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New Products Extension User Manual

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New Products Extension

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New Products Extension By MageBees

2 MageBees a Venture by Capacity Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd.




CONTENT

Introduction 3

Features 3

Configuration Settings 4

Layout Settings 7

Manage New Products 9

Create New Products Widgets 11

FAQs 15

Support 17






INTRODUCTION

New products extension is used to display products which are between New from Date and

New to Date attributes. You can also display by creation date of product and choose

manually products as new products. It is easy to setup and have many options for settings

from admin. You can display new products using block, template, layout and widget.

EXTENSION FEATURES

1. Manage heading and sort order.

2. Show/hide the products Price, Ratings, Short Description, Add to cart, Add to Wishlist, Add to Compare, Out of Stock Products.

3. Option for select auto generated or manually selected new products.

4. Supported responsive theme template.

5. Display new products in list, grid or slider template.

6. Manage pagination and number of products per page.

7. Supported all types of products.

8. Set Thumbnail width & Thumbnail height.

9. Create widget with its options.

10. Supported multi store view.

11. Supported Magento version 1.5.x – 1.9.x






CONFIGURATION SETTINGS

Step-1

Go to admin → System → Configuration → MAGEBEES → New Products. OR

Go to admin → MageBees → New Products → Settings.

Step-2

Click on General Tab. You will get Following Screen.






Enabled: Enable or disable this module from choosing Yes/No.

Is Responsive Theme: Select yes if your theme is responsive.

Display Heading: Select yes for display page heading.

Heading: Set your title for New Products.

New Products: Display Auto generated, manually selected or both new products.

Use “New from Date” and “New to Date”: If select yes then display products which

are between “New from Date” and “New to Date” otherwise display new products

by creation date of products.

Select New Products Type: You can display all products or by selected category.

Sort By: Set sorting attribute like name, price or newest.

Sort Order: Set sort order like ascending, descending or random.

Show Products Price: On choosing yes product price display on new products.

Show Ratings: On choosing yes ratings display on new products.

Show Short Description: On choosing yes display short description on new products.

Short Description Word Limit: Set maximum short description word limit.

Add to Cart: On choosing yes Add to Cart button display on new products.

Add to Wishlist: On choosing yes Add to Wishlist link display on new products.

Add to Compare: On choosing yes Add to Compare link display on new products.

Display out of stock items: On choosing yes Out of Stock products display on new

products.






Click on Template Settings Tab.

Template: Set Grid, List or Slider type template.

Number of Products to Display: Set total number of new products to display.

Display Page Control: Display number of pages and total number of items.

Number of Products per Page: Set number of products per page if page control

selected as yes.

Thumbnail Width: Set thumbnail width in pixels.

Thumbnail Height: Set thumbnail height in pixels.






LAYOUT SETTINGS

Step-1

Go to admin → System → Configuration → MAGEBEES → New Products. OR

Go to admin → MageBees → New Products → Settings.

Step-2

Click on Code Tab. You will get Following Screen.

XML Code: Suppose you want to use XML Tag auto generated code of new products copy XML

Tag and put it in your Theme XML layout Files [app/design/frontend/<your package>/<Your

theme>/layout/].

For example we are putting XML Tag Block code in cms.xml file, so open your theme cms.xml file

and put following code under content area.

<cms_index_index translate="label">

<label>Cms Home Page</label>

<reference name="content">

<block type="newproducts/newproducts" name="newproducts"/>

</reference>

</cms_index_index>






Template Tag: If you want to display newproducts products in any CMS page.

Go to admin → CMS → Pages and open Content tab put following code in editor.

{{block type="newproducts/newproducts" name="newproducts"}}

Call via Frontend Template File: If you want to display newproducts products in your

template file [.phtml] you need to just paste this at any part of your template files.

<?php

echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock("newproducts/newproducts")-

>toHtml();

?>






MANAGE NEW PRODUCTS

Step-1

Go to admin → MageBees → New Products → Manage New Products.

You will get the following screen.

Step-2

Click on button. You will get following screen.






Step-3

Choose products from here and click on or button for save

data.






CREATE NEW PRODUCTS WIDGET

Go to admin → CMS → Widgets. You will get the following screen.

Select “MageBees:New Products Widget” from Type and your Design package

theme.

Fill all required fields and select layout for display on specific page.

Note: If you select Left Column or Right Column in Block Reference than only product name

and image will be display.






From “Widget Options” choose options for which contents you want to display.

You can also add widget from editor using “Insert Widget”.






FRONTEND SNAPSHOTS

Default Package :






RWD Package :






FAQs

Q-1 I have installed new products extension. But when I click on new products tab in the config page will get a 404. :(.

Solution:

After install New Products Extension, please Logout from admin account and re login and

Refresh Cache.

Q-2 I have installed new products extension on magento 1.9 (rwd package) but ratings not display on front-end.

Solution:

Step-1

Please open below file.

<SITE ROOT>/skin/frontend/rwd/default/css/madisonisland.css.

Step-2

Please find below code.

.cms-index-index .products-grid .ratings,

.cms-index-index .products-grid .actions,

.cms-index-noroute .products-grid .ratings,

.cms-index-noroute .products-grid .actions {

display: none;

}

Step-3

Please replace the find code.

.cms-index-index .products-grid .ratings,

.cms-index-index .products-grid .actions,

.cms-index-noroute .products-grid .ratings,

.cms-index-noroute .products-grid .actions { display:; }






After replace Code then you will get below screen.

Now check on front-end.

Q-3: I applied the 6788 patch on my magento setup, a new block doesn’t show up on home page or any cms page.

Solution:

Go to admin -> System -> Permissions -> Block

Click on Add New Block and fill details as follow:

Block Name=>newproducts/newproducts

Is Allowed=>Yes

Now newproducts block has permission to display.

Q-4: I choose new products and save but it is not display on frontend.

Solution:

Please check your selected product is visible on frontend or not from manage products.






Thank you!

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ticket for quick reply,

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