Featured products Magento extension by Inchoo

85 Comments 21st DEC 2009 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Magento

Featured products Magento extension by Inchoo

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. :)

The extension is available via Magento Connect: Click here to see it on Magento Connect.

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There are 85 comments (Add Yours +)

  • Hello, thank you for this extension but it’s very buggy on my magneto installation (1.3.2.4 using flat catalog and categories).
    What I’ve done :
    - Set up configuration to show 3 items in Main Block
    - Selected 3 products
    - Cleared all cache and rebuild every index
    What happens:
    - millesima.asia/featured-products/ shows every products
    - Block called in home page show 3 products bu not the one I selected !!!

    Is there anything I can do ?
    Thank you for your help.

  • Sorry, there is no bug, you only have to set attribute option of “inchoo_featured_product”: “Used in product listing” to YES in admin section of magento.

  • Hey ! Thank you so much, it’s working like a charm now. :)

  • It’s very nice module, it’s easy to install and use. I can get the /featured-products/ url work out of box. The issue I had is the configuration, System->Configuration->Catalog->Featured Products, I got ‘Access denied’ error. Any idea? I use 1.3.2.2

  • Problem solved. I found a nice post on your site regards to this problem. http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/access-denied-in-magento-admin/

    After re-login, problem is gone!

  • First off, EXCELLENT product!

    Now I have a question… on the forth col of the “Featured Prod” on my home page, the product name is running a bit into the pages right column. Where would I adjust this?

    Thank You,
    Lane

  • I have installed this extension and followed the comment here about going into the attribute and setting it to Yes to make it visible. I went to one of my products and set it to Featured. But I cannot see the featured product displaying on my front page. I only see the Best Selling products which I want to remove eventually. Any ideas?

  • Hi Lane

    You have to style with css. Open the css file boxes.css and go to line 754 and set width about 125px on this element. I hope that I helped to you.

    Bye

  • Thank ya and Merry Christmas!

  • Hi,

    Thanks for this great extension, it works almost great. I found one problem, when I save a product as featured, the new date from and new date to attributes are cleared, and we cannot see the products anymore in the New products list!!!!

    Could you please help me on this issue?

    Thanks

  • I had no problem installing with Magento Connect, Version 1.2.1.2
    When I go to Catalog, Featured Products. I get 404 Error. Page not found.
    Any Ideas.

  • Thanks a lot for this wonderful extension.

    I want to customize few things

    1) On homepage when i add block it shows 4 products so how can i add four more products in new row? so total products would be 8 in two rows.

    2) How can i remove add to cart button and other details as needed?

    Looking forward for your reply!

  • Hi Arshad

    1. Number of featured products you can set in admin section, go to:
    “System > Configuration > Featured products (tab)” and set “Number Of Items in Main Block”.

    2. You have to edit magento tepmplate file “….template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml” and you can remove “add to cart button”

    Bye

  • Good module.

    What I’d really love to see is the ability to have anny number of featured product blocks – each with their own list of products. That would be a truly powerful tool – allowing the creation of complex home pages, SEO landing pages, featured products per category, and the like.

  • Great work, I also managed to integrate it with Jacarousel ( http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/ )

    I have a small problem: I want to translate in admin the label “Featured Products”: how can I do it?

  • I have installed this extension (Magento 1.3.2.4). I get the following error: Invalid attribute name: inchoo_featured_product

    Is this attribute auto-created when installing the extension or do I need to manually create it?

    I manually created it and things ran fine but when I unticked some items I added as featured and went to save it the tick marks did not clear off. If you could shoot me the settings for that attribute it would be appreciated.

    Thanx,
    Carol

  • Question again :)

    [Quote]
    1. Number of featured products you can set in admin section, go to:
    “System > Configuration > Featured products (tab)” and set “Number Of Items in Main Block”.
    [/Quote]

    If I do this, the products do not wrap to the next line.

  • Hi Carol

    Mention attribute is auto-created and you do not need to manually create it.

    Attribute settings you can see, go to:
    “app\code\community\Inchoo\FeaturedProducts\sql\featuredproducts_setup\mysql4-install-1.0.1.php” and open this file

    I tested on default installation of Magento and all working perfectly.

    Maybe you use some extension which is in conflict with our extension. Please, send me link of your site and I will take a look.

    Regards
    Domagoj

  • For Lane:
    You have to style this box and maybe change teplate file: “template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”

    [Quote]
    1. Number of featured products you can set in admin section, go to:
    “System > Configuration > Featured products (tab)” and set “Number Of Items in Main Block”.

    If I do this, the products do not wrap to the next line.
    [/Quote]

  • Diogo Almeida Says

    December 31st, 2009 at 0:12

    Hi! First of all thanks for this extension, save me a lot of time!

    But some problems:
    - I set 8 products in admin but at frontpage only appears one row, just 4 products. I analyse the code and I don´t know why this happens!
    - The html is not validate, in Firefox and IE all right, but if I activate compatibility mode (IE) the row overflow the layout!

    Help me to solve this please.

  • I’ve being tediously trying to figure out why the module isn’t functioning properly – as our store version of magento is 1.3.2.4 – at once it was working wonderfully – however it just stop working and so forth no products is showing on the homepage

  • Rene Peters Says

    January 3rd, 2010 at 20:49

    Hi, tnx for the add on, installation went fine, its just that on the front page i get this message: “There are no products matching the selection”. I have played around with all the options, but i cant get a selected product to appear under the features heading.
    What could be the problem.
    tnx in advance

  • Sorry to repeat.. and soyy if it’s a dumb question…

    I want to translate in admin the label “Featured Products”: how can I do it?

  • Everythings working fine on the extension but is it possible to add a new image type to the interface ?
    We have a client that needs to use a png image to display the featured products on their homepage and we need to be able to tell the extension which file to use.

    Kind regards

  • Hi, installing the extension went flawless, but if I click on the featured product to display the detail page, I see the the blue default theme, not my onw theme? Anyway to fix this?

    Thanks in advance, Tom

  • Nice extension, but it doesnt seem to work like it should do for me.
    I marked like 10 products as featured, set “Number Of Items in Main Block” to 5, but it never shows more than 4 products in front-page block. 5th table cell is empty ( ). what can i do?

    /featured-products doesnt shows any products. col-main is completely empty. anyone got an idea whats wrong?
    ( )

  • /featured-products is now working (forgot to copy layout/inchoofeaturedproducts.xml to the right template path).

    home page still shows only 4 products… any idea?

  • Robert Pindi Says

    January 6th, 2010 at 15:14

    I tried installing your featured product extension and it worked perfectly but my problem is that that i own multiple stores run by single Magento installation. I tried http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/2639 extension and it worked for me. I can create multiple stores and every store can have different featured products.

    Anyways, that was my case. Keep it up and keep amazing us with such great extensions.

    Thanks,
    Robert

  • Hm… I’m not able to access the admin url after installing this extension. I’m getting a 404 error…

  • It seems that there are some compatibility issues with the ModularRouters extension (magento-community/LKC_ModularRouters).

  • Frank Hamm Says

    January 7th, 2010 at 11:58

    Regards from Germany

    Nice extension, but it doesnt seem to work like it should do for me.
    I marked like 8 products as featured, set “Number Of Items in Main Block” to 8, but it never shows more than 4 products in front-page block.

    Any further informations whats maybe going wrong. I have read that some users have similar problems.

    BTW My Magento Release is 1.3.2.4

  • Exception caught:

    Warning: popen() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/maccare/public_html/Shop/downloader/pearlib/php/OS/Guess.php on line 247

    anyone can help? Installation failed

  • Hi guys, thanks for the great plugin, however, I can make it work on specific page (see: http://laptop.com.hr/featured-products/) but cannot make it work on homepage… currently I am using

    {{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”3″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

    Any help?

    Thanks

  • Andreas Reiser Says

    January 9th, 2010 at 8:57

    Someone asked how to translate this component. Translation is not integrated in this component at the time writing. Therefore, you have to add it yourself:
    1. Go to /app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/etc/config.xml and add this code inside the -tag:

    Inchoo_FeaturedProducts.csv

    2. Go to /app/locale// and add a file named Inchoo_FeaturedProducts.csv. Look at the other csv-files in this directory. You will easily figure out how to write such a translation file.

    3. Now to the stressful part. The original text strings are (mostly) spread over the phtml-files in the directory /app/design/frontend//default/template/inchoo. You’ll have to look at these files and decide which string to translate.

    You can do the same for the admin pages. In step 1, copy the xml string to the -tag.

  • Andreas Reiser Says

    January 9th, 2010 at 9:00

    The tags are missing in my previous post:

    (translate)
    (modules)
    (Inchoo_FeaturedProducts)
    (files)
    (default)Inchoo_FeaturedProducts.csv(/default)
    (/files)
    (/Inchoo_FeaturedProducts)
    (/modules)
    (/translate)

    This commenting tool does not accept angle brackets…

  • Guys, thanks for offering to make such a high-demand product for free.

    I tested it before doing an install. Unfortunately, I’m now having issues. I deleted the inchoo attribute, but I can no longer view my configurable products. For some reason, it seems to be draining significant memory to the point it won’t load.

    Is there anything remaining I would need to uninstall? Is there something else I’m missing?

    Thanks and I appreciate your hard work.

  • Bimmerhead Says

    January 10th, 2010 at 16:15

    First thank you for developing this extention.

    I’ve installed it on my local server and have http://www.yourstore.com/featured-products/ work great.

    However when I add {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} to the CMS homepage just below the second at the bottom of the page, nothing is displayed when I refresh the page.

    BTW I do have the cache turned off and I’m using Magento ver. 1.3.2.4

    Any help you can provide would be most appreciated.

    Cheers

  • Bimmerhead Says

    January 10th, 2010 at 16:18

    Update to post above.

    Looks like it lost the “” in the comment about the CMS. It should read:

    However when I add {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} to the CMS homepage just below the second “” at the bottom of the page, nothing is displayed when I refresh the page.

  • @Andreas Reiser:

    Thx, I have translated it in a second with your hint :)

  • Bimmerhead Says

    January 11th, 2010 at 17:56

    The missing code is without the spaces

  • Bimmerhead Says

    January 11th, 2010 at 17:57

    OK guess I need to spell it out :-)

    less than, backslash, div, greater than

    Cheers

  • Nice works man,

    My Featured Products block in home page are not taken the css, the products are displaying without the css, my featured-products/ page its working fine, any idea?

  • I just installed this extension and it’s killed my site :(

    Both front and back-end error out with the following:

    Zend_Db_Statement_Exception Object
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    [string:private] =>
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    [trace:private] => Array
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    [type] => ->
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    [0] => INSERT INTO `eav_attribute_group` (`attribute_set_id`, `attribute_group_name`, `default_id`, `sort_order`) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
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    [type] => ->
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    I'm trying to reinstall from db backup but running into problems with that too so I'm in a pretty sad mess here - anyone have and ideas whaty went wrong?

    Thanks.

  • Rebooted the server and now get the ‘error submission’ window with the same error showing, but there may be a little more relevant info this time?

    Error in file: “/var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/sql/featuredproducts_setup/mysql4-install-1.0.1.php” – SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ‘30-General’ for key 2
    Trace:
    #0 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(292): Mage::exception(‘Mage_Core’, ‘Error in file: …’)
    #1 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(167): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup->_modifyResourceDb(‘install’, ”, ‘1.0.1′)
    #2 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(155): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup->_installResourceDb(‘1.0.1′)
    #3 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(121): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup->applyUpdates()
    #4 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Config.php(263): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup::applyAllUpdates()
    #5 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(263): Mage_Core_Model_Config->init(Array)
    #6 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/Mage.php(434): Mage_Core_Model_App->init(”, ’store’, Array)
    #7 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/Mage.php(455): Mage::app(”, ’store’, Array)
    #8 /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/index.php(65): Mage::run()
    #9 {main}

  • Hi,
    Am i a dumber?

    I don”t found ” set attribute option of “inchoo_featured_product”: “Used in product listing” to YES in admin section of magento”.

    Wich one?

    Is it Systeme -> Configuration -> Catalogue -> Featured Products ?

    Kind regards

  • Hi, looks great at first, but can’t get it to work. Followed all of the different directions above mentioned, but still no luck at all. Works fine on http://dev.bhaktistore.com/featured-products/ but not on Homepage and that’s what I need it for.

    Home CMS has this code in content field:


    {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}

    What am I doing wrong?
    Any help is greatly appreciated.
    Rob ;)

  • @ fredmac : It’s at catalog > managa attributes > (find the inchoo attribute for featured products..

    cheers
    Rob

  • Thanks Rob

    For french reader :
    Catalogue > Attributs > Gérer les Attributs

    Cliquer sur inchoo_featured_product

    Dans “Proprietés du Front Office” mettre le sélecteur “Utilisé dans la liste de produits” sur “Oui”

    Another question :
    i must simply copy and paste
    {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}

    in CMS>Gestion des pages>home

    General overview Tab -> Content

    Thats OK ?

    Kind Regards

  • this somehow doesn’t seem to work for me

    {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}

    mmm

    ciao, Rob

  • i’m working with my own theme. Not with default theme.

    Defaut/Default

    My_interface/km_fighting_spirirt

    may be the path is not good ?

  • It works with :
    - copy and paste default/template/inchoo into my own template folder
    - copy and paste layout/inchoofeaturedproducts.xml into my own layout folder

    http://localhost/magento-test/index.php/featured-products/

    what ca i do for having the same on my Home page?

    Best regards.

    FRED

  • I’m using you’re plugin and it works nicely as administrator.

    But I’m trying to add a user role that could manage your page “Featured Products”. In the “Role Resources” subpage inside the Role Information” page I could see the menu voice “Featured Products” inside System -> Configuration but the “Featured Prodcuts” inside Catalog is missing.

    Is my install broken? Is it a bug? Is there a fix?

  • 10 products added, 0 show with {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} nor /featured-products.

    Cache off.

    It’s the blank white box on the home page.

  • @ Amy, I know. I get the same. Frustrating at least. Anyway, keep trying to find an answer, and if you find it please post it here.
    Thakns. Rob

  • Hi Amy

    May be you could define “Featured Products” as your home page in

    System > Configuration > default Page

    FRED

  • I found the problem. The extension sets all product’s status to NULL. After I go back and enable all the chosen products, it works. Bug that needs fixing for my friend to use it. She’ll forget to enable them.

  • thanks Amy. where do you go to enable the status from NULL to enable? All my products in Featured are set “enabled” but still not showing. Mmm
    ciao, Rob

  • Sorry, rob. All mine that I had ever set as featured were blank. Once I set it to “enabled”, it worked, but if I set a non-featured product as featured, I had to re-enable the status. My friend has since removed the module due to this and not filtering on stores, but after she sees the alternatives, she may give me another try with this one allowing I am able to fix the status problem and the ability to filter on stores.

    Good luck!

    And thanks to inchoo for putting this mod out for the community!

  • how can I “centralize” the feature product, right now I have put 3 items to be display but the 3 products is left aligned

  • Michael R. Says

    January 20th, 2010 at 13:54

    Hi,

    I run multiple stores within magento, how would i add featured products to several stores from my administration panel?
    ( It does not seem that this future is built in ).

    Michael

  • Having multiple stores to contend with, I gave up on this one for now. I decided to go the category route by making a category in each store called “featured products” and place the following code on my home pages

    {{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”363″ name=”home.catalog.product.new” alias=”product_homepage” template=”catalog/product/featured-products.phtml”}}.

    with the category id equalling the cat id of the created category.

    I also created /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/featured-products.phtml :

    getLoadedProductCollection() ?>
    count()): ?>
    __(‘There are no products matching the selection.’) ?>

    getStore()->getName();
    $storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
    ?>
    __(‘New Arrivals Just Added to ‘) ?>
    getStore()->getName(); ?>
    count() ?>

    getColumnCount()*/; ?>

    <a href="getProductUrl() ?>” title=”htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>”>
    <img class="product-image" src="helper(‘catalog/image’)->init($_product, ’small_image’)->resize(135, 135); ?>” width=”135″ height=”135″ alt=”htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>” />

    <a class="product-name" href="getProductUrl() ?>” title=”htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>)”>htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>
    getReviewsSummaryHtml($_product, ’short’) ?>

     

    decorateTable(‘products-grid-table’)

    This work-around works for me until inchoo adds the capability to administer multiple stores.

  • Oops… the code was stripped. Sorry.

  • Thanks Amy, great post. I’m going to give it a shot.
    ciao, Rob

  • All the code didn’t make it through rob. I don’t know how to post the code. I’m michu on the magento forums if you’d like to message me for it.

  • I’m on a roll with the goofs. I’m not michu, but “michuyewup” on magento forums if you would like the code. I also tried to contact you via your store contact, rob. I sent you my email address through the contact form.

  • I have a problem…
    Activating “flat catalog products” this extension doesn’t works any more, it retrieves all product and not only the “featured products”.

    Any hints on how to solve this?
    I have a good performance increase with “flat catalog products” so I really prefer to use it :)

  • Rhonda Sterrett Says

    January 23rd, 2010 at 4:58

    Hi.. I am new to magento (not new to programming)… I am getting an error when I try to add featured products to my home page of the website. I went into manage pages >> home page >> custom design and added but when I refresh I get a cannot find files message. “inchoo” installed in my components folder but not sure what to do.

  • After installing this component, if I go to configuration>Featured Products, I just get a blank screen. No config options.

    Any idea why?

  • Rhonda sterrett Says

    January 24th, 2010 at 0:02

    I had the same hing happen when I viewed it in ie7. If you are viewing in ie7 then try firefox and it will work

  • I was using Firefox… :)

  • Hi,

    I would love to use your extension.

    However, I run into some problems here.

    Installed the extension and it shows up in my backend. I can configure it and select products i want to be “Featured”. I also have a working listing of the featured products here: http://www.cardgameshop.com/featured-products/

    But. If I paste the code to call the block on any page on my store it does not show up. Nothing happens.

    So that is problem 1.

    What i want is to be able to display one product out of these featured product in my left sidebar. I want to have a Sale of the Day and be able to display it in the left sidebar on the top.

    Is there any way I can do this? I would be very happy if you can help me out with this problem!

    Thanks in advance.

    BTW: great website, good tips!

  • I want to repost this bug, because probably is passed unnoticed…

    I’m trying to add a user role that could manage your page “Featured Products”.
    In the “Role Resources” subpage inside the Role Information” page I could see the menu voice “Featured Products” inside System -> Configuration but the “Featured Prodcuts” inside Catalog is missing.

  • The /featured-products works for me, but the block inserted into the CMS does not, unless it’s on the homepage. If I insert it in any other page, it doesn’t show. I’ve set the product attributes to featured=yes and assigned them through Configuration > Catalog > Featured Prodcuts, refreshed the cache, but no luck.

    Any idea why?

  • The extension is perfect! But i read the comments and a lot of people are having problems trying to display the products in two rows. The extension is working good with me, but on the configuration i put to show 12 products, but only display 4. I tried to put the code inside the box tag (like <table width="740px" border="0"…) but don't worked too.
    You can check on: http://www.cornerstore.pessoal.ws/loja/

    Someone can help me?

    Sorry my english i'm from brazil.

    Thanks

  • Same problem here – config page is blank for me. Latest version of the free Magento, using Firefox on a mac – firebug shows that column empty

  • clockworkgeek Says

    January 29th, 2010 at 1:57

    I had the same problem as Lohn. I wanted to better control the heading of the block. Here is my fix, I hope Inchoo adopt it and update this extension.

    In the file template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml replace:
    $this->__(‘Sale of the day’)
    with this:
    Mage::getStoreConfig(‘featuredproducts/general/heading’)

  • Looks like a great extension but I also cannot get the block to embed anywhere. The featured-products page works fine but the block does not show up on my homepage or anywhere else with the code example given: {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}

    This is very frustrating and renders useless what otherwise appears to be a great free extension.

  • I actually just got this fixed by doing the following:

    1. Writing exactly this code into the content block of the homepage (to ensure no formatting issues with the quotation marks that made the example in the original post not work).

    2. In the “Custom Design” section I specifically selected my theme rather than leaving it set to “default”. I also made sure I copied the inchoo files in the default layout and template folders over to those in my specific theme.

    Hope this helps those of you who’ve had problems getting this to work when embedded in the homepage or other sections.

  • Can someone help me with display Featured Product in Role Resources > Catalog ?

  • I’m having the same problem with the block (not the page thats fine) showing any products and it’s because the if statement in the featured block page is returning false.

    At the end of the if statement i changed it to this:

    No products

    and the No products string is displayed.

    Can anyone help?

  • oooops, tags got stripped:

    ?php else: ?
    No products
    ?php endif; ?

    But with the pointy brackets where they should be.

  • Is it possible to add more atrributs for more features?

  • I really like this product, but as many others i can’t get more than 4 products on my page. I have set it to show 10, but it doesn’t work and have have not found any answers on this topic.

  • I have edited this line in the phtml file: =4): continue; endif; ?>

    I can change to a higher number, but then they are shown in 1 row.

    No matter what i try – only 4 products is shown if i use Admin to set the number.

    Strange

  • I believe I found a major bug. Every single product that I assigned to be featured and then un-assigned them, it caused the tier pricing on all those products to disappear. The rest are fine.

    I’m not sure how to get them back without re-entering them manually. Any quick solution to this dilemma. Appreciated.

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