Featured products Magento extension by Inchoo

6th APR 2010 | Posted by in Extensions, Magento
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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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  1. BrainStorm Joe
    19-11-2010 at 9:23 | #

    In the above comment, the missing code tag is the td, I just added that one line to it.

  2. Niklas
    19-11-2010 at 15:03 | #

    Hey,

    This seems like the right module for our site! We need a featured products function that can be separated into different store views. However, when I try to edit a specific store view in the tool provided with the module I get an error (admin area). Anybody else having this problem? Need acute help.

    Thanks in advance,

    Niklas

  3. Christian
    01-12-2010 at 12:17 | #

    Hello everyone,

    is there a possibility to show the “Shop-By” Block within my Featured-Products when I’ve selected 3columns.phtml?

    Thanks!

  4. web and software development
    06-12-2010 at 7:29 | #

    I am looking for such type of informative news and i get through this blog so i am very much thankful to you for sharing such a great information.

  5. Hridaya
    11-12-2010 at 14:10 | #

    Hello,

    It is not used in magento 1.1.6. Because my clients have magento 1.1.6 and it does not worked ,, i i have put some files from latest version to local and seems ok .. but can got

    404 Error

    Page not found.

    when i go to this page

    http://domainname.com/index.php/admin/featured/index/

    and also can not update products.

    Thank you

  6. Beauty-Presence
    15-12-2010 at 11:18 | #

    Hi,
    If I put a simple product which is not visible in the catalog into the featured products, it’s status will become visible in the catalog and its configurable attribute will be changed.
    The reason my simple product is hidden is that its part of a configurable product….
    Any way around that?
    Thanks!

  7. Beauty-Presence
    17-12-2010 at 4:17 | #

    Actually even if I put the configurable product, it will change the configurable attributes its first simple product

    so I can’t use this extension :(

  8. Sho
    17-12-2010 at 9:50 | #

    Does it work on Magento 1.4.2.0?
    I’ve inserted {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} on my page but nothing is displayed.

  9. Viktor
    20-12-2010 at 23:23 | #

    Will someone tell me please where is the “Featured Products” css file? How do I adjust font type, size and color (mostly concerned with color), so that the Inchoo default blue font matches my sites’ overall design? I tried to play with boxes.css file, but no luck. I use a custom made template, not a generic one (but that should not matter, I suppose).

    Thanks in advance!

  10. Nafnaf1000
    22-12-2010 at 18:07 | #

    Hey, this is a nice extension but is not working for me as all item are being marked as featured when I import my item through with magmi…

    How do I remove all of this Extensions files and from database so I can install it later.

    Thanks.

  11. Riccardo
    23-12-2010 at 9:44 | #

    @nafnaf1000: I’m using this extension with magmi and it’s working fine :)
    I’ve added in the imported .csv a column called “inchoo_featured_product” where its value could be 1 or 0 (as number, so he could see it as boolean).

  12. Nafnaf1000
    23-12-2010 at 17:21 | #

    @Riccardo

    Thank you for your reply.

    So maybe you can help me understand something. Why are all new imported item coming to the home page ????? when they are NOT featured???

  13. Riccardo
    24-12-2010 at 0:08 | #

    @nafnaf1000

    - Have you checked from administration backend that in the product edit page the “featured” fileld is correctly set to false/true?
    - In magmi have you enabled the reindex plugin? Otherwise after an import you have to reindex the product manually.
    - If you create a product from backend (a new one, not imported) and you set its “featured” field, the product appears in your homepage accordingly to the setting?

  14. Sagar
    30-12-2010 at 17:42 | #

    My bundle product is not showing on frontend as featured product.

  15. Todd Welling
    03-01-2011 at 3:45 | #

    Does anyone have the original source code, as my Magento Connect fails:

    ERROR: failed to mkdir /var/www/toggle.co.nz/skin/adminhtml/default/default/images/inchoo

    I’ve changed all the file permissions, but still no joy. Even made the directory for it, but it does not pick this up.

    Using Mage 1.4.1.1

    Cheers,
    Todd

  16. Todd Welling
    08-01-2011 at 4:54 | #

    Encountering some “buggy” issues in 1.4.1.1

    (1) Using the Block: How do you get the selected Catalog >> Featured Products to show up in the block? All I can get is the New or Random to show.

    (2) On the http://www.toggle.co.nz/featured-products/ page I get my entire catalog being pulled through.

    I’m thinking this may because I tried to do a manual install, as the Magento Connect continued to fail (got no response to previous post). However, in the Admin panel the selected 30 products are all setup.

    Any ideas?

  17. Bryan
    12-01-2011 at 5:55 | #

    Can someone please tell me how to manually & fully uninstall this extension?

    I am using flat catalog products which is not compatible with this extension.

    Uninstalling the extension via MagentoConnect doesn’t seem to do the trick. The admin panel still displays ‘Featured Products’ in the dropdown menu under ‘Catalog’.

    Running Magento 1.4.1.1

  18. Goran
    26-01-2011 at 21:05 | #

    I installed it on Magento 1.4, and it works perfectly until I turn flat catalog products on.

    Is there a chance to get this extension working with flat catalog products.

  19. idris
    28-01-2011 at 10:39 | #

    i have installed this extension its working fine… but i need to modify the button name and i have to add a new column for special price… how can i do it

  20. Riccardo
    28-01-2011 at 18:08 | #

    @idris: you could edit the Featured Products block template file that you could find in: /app/design/frontend/*/*/template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml

  21. Steve
    29-01-2011 at 9:22 | #

    Hello, great module!

    It was working great for me but suddenly dissappeared from home page. The only thing i have change is the folder permissions to 755 for all folders. Do you have any idea where is the issue?

    Thanks

  22. Tomas Novoselic
    29-01-2011 at 11:29 | #

    @Steve Since your permission on all directories (assuming files too?) has 775 permission, my wild guess is that your web server is not owner of those files and directories set to 775. sftp user or ssh user, root or someone similar might have been used to set those permissions, so I guess you should change ownership to apache user. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong.

  23. Steve
    31-01-2011 at 14:11 | #

    @Tomas Thank for your reply, althought the ownership now is apache, it is still not appears. Any other idea? :(

  24. Tomas Novoselic
    31-01-2011 at 14:25 | #

    @Steve, sorry, nothing comes to my mind right now, maybe Domagoj will know better. I’ll tell him to check this out.

  25. Judaica Store
    01-02-2011 at 20:56 | #

    Thanks for a great work.
    I have installed your ext on the test site and it worked great, and even modified the block a bit (mag v 1.4.1.1).
    But when I installed it on the productions site, I got empty space between header and footer of the admin, meaning there is blank space where the ext content suppose to be. Have checked permissions and even changed and tested them – nada. The only difference between the 2 site is that one that has the problem has a CDN (one pick ext.) and secured admin.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks!
    ron

  26. Simon
    02-02-2011 at 1:29 | #

    This installed fine and it shows in the backend but my products will show in the frontend. Feature item is set to true on the backend.

  27. Simon
    02-02-2011 at 1:31 | #

    More info for above. My product is a simple product and it’s Magneto on 1.4.2. Any ideas?

  28. Judaica Store
    02-02-2011 at 10:40 | #

    ok guys, found the problem! there is another “featured products ext that was installed, I assume it made some sort of “collision”. The other ext is (in case you inchoo guys want to have a look in order to prevent it) is: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/herve%40wsa/extension/4800/agilefeaturedproducts

    Thank you so much for this extension!

  29. Simon
    02-02-2011 at 20:38 | #

    I finally got it to work. I totally forgot to add the codes in the home page. Sorry, I’m a noobie. =)

  30. Simon
    02-02-2011 at 21:50 | #

    Oh another note, I have two follow up questions I hope someone can help.

    1) How can I get the image frame with the Featured Products on the home page. I notice mine is missing.

    2) How can I resize the featured product images?

  31. cupping sets
    11-02-2011 at 22:39 | #

    Hey all,

    I am trying to align my prices and buttons on the featured products block. To achieve this I wish to add 2 bits of code.

    1. Create a new div tag to wrap the product name…

    #myCo-product-grid-name { height: 65px; }

    2. To 

    <div id="myCo-product-grid-name"><h5><a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ></a></h5></div>

    This is all from the following link:
    http://www.westwideweb.com/wp/2009/02/16/magento-uniform-positioning-of-add-to-cart-button/

    Where do I need to add this code?
    Can someone please point me to the file and line I need to add it to.

    CHeers!!!

  32. Enno Julian
    14-02-2011 at 12:10 | #

    Many Magentoers are looking for an alternative to the since v1.4 deprecated FEATURED PRODUCTS BY CATEGORY cms block.

    You can achive this however by using the INCHOO FEATURED PRODUCTS extension with some slight adjustments .

    1) copy the inchoo block_featured_products.phtml module to your own theme folder at app/design/frontend/default/my-theme/template/inchoo/

    2) add a category filter to the template:

    <?php $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(CATEGORY-ID); ?>

    In above line CATEGORY-ID should be replaced with the number that represents the category that you wish to filter (can be found when editing a category in the backend)

    3) change the following line of code:

    <?php if (($_products = $this->getProductCollection()) && $_products->getSize()): ?>

    into:

    <?php if (($_products = $this->getProductCollection()->addCategoryFilter($category)) && $_products->getSize()): ?>

    4) rename the template to include the category you want to filter. Ie. block_featured_products_category1.phtml

    5) insert following code block to CMS page – often the homepage-

    {{block type="featuredproducts/listing" template="inchoo/block_featured_products_category1.phtml"}}

    And you’re set!

    You can repeat this at many times as you want, enabling you to show featured products from different categories in different blocks at your homepage.
    Off course you first have to make them featured in the backend with the INCHOO FEATURED PRODUCTS EXTENSION .

    Hope this will help someone just like INCHOO saved me a bunch of time that I could use to make this up.

    Mage-on!
    Enno

  33. Michele
    24-02-2011 at 12:04 | #

    Hello, I have a couple of users with access to backend and I have categorized them in groups.

    When I edit the permissions about a group I cannot see the “Featured products” checkbox in the enable/disable tree, so I cannot give access to featured products page to them.

    Anyone has a fix for it?

  34. m4t
    24-02-2011 at 13:14 | #

    You don’t need a fix, you’ve to add the url in permissions management.

    Open another core module config.xml and see examples: looking for 

     <adminhtml>
        <acl>
            <resources>
                <admin>
...

    and 

     <adminhtml>
	   <menu>
			<cpa ...

    These 2 configurations do the trick! ;)

  35. Michele
    24-02-2011 at 16:17 | #

    Thanks for the tip m4t but I still have problems about it…

    I’ve added in config.xml inside

    <acl>
    <resources>
        <admin>
            <children>

    this code

                    <catalog>
                    <children>
                        <featuredproducts translate="title" module="featuredproducts">
                            <title>Featured Products</title>
                            <sort_order>50</sort_order>
                        </featuredproducts>
                    </children>
                </catalog>

    And the checbox appeared inside the groups permissions page. I could check or uncheck the value and it’s saved by Magento.

    But when a user login in the admin area he still cannot see the button Featured Products inside Catalog.

    What am I missing?

    PS: in all recent modules this instruction are not inside config.xml but in adminhtml.xml

  36. Jake
    01-03-2011 at 20:31 | #

    Is this compatible with Magento 1.5?

  37. Graham Barnes
    04-03-2011 at 12:18 | #

    Hi I want to move this from the homepage to appear on everypage, so move it to header.phtml but in a specific place as i have other code i want to go below it but how do i do it?

    thanks
    graham

  38. Simon Greer
    10-03-2011 at 14:51 | #

    Hi, I’m having the same problem as Hridaya – I’m using 1.5, and it works perfectly, but the featured products section in the admin config goes to a 404. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

    Thanks
    Simon

  39. Martyn
    16-03-2011 at 7:57 | #

    Hello!

    First of all thanks a lot for this great extension!

    I got it up and running on two Magento 1.4.1 websites.
    Now i implemented the extension on 1.4.2

    But now it just shows four random products and not only the featured ones…. So all my products are featured! And i got no clue how to solve it.

    Please help me out!

    Thanx a lot in advance!

    Grtz,
    Tyn

  40. Enno Julian
    22-03-2011 at 17:49 | #

    In reply to the 404 for System->Configuration->Featured products in Magento 1.5 (Simon Greer 10-3-2011).

    Clear cache and log out of the admin. Log in back again and gone is the 404 !

    Regards,
    Enno

  41. K Becker
    28-03-2011 at 7:14 | #

    Can anybody let us know how to install this great extension on Magento 1.4.1.1 ?

    If you have extension on Magento 1.4.1.1 or extention 1.3.2

    Please sent to me at kritsanut@lisandi.com

    Thank you

    Fuse

  42. Marcus
    30-03-2011 at 11:07 | #

    thank you a lot for this nice extension – we run it on 1.5 and it works fine.

  43. Rose
    01-04-2011 at 7:01 | #

    how do you uninstall this product in 1.4.1.1? Does anyone know how to do this?

  44. Frédérik MIGETTE
    05-04-2011 at 16:21 | #

    Hello,

    Your product work fine on 1.4.2, but i notice a bug with tier price. When i select in the Feature product a product and save, the extension kill the tiers price.

    Have you an idea why ?

    Thank you

  45. Yannick
    08-04-2011 at 8:33 | #

    Hi, how can I change the default grid in a block to a standard, limited list?

  46. greme
    14-04-2011 at 7:06 | #

    is this extension works with version 1.5.0.1

  47. sylph
    28-04-2011 at 4:53 | #

    Hello,

    Thanks for the useful extension! :)
    I have installed and it works fine with 1.4.2. I would like to change the size of the thumbnail displayed on the frontpage.
    How do I go about to do it? Thank you!

  48. Matt
    04-05-2011 at 16:33 | #

    I have 1.5 and it works for me as long as I place the files in my theme folder instead of having them in the default folder which they are installed.

    Thanks Guys!

  49. Charles
    09-05-2011 at 6:29 | #

    Running the featured products plugin on my home page and i love it except for the fact that i cant get the product to show up in a grid to even out spacing. Can someone please help I have looked through the comments and can’t find a direct answer. Again how do you set you featured products so that they are in columns and rows spaced evenly. Thanks!!

  50. Nando
    11-05-2011 at 10:36 | #

    I installed your Featured Products module in Magento 1.5, but when I assign Random in Sort By in Main Block, every products are shown randomly, not only the featured.
    When I use Last added everything is fine.
    What happens?

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