Magento featured product Extension

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“Featured Product” User Guide

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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. view site: http://www.ecomextension.com/featuredproducts.html

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“Featured Product” User Guide

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“Featured Products” User Guide ..........................................................................................1Table of Contents .................................................................................................................21. Overview...........................................................................................................................32. Features............................................................................................................................33. Installation Process...........................................................................................................54. Featured Product Configuration .......................................................................................65. Adding Individual Product To Featured products...............................................................76. Adding Lot Of Products To Featured products...................................................................87. Page Settings.....................................................................................................................98. Featured Product View.......................................................................................................9

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1. 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.

Overview:

- The Featured Products Magento Extension is an effective tool to grab the attention of the maximum number of customers to your store. You can display the list of featured products category wise too. The Featured Products is a mandatory Magento Module for your store. This extension will help you to promote your featured products on any page and allows you the flexibility to customize it to any store by using our intuitive user interface.

- The Featured Products 3 is the next generation of the Featured Products Extension. The previous versions (Featured Products 1.x and 2.x) will not be further developed to support the new Magento versions.

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2. Features

Features for Web Visitors:

- Appealing interface with slideshow features- Fancy Slider type display enables customers to click on the product preview- Featured Products can be shown in different types: the new and highly attractive advanced slideshow, compact slideshow with or w/o bottom text, simple row with or w/o bottom text- Help prospects make informed decisions with Tooltip

Features for Store Admin:

- Flexible options to display products- Customizable positioning and layout options- Defining featured products in a particular category- 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)

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General Features:

- Fully customizable look – edit a simple CSS to change color, object placement and size- Apply different styles to the Product buttons – numerical or thumbnail- 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

- Above all the features, below are the new features embedded in the latest version:

- Ability to add a product to several categories- Option to display a product featuring in the slideshow only on the main page if desired- Display of a warning message if no product is found for showcasing as a featured product- Choice of using a custom (different) image in the featured product slideshow if you do not want to use the product image

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3. Installation Process

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

2. !!!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.

3. Copy files to the magneto root folder log in as admin and refresh all caches (System > Cache Management)

4. Go to Admin Panel>>CMS>>Pages>>[Home Page]>>Content and paste following line {{block type="featured products/listing"}} On the page where you want to apply offer set the newly added attributes

- To know more about our Featured Products Magento Extension call us today at +1.631.897.7276 or send an email to us at [email protected].

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4. Featured Products Configuration

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

2. The General section allows specifying settings of the label displayed on the Product page: a. In the Heading field, set [Featured Products]. b. In the Heading Of CMS Block field, give the heading [Featured Products] c. In the Meta Title field, give the heading [Featured Products] c. The Meta Description give the description of the module. d. In the Meta Keywords field, enter the text [featured, products] e. In the Layout field, select appropriate layout f. 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] g. In the Number of Items in Main Block field, enter the number [5] h. In the Number of Items per row in Main Block field, enter the number of items in each row [3] i. In the View field, select how you want to see the featured product list [Grid/Slider]

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5. Adding Individual Product to Featured Products

- The Featured Products extension adds an option in the Product Information panel General1. Go to the Catalog >> Manage Products backend page and click the required product.2. In the Product Information page, open the General section.3. In the Featured Product field, set Yes.

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6. 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 backend page2. Click on the check boxes in front of the products you want to show in featured product list3. Click on Save Featured Products

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7. Page Setting

To show the list of Featured Products on Home Page –

1. Go to the CMS >> Pages backend page2. Click on Home Page>>Contents3. And paste the following code {{block type="featured products/listing"}}

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8. Featured Products View

The list of Featured Products on Home Page –