New/Featured/Special/Upcoming Products sections

This article is about controlling centerboxes from the admin.

There is a “New Products” section on several pages, including Home Page, New-Products page, All-Products Page, (empty) Shopping Cart page, etc. These sections are called centerboxes.

As the title of this article suggests, there are four built-in Centerboxes:

• New Products
• Featured Products
• Special Products
• Upcoming Products

The pages where the centerboxes are displayed each have a group of centerbox settings.

When you go to Index Listing under Admin > Configuration, you will see options like:

• Show New Products on Main Page
• Show Featured Products on Main Page
• Show Special Products on Main Page
• Show Upcoming Products on Main Page

For each of these values:

• The values you set are the Sort Order of the Centerboxes
• Turn OFF by setting to 0 all of the ones you do NOT want to see displayed

The same is true on other similar configuration menus under Admin > Configuration:

• New Listing
• Featured Listing
• All Listing

For setting up the Centerboxes of the Empty Shopping Cart, use the settings on the Admin > Configuration > Stock, you will see the settings for:

• Show New Products on empty Shopping Cart Page
• Show Featured Products on empty Shopping Cart Page
• Show Special Products on empty Shopping Cart Page
• Show Upcoming Products on empty Shopping Cart Page

The number of products shown in each centerbox is controlled using settings from Admin > Configuration > Maximum Values.

For example:

• The number of New Products displayed is controlled by MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS.
• The number of Featured Products displayed is controlled by MAX_DISPLAY_PRODUCTS_FEATURED_PRODUCTS.
• The number of Special Products displayed is controlled by MAX_DISPLAY_SPECIAL_PRODUCTS.
• The number of Upcoming Products displayed is controlled by MAX_DISPLAY_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS.