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[Eyeglasses Expert]

I want to add 3 blocks of "Featured products" at homepage, one will be called "Fashion Glasses", one for "Discount Glasses" and the other for "Cheap Glasses", how to do, please?

A big thanks to you in advance!

[balinor]

Can't do it by default, you'd need an add-on like this one:

http://www.bcsengineering.com/store/featured_product-manager-for-x-cart.html

You are going to find that not a lot of add-ons like this are available for 4.4 yet though - going to need to wait a little while.

[Eyeglasses Expert]

that plug in is not free, can anybody help me how to modify x-cart gold 4.4? Tks.

[cflsystems]

This cannot be done without custom coding so it won't be free anyway

[PhilJ]

It depends on which types of featured products you'd like displayed, we can probably put something together for you, but not free I'm afraid...

We can do various things with featured products as seen here in our new template for v4.4.x

[gb2world]

Here is a method you can use if you understand the featured.tpl and if 4.4 is similar to 4.1-3. You can use the POS variable of the root featured products to distinguish the different classes of featured products. Your featured products array sent to the template will have all the products you have selected - you just display it with the templates based on the POS.

You can duplicate the featured.tpl and change the titles based on your updated featured sections. You can call your new featured templates from welcome.tpl.

Then you can create a new products_t.tpl to specifically display your featured products. You include this new products_t_featured.tpl from your new featured templates

Inside the new products_t_featured.tpl, you can use if/than statements based on the position to display the various feature sections as you want.

This would be quick and dirty - not as nice from an administrative point of view than you could get from hiring someone to do a mod for you.

[Eyeglasses Expert]

Originally Posted by gb2world

Here is a method you can use if you understand the featured.tpl and if 4.4 is similar to 4.1-3. You can use the POS variable of the root featured products to distinguish the different classes of featured products. Your featured products array sent to the template will have all the products you have selected - you just display it with the templates based on the POS.

You can duplicate the featured.tpl and change the titles based on your updated featured sections. You can call your new featured templates from welcome.tpl.

Then you can create a new products_t.tpl to specifically display your featured products. You include this new products_t_featured.tpl from your new featured templates

Inside the new products_t_featured.tpl, you can use if/than statements based on the position to display the various feature sections as you want.

This would be quick and dirty - not as nice from an administrative point of view than you could get from hiring someone to do a mod for you.

the idea is great! would you please take some time to offer us the details, step by step?

[gb2world]

Sorry - no time for that right now. If no one else has time to do it for free for you, you might consider posting in the Professional Help Services Requests forum.

[balinor]

Please don't double post the same question over and over, I have removed your other posts on this topic. There are two solutions for you here:

1. Purchase the add-on module
2. Pay someone to do it for you

While there are many many free mods here in the forums, sometimes you just have to spend money to make money, particularly when it is something specific you want for your store.

[missing]

In your alternate products_t_featured.tpl file that gb2world explained about in post #7 you can alter the row length on somewhere around line 5 that looks like this:

row_length=$config.Appearance.products_per_row

and change it to however many items you want listed in a row like:

row_length=3