Yclas vs ClassiPress
ClassiPress is a WordPress classifieds theme you install and keep running yourself. Yclas is a complete classifieds platform with AI built in, hosted, updated and supported for you.
- 7 AI tools, built inIncluded in ClassiPress: none. Each one is paid, partial or missing.
- 18 of 19 featuresin the comparison below are paid add-ons, partial or missing in ClassiPress, each with its source.
- Live in about two minutesHosting, SSL, updates, backups and support are in one monthly price.
- Switch without starting overThe importer brings your listings, users and photos across.
ClassiPress, by AppThemes, is one of the first WordPress classifieds themes and is still sold: $69 for a lifetime licence with 12 months of support and updates. Its newest release, 4.2.8, came out on 5 June 2024, with PHP 8.2 fixes and reCAPTCHA v3. You run WordPress, its hosting, updates and backups. Yclas is a hosted classifieds platform, kept up to date for you, with one monthly price.
Last checked: 24 October 2026. Facts about ClassiPress come from its own website; the sources are listed at the end of this page.
AI that does the work for you.
Yclas puts AI into every part of a marketplace: building it, filling it, searching it and keeping it safe. Monthly AI use is included in every plan. Under each one, what ClassiPress offers.
Describe a change, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview. 109 ready-made looks and drag-and-drop sections.
Say what your marketplace is for and the AI writes your categories, subcategories, tagline and About page in your language. Live in about two minutes.
Sellers add a photo; the AI writes the title, description and price, and picks the category and fields.
Visitors search the way they talk, such as "red bike under 300 near Valencia", and get the right filters.
Every new listing is checked against your rules for scams, prohibited items, spam and wrong categories. Risky ones wait in your queue with the reason, and buyers are warned when a message asks for gift cards or off-site payment.
On multilingual sites each listing is translated into every site language, with its own page for search engines. 44 languages.
The AI drafts a seller's reply from the listing and the conversation; the seller edits and sends it.
What changes for you.
What you get with Yclas that ClassiPress doesn't include.
Every Yclas plan includes all of these. For ClassiPress we list what its own website offers, with the price where it is a paid add-on.
| Feature | Yclas | ClassiPress |
|---|---|---|
| Selling and money | ||
| Paid listings and memberships | Featured listings, bump to top, paid categories, memberships and coupons, paid into your own Stripe, PayPal or other account | Included Featured listing prices, several pricing models, ad packs and membership packs [1] |
| Offers in the chat | Buyers make an offer; sellers accept, decline or counter; an accepted offer can be paid online | Not offered Not listed [1] |
| Auctions | Proxy bidding, reserve price, buy-now and anti-sniping | Not offered Not among the theme's features [1] |
| Buyers and trust | ||
| Messages between buyers and sellers | Built in | Partly An ad inquiry form; messages between buyers and sellers not listed [1] |
| Reviews and badges | Two-sided reviews and badges sellers earn, such as Fast responder and Top rated | Not offered Not among the theme's features [1] |
| Seller verification | ID and business document checks, and trader details for business sellers | Not offered Not listed [1] |
| Saved searches with alerts | Instant or daily alerts for new matches, by email and push | Partly An email alert engine is listed; saved searches are not described [1] |
| Easy and safe sign-in | Google, Facebook, Apple, X, Microsoft and LinkedIn, a code by SMS, one-click email links and two-step login | Partly Social network login; no two-step login listed [1] |
| Growth and SEO | ||
| Maps and map search | OpenStreetMap with no API key, or Google Maps; search the area on the map or near a place | Partly Radius search and search by location data; search by map area not listed [1] |
| Webhooks, API keys and MCP | Signed webhooks, scoped API keys, and an MCP server so AI assistants can work with your site | Partly The AppThemes API for developers; no webhooks or MCP listed [1] |
| Running the site | ||
| Hosting, SSL, updates and backups | Included in every plan, with support | Not offered Not included: you run WordPress hosting, updates and backups [1] |
| Moving your site in | An importer for Osclass, Flynax, LaraClassifier and WordPress exports and CSV files, with a dry run and undo | Not offered No importer from other classifieds software listed [1] |
A working site in year one.
Software, support and the things you need to keep a site online. Hosting for self-hosted software depends on the host you choose, so it is left out of their totals.
ClassiPress
| ClassiPress Standard: lifetime licence, unlimited sites, 12 months of support and updates [1] | $69 |
|---|---|
| Or the AppThemes Club: every theme and 20+ marketplace items, 12 months [2] | $199 |
| Extra gateways and plugins from the AppThemes Marketplace (optional) [6] | About $15 to $39 each |
| WordPress hosting, domain and SSL | Paid separately |
| Year one | $69 + hosting |
Updates are free for the first 12 months. The Club renews at $79 a year and isn't renewed automatically; the theme page doesn't give a renewal price for the single theme. Items in the AppThemes Marketplace are sold separately, by their own authors.
Yclas
| Starter up to 5,000 listings · $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month | $678 |
|---|---|
| Professional up to 100,000 listings · $99 a month | $1,188 |
| Marketplace up to 300,000 listings · $149 a month | $1,788 |
| Included in the price | Hosting, SSL, updates, backups, support |
Year-one totals for each plan, from the pricing page. 15 days free first, with no credit card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan. Prices in US dollars; EU customers pay VAT unless they add a VAT number.
ClassiPress and Yclas, point by point.
| Topic | ClassiPress | Yclas |
|---|---|---|
| What you install | WordPress and the ClassiPress theme, on hosting you choose | Nothing: your site is created when you sign up |
| Software price | $69 once (lifetime licence, unlimited sites); Club $199 | $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month (Starter). Every plan includes hosting. |
| Releases | 4.2.8 on 5 June 2024, the newest; 4.2.7 before it, on 29 July 2022 | Updated continuously, with nothing for you to install |
| Updates and support | 12 months with the licence | Tickets in English or Spanish on every plan, and updates for as long as you are a customer |
| Server | WordPress hosting you run; the theme lists WordPress 4.0+ support, and 4.2.8 fixed PHP 8.2 issues | Included, with SSL on your own domain |
| Taking payments | PayPal and bank transfers, featured listing prices, ad packs and membership packs; more gateways from the AppThemes Marketplace | Built in: Stripe, PayPal and regional gateways, for featured listings, bump to top, paid categories and memberships |
| Contacting the seller | An inquiry form on each ad | Messages between buyers and sellers, with offers in the thread |
| Search | Advanced search, radius search and search by location | Filters on every field, map search, saved searches with alerts and AI search |
| Languages | Translatable, compatible with WPML, several currencies | 44 languages, multilingual sites and listing translation by AI |
| AI help | None in the theme; an OpenAI Tagger item is sold in the AppThemes Marketplace | Seven AI tools: page builder, site setup, listings from a photo, search, scam checks, listing translation and suggested replies |
Also on every Yclas plan
- 44 languages, right-to-left included, multilingual sites and any currency
- Your own domain with one DNS record, and SSL set up automatically
- 17 payment gateways, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Mercado Pago and Razorpay
- A money wizard that sets up paid posting, featured listings and plans in a few clicks
- Cookie consent that holds back analytics and ad code until visitors accept
- Reporting of illegal listings with a review queue, as the EU Digital Services Act asks
- Captcha with no setup, listing drafts that save themselves, and favourites
- Custom CSS and code, conditional custom fields and a catalogue of add-ons
- Ready-made connections for Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Slack and HubSpot
- A share kit with WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and X buttons and a social image for every listing
The AI features and the page builder work with the Nova theme, the default for new sites. Compare plans →
Make it yours without hiring a developer.
With ClassiPress, a design beyond the theme's options usually means paying a developer or designer. Yclas includes a page builder you use yourself: describe what you want, or change it by hand.
The Yclas page builder
- Describe the change in plain words, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview before you publish.
- Start from 109 ready-made looks for cars, property, jobs, services, equipment and more, then change colours, fonts, buttons and spacing.
- Build pages from a library of sections: hero with search, categories, latest listings, how it works, locations, map, text, image and text, features, testimonials, FAQ, stats, call to action and logos, plus custom code sections for anything else.
- Drag sections into place, edit text right on the page, and check it on desktop, tablet and phone, next to your live site.
- Write and rewrite text with AI, and use free photos from Pexels and Unsplash or your own.
- Add pages, save blocks to reuse, undo any step, restore an earlier version, schedule publishing up to 90 days ahead, and share a preview link for 7 days.
Included in every plan. Want us to do it for you? Our team also does custom design and development.
The usual route with ClassiPress
| ClassiPress child themes and plugins from the AppThemes Marketplace [6] | Sold separately |
|---|---|
| A WordPress developer on Codeable [7] | $80 to $120 an hour |
Hourly work adds up with every change: a new section, a seasonal banner or a fix after an update is another job to brief, wait for and pay for.
Moving from ClassiPress
Yclas reads a WordPress database export, so a ClassiPress site comes across without a CSV.
- Export your WordPress database as a .sql or .sql.gz file, the kind phpMyAdmin or your hosting panel makes.
- Start a free trial, choose "I already have a site" in the sign-up wizard, and choose WordPress: ClassiPress in Move your site to Yclas.
- Match the fields, check the dry run (a preview with any errors, nothing is saved yet), then import.
Your ads come across with their categories, prices and photos, and so do user accounts. Passwords are not copied: imported users set a new one. Photos come from your old site's addresses. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
When ClassiPress may be the better choice
- Your site runs well on ClassiPress and the version you have does all you need.
- You want to keep everything inside one WordPress site with your blog and other plugins.
- You prefer a one-time theme price to a monthly plan, and you look after WordPress yourself.
- You run several classifieds sites: the ClassiPress licence covers unlimited sites.
If none of these fit, and you would rather spend your time on your marketplace than on a server, try Yclas.
Questions people ask
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Is ClassiPress still updated?
It is still sold. The newest release is 4.2.8, from 5 June 2024, with PHP 8.2 fixes and reCAPTCHA v3. AppThemes' release plans page lists 4.3.0 with the target date "TBD" and says that page is no longer maintained.
Is ClassiPress cheaper than Yclas?
On the price tag, yes: $69 once, with 12 months of updates. You also pay for WordPress hosting and look after WordPress, the theme and its plugins. Yclas Starter costs $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month, with hosting, updates and support included.
Can I move my ClassiPress ads to Yclas?
Yes. Export your WordPress database and upload it in Move your site to Yclas, choosing ClassiPress. Ads, categories, prices, photos and user accounts come across after a dry run you can check, and you can undo the latest import within 7 days.
Can I keep my WordPress blog?
Yes. Keep your blog on WordPress and link to your Yclas site on its own domain or subdomain. Yclas sites also have their own blog and pages if you want everything in one place.
Do I need WordPress for Yclas?
No. Yclas is a hosted platform: no WordPress, theme or plugins to install, with hosting, updates and backups included.
Sources
Checked on 24 October 2026. Prices change: the vendor's own page is always the latest word. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
- AppThemes: ClassiPress (price, licence, support, features)
- AppThemes Club: price and $79 renewal
- AppThemes docs: ClassiPress version history (4.2.8, 5 June 2024)
- AppThemes docs: ClassiPress 4.2.8 release notes
- AppThemes: release plans page
- AppThemes Marketplace: items for ClassiPress and their prices
- Codeable pricing: WordPress developers at $80 to $120 an hour
- Yclas pricing
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