no questions available over here but if you come to this page if you come to our demo website you can see beside every single a question we have this authors image so do you want to show that the author's image obviously, want to show that so make sure this thing is on actually the active the word in the loop so do you want to show this would you know upward and downward obviously, we want to show that or select on to hide the disliked so if you want to hide the dislike just make it on.

 I would say no select on to show the poles in question loop obviously, we want to show the poles select on to hide the excerpt in question don't select this on orals this will hide this thing okay this much this summary of the question it will hide this thing only the title will be displayed this thing that I have selected over you as you can see these summary this excerpt will be hidden so don't select this thing then after that select on to activate read more button this is good so that we get to read more option after that okay so you can select this thing activate the follow button add question loop makes it on so that a person can get follow button for example.

 we don't have that option over here in the demo website but let me show okay so basically what happens is when you will get a follow button beside every single question.

 so what that does is whenever someone follows a particular question whenever a person a third person comes and answers that question because you are following that question.

 you'll get a notification that someone has answered this question that is what it means so I think this is an important option this makes it on do you want to display the tags at loop which means these are all the tags English language these are two tabs tags.

 I'm sorry so yes we want to display the tags active the answer loop by best hands answer the most voted answer doesn't make it on if you make it on what happens is it will also, display the answers below every single question we don't want to do do that nowhere we just want to display the questions and when someone clicks on that question only then those answers as you can see.

 now all the answers are displaying only then these answers should be displayed but in this loop or in the archive section this is the loop section or the archive section.

 here we do we want to display only the question we don't want to display the answer the answers will be displayed only when someone clicks on a particular question so make this thing know then we have a custom setting for the post we haven't created any post but you can just make it on you can change the post options we will create post after some time and we'll see those options okay custom setting for answers only two three options are given over here which is fine do you want to show the author image and words to answer should only two options.

 so let's see an answer so this is a question someone has an answered this so author image and vote okay only two options are available to make sure both are on we don't want to select this thing we also want to show the dislike we just don't want to show only the like we also want to show the dislike so select this much and click on update.

 now there won't be any changes on our website because there is no question to display but when the question is displayed you will get all these options so let me do one thing let me just type in or post a new question so I will click on this what's your question and let me type a question what is WordPress alright and let me just click on and publish your question okay this is how it will look now let's refresh this page now this is how your page will look.

 now let's do one thing again come back to a home page now as you can see all the settings are working we have the user's the image we have the title and we have all these options 3 views 0 followers answered thing ok when you click on this particular question this is how it looks no one has answered it and we don't get this answer option ok we get this answer option over here but when someone clicks on that they won't be able to leave an answer because the default settings are that no one can just leave-in and so we need to do few settings over here.

 now before doing those answer settings or some other settings we need to do more settings related to question.

 now when we click on this question only one option we are getting the question the title we are not getting any option like we are not getting any category option or anything let me show you another website, for example, this is another website when we click on this what's the question you can see we get so many options question title category tags all this option featured image or details about the question and all those things we are not getting these options.

 so first we need to configure these things so for that come back to your dashboard first of all let's create few categories so that whenever a person wants to post a question they can get these categories ok and they can select a category and that is how it will work so for that we need to create few categories so come back to your dashboard and you need to hover our questions and click on question categories.

 now we need to give it a name so you can name it anything for example, if you want to give a new category related to technology so just name it technology all right after that you'll see there are a lot of options available for a particular category, for example, you have category setting okay for example, if you want to make it a private category you can make it on so in private category questions can only be seen by the author of the questions and the admin.

 you can make it a special category in special category the admin must answer the question before anyone else so whoever selects this category technology to ask a question and if you have made it special category first you will need to answer that question after that anyone can else anyone else can the answer that question.

 okay so that is basically what it means if you want to give a custom logo for this particular category for example if you see this website this demo website at the left-hand side you have these communities that are what categories are so if you click on communities this is the program so click on programs.

 now in this category, as you can see a different logo is given okay this is what a custom logo is and you can you know change the design as well for example, this blue is the primary color if you want to change the primary color or the color scheme of a particular category you can change that as well you have that option here change your skin so if you click on red so whenever someone clicks on this category everything will be red for example this button all these things all everything that you see blue will be red okay that is basically, what it means.

 you can also add some advertising over here so for the example you can select display code or custom image if you have a particular the image that you want to display you can select that you can click on display code so whenever someone selects a particular category these advertisements will also be shown so basically you should not be selecting most of the things over here you should just enter the category name at the bottom and click on add a new category once you do that you will see a new category has been added technology.

 now there could be one scenario or for example, there is one major category in that there are some you know subcategories for example technology can be a major category in technology under technology you can create some subcategories like AI in something like that for example if you want to create a subcategory you'll just name it, for example, let's name it AI artificial intelligence and if this is a subcategory to technology you will under question categories will select technology then go at the bottom and click on add new the category.

 now you'll see this - before this AI which means that AI is this subcategory of Technology so you can create something like that as well for example clothing is can be a mean category can be a parent category under the clothing you can have shirts pants like that ok so you can do that as well so you can create an unlimited number of categories over here so this is how you do it if you want to create a question guarantee how our questions and click on custom categories.

 now again let's come back to our website refresh this page now click on what's your question now click on what's your question you'll see we still don't get that option ok still it's just one single title we don't get that option ok so for that we need to set those questions so again you will come back to your dashboard nowhere from the left-hand side you'll select I see ok so click on 'add I see now these are all the different theme settings so most of the settings will be done from here.

 now at the left-hand side, you have this question settings click on that question settings as you can see fourth or fifth numbers question settings now here we have to do all the settings.

 now under general settings first, we have select on if you need to choose the question add simple layout so you can select this thing you can make it on show filter ad categories and archive page tags and all those things activate question bumper ok activate the vote in this side select all these options I think you should just leave this thing to default click on save options now we have this question slug also just leave it to default come to this one add edit or deleting a question.

 now you have this option we have some options so here anyone can ask a question without register make sure this is off because to ask a question first we want the person to signup to our website obviously if you want to make it on you can make it on if you just make it on even if the person has not registered on your website they can the question.

 but I would recommend you to make it off you can also charge points for question settings okay, for example, charge five points for question so to ask a question a person will be charged five points so we haven't created points and badges but you can do that from here okay if you want you can do this from here then we have some more options like selecting what's shown in question form.

 now this is what we are talking about we want to show the question category question tags question poll the featured image now let me show you all this option like this is category this are tags this is the featured image this is the detail they can ask the question anonymously all these options are available so what all options do you want to make it enable you can just make it on okay what all you'll make it on that will be that will be shown over here okay then you can just come at the bottom you obviously can go through all these settings and change them if you want but I think leaving them to default will be a better option click on save options now again come over here refresh your website

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