WPSC 3.6.9 Changes – Homepage Products

Hey there…

So to start the new year off, I’m going to be going over some of the changes for WP Ecommerce 3.6.9. This will probably be a multi-part documentation and when completed, I will most likely do a screencast of everything I have gone over.

So to start with, we’re going to talk about “HomePage Products”.

You’ve probably noticed that this feature has been removed from the newest version of WP Ecommerce. It was available on older releases, and you would see a checkbox on your product editing screen like this:

You would select this box if you wanted that particular product to be made available on your homepage (or any page for that matter). You would then place this shortcode on your hompeage or whatever page you wanted these products to show up on.

[homepage_products]

Well, like I said, that feature has been removed in order to take more advantage of the “Groups” options.

So in order to acheive this in WP Ecommerce 3.6.9 (and future releases), you will do the following:

1. Make a new “Group” in “Ecommerce–>Groups” to display your “featured” or “homepage” products

2. Add the products you want displayed to this new group. They can also belong to other groups…just make sure they are part of this new group as well.

3. On your homepage, or any other page, just use the WP Ecommerce button in your text editor to place that new category into the page. You can also use the shortcode [ wpsc_category=1,full ] to display it. The #1 is the category ID. Also, the shortcode I used has a space after the first [ and before the last ], you’ll want to take those out. I had to do that so that my categories would not display here.

That’s it…so now you can have your featured products (or whatever you want to call them) on your homepage, or any other page on your site.

Again, this is the beginning of several walkthroughs of changes made to WP Ecommerce 3.6.9, so check back!