Admin Site Specific Overrides
How to customize your admin behavior without modifying core files
Admin Setting Overrides
Starting from Zen Cart 1.5.8, a file called admin/includes/extra_datafiles/dist-site_specific_admin_overrides.php
is now used to control multiple minor admin options.
Copy this file to
admin/includes/extra_datafiles/site_specific_admin_overrides.php
and customize to taste.
Many behaviors can be enabled or disabled by this file, such as:
- indicating whether the downloads manager page should show the file date
- modifying the order display for images, tax display, etc.
- showing product images/attribute images on the packing slip/invoice
- show attribute data in the Dashboard Orders popup
- number of rows to display in the Dashboard Orders
- show Quick View popup on the Orders listing
- show attribute data in the Quick View popup on the Orders listing
- show the Zone column in the Orders listing
- show the customer registration IP column in the Customers listing
- (developers) whether to enable debug on the
zcDate
class. - (developers) whether to load the Font Awesome v4 shim for backwards compatibility.
See the file itself for specifics and details.
Information on the storefront site-specific overrides file is also available.
Admin CSS Overrides
Starting in Zen Cart 1.5.8a, a file called admin/includes/css/dist-site-specific-styles.php
is provided.
Copy this file to
admin/includes/css/site-specific-styles.php
and customize to taste.
Still have questions? Use the Search box in the upper right, or try the full list of FAQs. If you can't find it there, head over to the
Zen Cart support forum
and ask there in the appropriate subforum.
In your post, please include your Zen Cart and PHP versions, and a link to your site.
Is there an error or omission on this page? Please post to General Questions on the support forum. Or, if you'd like to open a pull request, just review the guidelines and get started.
You can even PR right here.
Last modified September 10, 2023 by Steve (4467e7d).