Questions about displaying catalog on front page

  • Hello,

    I am experimenting with the plugin for my new site. Would appreciate any inputs about these issues that I am facing. Thank you in advance for any help.

    1. My site’s front page has three parts: a) a slider b) Some text c) 3 items from catalog (That i hope to get from this plugin).

    I am able to include this on my front page. However, when i click on an individual product, the resulting page that shows details of that product also shows a) slider and b) text that is there on the home page. Is there a way to have product pages to be using different layout (or at least not displaying content that I have on the home page)?

    2. My second issue is that I do not want to display side bar as well as three tabs (the ones that allow you to toggle between thumbnail, list and detail views). I can remove the sidebar but am unable to figure out how to remove those three tabs. Even if use the exclude attribute to exclude two options, it still shows me one tab.

    Thank you for making a great plugin.

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  • Thread Starter chickenkhurana

    (@apoorv)

    Okay, I figured out the second one.

    I’m also trying to figure out if there is a way to display value of individual fields (e.g., a custom field) e.g., by calling out a function that takes a key and returns its value?

    Thanks.

    Hi apoorv,

    Could you send us the link to your website’s product catalogue page?

    Thread Starter chickenkhurana

    (@apoorv)

    Thanks. Our site is not ready yet. I’m still trying to figure out my options for displaying a catalogue. Like i mentioned, the home page (with slider and text) will display three products from catalog and clicking on a product will take you to product page. However, the product page also shows the same slider and text (from home page) and i’m not sure that’s the best way.

    Hi apoorv,

    We just had an idea:

    Can you try replacing your current [product-catalogue id='X'] shortcode with

    [insert-products catalogue_url="https://yourwebsite.com/shop/" product_ids="A, B, C" ]

    Make sure to replace https://yourwebsite.com/… with your actual store URL and A, B, C with the three product ID numbers.

    Thread Starter chickenkhurana

    (@apoorv)

    Thanks, I’ve been trying to use the insert-products shortcode. Could you please point me to any documentation that explains what are the attributes for this shortcode and how do i control the display of products via this shortcode?

    Also, is there a way to access and display any specific fields individually?

    Thanks.

    Hi apoorv,

    You can use the insert-products shortcode, as demonstrated in our tutorial video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJqVQQ-Y1TY&index=11&list=PLEndQUuhlvSoTRGeY6nWXbxbhmgepTyLi

    [insert-products] will let you display one product thumbnail that links to the corresponding product page.

    Also, what fields and where do you want to display the specific fields that you mentioned?

    Thread Starter chickenkhurana

    (@apoorv)

    Thanks.

    1. I’ve tried insert-products but i don’t like hard coding product ids. But I can live with that. However, how to i control what is displayed when using this short-code? (e.g, changing image size and showing excerpt)

    2. I added a custom field called washing_instructions. It does show up on one of the tabs but is there a way to access that field either via a shortcode or something like what ACF does (the_field(‘washing_instructions’))

    Thread Starter chickenkhurana

    (@apoorv)

    I was checking your theme on this site:

    https://www.etoilewebdesign.com/ultimate-showcase/

    That’s what I need. Are you using the [insert-products] shortcode on the homepage? The homepage has a slider but that does not appear on product page.

    Thanks much for your help.

    Hi apoorv,

    1) To change the image size..etc, we would suggest adding CSS to the “Custom CSS” section of the Edit Catalogue page. To edit the structure of it, you would need to modify the code in Shortcodes.php.
    (note: keep in mind if you update in the future, you may need to reapply custom code in the plugin files as updates may override your changes)

    2) Sorry, we didn’t quite understand: did you want to get these values to display on another page/area?

    The only custom field shortcode we currently have acts to display the catalogue with specific custom fields activated. For example:

    [product-catalog id='X' custom_fields='X']

    3) The featured products section is part of the demo theme (it’s not a separate element).
    However, if you have ‘homepage-only’ widget positions, you could take advantage of the widgets that come with UPCP (for example: “UPCP Product(s) List”).

    Thread Starter chickenkhurana

    (@apoorv)

    great thanks.

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