Featured products Magento extension by Inchoo

188 Comments 6th APR 2010 | 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. :)

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.

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  • 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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    [args] => Array
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    [type] => ->
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    )

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    [2] => Array
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    [file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php
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    [class] => Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract
    [type] => ->
    [args] => Array
    (
    [0] => INSERT INTO `eav_attribute_group` (`attribute_set_id`, `attribute_group_name`, `default_id`, `sort_order`) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
    [1] => Array
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    [0] => 30
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    [3] => Array
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    [type] => ->
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    [3] => 9
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    )

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    [4] => Array
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    [class] => Varien_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql
    [type] => ->
    [args] => Array
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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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    [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.

  • i have done absolutly everything to get this extension to work, and im really tired. I dont understand why it wont work. I have selected 3 feautered products and i have entered the code in homepage and the featured products wont show, please help

  • Amazing extension… guys you’re great!

  • Well…now I understand last comments.. There’s something wrong with this extension!

    It works first time, then featured products…PUFF! Disappeared….and now it seems broken….

    Someone who solved this behaviour…?

  • Ok, found the bug!

    Using Catalog -> Featured products, if I un-assign a product, its status change to ‘Unselected’, so it disappear from store. I’m trying to solve the trouble, in case I share my solution…

  • Ok, I got it!

    Open /app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/controllers/Adminhtml/FeaturedController.php and in SaveAction() add:

    $product->setStatus(1);

    just before $product->save();

    Now it works like a charm… ;)

  • Same problems as many above:
    - admin works fine
    - direct url to /featured-products fineç
    - {{block …}} in home page or any other not generating any html

    using default theme and out of box v1.3.2.4.
    with 1 menu extension installed and its {{block…}} working fine.

  • ok, I’m very new to Magento.. but I’ve followed the instructions for instaling via magento connect. It tells me the extension is installed but I don’t have the menu picks indicated nor do I have a app/code/community/Inchoo/ directory.

    The file is downloaded and uncompressed in downloader/pearlib/download/inchoo_FeaturedProducts-1.0.1 … and I have a package xml, what do I need to do to install it from here?

    Thanks from a nubie…

  • MagentoUser Says

    February 17th, 2010 at 23:07

    How do I center the featured products on the front page?

  • I studied this module in last week and I can say it’s very useful and well done, but there are 2 significative bugs:
    - Featured products interface in Magento Admin is awesome, but loses info like tier prices, status, grouped and bundle data… At the end I disabled this panel, I prefer change ‘Featured product’ attribute using Magento product interface, that works like a charm;
    - number of products limited to 4 in the block… well, I can’t explain this behaviour… I tried every hack in admin or code… nothing! I really appreciate every idea to solve that problem….

  • Toni Anicic Says

    February 18th, 2010 at 11:15

    @Matte,

    The number of products in the block can be easily modified, we implemented featured products with 5 products in a block yesterday.

  • Glad to know, Toni!

    Can you explain me how to set number of products? I tried everything, but no success… :’(

  • Toni Anicic Says

    February 18th, 2010 at 11:55

    @Matte,

    I’d love to, but I didn’t do it, it was one of our developers, if they catch some time, I’m sure they’ll drop by here to post a line or two on where to modify the number of products in a block.

  • @Matte,

    I was having same issue and finally came up with a solution by looking at the standard grid layout. I am by no means a developer so there could be a better way to do this.

    **** Replaced ****

    getItems() as $_product): ?>
    =4): continue; endif; ?>

    **** with this *****

    getColumnCount(); $_columnCount=8; ?>
    getItems() as $_product): ?>

    I have 4 columns but not sure why I needed put 8 it just keep doing half the number. I did fix the css as well to make it line up a bit better.

    See how it goes.

  • try again with changes

    ******
    ******
    ***getItems() as $_product): ?>***
    ***=4): continue; endif; ?>***
    ******

    ******
    ***getColumnCount(); $_columnCount=8; ?>***
    ***getItems() as $_product): ?>***
    ******
    ******
    ******
    ******

  • I want to include this in a different section of the home page, so I changed {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} to this:
    and put it in the XML of my home page.

    It shows up in the correct area, but it also shows up a second time after the tag. Any idea why?

  • I cannot view the admin > config > catalog > featured products.
    I am using version 1.4.0.0

    Any ideas?

  • the solution to the “only 4 showing” can be fixed in block_featured_products.phtml

    change:
    =4): continue; endif; ?>
    to
    =5): continue; endif; ?>

    &

    change:

    to

    I only needed 5 to show up in my case so you might have to mess around with the int’s to get more..

    peace,
    frost

  • sorry guys it stripped my code…

  • i had the same issue

  • Diogo Almeida Says

    February 20th, 2010 at 7:04

    This extension doesn´t works on 1.4.0.1 so take care with your installation!

  • Yes this extension does not work as specified. You will only be able to see 4 products no matter what. Please use with caution, I find it is better just to use a category, hide it and then show in home page ..it is then not necessary to fix anything.

  • Toni Anicic Says

    February 20th, 2010 at 17:42

    @Roy, not true, you can show more than 4 products, we did it on one store and it works out of the box.

  • Toni ..you said in your earlier post that your developer had to modify the code to show 5 products in HOME PAGE and yes I could show 5 products on the HOME page but I have to show 12 products in HOME PAGE and no matter what it is not coming. All products does appear in featured pages (1.3.2.4 ) and here I see multiple people saying the same thing, and I wonder why ?

  • Do you have an estimated date when a 1.4.0 compatible version will be available?

  • Happy to say that I could fix the only 4 product problem in the home page. Now I know why show only 4 page in homepage, it is because the layout is table based and more than 4 products will break the layout since it has no paging. Once you take out the limit and modify it using “OL” “LI” or even div, this works perfectly.

    Thanks

  • @Roy:

    Would you kindly tell me where where in the data base I would go to fix the 4 product limit problem? Thank you very much in advance!

  • Hi, Thank you for the extension! It works very nicely but I am also only able to view 4 products on my homepage. Is there a fix for this?

    Thank you again

  • I like this module………

  • I had some products not showing up in featured products, and some that would. I changed some of the inventory settings to make sure everything was listed in stock, and it worked fine.

  • just installed it and the admin seems ok
    but i got problem in both the {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} and /featured-products not show anything (already add some products and make extension visible =.=). When i check the source code of the page it likes not generate any code at all.

    got any idea?

  • This is a great module, it just doens’t work in 1.4.1 which is a shame. after 2 hours of searching, I can’t find a way of showing products on a home page of the site, none of the old shortcodes works.

    its a bit odd like!

  • I’m getting this error in the exception.log:
    exception ‘Mage_Core_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid block type: Mage_”featuredproducts_Block_Listing”’ in /home/sarisqac/public_html/valuextra.com/app/Mage.php:407

    I”d like to uninstall the extension. Is there guide on how that can be done? Thanks.

  • Featured-Products-Fan Says

    March 24th, 2010 at 12:17

    Great extension! Thank you!

    But when it´s working in Magento 1.4.0.1?

  • hi how to set this extension in my template.because when i install this extension, its automatically set in default template.

  • how to add this {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} in home page. when i add this block in my home page but can not display featured products.

  • Joe Benlly Says

    April 7th, 2010 at 12:08

    I tested extension on Magento 1.4.0.1 and works perfect.

    Thanks, guys

  • Two questions

    How do I eliminate the out of stock line?

    How can I space out the columns?

    tx

    ron

    love the extension!!!!

  • Nice work, But i need to be small modification of Feature product page
    now i can see only 3 item per row, basically in my other catalog page view 4 product/row

    How i can fix featured product 4 item/row …

    some one help me its grate

  • Great extension! Is there a proper way to upgrade this extension? I am excited to utilize the multi-store aspect.

  • First off, thanks for the great extension.

    I’ve just upgraded a dev site from Magento 1.3.2.1 to 1.4.0.1. After the upgrade I cannot access the admin area of Featured Products. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension. I’ve made sure caches are cleared afterward and tried logging out and back in.

    Nothing seems to get me past “access denied”. I was using an older version of this extension before so my featured products are still showing up on the home page.

    Any additional thoughts on what I can try?

  • One more note on this issue….I did also try resetting permissions on the admin role as per another post. That did not help either.

    Thanks!

  • Users that are having trouble with this: If you copy and paste {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} exactly from this site the quotation marks do not copy correctly. You need to manually replace them once you paste the code into your CMS page.

  • >>Adam
    >>>You need to manually replace them once you paste the code into your CMS page.
    What? Where? How?

  • Sorry, works…
    But how theming listing featured products as products in category page?
    –
    ps sorry for my english

  • I was having the same issue as some with the whole catalog showing up on the featured products page but I fixed this by changing the attribute inchoo_featured_product attribute “Used in product listing” to yes.

  • I am new for Magento . I install the Feature product. Home page its workimng fine
    But in http://www.murc.biz/index.php/featured-products/ Only i can see 3 Item per colum. Basically My website 4 Colum

    PLease some one give instruction how i will be chnage it to 4 Item per colum
    I am Used Magento 1324 version

  • Hi Guys,
    I had installed this module and follow all the steps, It show all option in my admin panel but when i check my front end with below link it shows me nothing.
    http://www.yougrow.nl/featured-products/
    Please help me out where I am doing wrong.

    Thanks,
    acs

  • Hi, I’m getting the following error when trying to add products to Featured Products via Catalog > Featured Products

    Any ideas? Thanks

    Fatal error: Call to a member function getStore() on a non-object in /home/vhosts/gafasdesol.com/httpdocs/app/code/local/MageWorx/SeoSuite/Model/Catalog/Product/Attribute/Backend/Urlkey.php on line 53

  • hippoglollum Says

    May 7th, 2010 at 11:30

    I try to install on 1.4.0.1 and i’m using a non default interface and theme.
    On backend all works fine, but in frontend I’m not able to display featured product grid…

    Any suggestion?

  • Everything on the public site is working perfectly. But when I go to Configuration > Featured Products, I get an error saying it cannot find Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/Model/System/Config/Source/Displaytype.php.

    I checked another magento store using this extension, and that file isn’t there either but the admin page is fine on that domain.

    Any ideas why it’s asking for something that doesn’t need to be there?

  • After installing the extension and before adding featured products I’d definitely recommend following Matte’s comment from Feb 11th.

    I was having a lot of trouble with an attribute being set to “null” after adding featured products. After making his recommended change it seems to be going very smoothly now. Thanks Matte!

  • this product is SUPER buggy in 1.4. Particularly, when going to admin->Featured Products and trying to check off which products are featured, it only saves at random. Sometimes they will remain featured, sometimes they won’t.

  • Qumber Hassan Says

    May 24th, 2010 at 11:44

    Hi,
    Its a very helpful extension , but i need tool bar just underneath the featured products list as same as products list of any categories.
    thanks

  • Hi!

    First of all thanks to inchoo for the great extension!

    However there were few problems(not exactly bugs) which i figured out, i am sharing hoping it may help someone

    1) Extension was not working on any cms page because i copy pasted the code provided by inchoo and there seems to be some problem with the double quotes (which were copied with code as they may have been modified by wordpress).

    Solution : Delete all the quotes in ((block …}} code and manually replace them by double quotes.

    2) I resized the images according to my dimensions, to do that go to inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml

    3) I had a default value set for name attribute of my products so whenever i selected a featured product, this extension renamed that product to my default value. To avoid this remove the default value of the attribute.

    4) Their was no room for air between the images so again go to inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml and enclose a div around product and set the margin to 10 px

    Hopefully this helps!

    Thanks

  • Hi, first of all. If you have added the block of code to the homepage (or any CMS page), but nothing is showing you MUST REPLACE THE QUOTES. It was mentioned a few times already.

    Even copying directly from the website, it uses a double quote that is not recognized, rendering the block type declaration useless.

    Now, the issue that I am having is different.

    I am simply trying to call the featured products from inside of template/catalog/product/list/upsell.phtml.

    For example, if there are no upsells defined, show the featured products…

    I have tried lots of different xml references and configurations, but I cannot seem to get it to work.

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Justin

  • Can I download this extension in .zip file?

    I did have Featured products working perfectly, until I installed Yireo’s Delete any order Mod. Now it shows all items in the featured products box, I want to install again to see if any files clash. Thanks

  • EDIT THE LAST COMMENT:

    I found that featured products does not work when these are enabled in System -> Configuration -> Catalog

    Use Flat Catalog Category
    Use Flat Catalog Product

  • Hi there!

    I was wondering if anyone on this forum had already fixed the display of featured products in role resources. The only way i could find was giving full access to my client as administrator and i don’t want that…

    well have guys found a fix for this issue?? I can’t seem to resolve this!

    Thanks anyway and congratulations for the mod!!!

  • clockworkgeek Says

    June 15th, 2010 at 18:26

    Like many others I too had a problem with the menu not showing for other roles, the option for it is missing in permissions.
    My fix was to edit “/app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/etc/config.xml”, near the bottom find the bit that reads “acl – resources – admin – children – system” and after the last “system” add the following…

    Featured Product

    (I don’t trust the code formatting on these comments but fingers crossed you will be able to see)

    Lastly clear the cache, log out and back in then check the permissions again.

  • clockworkgeek Says

    June 15th, 2010 at 18:28

    Ok the code formatting is screwy after all, here is another attempt, kindly replace curly braces with angle brackets.


    {catalog}
    {children}
    {featuredproduct translate="title"}
    {title}Featured Product{/title}
    {/featuredproduct}
    {/children}
    {/catalog}

  • clockworkgeek ty! Worked perfectly! It’s nice to see that some people still help!

    Thank you once again

  • clockwork i would be very appreciated if you’d helped me in one more thing….

    when i’m selecting the featured products in my admin menu, after saving i’ve noticed that all the prices that belong to those selected featured products are substituted by 0.00…

    don’t know what’s happening….

    thank you again

  • Anyone?

  • I have a product that costs for example 11.13€…when i go to my admin > featured products and select my product by clicking in it’s checkbox, after saving my product price resets to 0.00€…

    can’t figure it out..

    i hope that anyone can help me out…

  • Good module.
    After installation, mywebsite.com/featured-products can be visited sucessfully, but it can’t be displayed in Home page while i have added “{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
    ” into my home page content.

  • Sorry, I have figured it out. Just retype :)

  • Hello there
    I am trying to short ot a problem of the inchoo and the problem is that i am not able to see the products in frontend, i have tried with everthing from scratch, for that i have created the blocks and i have also callled other files too but i am not able to see the products in frontend, i have wasted whole day for this and no result.
    It seems that below code is not working for me from view.phmtl of the inchoo template folder
    getChildHtml(‘featured_product_list’); ?>

    please try to give me some solutions .

    Thanks
    Yogesh

  • Great extension. However, for whichever reasons I’d like to uninstall it. Are there any data tables or specifics that I’d need to eliminate? I see other people have inquired in this thread with no apparent response.

    Thanks in advance!

  • Erick Paulino Says

    July 7th, 2010 at 19:47

    Hi,

    I just installed this extension on magento 1.4, but I had to manually add the “inchoo_featured_product” attribute, and add the Matt’s core hacking. Besides that, everything is running ok, except for one thing: I have a lot of products that are hidden, i.e., they are configure to no be seen individually. Sometimes I indadvertedly click and add them as featured product, and after that their status change from not visible to visible.

    How can I prevent the extension from changing the visibility status of my products?

    thank you!

  • Hi, are there specs somewhere for making this work in multistores?

  • Again… never mind my last question. It works like a charm.

  • I installed this extention and everything in admin works, but I don’t see anything in http://www.mywebsite.com/featured-products or the block.

    What do I need to do to get it to show even in the http://www.mywebsite.com/featured-products?

  • Mine problem is resolved there was some issue in my list.phtml file regarding to filtration, now it is resolved

    Thank
    Yogesh

  • Ok, someone really needs to re-write the How To in this thing… took me like 45 minutes just to figure why it’s not working.

    First of all, if you’re quite new to this magento thing, it does not help to just say “put it in Home page content”. Naturally, the example looked like a html code so I was putting it in the HTML view. You need to put the code in the non-code view.

    Second, the author who wrote the example used non standard quotes. If you look closely, the quotes are slanted. Those will not work when you copy and paste into your CMS page. You must retype the quotes manually. Or better yet, don’t copy and paste the code. Type the whole thing in manually! That finally worked for me.

    Hope this helps someone out.

  • Also, if you don’t see the “inchoo_featured_product” attribute or if “Catalog, Feature Products” don’t work after install, you should try reset the file attributes (755 on folders, 644 on files) on the server. There’s a magento script for that. Some servers like mine don’t like 777 attributes (for security reasons they say). On install, everything in the inchoo folder is set 777 so that’s why it may not be working for you as well.

    Once that’s set, all the options and the inchoo_featured_product attribute was added automatically.

  • When I click Catalog > Featured Products I get:

    Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.

    Error log record number: 1229555769165

    Anyone know why and what do I need to do to solve it?

  • Dear all..hope if someone could help

    i have inlucde this line of code in the content of my homepage.. but the featured product doesnt show

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

    the feature product setting is correct..just it doest show. but the direct url is working

    http://www.fixit2u.com/featured-products/

  • I’m using Magento v 1.4.1. Backend functionality works great but when I try to show the featured products on my homepage nothing shows up.
    Any ideas?

  • @ kenny – Make sure to replace the double quotes if you copied the block declaration from a website, or anything else.

  • Hi, thanks for this great extension! It is exactly what I was looking for.

    I am trying to align the “add to cart” buttons horizontally since their position changes according to how long product description is. I have tried many different css classes and rules but still can’t get them to align. Does anyone have suggestions on how I cant get those buttons to align?

    Thanks in advance

  • Thanks for making this available – it’s been a big help. Have adapted it for variations (other attributes) as well.

    Our site is fairly simple, the module work fine.

  • Hi, thank you for your great extension. I would love to install this functionality but I couldn’t get my connect manager to work. Is there an offline copy to download for manual installation?

    Look forward to your favorable reply.

    Thanks.

  • Hi, I have had the module installed and working for some time now, however I have found that when I use the search box on my store it only searches the Featured Products and not the whole stores catalog. Any ideas why this might be?

    Thanks

  • @kenny and @Hendrik

    I’m using M1.4.1 and this extension works like a charm. Like the others stated, you should have this in your page (CMS > Pages > Content): {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}

    Also, take a look at the code of what you copied (click on HTML in the editor). It could be, and I’m guessing it is, that some non-vissible code has been copied as well. That messes up everything, possibly. So make sure you get rid of that too, before you save the page.

    Good luck.

  • Hi,

    Verry nice extension, but i have a problem.
    In admin, when i check a product and i click on Save Featured Product the product not appear checked. In local that it is work verry good.
    Can you help me?
    Thanks

  • Hi,

    Very good extension, i want to show features product by category not over all store product, this feature available in this extenstion, if not then please guide how i do that,

  • I am using this o show one colum of featured products in the left side bar

    how can I make it not show on the product details page though?

    any help appreciated

  • Muzafar, try creating a new category with the products you want to display. Alternatively, you can manually select the products from each category you wish to display. To do that, navigate to Catalog > Manage Products, select the product you want and under the general tab should be a drop down for “Featured Product” select YES.

  • Michael,

    a simple way to do that is by changing the layout of the products page. In order to do that, go to Catalog > Manage Categories. If you wish to change the layout of all pages, click on Default Category then on the Custom Design Tab. Select the layout you want from the Page layout drop down. The 2 columns with right bar layout usually work well.

  • hi vinny,

    thanks for reply, my requirement is that i want to make different link of each category for example:
    feature product from computer (link 1)
    feature product from cell phone (link 2) etc….

    can i do that

    thanks
    muzafar ali

  • Yes you should be able to. In your admin area go to Catalog > Manage Products. Find the product you want to add from whatever category and edit it to set as Featured Product. There should be a Featured Product dropdown option on every product under the general tab.

    Hope this helps!

  • thanks, but how i make the link for different categories i want to like consoles, games, accessories and merchandise show on footer

    http://123gamer.co.uk

    thanks

  • cryfreeman Says

    August 13th, 2010 at 12:15

    I have a same case with kenny
    i pasted the code

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

    into home – content
    i can view the product in “featured-products”
    but it doesn’t show in home page,
    i am using 1.4.1.1

    this extension is good, just not work

    thanks a lot

  • @cryfreeman

    This page doesn’t display the brackets correctly. Did you replace the brackets (”) by the right ones?

    See this page for the correct brackets: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/4_-_themes_and_template_customization/cms_and_home_page/add_featured_products_to_home_page

  • Don’t copy the block right away, this is a wordpress so it makes ” out of “. looks the same, but isn’t

    Copy the Block in an editor of your choice and edit the ” to ” and it works like charm.

  • christian Says

    August 16th, 2010 at 7:03

    I tried to manually transfer this extension into a magento testsite but the featured product submenu wont appear, also in configuration.. but it appears in “disable module ouput”… I copied the extension and put it in app>code>local and the Inchoo_FeaturedProducts.xml in the app>etc>modules… Is there something lacking?

  • As shmk asked:

    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?

  • Great module – Exactly what most people are after.

    Few install issues with 1.3.2.4:

    1) SQL Error (Foreign Key Restraint) on install from Magento Connect.
    2) Having to enable Product Listing view on Attribute
    3) WordPress code paste adding non-unincoded characters on double quotes. I’ve experienced this before with code from you guys.
    4) Admin configuration empty (log out log back in fix)
    5) The template itself is pretty vanilla – why not just include pre-existing grid or list layouts by default, with this code commented for anyone wanting to customize?

    Either way – I was able to add featured products for a client in less than an hour of work. Always top-notch stuff fella’s!

  • @TTC, experienced the same issue by default the module templates will be installed under /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/Inchoo

    I fixed this by making a copy of … template/Inchoo into my other view folder … /default2/default/template/Inchoo

  • How to add the category names to the productsURL in the list view.?

  • When a template for the category is set differently then the base template, featured product does not load the category template when you first click on the featured product on the front page. It loads the base template.

    Only if I first go to the product through the menu, and I go back to the front page and click on the featured product, does it load the correct template.

    Also, the breadcrumb paths show Home/product instead of Home/category/product.

    How to fix so that the correct template for the category is used?

  • It’s very nice module, it’s easy to install and use.

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