My client is asking for a "new arrivals page" that is sorted by creation date. The rest of the store and categories are sorted by position. I had the Bestsellers add on installed and added a menu link to the page auto created by that add-on that displays the newest products. Unfortunately today they let me know they have one category they would like to omit from the New Arrivals page, and possibly would like sold items removed from new arrivals but to remain in their respective category pages.
Is there an add-on that might be able to help me do this or is there a way to modify the core files to allow me to do this?
My client is asking for a "new arrivals page" that is sorted by creation date. The rest of the store and categories are sorted by position. I had the Bestsellers add on installed and added a menu link to the page auto created by that add-on that displays the newest products. Unfortunately today they let me know they have one category they would like to omit from the New Arrivals page, and possibly would like sold items removed from new arrivals but to remain in their respective category pages.
Is there an add-on that might be able to help me do this or is there a way to modify the core files to allow me to do this?
Thank you in advance for your help.
You can manually populate the block with the categories that you want to display, make a new block using the product showcase block and then set it to on sale. You will then be able to choose the settings.
I tried with the Best sellers add-on and using the newest products dispatch (index.php?dispatch=products.newest). this worked except for the fact that the product show up in random order. Meaning that when you refresh the page the order is rearranged. This becomes a problem because some products will show up on multiple pages and other products don't show up at all.
I tried with the Best sellers add-on and using the newest products dispatch (index.php?dispatch=products.newest). this worked except for the fact that the product show up in random order. Meaning that when you refresh the page the order is rearranged. This becomes a problem because some products will show up on multiple pages and other products don't show up at all.
I tried with the Best sellers add-on and using the newest products dispatch (index.php?dispatch=products.newest). this worked except for the fact that the product show up in random order. Meaning that when you refresh the page the order is rearranged. This becomes a problem because some products will show up on multiple pages and other products don't show up at all.
Also failed to reproduced.
According to 'Bestsellers' add-on code, products are sorted by timestamp by default. Or by the order selected by a customer.
Thank you for looking into this. Also on the backend when i sort products by date added, then refresh the page, the display order changes. Looks more like something in the core code is wrong here. I will contact CS-Cart support and hopefully get an answer from them. Thank you again.
Thank you for looking into this. Also on the backend when i sort products by date added, then refresh the page, the display order changes. Looks more like something in the core code is wrong here. I will contact CS-Cart support and hopefully get an answer from them. Thank you again.
Please keep us updated about their answer. But looks like the problem is on your installation only
But the issue is not in the parameter in request line. When you use this link, then sort products by name (for example), then refresh the whole page, the order will still be 'by timestamp', not 'by product'.
But the issue is not in the parameter in request line. When you use this link, then sort products by name (for example), then refresh the whole page, the order will still be 'by timestamp', not 'by product'.
Agree, the parameters in the URL have higher priority than the saved parameters of the previous views
You can create a block with this filling and place it to the Home page.
If you want the 'Newest' sorting as default, select the 'Newest Items first' as the value for the 'Product list default sorting' setting on the 'Settings'-'Appearance' page in the administrator area.