Highlight Feature Products with Magento Featured Product Extension!

Extension User Guide

V. 1.0.0

Featured Product

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Table of Contents OVERVIEW………………………………………………………………………………………3 EXTENSION FEATURES………………………………………………………………………..4 HOW TO INSTALL………………………………………………………………………………6 CONFIGURATION………………………………………………………………………………11 UNINSTALL……………………………………………………………………………………..19 HELP / SUPPORT……………………………………………………………………………..20



OVERVIEW Featured Products Extension allows you to define your featured products and helps to drive more customers’ attention to your most profitable products in the Magento web-store. This extension will definitely boost your revenue opportunities by attracting the customer’s interest in your products that you want them to buy.



Features Features for Website Visitors:

• Appealing interface with sideshow features.

• Fancy Slider type display enables customers to click on the product preview.

Features for Store Admin:

• Flexible options to display products.

• Customizable positioning and layout options.

• Display specific number of products to the list.

• Display specific number of products per row in the grid.

• Show the products in particular order (Random/Last Added).

• Setting view type of the featured product list (Grid/Slider).



Features General Features:

• Fully customizable look – edit a simple CSS to change color, object placement and

size.

• No side libraries, all code is custom and very compact.

• 100% pure JavaScript and CSS, no flash or other embedded content, so your featured

products won't be blocked.

• Smooth JavaScript animation.

• CSS in a separate file – customize the way you need it.

• Ready to use CSS presets in the package.



Installation Steps

• Create full backup of your site (both files and database)

• !!!VERY IMPORTANT!!! Go to admin panel -> System -> Tools -> Compilation and

make sure that Compiler Status is disabled. If it's not, please change it to disabled.

If you plan to use the compilation after installing the extension, please click 'Run

Compilation Process' button after you complete the extension installation.

• Copy files to the magneto root folder, log in as admin and refresh all caches (System

> Cache Management)

• Go to Admin Panel>>CMS>>Pages>>[Home Page]>>Content

and paste following line

{{block type="featuredproducts/listing"}}

On the page where you want to apply offer set the newly added attributes



Installation Steps 1. Clear the store cache under var/cache and all cookies for your store domain.

2. Disable compilation for Magento 1.4+. Log into Magento Admin Panel and

go to System → Tools → Compilation and disable the compilation.

Be sure that the Compilation Сode is disabled (System->Tools --

>Compilation)



Installation Steps 3. Disable JS & CSS merging

Navigate to System->Configuration->Developer Tab and disable "Merge

css / js". We suggest that you enable error reporting.



Installation Steps 4. Upload file manually

If you use a different from default theme - be sure to rename app/design/frontend/default/default and skin/frontend/default/default folders to your store's values. Using your FTP client upload content to your store root.



Installation Steps 5. Clear Cache

Then navigate to System->Cache Storage Management and and clear

Cache.

Do select and Refresh it by pressing submit button

6. Log out then log back in to your admin panel.



Featured Products Configuration

1. Go to the System >> Configuration >>Brainvire >>Featured Products back end page.

2. The General section allows specifying settings of the label displayed on the Product page:

In the Heading field, set [Featured Products].

In the Heading Of CMS Block field, give the heading [Featured Products]

In the Meta Title field, give the heading [Featured Products]

The Meta Description give the description of the module.

In the Meta Keywords field, enter the text [featured, products]

In the Layout field, select appropriate layout

In the Sort by in Main Block field, select the option as by which you want to sort the featured product list [Random/ Last Added]

In the Number of Items in Main Block field, enter the number [5]

In the Number of Items per row in Main Block field, enter the number of items in each row [3]

In the View field, select how you want to see the featured product list [Grid/Slider]



Featured Products Configuration



Configuration

Adding Individual Product to Featured Products The Featured Products extension adds an option in the Product Information panel – General.

1. Go to the Catalog >> Manage Products back end page and click the required

product.

2. In the Product Information page, open the General section.

3. In the Featured Product field, set Yes.



Configuration Adding Individual Product to Featured Products



Configuration

Adding Lot of Products to Featured Products

The Featured Products extension adds an option in the Catalog Tab –

1. Go to the Catalog >> Featured Products back end page

2. Click on the check boxes in front of the products you want to show in

featured product list

3. Click on Save Featured Products



Configuration Adding Lot of Products to Featured Products



Configuration

Page Setting

To show the list of Featured Products on Home Page –

1. Go to the CMS >> Pages back end page.

2. Click on Home Page>>Contents.

3. And paste the following code.

{{block type="featuredproducts/listing"}}



Configuration Featured Products View The list of Featured Products on Home Page –



Uninstall

To force Magento uninstall the module. Then replace <active>true</active> with <active>false</active> in the following files: app/etc/modules/Brainvire_FeaturedProducts.xml

<Brainvire_FeaturedProducts>

<active>true</active>

<codePool>community</codePool>

</Brainvire_FeaturedProducts>



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Highlight Feature Products with Magento Featured Product Extension!