Highlight Feature Products with Magento Featured Product Extension! by Mike Taylor

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Featured Product V. 1.0.0

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

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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 webstore. This extension will definitely boost your revenue opportunities by attracting the customer’s interest in your products that you want them to buy.

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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).

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Features General Features: •

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

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

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100% pure JavaScript and CSS, no flash or other embedded content, so your featured products won't be blocked.

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Smooth JavaScript animation.

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

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Ready to use CSS presets in the package.

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Installation Steps •

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

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!!!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.

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

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Go to Admin Panel>>CMS>>Pages>>[Home Page]>>Content and paste following line

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Installation Steps 1.

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

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)

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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.

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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.

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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. www.ecomextension.com | ÂŠ 2014 Brainvire Infotech Pvt. Ltd | info@brainvire.com

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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]

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