Description
Displaying featured products block on your site (on either home page, category or product page) will notify your visitors about bestsellers, sale/clearance offers, new or most reviewed products. Or it can be a specific product you want to push forward or just put on center stage.
A popular way to highlight items on your Magento site is to place them into slider with featured products block.
With our extension you can easily manage Featured Products widget appearance. You can specify placement (main content area, page header/bottom/navigation, sidebars, checkout page etc), number of products to display, as well as layout (vertical or horizontal), and more.
Features
- Attractive sliding layout, both vertical and horizontal. You can specify what amount of products to display in the slider.
- Assign Magento Featured Products Slider to store views (main website, regional views or all views).
- Choose category of products to be displayed in the widget.
- Assign different countries where certain Featured Products Slider will be displayed.
- Specify date range when Featured Products block will be shown.
- Highly customizable product’s look in slider: add or remove Product Name, Price, Thumbnail, Add to Cart Button, Reviews, SKU.
- Slider automation options:
- - Random Products – displays random products from a chosen category.
- - Specific Products – you specify which products to display manually.
- - Bestsellers – displays most frequently bought items.
- - New Products – shows newly added products.
- - Most Reviewed – items that received most of customer’s reviews. Choosing the right option will help you to increase your aftermarket and related products sales.
- Ability to display Featured Products widget on all types of pages: entire site; Specified pages; Categories pages (anchor and non-anchor); Product pages (All product types, Simple / Configurable / Grouped / Configurable / Bundle products), Checkout page, Shopping Cart, Search page.
- Ability to display widgets on CMS pages
- Different Slider location options: Page main part / Footer / Header / Sidebars / Checkout page and other.
- Easily customizable view of the pop-up
- All our extensions come open source.
Demo
Back-end: http://5.demo.webtexsoftware.com/admin (demo | demo1234)
Reviews
Changelog
Changelog
: new feature added.
: bug fixed.- Version 1.0.0 First release
- Version 1.1.0
Ability to set autoscroll
Ability to set number of products to display
Ability to set slide size and slide step
Ability to choose slider's type
Working with Extension
Creating Features Products Slider
To create custom block you should go to the CMS->Widgets->Add New Widget. Choose Type->Featured Products Slider.
Fill up “Frontend Properties” like for general widgets.
Then choose pages and blocks where you want to display your block.
Choose also template type (vertical or horizontal).
The second tab “Widget Options”
Category – choose category of products to be displayed in the widget.
Products – you can choose different kinds of product options (random products, specific products, bestsellers, new products, most reviewed, most viewed)
Block Name – you can write custom name for the block
Number of Products to display – specify how many products you want to display in the block
Countries – you can specify countries
Date – you can specify the date range when this block should be displayed.
Display options – choose fields which you want to display for each product.
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