Featured products 2.0 – revamped!

By: Darko Goles, Last updated: Oct 22, 2019 | Published: Nov 30, 2012

One of the most requested feature in Magento is the ability to show featured products on the frontend. The idea is to choose the products that should be featured and display them on the home page or in a separate interface. Previous version had a huge demand. It was downloaded over 28,000 times. We are now presenting an update: Featured Products 2.0.

Featured products give you the ability to choose products that will be shown as “featured” from Magento admin area and depending on the configuration, those products can be shown on separate page on URL (http://yoursite.com/featured-products) or on any other Magento page as a separate block.

Featured products 2.0 features include:

Two separate ways to display “Featured products”:
1. As stand-alone Magento page
2. As widget-like block that can be inserted anywhere (mostly used for homepage)
Rich set of configuration options in Magento admin area
New improved user friendly Magento grid interface for Featured products management
Defining featured products on Store View level
Option to turn On/Off extension from configuration area
Option to show/hide price and addToCart button (if need to hide the price)
Change sort order for displayed products for CMS block
Set the desired number of items to be displayed in CMS block
Set the desired number of items per row
Define size for displayed product thumbnail images in CMS block
Set different layout options for stand-alone page
Defining featured products on Store View level
Define Meta-title, Meta description and Meta Keywords for standalone page SEO

This extension is improved following user reviews shared on the older version on Magento Connect. I hope that this new version will meet your expectations.

Here I will try to answer some of the most common user questions:

FAQ:

Q: Which Magento versions is the extension compatible with?
A: Featured products v2.0 is compatible with Magento CE 1.6 and greater and EE 1.11 and greater, and for older Magento versions there is an option to download Featured products v1.2.3

Q: I have purchased the “Call For Price” extension which removes the price and add to cart button on the product page. But this extension still shows price and button on home page. Does anyone know how to remove the price and add to cart button on the home page as well?
A: In version 2.0 it is easily done through configuration options from Magento Admin area

Q: Why do I get 404 error every time I access the config?
A: If you even after log-out and log-in again to your Magento admin still get this error, it is necessarily to manually set ACL permissions for admin user through System|Permissions|Roles in order to make it work.

Q: I have added multiple stores in my site, this extension not able to collect data according to store wise. How can i customize this extension, so featured products are displayed according to store wise?
A: This is natively implemented in version 2.0 and you just need to select appropriate Store view when defining featured products through: Catalog|Featured products screen.

Q: How to make Featured products appear on my home page?
A:

After extension installation, it is neccesary to navigate to: CMS|Pages and then click on Home page row in order to edit its content. Make sure to click on row that has “enabled” value.
Click on the tab Content on the left side of the screen and then click on the “Hide editor” button on the center of the screen in order to hide visual HTML editor.
Inside your Home page content HTML add this: {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} and click on the save page button. That should display the block on your home page.
Also make sure that your extension is set to “Active” in System|Configuration area.

The extension is currently being maintained by our Inchooer Zvonimir Buric and is available via his GitHub account. Extension is free, provided as is, without warranty of any kind.

Get Inchoo_FeaturedProducts Magento extension.

Note! This article was revised on Nov 30, 2012. You will notice that some of the comments are older. This is because the original article was posted in 2010 by Tomislav Bilic.

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478 comments

shyam says:
Sep 18, 2017 at 14:57
Excellent Module,
I need to add one more column in grid can anybody help me to add it,
Check this link https://prnt.sc/gmmbg7
Thanks,
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Jon Harrell says:
Apr 13, 2016 at 19:02
I added a new category and my featured products block disappeared… I ave tried to refresh the cache to no avail. Aside from removing the plugin completely and reinstalling from a fresh pull – why would this block just drop off?
See this stack question for details.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36588761/magento-layout-xml-block-on-a-page-disappeared
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James says:
Sep 08, 2015 at 10:11
Seems like my bundle products are not showing up to be pick as featured. Not sure it supports or its my setup. Please help.
James
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Andre Lingman says:
Aug 14, 2015 at 10:04
Hi i was wondering how i could remove the review links from below each product as it makes the grid layout uneven, currently to remedy this i only show featured products that have no reviews. Also i would like to align the “product name” to the center below the product or ontop of the product image with the current left alignment. Is there any help i could get please?
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Madhav says:
Jul 21, 2015 at 12:54
How can we call featured products by category? what changes we need to make in the source code to achieve this?
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Daniel says:
Jun 11, 2015 at 15:43
Hi Everyone –
after I copied all the files from the Featured Product package, logout and login done, cache cleared and all the other things mentioned on how to install it I get this error message:
a:5:{i:0;s:1110:”SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘at_inchoo_featured_product.value_id’ in ‘where clause’, query was: SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT e.entity_id) FROM `catalog_product_flat_1` AS `e`
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_index_price` AS `price_index` ON price_index.entity_id = e.entity_id AND price_index.website_id = ‘1’ AND price_index.customer_group_id = ‘1’
LEFT JOIN `catalog_product_entity` AS `at_inchoo_featured_product_default` ON (`at_inchoo_featured_product_default`.`entity_id` = `e`.`entity_id`) AND `at_inchoo_featured_product_default`.`store_id` = 0
LEFT JOIN `catalog_product_entity` AS `at_inchoo_featured_product` ON (`at_inchoo_featured_product`.`entity_id` = `e`.`entity_id`) AND (`at_inchoo_featured_product`.`store_id` = 1)
INNER JOIN `catalog_category_product_index` AS `cat_index` ON cat_index.product_id=e.entity_id AND cat_index.store_id=’1′ AND cat_index.visibility IN(2, 4) AND cat_index.category_id = ‘2’ WHERE ((IF(at_inchoo_featured_product.value_id > 0, at_inchoo_featured_product.inchoo_featured_product, at_inchoo_featured_product_default.inchoo_featured_product) = 1))”;i:1;s:5793:”#0 /home/www/web273/html/zamsato/lib/Varien/Db/Statement/Pdo/Mysql.php(110): Zend_Db_Statement_Pdo->_execute(Array)
It says column missing. Who can help me to correct this? Your help is highly appreciated. Thank you very much. Daniel
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Rony says:
Feb 09, 2015 at 5:56
Hi,
I will get the featured product by category.
If a product in many categories, how can I do? please help me.
Thanks.
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eric says:
Feb 02, 2015 at 16:57
Hello,
Dont know if it is mentioned but here goes :
i did it with the insert widget in the page editor
after some coinsidence i found out that it is relevant that the featured products contain “search” for visibility
i checked it off because i only use 2 products so nothing to search as well i removed search bar etc.
maybe this is of some help to somebody
Eric
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Abi Tyrrell says:
Dec 05, 2014 at 19:12
Finally! A featured Product WITH documentation that works in 1.9!!
I’m in love!
Now to look at your other goodies!
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1. Abi Tyrrell says:
  Dec 11, 2014 at 22:34
  You know how I said it was brilliant? I take it all back. Add a new Category and the whole thing disappears. No solution on the web.
2. IHL says:
  Feb 04, 2016 at 6:19
  Had this problem, a category reindex fixed it, even though it wasn’t specifically called for
Niklas says:
Sep 02, 2014 at 19:31
hello
Nice script FeaturedProducts..
I have install it, clear cache, add 3 products to FeaturedProducts.
But i can´t see it on the frontend…
I use magento 1.9.0.1
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SewGreek says:
Jul 29, 2014 at 21:00
My Featured product images are showing the small image oppose to the base image and they aren’t centered within the block. How do I re-size and make the featured product images larger or use the base image and center them on my homepage?
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Henk Valk says:
Mar 18, 2014 at 11:23
In Magento 1.8 no featured products would shown up on Homepage. So I changed tried to use the “insert widget” button, and that is working perfectly.
Instead of {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} use the following code to show on homepage:
{{widget type=”featuredproducts/widget”}}
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Joel Chaney says:
Jan 02, 2014 at 21:20
Clicking on featured product categories generate a 404 error. Example: Fitness Supplements |
Whey Isolate == We are sorry, but the page you are looking for cannot be found.
URL Redirect Management has:
Request Path Target Path
whey-isolate-12 whey-isolate-9
whey-isolate-11 whey-isolate-8
whey-isolate-10 whey-isolate-7
How can I resolve this issue?
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Kunal says:
Nov 29, 2013 at 10:53
How to get featured products in the side bar?
Want to be able to select how many items are shown one underneth another.
The std code does not do this {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
please help !!
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Mees says:
Nov 18, 2013 at 9:53
On this page: http://saintazul.com.stagingceezoo.nl/cape-town.html in the footer i load some featured products with your plugin.
But how do i load all featured products except the ones off the current Category?
Is this possible?
Thanks a lot!
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Mees says:
Nov 18, 2013 at 9:31
Hi on my homepage i list ‘Featured Product’ with your plugin.
I have one problem? The url is now: http://saintazul.com.stagingceezoo.nl/cape-town-business.html
But i want it to be: http://saintazul.com.stagingceezoo.nl/cape-town/cape-town-business.html
Because on each Category i have different CSS styles.
How do i add the ‘category-name’ to the URL?
Thanks a lot!
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sabari says:
Nov 16, 2013 at 8:30
I installed and {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} this code put in content area but no output in home page. pls help me
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Dove says:
Nov 01, 2013 at 21:58
Hello,
I get this error in magento 1.8
‘Mage_Core_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid block type: Mage_”featuredproducts_Block_Listing”’ in /chroot/home/site/siyte.com/html/app/Mage.php:594
Any idea what to do ?
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Peter Vowels says:
Oct 14, 2013 at 8:45
How to add some cell spacing on my home page?
I tried changing to in my theme folders /templates/inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml , but it didn’t create any spacing, no matter what I set the cell spacing value to. I have a 5 per row layout … Please help !!
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Rrroulio says:
Aug 09, 2013 at 2:12
thanks for this module. Strange thing on front. I see all products featured or not, list and home
magento 1.7.0.2 with 4 products and only 2 are featured.
attribute has been created, no error in admin. no idea…
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Chamath says:
Aug 02, 2013 at 6:18
Hi,
I have installed this extension successfully. After saving product as a featured product it will clear all tier prices of that product.
Please help us on this.
Thanks,
Chamath
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Myrna says:
Jul 21, 2013 at 14:44
When I initially commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment
is added I get three emails with the same comment.
Is there any way you can remove people from that service?
Thanks!
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Nikhil says:
Jul 03, 2013 at 12:08
can you show some demo of this extension?
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gagan says:
Jun 21, 2013 at 6:36
Thank you !!! awesome extension..
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gagan says:
Jun 21, 2013 at 5:45
I’ve put this {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} in content area and extension is active.
So far there is no error.
But question is how to assign a category to this extension?
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Brad says:
Jun 11, 2013 at 2:51
Hi, could anyone please help change the block_featured_products.phtml from a table to an unordered list? I also want the first list item to have the class=”first” and the last to have the class=”last”.
I have set the admin to show 5 per row.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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SewGreek says:
Jun 06, 2013 at 14:58
I have installed this based on the updated info (download the archive) I see Featured Products on the front end but it is not working. Actually none of my products are showing up on the website at all now.
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Dan says:
Jun 03, 2013 at 20:05
Thank You for writing this plugin! Here’s the issue that we are trying to resolve.
Current Setup and Product Scope
Product A -> Visible on Site 1 and Site 2
Product B -> Visible on Site 1 and Site 2
Product C -> Visible on Site 1
Product D -> Visible on Site 1
Product E -> Visible on Site 2
Product F -> Visible on Site 2
We are unable to setup featured products to show
Products A, C, D on Site 1
Products B, E, F on Site 2
Using the Store ID filter and saving the settings. The results always end up being
Products A, B, C, D on Site 1
Products A, B, E, F on Site 2.
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Chris says:
Apr 30, 2013 at 14:43
The plugin is no longer available via the Magento Connect site 🙁
I’ve used it on a couple of sites, and wanted to use it again, but due this restrictive Magento connect infrastructure which prevents just downloading of a plug in, I can’t use it again.
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zonaib says:
Apr 26, 2013 at 18:32
Goles, any help that you can extend me?
I am in kind of a fix, need help, posted the problem at stack overflow too, but no help so far
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Darko Goles says:
Apr 26, 2013 at 11:17
@Hope, and all dear other readers: Please read my last comments 🙂
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Hope says:
Apr 26, 2013 at 11:13
Hello, Featured products is no longer available for downloading at Magento Commerce? We would like to install it to a client’s site.
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Hi, i was listing featurd products on homepage, and it was working fine till yesterday, now nothing is being loaded. and the following exception is thrown:

exception 'Mage_Core_Exception' with message 'Invalid block type: Mage_Featuredproducts_Block_Listing' in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\Mage.php:594
Stack trace:
#0 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(495): Mage::throwException('Invalid block t...')
#1 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(437): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->_getBlockInstance('featuredproduct...', Array)
#2 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(472): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->createBlock('featuredproduct...', 'FeaturedProduct...')
#3 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(239): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->addBlock('featuredproduct...', 'FeaturedProduct...')
#4 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(205): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->_generateBlock(Object(Mage_Core_Model_Layout_Element), Object(Mage_Core_Model_Layout_Element))
#5 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(210): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->generateBlocks(Object(Mage_Core_Model_Layout_Element))
#6 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Action.php(344): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->generateBlocks()
#7 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Cms\Helper\Page.php(113): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->generateLayoutBlocks()
#8 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Cms\Helper\Page.php(52): Mage_Cms_Helper_Page->_renderPage(Object(Mage_Cms_IndexController), 'home')
#9 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Cms\controllers\IndexController.php(45): Mage_Cms_Helper_Page->renderPage(Object(Mage_Cms_IndexController), 'home')
#10 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Action.php(419): Mage_Cms_IndexController->indexAction()
#11 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Router\Standard.php(250): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->dispatch('index')
#12 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Front.php(176): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard->match(Object(Mage_Core_Controller_Request_Http))
#13 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\App.php(354): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->dispatch()
#14 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\app\Mage.php(683): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
#15 C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-12.1\www\magento\index.php(87): Mage::run('', 'store')
#16 {main}

Any help would be appreciated

manish goyanka says:
Apr 25, 2013 at 19:32
Hi…
every readers
This Extension Work well for me ……
and For You ..
You can put following code in CMS Page
{{block type=”featuredproducts/product_list” name=”featured_product_list” as=”featured_product_list” template=”inchoo/featuredproducts/list.phtml”}}
Instead of CMS Page Code
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
Provided by Inchoo
and to thanks for Inchoo developers
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Darko Goles says:
Apr 22, 2013 at 8:39
EDIT:
The extension is currently being maintained by our Inchooer Zvonimir Buric and is available via his GitHub account. Extension is free, provided as is, without warranty of any kind.
https://github.com/buric/Inchoo_FeaturedProducts
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eurica says:
Apr 22, 2013 at 7:29
@darko, thanks for the info… i already manage to install the inchoo featured products..
thanks again.
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Darko Goles says:
Apr 22, 2013 at 7:15
Dear readers, I have to say that unfortunately, we stopped support on Featured products extension and also extension is removed from Magento Connect. I hope you will understand 🙂 If there will be some changes in the future about this, we will notify you here. Cheers.
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eurica says:
Apr 22, 2013 at 5:58
Hi guys…
im trying to install the inchoo featured products and i already ready the instructions, but the problem is the link into magento connect for featured products is deleted.
So how can i get the extension key? Please help me, is there a way to install it manually without the extension key?
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popinjayblog says:
Apr 16, 2013 at 22:24
How can i download this extension? Please provide me the downloadable link or extension itself. I used the magento connect manager but it’s not working out for me.
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Darko Goles says:
Apr 16, 2013 at 19:59
@David Thomas, would You be so kind to contact https://inchoo.net/contact/ for that. I am sure that our sales will find the way to help you. 🙂
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David Thomas says:
Apr 16, 2013 at 17:29
Hi Darko, really great site you guys have here. I always seem to end up here when searching for Magento based queries via Google.
I can see you have covered a variety of issues regarding installation and I’m not sure if you’ll be able to help, but I thought it was worth a shot.
Previously I was running version 1.2.3 however I wanted to update to gain the multi store functionality, so I removed the previous version and attempted to install. The installation seems to complete successfully, however after recaching and logging in I can not find the plugin in System > Configuration. The Inchoo section appears, but under Inchoo > General only Notes shows as an installed extension.
I’m guessing there is some sort of conflict with the previous version, however as I uninstalled this beforehand I am not sure how?
Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. I would be more than prepared to pay a member of your team to take a look as you provide such a great free resource.
Thanks a million.
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Esmeralda says:
Apr 13, 2013 at 21:36
Hi,
I have this plugin installed but somehow the “Add to cart” button is displayed over my text so it’s not under the text. Any idea how to solve this?
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Cris says:
Apr 12, 2013 at 17:07
Hiya Guys just wondering what is the new url for magento connect. this url gives me 404 http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/featured-products-4605.html
I really need this so bad 🙁
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Rydzyks says:
Apr 11, 2013 at 12:44
How add attrebutes filter in left bar ?
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Elia says:
Apr 09, 2013 at 9:47
I used your module in home of my webiste (magento multi-domain), I set featured product attribute, but the module display other products. What happend?
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jalu says:
Apr 04, 2013 at 9:05
hi,
how to mass update? i try to import via csv with value ‘Yes’ on colomn ‘inchoo_featured_product’, but no success
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David says:
Mar 15, 2013 at 15:07
Oh, duh! Very helpful, thanks.
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Darko Goles says:
Mar 15, 2013 at 8:28
@David, as I can see from this log, this appears when somebody opens 404 page. Please take a look at your Magento 404 layout configuration to make sure that block featured products are not included there.
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Any clues why this error appears in my exception log every time the plug-in is triggered? Featured Products is working on the site just fine and we LOVE it! Running Mage CE 1.7 and Featured Product 2. I’ve re-installed the plugin using the .tgz file you kindly link to in an earlier reply, cleared cache, re-indexed, all that usual stuff… Any clues would be helpful.

exception 'Mage_Core_Exception' with message 'Invalid block type: Mage_”featuredproducts_Block_Listing”' in /home/celebrat/public_html/app/Mage.php:594
Stack trace:
#0 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php(495): Mage::throwException('Invalid block t...')
#1 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php(437): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->_getBlockInstance('???featuredprod...', Array)
#2 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Email/Template/Filter.php(164): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->createBlock('???featuredprod...', NULL, Array)
#3 [internal function]: Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter->blockDirective(Array)
#4 /home/celebrat/public_html/lib/Varien/Filter/Template.php(134): call_user_func(Array, Array)
#5 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Email/Template/Filter.php(502): Varien_Filter_Template->filter('<div class="pag...')
#6 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Cms/Block/Page.php(100): Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter->filter('<div class="pag...')
#7 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(863): Mage_Cms_Block_Page->_toHtml()
#8 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(582): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->toHtml()
#9 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(522): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->_getChildHtml('cms_page', true)
#10 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Wrapper.php(52): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->getChildHtml('', true, true)
#11 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(863): Mage_Page_Block_Html_Wrapper->_toHtml()
#12 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Text/List.php(43): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->toHtml()
#13 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(863): Mage_Core_Block_Text_List->_toHtml()
#14 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(582): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->toHtml()
#15 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(526): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->_getChildHtml('content', true)
#16 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/design/frontend/default/herbal_green/template/page/2columns-right.phtml(48): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->getChildHtml('content')
#17 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(241): include('/home/celebrat/...')
#18 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(272): Mage_Core_Block_Template->fetchView('frontend/defaul...')
#19 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(286): Mage_Core_Block_Template->renderView()
#20 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(863): Mage_Core_Block_Template->_toHtml()
#21 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php(555): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->toHtml()
#22 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php(390): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->getOutput()
#23 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Cms/Helper/Page.php(137): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->renderLayout()
#24 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Cms/Helper/Page.php(52): Mage_Cms_Helper_Page->_renderPage(Object(Mage_Cms_IndexController), 'no-route')
#25 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Cms/controllers/IndexController.php(75): Mage_Cms_Helper_Page->renderPage(Object(Mage_Cms_IndexController), 'no-route')
#26 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php(419): Mage_Cms_IndexController->noRouteAction()
#27 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Router/Standard.php(250): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->dispatch('noRoute')
#28 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Front.php(176): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard->match(Object(Mage_Core_Controller_Request_Http))
#29 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(354): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->dispatch()
#30 /home/celebrat/public_html/app/Mage.php(683): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
#31 /home/celebrat/public_html/index.php(87): Mage::run('', 'store')
#32 {main}

Adib says:
Mar 10, 2013 at 6:31
@GF, it’s the Quotation marks.
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} <—wrong
{{block type="featuredproducts/listing"}} <–Correct
See the difference? If not, just copy and paste the correct one.
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GF says:
Mar 09, 2013 at 15:42
Hi
My Magento template uses the code:
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”15″ template=”catalog/product/feature_product.phtml”}}
to show the featured products but I don’t like it because it shows only the products in 1 category, not a selection.
I tried replacing that code with: {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
But then the featured products won’t show up (they are selected in back-end). Any idea why?
Cheers,
GF
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Esmeralda says:
Mar 08, 2013 at 22:36
Hi,
I have this plugin installed but somehow the “Add to cart” button is displayed over my text so it’s not under the text. Any idea how to solve this?
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akamyself says:
Mar 08, 2013 at 12:32
Darko, thanks for the plug and the help you provide with it.
I’m trying it out right now to see if I can use it, can access the featured-products page but using {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} inside a cms does not work so far. No trace of anything in the source code so I keep looking to find out why.
One downside to this though, nothing specific to this plug-in I guess, is that when you click on a featured product, it “removes” it from its category.
In the breadcrumb path, its is just related to the homepage and not the products category.
Is there a way around it or is it just how Magento works ?
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Darko Goles says:
Mar 06, 2013 at 14:29
@Gaurav,
Try download on this link
or
try to use this tool
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Hardik says:
Mar 06, 2013 at 14:24
Try this. its works great……
http://hkpatel201.blogspot.in/2012/12/featured-products-with-magento-in-3.html
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Gaurav says:
Mar 06, 2013 at 13:28
How can i download this extension? Please provide me the downloadable link or extension itself. I used the magento connect manager but it’s not working out for me.
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Duke says:
Mar 04, 2013 at 23:05
i am using magento 1.7 and default theme and i manually entered
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} this line of code but still am not getting any result..someone help me
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naresh says:
Mar 03, 2013 at 1:00
i am new to magento
please explain me how to add items to feature product
and how to display that item in side bar
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 28, 2013 at 9:29
@Rifki, @Dan, there are sometimes some unexpected behaviors with Magento specially if you have some customized theme or extension. I would like to help you, but, unfortunately, i have to tell you that you have to hire some Magento developer that will take look at your source code and determine what causes this error, as for regular clean magento installation, this extension is working properly. It is too dangerous to give you any advice on how to handle this without looking in your installation’s source code. Hope you understand 🙂
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Dan says:
Feb 27, 2013 at 3:20
Still get this on the install
I get this error after install in Connect on EE.
Exception during cache and session cleaning: Error in file: “/home/magento/public_html/app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/sql/featuredproducts_setup/mysql4-install-1.0.1.php” – SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ’14-General’ for key ‘UNQ_EAV_ATTRIBUTE_GROUP_ATTRIBUTE_SET_ID_ATTRIBUTE_GROUP_NAME’
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Rifki says:
Feb 26, 2013 at 18:04
Featured products doesn’t show any image, even tough I have put 4 products per line it shows only a single product at a line. Can you please help me asap. Thanks.
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Adib says:
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:35
I only just started using magento but got it to work, thanks! By the way, the products from the widget seem to be too close together like there is no gap at all. Where do I edit this?
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elpoleto says:
Feb 21, 2013 at 10:38
Hello, today featured block disappears from site, the only thing i did was to add a category in the cataloug, the files and the block in cms home page are presents. magento 1.7.0.2 http://www.polettoeditore.it
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Dan says:
Feb 19, 2013 at 17:09
for some reason, no layout or template files have been copied via the downloader?! so i cant move them to my these folder. Is there somewhere where i can download the files from this extension so i can upload them manually myself? many thanks!
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 14, 2013 at 11:38
@Matt, I am glad you succeeded to make it work! 🙂
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Matt says:
Feb 14, 2013 at 10:28
Yo Darko, thanks for the wake up call. My issue….. I had not copied this folder
```
/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/inchoo
```
and all its contents to same location but in my theme ie
```
/app/design/frontend/MYTHEME/default/template/inchoo
```
. Thanks for ya help
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 14, 2013 at 8:26
@Maarten, this feature is not currently possible with this extension version. We could possibly plan that for next release… (Of course, you can put {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}} three times but there are no way that you can separate products for each block … ) 🙂
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 14, 2013 at 8:24
@Matt, please make sure that you copied layout file inchoofeaturedproduct.xml also in your theme folder/layout.
Make sure that extension is enabled and that output of the extension is not disabled through admin/system/config.
If nothing works, please hire developer to do that for you. 🙂
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Maarten says:
Feb 14, 2013 at 2:47
I need to show 3 featured products with different titles. Like “game of the month” and “console of the month” and “weekly action”, how can I achieve that?
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Matt says:
Feb 14, 2013 at 1:09
Please help me. 3 hours and I just can’t get the homepage to show featured products. Running1.7.0.2. Installed latest version from Connect. (Deleted Files Prior as instructed). Pasted advised files (as suggested in connect) into my theme folder. This code is on my homepage:
```
{{block type="featuredproducts/listing"}}
```
Strangely, before upgrade /featured-products worked, now it doesn’t if that offers any clues. Homepage entry did not work prior to upgrade either.
ANYONE, would much appreciate it
Thank you
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Alexander says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 23:03
After installing do not see Featured Products in configuration menu, only Notifications and General. Can you help?
Thanks!
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 12:20
@Bernard, how about default/layout/inchoo ?
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Bernard says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 10:51
I did copied it from: default/template/inchoo to Mytheme/template/inchoo
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Bernard says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 10:13
Ok, the code disappeared, thanks Darko, but now it is not showing anything. I have turned all options to enable.
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Feb 06, 2013 at 10:35
  @Bernard, did you copied inchoo featured theme into your own theme folder? I suppose you have theme different than base/default …
Bernard says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 10:10
@Darko, thanks for the quick answer.
I wrote it manually, didn’t work for me.
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Bernard says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 10:01
hi, I’m having some trouble inserting the extension to my home page. I just insert the code (as showed in instruction above) but on the frontend of my home page, it just shows : {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}.
(just the code)
What i’m I doing wrong?
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Feb 06, 2013 at 10:06
  @Bernard, please just try to write this string manually in admin and not copy / paste. It is possible that quotes are not ok…
Zoe says:
Feb 06, 2013 at 6:23
@Darko , Thanks man
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Zoe says:
Feb 05, 2013 at 13:54
Hello there,
Firstly thanks a lot for this nice extension!!!
After installing the extension I saw there is “enterprise” folder on app\design\frontend.I’m currently using “Magento ver.1.7.0.2” community edison and I dun think that folder is nessesary..
Is it nessasary?? If i’ll delete that folder does it make any issue??
Thanks
ZOE
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Feb 05, 2013 at 14:04
  It is not an issue if you are on CE. This folder is adde to extension for EE Magento users. But it is not an issue to exist on your disk also, so it is not neccesary to delete it 🙂
Mark says:
Feb 05, 2013 at 13:26
I’ve installed this extension on Magento 1.7.0.2 and can view the stand alone page with the faetured product so it works fine.
Please can you tell me how i go about displaying this block into a NON CMS page, for example cart.phtml
Cheers
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Feb 05, 2013 at 14:06
  @Mark, you should give that to your developer who support the site to implement by modifying templates and layout.
Olga says:
Feb 05, 2013 at 8:51
I have moved everything inside the theme, otherwise the page would not appear. The problem is: the block does not want to work anywhere.
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 05, 2013 at 8:45
Dear Mr @Chemek,
It is obvious that something weird is happening at your server. To resolve this, you will need to have access to your php error logs to see what error is causing 500. After that you will need somebody to trace it and resolve the problem. I suggest you that you ask the company that gives you support fo your site to look at this. 🙂
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Darko Goles says:
Feb 05, 2013 at 8:42
@Olga, I suppose that you maybe need to move “featured products” layout and template files in folder where your current theme is installed …
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Olga says:
Feb 05, 2013 at 3:59
Hi,
Thank you very much for the extension!
I have the same problem as Wyatt (17/11/2012), I wonder if you have suggested anything to him.
Feature Products page is working, but I cannot enter any text in it. CMS block is not working, when I insert it to any other page.
Kind regards
Olga
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Chemek says:
Feb 04, 2013 at 21:54
This is what is happeing whe I go to System/configuration/Featured Products
Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://datarus.se/index.php/admin/system_config/edit/section/featuredproducts/key/79a43567c385133420a1fb0cb9f5873a/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.
Its like the page doesnt want to open,.. some permission error or something..
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Chemek says:
Feb 04, 2013 at 1:50
Hi.. I hope you can help me out coze its a great
extenction, and it works lika a charm on my test webb. But wen I
try to install it on active on. I get this error when I try to
activatit in admin:
http://datarus.se/index.php/admin/system_config/edit/section/featuredproducts/key/bf7bd46903967554a405b9efbdfd0bba/.
I hope you have some ideas . Regards Chemek
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Feb 04, 2013 at 8:28
  @Chemek, nobody can see your error because it is under your admin protected area. Please paste error code here. 🙂
Pat says:
Jan 23, 2013 at 16:00
In block_featured_products.phtml
there is a line
```
<img class="product-img" src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize($image_size, $image_size) ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>" />
```
i need to get the base image instead of the small_image. how do i accomplish that?
Thanks!
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Jan 24, 2013 at 8:19
  @Pat, if you go to administration in Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attributes you will see attribute codes for images: small_image, image, gallery, so choose what you need and replace “small_image” in current code with for example: “image”.
  😉
surekha says:
Jan 21, 2013 at 11:58
Thanks Darko Goles Its working fine Thansk a lot.
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surekha says:
Jan 21, 2013 at 11:19
This extension is working great.But i need to display only 3 featured products on my home page could yopu please help me over this
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Jan 21, 2013 at 11:54
  @surekha, if you have this version (Featured products 2.0) installed, it is simple to configure:
  From admin panel navigate to System->Configuration, locate “Inchoo”->Featured products on the left menu.
  When you click on “Featured Products”, you will have section “CMS Page widget” on the center of the screen and just use “Number Of Items in Main Block” to configure No items shown. And just save configuration (maybe to refresh the cache after that). Hope this helps 🙂
Ryan says:
Jan 15, 2013 at 14:23
Great extension, thank you very much!
Can someone please tell me. Is there a way to specify within the blocks how many items are displayed.
e.g. i want a home page block with 3 items displayed and a seperate CMS page with 20 items displayed
i have tried the below but it doesn’t seem to work
```
{{block type="featuredproducts/listing" template="catalog/product/new-fuc.phtml" productsCount="6"}}
```
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Dennie says:
Jan 08, 2013 at 16:13
I have tried to install the new version (2.0), but I get the following error:
CONNECT ERROR: Package ‘Inchoo_FeaturedProducts’ is invalid
‘./app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/Block/Adminhtml/Edit/Grid.php’ already exists
What to do?
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1. Darko Goles says:
  Jan 09, 2013 at 8:32
  @Dennie, it seems that you already have older version installed and you will need to delete all old files first in order to successfully install new one. First backup your current filesystem on web server. Then connect through FTP and delete extension files manually:
  1. Locate app/code/community/Inchoo folder and delete FeaturedProducts and Notes folder from there.
  2. Locate app/design/frontend/default/default/layout folder and delete inchoofeaturedproducts.xml from there
  3. Locate app/design/frontend/default/default/template/inchoo folder and delete featuredproducts folder from there
  4. Locate app/etc/modules folder and delete Inchoo_FeaturedProducts.xml and Inchoo_Notes.xml from there
  5. Locate skin/adminhtml/default/default/images and delete inchoo folder from there.
  6. Locate app/design/frontend/enterprise/default/layout folder and delete inchoofeaturedproducts.xml from there
  7. Locate app/design/frontend/enterprise/default/template/inchoo folder and delete featuredproducts folder from there
  That should be it. After that you should be able to install 2.0 version. Please just DO NOT forget to make BACKUP of your files before deleting any of them :-).
Barç?n says:
Jan 05, 2013 at 23:07
After installing this extension, i cannot login to admin panel. i got this error
Mage registry key “_singleton/inchoo_notes/feed_updates” already exists
Trace:
#0 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/app/Mage.php(222): Mage::throwException(‘Mage registry k…’)
#1 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/app/Mage.php(476): Mage::register(‘_singleton/inch…’, false)
#2 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/__default.php(20995): Mage::getSingleton(‘inchoo_notes/fe…’)
#3 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/app/Mage.php(447): Mage_Core_Model_App->dispatchEvent(‘controller_acti…’, Array)
#4 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/__default.php(13663): Mage::dispatchEvent(‘controller_acti…’, Array)
#5 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/Mage_Adminhtml_Controller_Action.php(160): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->preDispatch()
#6 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/__default.php(13543): Mage_Adminhtml_Controller_Action->preDispatch()
#7 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/__default.php(17899): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->dispatch(‘login’)
#8 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/__default.php(17456): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard->match(Object(Mage_Core_Controller_Request_Http))
#9 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/includes/src/__default.php(20033): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->dispatch()
#10 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/app/Mage.php(683): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
#11 /home/barut/public_html/hediye/index.php(87): Mage::run(”, ‘store’)
#12 {main}
any solution?
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A1Ben says:
Dec 21, 2012 at 22:48
Ah no – seems like the escaping is due to your blog system – hopefully you can see what the issue is though!? It does prevent the example from being implemented correctly until the quotes are re-typed in the Content’s source code.
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A1Ben says:
Dec 21, 2012 at 22:45
Nice extension – many thanks
You need to sort out the quotes in step 3 above though –
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
They are not true double quotes – so come out like this:
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
This is what you need I think:
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
Cheers
Ben
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Surajit Samanta says:
Dec 18, 2012 at 14:02
Thank to all. I have fixed my errors from this discussion.
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Sam says:
Dec 18, 2012 at 11:46
Hi Guys, this is a great module.
One slight issue, I have put the static block into the middle of home page, but how do i center the block….at the moment it seems to left align. I am have 4 products per row and 2 rows.
Sam
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Tony says:
Dec 12, 2012 at 13:45
I got it working in 1.7.0.2 by moving the inchoo folders template and layout from default into my theme folders.
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Tony says:
Dec 12, 2012 at 13:37
I can’t seem to get any products to show. I have the extension installed, I have added a product to my featured products. When I go to /featured-products I just get a page that has no content. So the rewrite is working, just no products showing. I am using a custom theme, do I need to move some files around?
Thanks for your extension!
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patron says:
Dec 11, 2012 at 2:59
In my browser, copying and pasting
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing”}}
led to Magento text editor escaping the quotes. I had to manually type this to get it to work. I do not know if it’s the text encoding for my browser or the HTML on this page.
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Dan says:
Dec 05, 2012 at 16:35
I get this error after install in Connect on EE.
Exception during cache and session cleaning: Error in file: “/home/magento/public_html/app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/sql/featuredproducts_setup/mysql4-install-1.0.1.php” – SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ’14-General’ for key ‘UNQ_EAV_ATTRIBUTE_GROUP_ATTRIBUTE_SET_ID_ATTRIBUTE_GROUP_NAME’
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NCrypted says:
Dec 04, 2012 at 9:28
@Darko Goles, Yes I have successfully implemented special products box on my home page.
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Darko Goles says:
Dec 04, 2012 at 8:09
@Jakob, I am not promising anything, but as soon as we catch some time between projects, we will possibly try to improve the extension so please, stay tuned on this article for updates.
@NCrypted, You welcome, I hope you succeeded to configure the extension. 🙂
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NCrypted says:
Dec 04, 2012 at 5:52
@Darko Goles, Thanks for your quick guidance.
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Jakob says:
Dec 03, 2012 at 20:24
@darko @ivan
thanks for the solutions guys! i’m using the new_from_date attributes, because we need the products to disaperead from the collection after – lets say – 2 weeks automatically.
i tried to use the new_from_date attribute as my featured attribute but it didn’t work…
if you are able to produce an update including the new products function, i could post here a very nice bootstrap tab-slider template i’m working on 🙂 – as an evolution of the categorized featured products…
greetings jakob
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Ivan Galambos says:
Dec 03, 2012 at 20:17
@Jakob
Additionally, as a helper for your new products we provided you to filter “featured products” by ID range. Hope that this functionality will be helpful for your needs as temp solution!
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Darko Goles says:
Dec 03, 2012 at 15:39
@Jakob, thanks for the comment! I will try to include this as default functionality in some of the next versions of extension. For now, you could maybe define your new products as Featured and use them. 🙂
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Jakob says:
Dec 03, 2012 at 15:36
Hi there! first of all: this extension works great (on 1.7) and helps allot…
I even would love to use the same widget for new products because of the possibility to echo product blocks sorted by category…is it possible to include new products, too?
thanks allot,
jakob from berlin
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Darko Goles says:
Dec 03, 2012 at 12:34
@NCrypted, this extension is showing chosen products on homepage. Please use above article and also link on Magento connect to read instructions about installation and configuration. 🙂
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NCrypted says:
Dec 03, 2012 at 12:23
Can you please suggest me Magento is provide facility to show special products on home page and if yes then please tell me step to do it. I am new user of Magento.
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Darko Goles says:
Nov 30, 2012 at 18:30
Extension Featured product revamped and improved! Version 2.0 is available for Magento CE 1.6 , 1.7 and EE 1.11, 1.12. on Magento connect. This article also updated and answered some common questions! 🙂
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Wyatt says:
Nov 17, 2012 at 19:44
I can’t get the block to show up on the home page, or anywhere else.
I have the extension installed well enough, and going to the page /featured-products works fine, so I know it’s nearly working. I just can’t get the block to show up. I’m using 1.7.0.2. Any help with the block code would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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Dave says:
Nov 15, 2012 at 18:19
Fixed this problem.
Went into the admin: System > Index Management
Reindexed all data.
Problem fixed.
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Dave says:
Nov 15, 2012 at 18:11
The featured products extension was working fine on my site, community 1.7 installation, now the products don’t show up on the homepage anymore. Nothing changed, other than adding some products and attributes. Any ideas? Or anyone had a similar problem?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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happilyUnstuck says:
Oct 26, 2012 at 18:57
Remember when using this extension with a theme other than the default you need to move the files from default/default/template/inchoo into yourtheme/default/inchoo
Also for me at least I had to chage the file path in the wysiwg from “inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml” to “inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml”
Now have it working in 1.7 CE.
@inchoo great work!
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frank says:
Sep 28, 2012 at 21:54
all i get is
404 Error
Page not found.
when accessing any items in menu from congiruation -> inchoo..
ALSO
using hellowired theme…
do we copy the template files to
app/design/frontend/default/hellowired/template
?
as in
app/design/frontend/default/hellowired/template/inchoo/featuredproducts
or as in
app/design/frontend/default/hellowired/template/featuredproducts
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Matt W says:
Sep 27, 2012 at 19:06
@Ravi:
I think you can modify this by doing this:
First find the block declaration that contains this: (on line 16 of inchoofeaturedproducts.xml by default)
```
template="inchoo/featuredproducts/list.phtml"
```
Then add this just below that line:
```
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action> 
```
This SHOULD take care of it, but if not, you can probably use this line inside your list.phtml file:
```
$this->setColumnCount( 4 );
```
I am not actually using this extension on any sites anymore, so the file lines and/or names may be slightly different than yours if you have done any customization. Just make sure you are setting $_columnCount inside the right area (grid mode or list mode).
Hope this helps.
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Ravi says:
Sep 27, 2012 at 14:38
Hi Matt,
Thanks for replying and providing suggestion.
I have checked file and found that there is no such static numbers to make columns in a row, but
there is code
```
$_columnCount = $this->getColumnCount();
```
So for now i just assigns a static value 4 to this, but how can we setup it with admin manageable.
Or in admin from where this variable is controlled?.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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Matt W says:
Sep 26, 2012 at 14:24
@Roland:
Try using CSS to manage the space between them. Margin and padding can work wonders!
@T Hughes:
If formatting it as currency doesn’t work, try looking in the backend and make sure you have your prices and price tiers set up correctly. Magento will not display price tiers that are higher than the “price” attribute shows. This could be causing your problem.
@sudhir:
Not sure what you are asking. If you can give more details, I will be glad to try and help.
@Ravi:
Look in your code at the part that says
```
for( $i; $i % 3 != 0; $i++ )
```
(or something similar) – this is the part that dictates how many go into an individual row. All this means is that if the count of products in the row divided by 3 has a remainder (meaning it is not a number that is equally divisible by 3) then echo the product. If you change the 3, it will change the number shown in each row. Keep in mind, though, that you will need to change all of the references to “% 3” to whatever you need your number of columns to be.
Hopefully these suggestions help you all and others!
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Roland says:
Sep 26, 2012 at 11:49
How can put some more space between my products?
Horizontally I have 3 products, but I want to set some more space between them.
http://www.heavenlyfun.nl
I hope someone can help me!
Kind regards,
Roland
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Ravi says:
Sep 21, 2012 at 12:06
Hi I am using this extension successfully on my site with 1.7 version.
I tried to show 2 rows with 4 products in each row in admin, but how there is only two options total products and total rows to show.
But how can i set number of columns in each row?
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.
Ravi
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sudhir says:
Aug 21, 2012 at 10:01
hi,
thanks for this extension . how can design for featured product. can u please tell which i can edit
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MaxSteel says:
Aug 06, 2012 at 11:54
Hi,
when I try to go do feature products page I got this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Inchoo_FeaturedProducts_Helper_Data::getPageLabel() in /home/w28999/domains/my_domain.com/public_html/app/design/frontend/maxtheme/default/template/inchoo/featuredproducts/view.phtml on line 11
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T Hughes says:
Jul 30, 2012 at 15:28
I have a problem with price of Featured items above £1000 displaying on home page.
e.g. an item priced at £1,499.99 is showing as £1 on the home page???
Change this line maybe:
Mage::helper(‘core’)->currency(number_format($_product->getPrice(),2));
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Shadab says:
Jul 27, 2012 at 14:44
I do not know why featured products are messing up on home page?
http://www.digitalstore.pk/
Can any one help me please?
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Biskit says:
Jul 25, 2012 at 9:36
I sell curtains, blinds, and fabrics from my web shop. I can’t use Featured Products to advertise any fabrics or custom-made products because the visitor to the site has to choose at least one custom option for these products.
I can add the products, but when the visitor clicks on the product the main image doesn’t show. Does anybody know a way around this?
Thanks in advance! =)
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T-Rex says:
Jul 20, 2012 at 10:07
Can somebody tell me how to translate this extension? The method shown on first page is not working. Any details (verified) will be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Carl says:
Jul 20, 2012 at 0:11
Hey, I used the
```
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” }}
```
in the content as above, but for the styling, i found the template file which was 2 collumns wide and wrong styling, and copied in from the template file for the ‘new products’ template which was 3 columns wide with site styling.
Now, the Featured Products, at the top of the page, look like the ‘New Products’ below it.
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panchgani says:
Jul 03, 2012 at 8:04
hi,’
I will been using the Featured Products extension with Magento Version 1.1.3 The products are not horizontal aligned in the center and the horizontal spaces between the products are not equal.
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Steve says:
May 29, 2012 at 16:23
I’ve been using the Featured Products extension with Magento 1.4.1 and we’re in the process of upgrading to 1.7.
Looking on MagentoConnect it does not indicate that its compatible with 1.7. Can you let me know if it will work with 1.7?
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Austin Web Developer says:
May 25, 2012 at 21:49
Is there a patch out for this module (which used to work well but is broken is 1.7)? I would rather implement an official patch or upgrade then troubleshoot with messy code. Please advise.
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inchoo,
thank for the extension. Please, kindly, add a ‘usage section’ to the readme to save some unexperienced users some trouble (i spend some time reading all comments, troubleshooting typos an path problems regarding your posted usage of the “block display”. My suggestion is:

 USAGE
 ***********************************************
 1. Mark Articles as featured in the designated interface:
  BE: admin menu: Catalog > Featured Products
 2. You can view featured products page on url: www.yourstore.com/featured-products/
 3. You can add a block to a CMS Page (e.g. Home Page) this way:
  {{block type="featuredproducts/listing" template="inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml"}}
  or using your own theme-template file:
  {{block type="featuredproducts/product_list" name="featured_product" as="featured_product_list" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

Thank you very much for your time and effort.

Nalini says:
May 17, 2012 at 23:24
It’s not working on Magento 1.7.0.
404 Error, page not found
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Meena says:
May 17, 2012 at 14:57
Hello, first of all thanks for this great extension. I have got this working. But just one thing. The special price is not being updated properly in the homepage. Upon the expiry date, the price should return to normal price. But I have to do it manually in the homepage. The price showing correctly in the product page after expiry date.
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I fix problem can’t load next page or change item display per page in magento 1.6.2.

Change function __construct file grid.php with this code

public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();

        //$this->setId('featured_products');
        $this->setId('featuredproductsGrid');
        $this->setDefaultSort('entity_id');
		$this->setDefaultDir('DESC');

		$this->setSaveParametersInSession(true);
        $this->setUseAjax(true);

		$this->setRowClickCallback('FeaturedRowClick');
    }

Hope this help…

diego says:
Apr 25, 2012 at 18:46
Hi, all.
i put this code {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml”}} and i cant see in the home page.
but de page featured-produts it ok!
what i do wrong?.
sorry to my english….
thanks!
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Sammi says:
Apr 20, 2012 at 16:28
Sorry I meant Matt W,
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Sammi says:
Apr 20, 2012 at 16:27
It was the either the dns playing up or the attribute was not visible on product list.
Thanks again Silv
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Sammi says:
Apr 19, 2012 at 16:13
Hi,
Wow – Thanks for the quick response!
I am currently getting null
$video1 = $_product->getData(‘videoEmbedCode’);
echo var_dump ($video1);
$video_2 = $_product->getVideoEmbedCode();
echo var_dump ($video2);
I have check the attribute code, value, visible on product view page frontend
I have also only have 1 item with videoEmbedCode which has a value of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcOLznrTPzc
I think its something to do with adding it to the object. I think its the code on the listing.php page where it needs to be added to the collection.
Approx line 47
->addAttributeToSelect(‘video’)
SO that it looks like
$collection->addAttributeToSelect($attributes)
->addMinimalPrice()
->addFinalPrice()
->addTaxPercents()
->addAttributeToSelect(‘videoEmbedCode’)
->addAttributeToFilter(‘inchoo_featured_product’, 1, ‘left’)
->addStoreFilter()
->getSelect()->order($this->getSortBy())->limit($this->getLimit());
But when I do that I get an error.
Any ideas would be highly appreciated
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Silv says:
Apr 19, 2012 at 15:16
Hi
Is there a way to include the category-path in the url as well (frontpage block).
At the moment the url looks like this:
…/product.html
I’d like to have it more like this:
…/category/product.html
I’ve been trying to change the file located in:
/template/inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml
<a href="getProductUrl() ?>…
does anyone know hot to optimize that?
thank you
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Matt W says:
Apr 19, 2012 at 14:09
@Sammi:
If you look in block_featured_products.phtml, you should see this code around line 12:
```
<?php $i=0;$row=0; foreach ($_products->getItems() as $_product): ?>
```
As long as you do it between that foreach tag and it’s closing tag on line 45, you can use $_product.
In your case, locate where you want it to be in the html and then use:
```
<?php $_product->getVideoembedcode(); ?>
```
OR (if that doesn’t work):
```
<?php $_product->getData('videoembedcode'); ?>
```
Hope this helps.
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Sammi says:
Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00
I love the module, is it possible to add an attribute text or textarea and for it to show up on the block added to the front page. For it to be called using $_product->getAttribute();
For example a video html code attribute called ‘videoembedcode’. To call it using $_product->getVideoEmbedCode(); Like when you do it on the product page.
What code do I need to add?
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Stevan says:
Apr 18, 2012 at 18:40
Hi all,
Although I really like this extension it’s not working for me. I have Magento 1.5.1.0 installed. I added block_featured_products.phtml to app/design/frontend/default/theme/inchoo. In the backend it’s working and if I go to http://aquathuis.enigma-webdesign.nl/featured-products/ I see the featured products. I added {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}} to my homepage but still nothing… what am I doing wrong?
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Ankit Sharm says:
Apr 09, 2012 at 10:52
Hello,
Your module rocks. but there is one problem with me.It somtimes shows the products and sometime not. What I did is to disable and enable the product to make it visible on the front-end.
Any idea why is it so
thanks
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ronald says:
Apr 04, 2012 at 8:17
i need to display featured product based on category …is it possible how to get the product collection based on category…please help me
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Esmeralda says:
Mar 21, 2012 at 22:09
Hi all,
I’ve installed this plugin into my magento 1.5.1.1 version and this really looks good. The only thing that is not shown, is the add to cart button. Does anyone has a solution for this?
Thank you in advance!
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May says:
Mar 15, 2012 at 8:54
Hi,
This extension work like a charm for me! thx alot, but I need to adding radio buttons on admin html, somebody know where I can place the code?
I think I should place the code on:
app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/Block/Adminhtml/Edit.php
but I don’t know in which function I should place the radio button.
any ideas?
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Dan says:
Mar 07, 2012 at 10:36
Hi, I’ve installed your extension for featured products. It’s in my App>community folder but not showing in admin..any ideas why?
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Mitch says:
Mar 05, 2012 at 11:30
Hello I have a strange behaviour:
looking at code I have found that
$_products = $this->getProductCollection()
returns me an empty collection even if there are featured products.
If I change this to something like
$_products = Mage::getResourceModel(‘catalog/product_collection’)->addAttributeToSelect(array(‘name’))->addFieldToFilter(‘inchoo_featured_product’, array(‘eq’ => ‘1’));
it returns me the featured products.
Anyone could explain me why the default plugin code $this->getProductCollection() fails?
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Christoph says:
Mar 01, 2012 at 17:04
@Dmitriy
Thank you, man. Your Solution works for me too.
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Thomas says:
Feb 21, 2012 at 21:41
Is there any way I can install this extension twice and have two separate “featured products” blocks? I would like to have one block for seasonal products and one for special deals. Thanks
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Dmitriy says:
Feb 20, 2012 at 9:13
I tried everything, nothing worked until I double checked the file structure on the server and found that in my case one thing was missing – the /featuredproducts/ folder.
So I changed the original code (note the corrected quotes)
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
to
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
and it did work for me.
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Jovan says:
Feb 20, 2012 at 1:12
I installed on 1.6.2.0, checked featured products, but I am getting error 404 in configuration-inchoo pages. Is there anything I can do to make this work for me?
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Esmeralda says:
Feb 17, 2012 at 13:50
I have this plugin installed but somehow I don’t see the button to add a product to the card and also the price is displayed twice on the website. See http://www.zpagetti.de
Anyone a solution for this?
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Olof Ensing says:
Jan 31, 2012 at 20:45
Hi,
I found your fantastic featured plugin for magento.
There’s only one thing I can not get fixed.
The products are not horizontal aligned in the center and the horizontal spaces between the products are not equal.
You can check it at http://www.antroposofischepoppen.nl/
Running on Magento 1.6.2.0
Is this a known errror? Do you know how to fix it?
Thanks !
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jb says:
Jan 06, 2012 at 21:42
If you are having trouble with it showing on the home page use this, worked for me. ver 1.6.1
{{block type=\”featuredproducts/product_list\” name=\”featured_product\” as=\”featured_product_list\” template=\”catalog/product/list.phtml\” }}
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Kunal says:
Jan 06, 2012 at 19:11
Hi,
Just added this extension to V1.5.1 but having a few issues.
On the front end the products do appear but the image size coming up is the full image size not the tumb nail size set as 80×80, can you help fix this issue?
Also in the admin section once I select a product to be featured and save it, it adds it to the featured product but removes the Std VAT to No VAT, how to fix this issue?
pls help ASAP, as this is on a live site.
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Gloopy says:
Dec 28, 2011 at 22:35
is this working on 1.6.1 yet ??
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Alex says:
Dec 27, 2011 at 1:33
Does not work out of box on 1.6.1 Dont install unless u know how to change code, etc 😀
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Audio Video van Gils says:
Dec 22, 2011 at 11:55
When we go to the complete listing on http://www.yoursite.com/featured-products in the toolbar the pager links are missing.
So if you have for example 100 items and you display 10 items per page, you only see the first 10 items and you cant’t go to page 2 to 10.
How to fix this?
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Tony says:
Dec 06, 2011 at 22:07
I have this working just fine with 1.5.1.0 however if my partner changes the selected featured products on his computer, nothing saves. On my computer everything works fine. Please help.
Thanks
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nicmare says:
Dec 02, 2011 at 11:26
to all who want to uninstall: run extension manager and uninstall the extension here. but theres one entry left in the database. table “eav_attribute”. find “inchoo” and delete the row. you are done!
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meander says:
Nov 11, 2011 at 13:57
Great work, Thanks a lot! Works fine in 1.5.1.0, but how can I truncate the product name in the “block_featured_products” ?
My Names are too long, so I need to shorten it.
Can someone please help?
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torrebruno says:
Nov 11, 2011 at 0:03
I know why it does not work for some people, and is a stupid thing.
Watch out for the ” when you paste the code in the home content:
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
Magento transforms your commas to a diferent sign (like a italic comma o something like). You only have to retype ” manually the four commas and It works fine. 😉
Excuse my english
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lucas says:
Nov 04, 2011 at 13:34
How can i implement it on another page that is not home ?
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Karan says:
Oct 29, 2011 at 9:03
In which portion of the code can I add a line separator between the rows?
Thanks,
Karan
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Karan says:
Oct 25, 2011 at 6:07
Hi Matt,
I found that I can alter the number of items per row through the admin panel. It is currently set to 5 but it is not creating a new row for items more than 5.
Thanks,
Karan
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Karan says:
Oct 25, 2011 at 6:04
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the response; however, what exactly should I change? I have been playing around with that portion of the code but nothing seems to be happening. If I want 5 items per row and 4 rows, what should I alter?
Thank you,
Karan
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Matt W says:
Oct 24, 2011 at 13:34
I forgot to add that you can edit that part of the code by going to app/design/frontend/enterprise/default/template/inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml
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Matt W says:
Oct 24, 2011 at 13:33
I am pretty sure you can set the number of products per row by altering this line of code:
```
<?php $i++; if($i==$this->getItemsPerRow()): ?>
```
You can set
```
$this->getItemsPerRow()
```
to whatever you want the number of items in a row to be and it should create a new row automatically after it reaches that number. I ended up using a custom solution when this one didn’t work, but that is essentially the same code that I changed to get 2 rows of 4 items each in the one that I used.
Hope that helps!!
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Karan says:
Oct 22, 2011 at 9:38
Working well on 1.6. Has anyone set it up to span multiple rows?
Currently I have it set up for 5 products per row, how can I get it to create a new row if there are more than 5 featured products?
Thank you for the great extension!
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Matt W says:
Oct 19, 2011 at 16:26
in Magento 1.5.1, I try and save the featured products, but after clicking save it just gives a blank page. Can you please help?
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valentin says:
Oct 16, 2011 at 8:01
I think i solved the home page thing. I uninstalled some extensions, like 10 of them which i didn’t use anymore, mostly related to cms pages and now this module works
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valentin says:
Oct 16, 2011 at 7:41
Having the same issue with not being able to show the featured products on the Home page.
Tried rewriting the code manually in the home page’s content area but no success.
using magento 1.4.2
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Dan says:
Oct 14, 2011 at 16:22
I can’t find the block_featured_products.phtml anyway, I need to edit it. Can anyone help?
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Ralph says:
Oct 13, 2011 at 10:56
I get a 403 error “You don’t have permission to access…Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request..
This happens when I try to save a product as featured, I’m using 1.6.0.0
Any help? Thanks
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NettbutikkSimen says:
Oct 04, 2011 at 22:26
@MikeLangone: Same problem here. I’d be interested if you find a solution.
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Xin Chen says:
Oct 02, 2011 at 6:17
Another working one – Thanks to Lee’s comment.
Thanks very much for this extension.
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MikeLangone says:
Sep 28, 2011 at 14:10
Running on 1.5.1. Whenever I add an item with tier pricing to the featured products list it deletes tiered pricing. I’ve noticed a few other people have had this same problem, any resolution or thoughts?
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Sousa says:
Sep 27, 2011 at 1:36
[quote]
After i tranfer to another server. This extension stop working.
[/quote]
The problem wad that some URL KEY’s was blank, so the product don’t show on extension
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Lee says:
Sep 26, 2011 at 14:55
To anyone having trouble getting the block_featured_products to display, HERE IS THE SOLUTION:
Insert into your desired reference (e.g. ‘content’ ):
```
<block type="featuredproducts/listing" name="featured_product_list" as="featured_product_list" template="inchoo/featuredproducts/block_featured_products.phtml" />
```
If you put it in ‘content’ (which is in ‘page.xml’), then the block will be displayed with the
```
$this->getChildHTML('content')
```
code in your phtml files.
If you want to put it inside a custom reference, it will work fine, just remember to create the reference first. and display as normal (refer to https://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/custom-reference-structural-block/ for info on how to create a new reference).
Problem solved. ^_^
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darius says:
Sep 25, 2011 at 12:53
don’t show on ver 1.5.1.0
/featured-products/ are showing items, but don’t show on homepage with provided code.
blank. looks like problem in syntax
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johan says:
Sep 25, 2011 at 10:44
hi i am getting in my home page problem. i gave my website url so pls check it once and how to add my products and header banner in my home pls give me an suggestion
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Sousa says:
Sep 22, 2011 at 12:51
After i tranfer to another server. This extension stop working.
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Philippe Desjardins says:
Sep 20, 2011 at 15:50
Great extension, i love it
the only problem is that when i save a product from the products->featured production screen all the attributes from the products are set to the default value. Is there a way to fix this ?
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Shaun Ohagan says:
Sep 17, 2011 at 16:26
works beautifully on 1.5.0.1 – 404 issue indeed goes away with logout/login. Great work thanks for giving this to the community.
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Jonathan Fenocchi says:
Sep 16, 2011 at 14:24
If you’re getting a 404 error on the configuration page in Magento version 1.5.0.1, be sure to clear cache, log out of the admin, and then login again. This fixed it for me. (Making changes to adminhtml.xml did not seem to work.)
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Surajit Basumallick says:
Sep 15, 2011 at 7:45
my home page content like:
{{block type=”catalog/navigation” template=”catalog/navigation/vert_nav.phtml”}}
{{block type=”catalog/product” template=”catalog/product/new.phtml”}}
Best Selling Products
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
but feature product and new product not showing, but var nav is showing. product which are set as feature and new , all are enable, in stock. please help, I am using basic theme.magento version 1.6. please help. its urgent.
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Techno0270 says:
Sep 15, 2011 at 1:24
Kris, how did you get it to work on 1.6? I have tried everything up to your comment. Thanks in advance.
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Kris says:
Sep 14, 2011 at 10:40
@Surajit
I’m runnig it on 1.6 and it works brilliantly (apart from the CSS issues I’m having which don’t relate to the Magento version)
Kris.
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amrish says:
Sep 14, 2011 at 6:46
Hello
i am new in magento
i want to show my some categories in home page
i try so much thing but not done so plz give me some guidance as soon as possible
Thank You
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Surajit Basumallick says:
Sep 13, 2011 at 14:29
I am using Magento ver. 1.6.0.0, this module is capable for this version?
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Kris says:
Sep 09, 2011 at 19:57
Hi,
Fantastic extension, thanks. It works a treat but there are some cosmetic tweaks I’d like to implement (spacing out the products and hiding the ‘Add to Basket’ buttons) but I’m having real problems with applying CSS, most settings just get ignored, any ideas?
Thanks
Kris.
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jim c says:
Sep 09, 2011 at 15:57
hi, is this compatible with 1.6? I have just upgraded the core and lost functionality with your extension..
can you let me know?
Jim
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JC says:
Sep 07, 2011 at 4:29
How can I resize the pic site? I would like to make it bigger.
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Rikki says:
Aug 24, 2011 at 1:32
try reindexing your data… worked for me. Though I didn’t have a 404 error I just couldn’t see any of the featured products on my home page.
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madlen says:
Aug 23, 2011 at 22:07
how can i remove the little navigation above the products? in my case the button “home” here appears. i can’t find anything in block_featured_products.phtml..
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Casey says:
Aug 22, 2011 at 22:58
have the same problem.. 🙁
can anybody help pleeeeaaase?
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Humayun says:
Aug 22, 2011 at 11:34
I installed it on 1.5.1.0 and it works fine at backend but for I can’t see the Featured Product block on Frontend. What do I need to do to make it appear on Frontend?
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Olivier B. Deland says:
Aug 18, 2011 at 21:55
Make you log out of admin after installing the module and this should fix the 404 error.
Also, don’t copy paste the code from the blog post as it will put smart quotes instead of straight quotes, causing it to fail.
Last, make sure you copy the template files to your custom template folder if you’re using one, make sure your products have images, are in stock and enabled.
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Lanks says:
Aug 18, 2011 at 9:15
Same here, doesn’t work with 1.5.1.
Tried Rodrigo’s solution.
Still error 404 !
Anybody can help ?
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Casey says:
Aug 12, 2011 at 23:12
Doesn’t work with 1.5.1 and the solution of Rodrigo didn’t work. Always error 404.. What can I do 🙁 ? Anybody an idea?
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Jeff says:
Aug 11, 2011 at 11:27
Is there a way to retrieve the larger resolution picture instead of “small_image”? tried to change to “image” but didn’t work
```
src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(285, 150) ?>"
```
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Vdub says:
Aug 09, 2011 at 11:54
I am having problems to get the products to show on Home page with version1.5.1.0
If i navigate to http://www.yourstore.com/featured-products/
the products show fine
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Jason says:
Jul 29, 2011 at 11:57
I’m using Magento 1.5.1 and have a problem where the featured products disappear when I import product data into Magento. The porducts are still checked as featured but they are just not showing in the frontend.
Any solutions would be gratefully received.
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Justin says:
Jul 20, 2011 at 14:42
I noticed on magento connect that you have the enterprise version listed as a free module too. When I downloaded it in Magento connect, it ended up being the same version as the community edition. Is that correct or is the link not set correctly?
Thanks
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batjaa says:
Jul 20, 2011 at 7:22
hi, the extension shows just one product in a row, how can i fixt it?
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Jochen says:
Jul 13, 2011 at 14:24
@Rodrigo:
app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/etc/adminhtml.xml <= pasted your code in:
not working, blank page when going into configuration / Backend…
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Hello,

I`m sorry about my last post, it`s incomplete.

To fix the 404 Page error at Admin you have to create adminhtml.xml at app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProduct/etc/ and add this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
  <adminhtml>
    <menu>
      <catalog>
        <children>
          <featuredproduct translate="title">
            <title>Featured Products</title>
            <sort_order>1</sort_order>
            <action>adminhtml/featured/index</action>
          </featuredproduct>
        </children>
      </catalog>
    </menu>
    <acl>
      <resources>
        <admin>
          <children>
            <system>
              <children>
                <config>
                  <children>
                    <featuredproducts translate="title" module="featuredproducts">
                      <title>Featured Products</title>
                      <sort_order>50</sort_order>
                    </featuredproducts>
                  </children>
                </config>
              </children>
            </system>
          </children>
        </admin>
      </resources>
    </acl>
  </adminhtml>
</config>

I hope this helps.

henry says:
Jul 13, 2011 at 4:47
Rodrigo,
do we have to create the folder FeaturedProduct/etc/
it does not exist already…
what is the full path?
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Rodrigo says:
Jul 08, 2011 at 15:23
To fix the 404 Page error at Admin you have to create adminhtml.xml at FeaturedProduct/etc/ and add this:
Featured Products
1
adminhtml/featured/index
Featured Products
50
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John says:
Jul 01, 2011 at 23:12
I just installed this in 1.5.1.0 and when I go to config>featured products I get a 404 page error.
What did I do wrong? Has anyone got it to work in 1.5.1.0 yet?
I am using multiple stores with and without multiple websites.
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Rishi says:
Jun 18, 2011 at 9:58
Hi, I installed this extension on my local pc through Magento connect. But after installing it nicely, I do not see any featured product. Please guide me besides installation, what other steps I need to do and where shall i see featured products. thanks a lot
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Clocks says:
Jun 13, 2011 at 15:15
Thanks for the plugin, does this work with 1.5 yet?
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oliver.brildor says:
May 20, 2011 at 9:50
@cobay in http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Inchoo/extension/2513/featured-products/reviews#reviews
My Admin Config is as in the following.
System > Configuration > Catalog > Flat Catalog Category is set to “YES”.
System > Configuration > Catalog > Flat Catalog Product is set to “YES”.
Featured Product Filterring on magento v1.4.1.1 is NOT work with conditions as above.
After Cliicking Admin panel > Catalog > Featured Product, I checked a few products on list.
but, Products in featured product block of main page is all displayed other products beside selecting one.
[My Debugging Code]
The addAttributeToFilter(‘inchoo_featured_product’, 1, ‘left’) method in app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducted/Block/Listing.php is not filterable.
Of course, “inchoo_featured_product” attribute in admin panel > catalog > manage attribute is exists. but, the method isn’t filter.
Isn’t it supposed to be showed up on screen only the product specified ?
Isn’t it worked on flat catalog mode ?
I have changed admin-configuraion as below.
System > Configuration > Catalog > Flat Catalog Category is set to “NO”.
System > Configuration > Catalog > Flat Catalog Product is set to “NO”.
TO FIX THIS:
1) go to: Catalog -> attributes inchoo_featured_product
2) and change value: used in product listing to “yes” save attribute
3) refresh “Product Flat Data index” (I’ve had to try twice )
look your store 🙂
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Trilby says:
May 17, 2011 at 18:04
Never mind my question about displaying the product’s category as the name. The product name was not displaying and I added some code to do that instead.
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Trilby says:
May 17, 2011 at 18:02
I have the extension working correctly on version 1.5.0.1. I haven’t used 1.5.1.0 yet.
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graham barnes says:
May 17, 2011 at 11:44
Does this work in 1.5.1.0 as i had to install v2 and it said it didn’t support it but it installed, it didn’t create the directories – all i found was the templates one not created dunno about others and its not showing up when enabled and products added to the homepage, any reason? I used this successfully for 1.4.2.0
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Rao says:
May 17, 2011 at 8:30
hi there, an excellent extension indeed. products are perfectly showing up on home front. but i m running in to a problem..(lack of my knowledge ) when i go to configuration ->featured products.. its 404 Error , i didn’t understand what i did wrong in here… i am using version 1.5.1.0 ..
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Trilby says:
May 15, 2011 at 18:37
Still loving your extension!
If I wanted to add the manufacturer name (from the attribute Manufacturer) to the Featured Products display (above the price block), could I accomplish this by editing block_featured_products.phtml or would there be more to it? (My PHP skills are not that strong…)
Thank you!
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Nando says:
May 11, 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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Charles says:
May 09, 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!!
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Matt says:
May 04, 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!
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sylph says:
Apr 28, 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!
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greme says:
Apr 14, 2011 at 7:06
is this extension works with version 1.5.0.1
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Yannick says:
Apr 08, 2011 at 8:33
Hi, how can I change the default grid in a block to a standard, limited list?
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Frédérik MIGETTE says:
Apr 05, 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
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Rose says:
Apr 01, 2011 at 7:01
how do you uninstall this product in 1.4.1.1? Does anyone know how to do this?
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Marcus says:
Mar 30, 2011 at 11:07
thank you a lot for this nice extension – we run it on 1.5 and it works fine.
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K Becker says:
Mar 28, 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
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Enno Julian says:
Mar 22, 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
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Martyn says:
Mar 16, 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
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Simon Greer says:
Mar 10, 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
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Graham Barnes says:
Mar 04, 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
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Jake says:
Mar 01, 2011 at 20:31
Is this compatible with Magento 1.5?
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Michele says:
Feb 24, 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
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m4t says:
Feb 24, 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! 😉
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Michele says:
Feb 24, 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?
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Enno Julian says:
Feb 14, 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
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cupping sets says:
Feb 11, 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!!!
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Simon says:
Feb 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?
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Simon says:
Feb 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. =)
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Judaica Store says:
Feb 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!
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Simon says:
Feb 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?
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Simon says:
Feb 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.
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Judaica Store says:
Feb 01, 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
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Tomas Novoselic says:
Jan 31, 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.
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Steve says:
Jan 31, 2011 at 14:11
@Tomas Thank for your reply, althought the ownership now is apache, it is still not appears. Any other idea? 🙁
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Tomas Novoselic says:
Jan 29, 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.
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Steve says:
Jan 29, 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
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Riccardo says:
Jan 28, 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
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idris says:
Jan 28, 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
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Goran says:
Jan 26, 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.
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Bryan says:
Jan 12, 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
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Todd Welling says:
Jan 08, 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?
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Todd Welling says:
Jan 03, 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
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Sagar says:
Dec 30, 2010 at 17:42
My bundle product is not showing on frontend as featured product.
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Riccardo says:
Dec 24, 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?
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Nafnaf1000 says:
Dec 23, 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???
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Riccardo says:
Dec 23, 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).
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Nafnaf1000 says:
Dec 22, 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.
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Viktor says:
Dec 20, 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!
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Sho says:
Dec 17, 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.
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Beauty-Presence says:
Dec 17, 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 🙁
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Beauty-Presence says:
Dec 15, 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!
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Hridaya says:
Dec 11, 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
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web and software development says:
Dec 06, 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.
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Christian says:
Dec 01, 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!
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Niklas says:
Nov 19, 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
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BrainStorm Joe says:
Nov 19, 2010 at 9:23
In the above comment, the missing code tag is the td, I just added that one line to it.
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BrainStorm Joe says:
Nov 19, 2010 at 9:22
I like the extension, but I wanted the table cells to all be the same size, so I made this tweak – in /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml
on line 21, where it says [code][/code]
I changed it to [code]<td width="getItemsPerRow(); ?>%” >[‘code’]
This automatically sets each column to a fixed % based on the number of rows. May not work with odd sizes and decimals, but I use 5 and it sets it to 20% like a charm!
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DigitalDeath says:
Nov 16, 2010 at 10:18
oops: the code didn’t show up even with the code tags
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DigitalDeath says:
Nov 16, 2010 at 10:15
If you’re using 1.4 and they don’t show up in your front page then you might be missing the files in your correct theme folders.
The extension installs the files in the app/design/frontend/default/default/ folders and not necesarily in your theme folders.
So for instance if you use a theme that’s installed in app/design/frontend/base/*yourtheme*/ where *yourtheme* is the name of the theme you’re using such as theme041 or some other thing like that then you need to do this:
copy the follwing files:
app/design/frontend/default/default/layout/inchoofeaturedproducts.xml
app/design/frontend/default/default/template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml
app/design/frontend/default/default/template/inchoo/view.phtml
copy those files to your
app/design/frontend/base/*yourtheme*/layout/inchoofeaturedproducts.xml
app/design/frontend/base/*yourtheme*/template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml
app/design/frontend/base/*yourtheme*/template/inchoo/view.phtml
where *yourtheme* is the name of the theme you’re using such as theme041 or some other thing like that.
Open app/design/frontend/base/*yourtheme*/layout/inchoofeaturedproducts.xml and change:
2columns-left.phtml to whichever you are using. The options are: 1column.phtml, 2columns-left.phtml, 2columns-right.phtml and 3columns.phtml
on:
System->Configuration->Design->Templates
and
System->Configuration->Design->Layout->Design->Custom Layout window select the right theme like for instance base-theme041 if your theme is named theme041
Select the number of colums in the custom layout grop menu and paste the following inside the window:
type over the ” quotation signs manually to make sure they’re the simple ” ones and not the opening and closing ones
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Nino Aratari says:
Nov 10, 2010 at 11:45
I’ve installed the extension. I set some product correctly and i put the code with che correct bracket in the content of the homepage.
Using the debug (displaying path and name of the block) i can see that it load the module, but it doesn’t show any product.
Any idea?
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Sophie Lee says:
Nov 08, 2010 at 6:50
I installed this extension. ^^
It’s very helpful for me. ^^
In my shop, featured products is displayed before new products block.
I want to display new products block at first.
featured products : later..
I moved the code of featured to custom desgin with change.
ex. {{ –> <
but it shows only error.
how can I get what I want ? ^^
thanks.. ^^
Contents :
{{block type="featuredproducts/listing" template="inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml"}
Custom design :
8
bundle
bundle/catalog_product_price
bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml
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Viktor says:
Nov 02, 2010 at 5:43
Thanks to everyone for all the help. I was able to set up Featured Products the way I wanted to! Thanks!
Quick question… When is the “Featured Products css file? How do I adjust font type, size and color (mainly color)? I tried to play with boxes.css file but no luck. I use a custom made template, not a generic one.
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Sridhar says:
Oct 26, 2010 at 15:37
Hi,
I have problems as follows in my live server,But when i try to configure in my local everything work fine:
– admin works fine
– direct url to /featured-products not working
– {{block …}} in home page or any other not generating any html
I have searched form google full day i cant able to get the solution,Please help me if any one knows.
Thanks in Advance
Sridhar
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Simon says:
Oct 06, 2010 at 11:34
Hi there
I’m trying to style the block so that it fits in nicely on the frontpage of my website. I’d like to know where the code is generated from? I need to change things like thumbnail size, which attributes appear and what extra code is generated to style correctly.
Superb extension by the way, thanks for the hard work.
Simon
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Tom says:
Sep 29, 2010 at 6:19
Hello,
I like your extension . it would be great if I could have a from / date option – so I would not have to remember to “un-feature” the products.
thank you!!
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Wes says:
Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44
Hi,
I have installed the module via magento connect but wen t back into my admin panel and cannot find featured products under catalogue?
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Paul says:
Sep 09, 2010 at 0:55
Hello,
I’m using Magento 1.4.1.0 and am getting the same problem as Carol Blevins had:
“Invalid Attribute: inchoo_featured_product” when I try to go to Catalog->Featured Products
It looks like the attribute doesn’t get created for me. I tried re-installing, logging in logging out, re-saving the admin role, re-indexing everything.
So I tried creating the attribute myself, using the attribute settings Domagoj Potkoc mentioned, and I can now get to Catalog->Featured Products, but inchoo_featured_products doesn’t show up as an attribute for my products…. so I can’t set anything to be a featured product…
Anyone know what’s going on?
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danny2k says:
Sep 08, 2010 at 0:45
Hello, is there another way of installing besides through magento connect, when I try to install the extension it goes to “Please wait, preparing for updates…” then the screen goes black and it won’t do anything, then if try to navigate away from the page I get this message:
“Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?
There are PEAR processes running.
If you will close the window or navigate away from the page, installation will be interrupted.
Press OK to continue, or Cancel to stay on the current page.”
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Nirmik says:
Sep 02, 2010 at 9:32
It’s very nice module, it’s easy to install and use.
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Peter says:
Aug 26, 2010 at 20:45
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?
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Featured-Products-Fan says:
Aug 23, 2010 at 12:42
Thanks Rosco,
https://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/featured-products-on-magento-frontpage/#comment-7225
Now it works!
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Peter says:
Aug 23, 2010 at 8:57
How to add the category names to the productsURL in the list view.?
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B00MER says:
Aug 17, 2010 at 6:25
@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
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B00MER says:
Aug 17, 2010 at 6:22
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!
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TTC says:
Aug 16, 2010 at 9:43
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?
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christian says:
Aug 16, 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?
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Chris says:
Aug 15, 2010 at 13:58
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.
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Mark Mensink says:
Aug 13, 2010 at 12:45
@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
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cryfreeman says:
Aug 13, 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
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Muzafar says:
Aug 13, 2010 at 11:06
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
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Vinny says:
Aug 13, 2010 at 8:32
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!
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Muzafar says:
Aug 13, 2010 at 5:27
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
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Vinny says:
Aug 12, 2010 at 17:19
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.
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Vinny says:
Aug 12, 2010 at 17:06
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.
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Michael says:
Aug 12, 2010 at 11:39
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
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Muzafar says:
Aug 12, 2010 at 11:06
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,
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Paul says:
Aug 11, 2010 at 7:33
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
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Mark Mensink says:
Aug 09, 2010 at 12:40
@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.
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Ross says:
Jul 31, 2010 at 19:35
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
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PorscheGTR says:
Jul 26, 2010 at 2:35
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.
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Mike says:
Jul 25, 2010 at 18:19
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.
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Vinny says:
Jul 23, 2010 at 5:39
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
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Justin Morrow says:
Jul 19, 2010 at 15:24
@ kenny – Make sure to replace the double quotes if you copied the block declaration from a website, or anything else.
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Hendrik says:
Jul 18, 2010 at 20:37
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?
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kenny says:
Jul 18, 2010 at 15:00
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/
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Erez says:
Jul 18, 2010 at 13:03
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?
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Jason says:
Jul 16, 2010 at 20:09
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.
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Jason says:
Jul 16, 2010 at 20:02
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.
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Yogesh says:
Jul 12, 2010 at 6:38
Mine problem is resolved there was some issue in my list.phtml file regarding to filtration, now it is resolved
Thank
Yogesh
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Brandon says:
Jul 12, 2010 at 0:09
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?
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Linda says:
Jul 11, 2010 at 14:21
Again… never mind my last question. It works like a charm.
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Linda says:
Jul 10, 2010 at 14:47
Hi, are there specs somewhere for making this work in multistores?
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Erick Paulino says:
Jul 07, 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!
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Hector says:
Jul 04, 2010 at 13:20
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!
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Yogesh says:
Jun 26, 2010 at 18:01
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
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andy says:
Jun 20, 2010 at 14:30
Sorry, I have figured it out. Just retype 🙂
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andy says:
Jun 20, 2010 at 14:25
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.
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Marco says:
Jun 16, 2010 at 13:00
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…
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Marco says:
Jun 16, 2010 at 10:37
Anyone?
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Marco says:
Jun 16, 2010 at 7:47
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
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Marco says:
Jun 16, 2010 at 7:38
clockworkgeek ty! Worked perfectly! It’s nice to see that some people still help!
Thank you once again
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clockworkgeek says:
Jun 15, 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}
```
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clockworkgeek says:
Jun 15, 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.
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Marco says:
Jun 10, 2010 at 14:22
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!!!
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Rosco says:
Jun 04, 2010 at 20:03
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
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Rosco says:
Jun 04, 2010 at 19:54
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
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justin says:
Jun 01, 2010 at 22:38
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
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Gaurav Chaudhary says:
May 25, 2010 at 19:41
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
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Qumber Hassan says:
May 24, 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
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eric says:
May 17, 2010 at 21:56
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.
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Chris says:
May 16, 2010 at 0:34
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!
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teskeysdev says:
May 14, 2010 at 21:17
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?
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hippoglollum says:
May 07, 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?
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Rodney says:
May 06, 2010 at 20:23
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
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sehul says:
May 04, 2010 at 10:14
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
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Manoj says:
May 01, 2010 at 19:52
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
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Scott says:
Apr 29, 2010 at 15:28
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.
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Petr says:
Apr 25, 2010 at 22:15
Sorry, works…
But how theming listing featured products as products in category page?
—
ps sorry for my english
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Petr says:
Apr 25, 2010 at 21:37
>>Adam
>>>You need to manually replace them once you paste the code into your CMS page.
What? Where? How?
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Adam McCombs says:
Apr 21, 2010 at 22:48
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.
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Ronnie Taylor says:
Apr 13, 2010 at 20:22
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!
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Ronnie Taylor says:
Apr 13, 2010 at 20:14
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?
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Daniel Gonzalez says:
Apr 12, 2010 at 23:30
Great extension! Is there a proper way to upgrade this extension? I am excited to utilize the multi-store aspect.
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Manoj says:
Apr 12, 2010 at 17:50
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
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Ron Fedele says:
Apr 08, 2010 at 15:30
Two questions
How do I eliminate the out of stock line?
How can I space out the columns?
tx
ron
love the extension!!!!
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Joe Benlly says:
Apr 07, 2010 at 12:08
I tested extension on Magento 1.4.0.1 and works perfect.
Thanks, guys
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sanket says:
Apr 07, 2010 at 6:43
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.
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sanket says:
Apr 07, 2010 at 6:14
hi how to set this extension in my template.because when i install this extension, its automatically set in default template.
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Featured-Products-Fan says:
Mar 24, 2010 at 12:17
Great extension! Thank you!
But when it´s working in Magento 1.4.0.1?
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kiat says:
Mar 21, 2010 at 11:51
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.
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Tom Bathgate says:
Mar 19, 2010 at 0:25
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!
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zero says:
Mar 16, 2010 at 17:39
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?
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Scott says:
Mar 11, 2010 at 20:09
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.
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Chicba says:
Mar 11, 2010 at 12:54
I like this module………
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Jr says:
Mar 04, 2010 at 13:54
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
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Jr says:
Mar 03, 2010 at 16:59
@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!
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Roy says:
Mar 03, 2010 at 10:52
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
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Larry says:
Feb 28, 2010 at 3:37
Do you have an estimated date when a 1.4.0 compatible version will be available?
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Roy says:
Feb 20, 2010 at 21:30
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 ?
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Toni Anicic says:
Feb 20, 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.
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Roy says:
Feb 20, 2010 at 14:19
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.
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Diogo Almeida says:
Feb 20, 2010 at 7:04
This extension doesn´t works on 1.4.0.1 so take care with your installation!
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Rob Elings says:
Feb 19, 2010 at 23:34
i had the same issue
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frost says:
Feb 19, 2010 at 22:47
sorry guys it stripped my code…
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frost says:
Feb 19, 2010 at 22:46
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
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Carl says:
Feb 18, 2010 at 22:25
I cannot view the admin > config > catalog > featured products.
I am using version 1.4.0.0
Any ideas?
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Matt says:
Feb 18, 2010 at 17:54
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?
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Mark says:
Feb 18, 2010 at 14:10
try again with changes
******
******
***getItems() as $_product): ?>***
***=4): continue; endif; ?>***
******
******
***getColumnCount(); $_columnCount=8; ?>***
***getItems() as $_product): ?>***
******
******
******
******
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Mark says:
Feb 18, 2010 at 14:08
@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.
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Toni Anicic says:
Feb 18, 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.
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Matte says:
Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21
Glad to know, Toni!
Can you explain me how to set number of products? I tried everything, but no success… :'(
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Toni Anicic says:
Feb 18, 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.
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Matte says:
Feb 18, 2010 at 10:40
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….
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MagentoUser says:
Feb 17, 2010 at 23:07
How do I center the featured products on the front page?
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todd says:
Feb 13, 2010 at 22:13
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…
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Cat says:
Feb 11, 2010 at 20:37
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.
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Matte says:
Feb 11, 2010 at 10:19
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… 😉
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Matte says:
Feb 11, 2010 at 9:57
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…
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Matte says:
Feb 11, 2010 at 9:42
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…?
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Matte says:
Feb 10, 2010 at 17:53
Amazing extension… guys you’re great!
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slankdig says:
Feb 09, 2010 at 13:58
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
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monocat says:
Feb 05, 2010 at 22:41
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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Axel C says:
Feb 04, 2010 at 17:21
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
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Axel C says:
Feb 03, 2010 at 20:39
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.
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Peter says:
Feb 02, 2010 at 19:08
Is it possible to add more atrributs for more features?
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Veganista says:
Feb 02, 2010 at 16:27
oooops, tags got stripped:
?php else: ?
No products
?php endif; ?
But with the pointy brackets where they should be.
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Veganista says:
Feb 02, 2010 at 16:25
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?
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SPIDER says:
Feb 01, 2010 at 15:30
Can someone help me with display Featured Product in Role Resources > Catalog ?
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Aazim says:
Feb 01, 2010 at 7:20
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.
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Aazim says:
Feb 01, 2010 at 7:15
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.
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clockworkgeek says:
Jan 29, 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’)
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Jeromy says:
Jan 28, 2010 at 17:29
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
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Thiago says:
Jan 27, 2010 at 20:16
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
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Brady says:
Jan 27, 2010 at 9:21
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?
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shmk says:
Jan 25, 2010 at 17:45
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.
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Andre says:
Jan 25, 2010 at 15:38
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!
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Bob says:
Jan 24, 2010 at 0:21
I was using Firefox… 🙂
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Rhonda sterrett says:
Jan 24, 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
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Bob says:
Jan 23, 2010 at 16:49
After installing this component, if I go to configuration>Featured Products, I just get a blank screen. No config options.
Any idea why?
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Rhonda Sterrett says:
Jan 23, 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.
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Lohn says:
Jan 22, 2010 at 21:23
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 🙂
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amy says:
Jan 21, 2010 at 7:29
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.
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amy says:
Jan 20, 2010 at 23:22
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.
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Rob Elings says:
Jan 20, 2010 at 21:58
Thanks Amy, great post. I’m going to give it a shot.
ciao, Rob
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amy says:
Jan 20, 2010 at 17:07
Oops… the code was stripped. Sorry.
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amy says:
Jan 20, 2010 at 17:05
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.
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Michael R. says:
Jan 20, 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
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Andy says:
Jan 18, 2010 at 16:16
how can I “centralize” the feature product, right now I have put 3 items to be display but the 3 products is left aligned
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amy says:
Jan 15, 2010 at 23:37
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!
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Rob Elings says:
Jan 15, 2010 at 23:03
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
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amy says:
Jan 15, 2010 at 18:28
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.
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fredmac says:
Jan 15, 2010 at 11:37
Hi Amy
May be you could define “Featured Products” as your home page in
System > Configuration > default Page
FRED
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Rob Elings says:
Jan 15, 2010 at 11:17
@ 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
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amy says:
Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32
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.
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shmk says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 17:58
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?
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fredmac says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 17:15
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
https://inchoo.net/magento-test/index.php/featured-products/
what ca i do for having the same on my Home page?
Best regards.
FRED
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fredmac says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 14:37
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 ?
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Rob Elings says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 13:26
this somehow doesn’t seem to work for me
{{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}
mmm
ciao, Rob
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fredmac says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 12:46
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
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Rob Elings says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40
@ fredmac : It’s at catalog > managa attributes > (find the inchoo attribute for featured products..
cheers
Rob
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Rob Elings says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 11:39
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 😉
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fredmac says:
Jan 14, 2010 at 10:47
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
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GP says:
Jan 13, 2010 at 2:42
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}
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GP says:
Jan 13, 2010 at 2:32
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
(
[message:protected] => SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ’30-General’ for key 2
[string:private] =>
[code:protected] => 0
[file:protected] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Statement/Pdo.php
[line:protected] => 238
[trace:private] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Statement.php
[line] => 283
[function] => _execute
[class] => Zend_Db_Statement_Pdo
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 30
[1] => General
[2] => 1
[3] => 9
)
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php
[line] => 457
[function] => execute
[class] => Zend_Db_Statement
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 30
[1] => General
[2] => 1
[3] => 9
)
)
)
[2] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php
[line] => 230
[function] => query
[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
(
[0] => 30
[1] => General
[2] => 1
[3] => 9
)
)
)
[3] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Varien/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php
[line] => 281
[function] => query
[class] => Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => INSERT INTO `eav_attribute_group` (`attribute_set_id`, `attribute_group_name`, `default_id`, `sort_order`) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 30
[1] => General
[2] => 1
[3] => 9
)
)
)
[4] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php
[line] => 535
[function] => query
[class] => Varien_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => INSERT INTO `eav_attribute_group` (`attribute_set_id`, `attribute_group_name`, `default_id`, `sort_order`) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 30
[1] => General
[2] => 1
[3] => 9
)
)
)
[5] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Eav/Model/Entity/Setup.php
[line] => 391
[function] => insert
[class] => Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => eav_attribute_group
[1] => Array
(
[attribute_set_id] => 30
[attribute_group_name] => General
[default_id] => 1
[sort_order] => 9
)
)
)
[6] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Eav/Model/Entity/Setup.php
[line] => 579
[function] => addAttributeGroup
[class] => Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => 4
[1] => 30
[2] => General
)
)
[7] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/sql/featuredproducts_setup/mysql4-install-1.0.1.php
[line] => 36
[function] => addAttribute
[class] => Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => catalog_product
[1] => inchoo_featured_product
[2] => Array
(
[group] => General
[type] => int
[backend] =>
[frontend] =>
[label] => Featured product
[input] => boolean
[class] =>
[source] =>
[global] => 1
[visible] => 1
[required] =>
[user_defined] => 1
[default] => 0
[searchable] =>
[filterable] =>
[comparable] =>
[visible_on_front] =>
[unique] =>
[apply_to] => simple,configurable,virtual,bundle,downloadable
[is_configurable] =>
)
)
)
[8] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php
[line] => 274
[args] => Array
(
[0] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/community/Inchoo/FeaturedProducts/sql/featuredproducts_setup/mysql4-install-1.0.1.php
)
[function] => include
)
[9] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php
[line] => 167
[function] => _modifyResourceDb
[class] => Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => install
[1] =>
[2] => 1.0.1
)
)
[10] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php
[line] => 155
[function] => _installResourceDb
[class] => Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => 1.0.1
)
)
[11] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php
[line] => 121
[function] => applyUpdates
[class] => Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
)
)
[12] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Config.php
[line] => 263
[function] => applyAllUpdates
[class] => Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup
[type] => ::
[args] => Array
(
)
)
[13] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php
[line] => 263
[function] => init
[class] => Mage_Core_Model_Config
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
)
)
)
[14] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/Mage.php
[line] => 434
[function] => init
[class] => Mage_Core_Model_App
[type] => ->
[args] => Array
(
[0] =>
[1] => store
[2] => Array
(
)
)
)
[15] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/app/Mage.php
[line] => 455
[function] => app
[class] => Mage
[type] => ::
[args] => Array
(
[0] =>
[1] => store
[2] => Array
(
)
)
)
[16] => Array
(
[file] => /var/www/vhosts/sinfulthrills.com/httpdocs/index.php
[line] => 65
[function] => run
[class] => Mage
[type] => ::
[args] => Array
(
)
)
)
)
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.
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Checo says:
Jan 12, 2010 at 2:12
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?
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Bimmerhead says:
Jan 11, 2010 at 17:57
OK guess I need to spell it out 🙂
less than, backslash, div, greater than
Cheers
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Bimmerhead says:
Jan 11, 2010 at 17:56
The missing code is without the spaces
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Lohn says:
Jan 11, 2010 at 15:22
@Andreas Reiser:
Thx, I have translated it in a second with your hint 🙂
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Bimmerhead says:
Jan 10, 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.
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Bimmerhead says:
Jan 10, 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
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Garrett says:
Jan 09, 2010 at 22:57
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.
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Andreas Reiser says:
Jan 09, 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…
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Andreas Reiser says:
Jan 09, 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.
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Laptop says:
Jan 07, 2010 at 22:36
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
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Jackie says:
Jan 07, 2010 at 21:05
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
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Frank Hamm says:
Jan 07, 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
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Caroline says:
Jan 06, 2010 at 21:37
It seems that there are some compatibility issues with the ModularRouters extension (magento-community/LKC_ModularRouters).
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Caroline says:
Jan 06, 2010 at 19:46
Hm… I’m not able to access the admin url after installing this extension. I’m getting a 404 error…
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Robert Pindi says:
Jan 06, 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
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Kai says:
Jan 05, 2010 at 16:58
/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?
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Kai says:
Jan 05, 2010 at 16:49
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?
( )
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Tom says:
Jan 05, 2010 at 10:59
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
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John says:
Jan 04, 2010 at 16:05
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
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Lohn says:
Jan 04, 2010 at 12:03
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?
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Rene Peters says:
Jan 03, 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
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Jerome says:
Jan 01, 2010 at 18:00
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
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Diogo Almeida says:
Dec 31, 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.
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Domagoj Potkoc says:
Dec 30, 2009 at 8:28
For Lane:
You have to style this box and maybe change teplate file: “template/inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”
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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.
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Domagoj Potkoc says:
Dec 30, 2009 at 8:25
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
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Lane Yaremchuk says:
Dec 29, 2009 at 18:27
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”.
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If I do this, the products do not wrap to the next line.
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Carol Blevins says:
Dec 29, 2009 at 17:05
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
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Lohn says:
Dec 29, 2009 at 15:50
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?
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Eliezer Israel says:
Dec 28, 2009 at 11:59
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.
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Domagoj Potkoc says:
Dec 28, 2009 at 8:22
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
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Arshad says:
Dec 27, 2009 at 19:40
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!
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Paul Hopkins says:
Dec 27, 2009 at 2:29
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.
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Prix-mini says:
Dec 26, 2009 at 22:23
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
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Lane Yaremchuk says:
Dec 24, 2009 at 17:27
Thank ya and Merry Christmas!
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Domagoj Potkoc says:
Dec 24, 2009 at 10:20
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
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Macmizer says:
Dec 24, 2009 at 7:39
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?
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Lane Yaremchuk says:
Dec 23, 2009 at 22:01
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
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Hui says:
Dec 23, 2009 at 9:12
Problem solved. I found a nice post on your site regards to this problem. https://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/access-denied-in-magento-admin/
After re-login, problem is gone!
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Hui says:
Dec 23, 2009 at 9:00
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
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STANISLAS Pierre says:
Dec 22, 2009 at 11:58
Hey ! Thank you so much, it’s working like a charm now. 🙂
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Domagoj Potkoc says:
Dec 22, 2009 at 11:39
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.
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STANISLAS Pierre says:
Dec 22, 2009 at 10:03
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.
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