I want to display some of my sideboxes on my front page only, and suppress them from all other pages.

Print Save to list Subscribe Rate Article Helpful Not Helpful No problem. Let's use the featured product sidebox as an example. Create an over-ride for the sidebox's module file. For the featured products sidebox, this would involve copying includes/modules/sideboxes/featured_products.php to includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/featured_products.php. Open up your new sidebox module file and take a look at the code. In Zen Cart 1.3.x most will look something like this <?php BIG COMMENT BLOCK // test if box should display   $show_featured= true;   if ($show_featured == true) {   MAIN PROCESSING BLOCK   } ?> All we need to do is to change the line that reads   $show_featured= true; into   if ($this_is_home_page) {     $show_featured = true;   } else {     $show_featured = false;   } If your sidebox module doesn't have a conditional such as if ($show_featured == true) { ... } wrapped around the code, then just add it (changing the variable name to something suitable and unique for your sidebox to avoid unintentionally turning off other sideboxes.

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