Disabling featured product display


	Disabling featured product display
	Last Edited - 11/26/2013 10:57am PST
	Category Path - Shopping Cart Software Components > Administration Area > Design > FAQs & Tutorials

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How do I disable the "Featured Products" from displaying on the home page of my store?

It is possible to disable products from being displayed on the home page in two different ways.

The Featured status for a product, is controlled at the product level for each product within the Product Editor, but may also be changed en masse on the Search Products page.

It is also possible to remove the Featured Products section from the "index.tpl" template in the Template Package Sandbox.

Method A: Disabling each products' featured status

The first, and most simplistic method of discontinuing display of the featured products, is to disable the Featured status of all products from the Search Products page:

1. In your Administration Area, locate [Products > Search Products].

2. Click the Customize table columns link in the top right of the Product Search section.

3. In the popup, select the checkbox for "Featured Product", and click "Save My Changes".

4. On the Search Products header bar, select, "Search for: all products with XXX results per page".
(Note: Select the necessary number to list all or most of your products on a single page)

5. Click the

in the far column of the Product Search section. This will auto-select the checkbox for each product.

6. Under "Perform an action on the rows selected above...", select, "remove featured product status" and click "Go".

With the above change, all of your existing products will no longer display in the Featured Products section of your store's home page.

Method B: Removing the Featured Products section from template

To remove the Featured Products portion of the index.tpl template:

1. In your Administration Area, locate [Design > Template Package Sandbox].

2. Select the template package to be edited from the dropdown menu.

3. Before moving forward, it is recommended to create a Clone of the package, just in case it is ever desired to revert to the original functionality of the package. This can be done by selecting Clone from the Template Package Options row, specifying a name for the backup, and clicking "Clone".

4. In the Template Package Options row, click Populate templates.

5. Select the checkbox for "index.tpl", and click "Populate Selected Templates".

6. To cause the template to appear under the "Template Package Files", navigate back to [Design > Template Package Sandbox] in order to reload the files. This will be fixed in our next upcoming software update.

7. Back in the sandbox, under "Template Package Files", select "index.tpl". This will open it in the editor.

8. In the top right of the Template Editor, select "Switch to Plain Text Editor".

9. Since the page isn't going to be used for Featured Products anymore, it would be possible to change the title of the page by altering the PAGE-TITLE span tag.

example

<span class="PAGE-TITLE">Featured Products</span>
--to--
<span class="PAGE-TITLE">New Page Title</span>

10. To remove the Featured Product content entirely, remove the Featured Product table(s) from the template. The table's start and end may appear as:

code <table border="0" cellpadding="" cellspacing="10" class="FEATURED-PRODUCT-BLOCK-TABLE"> ... ... ... </table>

tip

Depending on the template package, there may be more than one table within the template. If this happens to be true, remove both tables.

11. Under "File Options", select "Save" and click "Go".

With the above changes, the page will no longer display any Featured Product information, and the page title will now be set to that of your choosing.

Method A will simply discontinue the display of the products in the Featured Products section, whereas Method B will remove the Featured Products section entirely.