One of the most requested feature in Magento is the ability to have a featured products. Those of you who used osCommerce, ZenCart or some other shopping cart solution are already familiar with the way it works. You can choose the products that are featured and those will be displayed on some home page box and in separate interface. Some of you might know that we already have a post on the site that speaks about adding featured products to the homepage, but we prepared something better. A free extension: Featured Products by Inchoo.
This extension gives your Magento ability for easy management of featured products. Frontend features include separate interface for listing of all featured products and a block usage for easy placement to the interfaces of your choice.
Frontend features include:
- Featured Products Interface where you can see the list of all featured products and use the options like Sort by, Show X number of products and View type choice.
- You can view featured products page on url: www.yourstore.com/featured-products/
- Featured Products Block gives you the ability to place the block to the interface or page of your choice. It is mostly used to display featured products o the home page.
Example: put it in Home page content {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
Backend features include:
- Easy Management of Featured products via separate interface. You do not have to edit every single product and set it to be featured. You will get the special interface where you will be able to choose the products you want to feature from the list.
- Go to admin menu and click on: Catalog > Featured Products
- Configuration Options You will be able to choose layout for Featured product lising interface, use SEO features, Choose the number of products in the block and choose default sort order.
I really hope you will like it. Send us the feedback after you install it. Also let us know on what stores are you using it. 
UPDATE: Version 1.1.3 (now available at the Magento Connect)
- Added multi store functionality
- Improved templates
Although Magento Connect listing says that extension is compatible with 1.3.2.4, it is tested and works with 1.4.
The extension is available via Magento Connect: Click here to see it on Magento Connect.
I am pretty sure you can set the number of products per row by altering this line of code:
You can set
to whatever you want the number of items in a row to be and it should create a new row automatically after it reaches that number. I ended up using a custom solution when this one didn’t work, but that is essentially the same code that I changed to get 2 rows of 4 items each in the one that I used.
Hope that helps!!
I forgot to add that you can edit that part of the code by going to app/design/frontend/enterprise/default/template/inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the response; however, what exactly should I change? I have been playing around with that portion of the code but nothing seems to be happening. If I want 5 items per row and 4 rows, what should I alter?
Thank you,
Karan
Hi Matt,
I found that I can alter the number of items per row through the admin panel. It is currently set to 5 but it is not creating a new row for items more than 5.
Thanks,
Karan
In which portion of the code can I add a line separator between the rows?
Thanks,
Karan
How can i implement it on another page that is not home ?
I know why it does not work for some people, and is a stupid thing.
Watch out for the ” when you paste the code in the home content:
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
Magento transforms your commas to a diferent sign (like a italic comma o something like). You only have to retype ” manually the four commas and It works fine.
Excuse my english
Great work, Thanks a lot! Works fine in 1.5.1.0, but how can I truncate the product name in the “block_featured_products” ?
My Names are too long, so I need to shorten it.
Can someone please help?
to all who want to uninstall: run extension manager and uninstall the extension here. but theres one entry left in the database. table “eav_attribute”. find “inchoo” and delete the row. you are done!
I have this working just fine with 1.5.1.0 however if my partner changes the selected featured products on his computer, nothing saves. On my computer everything works fine. Please help.
Thanks
When we go to the complete listing on http://www.yoursite.com/featured-products in the toolbar the pager links are missing.
So if you have for example 100 items and you display 10 items per page, you only see the first 10 items and you cant’t go to page 2 to 10.
How to fix this?
Does not work out of box on 1.6.1 Dont install unless u know how to change code, etc
is this working on 1.6.1 yet ??
Hi,
Just added this extension to V1.5.1 but having a few issues.
On the front end the products do appear but the image size coming up is the full image size not the tumb nail size set as 80×80, can you help fix this issue?
Also in the admin section once I select a product to be featured and save it, it adds it to the featured product but removes the Std VAT to No VAT, how to fix this issue?
pls help ASAP, as this is on a live site.
If you are having trouble with it showing on the home page use this, worked for me. ver 1.6.1
{{block type=\”featuredproducts/product_list\” name=\”featured_product\” as=\”featured_product_list\” template=\”catalog/product/list.phtml\” }}
Hi,
I found your fantastic featured plugin for magento.
There’s only one thing I can not get fixed.
The products are not horizontal aligned in the center and the horizontal spaces between the products are not equal.
You can check it at http://www.antroposofischepoppen.nl/
Running on Magento 1.6.2.0
Is this a known errror? Do you know how to fix it?
Thanks !