Comments on: Featured products Magento extension by Inchoo

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:34 +0000

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.

By: Chicba

Chicba — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:54:59 +0000

I like this module………

By: Jr

Jr — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:54:04 +0000

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

By: Jr

Jr — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:59:05 +0000

@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!

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:52:51 +0000

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

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:37:39 +0000

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

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:30:25 +0000

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 ?

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:42:04 +0000

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

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:19:38 +0000

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.

By: Diogo Almeida

Diogo Almeida — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:04:02 +0000

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

By: Rob Elings

Rob Elings — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:34:42 +0000

i had the same issue

By: frost

frost — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:47:28 +0000

sorry guys it stripped my code…

By: frost

frost — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:46:35 +0000

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

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

change:

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

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:25:29 +0000

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

Any ideas?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:54:57 +0000

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?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:10:52 +0000

try again with changes

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

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

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:08:29 +0000

@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.

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:55:43 +0000

@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.

By: Matte

Matte — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:21:39 +0000

Glad to know, Toni!

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

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:15:51 +0000

@Matte,

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