Front Page Product displays

The products being displayed on the front page can be controlled by settings in Software Configuration (page 81,82).

 

There are two sections for product displays in the homepage, which are Latest Products and Random Pick Products.

For the Latest products, the configurations start with “xnewproduct” in the beginning.

For the Random pick products, the configurations start with “xfrontpage” in the beginning.

 

Random pick products displayed can be chosen specifically or they can be randomly chosen from your entire catalogue.

 

 

Xnewproductwidget

Setting this to Yes will display the New Product widget in the homepage.

XNewProductDuration

Enter number of days to show all new products that have been added to the shopping cart during the defined period.

For example, adding 3 will show all products that have been added in the last 3 days.

XNewProductTemplate

The template used when displaying new products using a template.

XNewProductsfrontpagemaxcolumns

The number of columns of New Products to display on the home page.

XNewProductsfrontpagemaxrecords

The number of records of New Products to display on the home page.

Xfrontpagefield

This is the field of the product record where the value tells VPCart what will be displayed on the front page. By default, it is set to frontpage and you won’t generally need to change this.

Xfrontpagevalue

You have two options of what to enter here:

 

1.  Random – this tells VPCART to show a random selection of products on your homepage

2.  Your Keyword– this can be any keyword you choose to define the group of products you want to display on the homepage. For example, if you want to have sale items displayed, put “sale” (without quotes) in this field. Then in the actual product records of the products you want to display, put the word “sale” in the frontpage field.

Xfrontpagemaxcolumns

This is how many columns of products to show on the front page. The default is 3.

 

NOTE : In VPCART 8.00, this config is no longer in use.
You can control products column for homepage via Layout Manager now.

Xfrontpagemaxrecords

This is the number of products to show on the front page. The default is 6.

XfrontpagerandomField

If you want to use random products, but you don’t want all of your products to show up, you can specify a field in the products table to use as a flag field to define the products you want included. For example, you could set this to pother1.

Xfrontpagerandomvalue

This is the value VPCART should look for in the field defined above when selecting the random products. For example, if you have the field above set to pother1 and you have the keyword showrandom in this field, then you need to update the products you want to display to have showrandom in their pother1 field.