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New Feature: Homepage Gallery Setting (Featured, Recent or Categories)
Shopify Concierge
posted this on June 25, 2010 11:38
Vanity now has the ability to set where the images should come from for the gallery under the slideshow.
There are three choices: Featured, Recent and Categories.
Featured
Choosing this option shows the products in the Frontpage collection. This collection is created automatically when you created your Shopify store.
Recent
Choosing this option will display the products in the "Recent" collection. You will need to create a new smart collection if you want to use this. Make the conditions of the collection Price > 0 and after it has been created make sure you set the sort order to be "By Date Created: Newest to Oldest". Now your new products will automatically appear on the home page.
Categories
This option displays the first product from the collections defined in a link list called "Categories". Clicking on one ot the items takes you to that collection page.
Comments
how do i upgrade to get the latest vanity theme functionality without losing the customisation ive already done to the existing templates and css in downloaded on the 20th of June, 2010?
Hi Melissa,
While theme settings are preserved, the theme files are replaced when a new theme is uploaded, so changes to the CSS and liquid files will be overwritten. Unfortunately there is no way around this.
Gavin.
how do i upgrade to get the latest vanity theme at all? Is there instructions somewhere on how to do it?
Thanks very much
Hi Kirsty,
If you purchased the theme from our store, you can use the download link that was sent to you and download the latest version. If you purchased through the Shopify theme store, go to Theme > Browse Themes in Admin and choose the Vanity theme again. You will not be charged again.
Thanks, Gavin.
Hello
I dont have the same options as you (see attached docs). I did reapply the vanity screen through the shopify shop and all my changes dissapeared so I have definately installed another Vanity - however it seems to be the old version?? Help!
Hi Kirsty,
I've sent you the latest version of the theme via email.
Thanks, Gavin.
hi gavin, I don't have this feature either. can you send me the latest version or is it obsolete now?
cheers,
philippe in berlin
To update older themes:
1. Open theme settings and paste the following code inside a table. It doesn't matter too much which one, but if you have a version of the theme with a "Homepage" section it would make sense to put it there. Here is the code:
<tr>
<td><label for="frontpage">Show welcome text (from the <a href="/admin/pages">Welcome Page</a>)?</label></td>
<td><input type="checkbox" id="frontpage" name="frontpage" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="gallery">Gallery</label></td>
<td>
<select id="gallery" name="gallery">
<option value="featured" selected="selected">Featured Products</option>
<option value="recent">Recent</option>
<option value="categories">Categories</option>
</select><br/>
<small><ul>
<li><b>Featured Products</b>: Display products from the "Frontpage" collection</li>
<li><b>Recent Products</b>: Display products from a collection called "Recent". This collection should be a smart collection with <b>price > 0</b> and <b>ordered "By Created Date: Newest to Oldest"</b>.</li>
<li><b>Categories</b>: Displays the first product in each collection listed in the "Categories" link list. You need to create a Link List called Categories, and each link should be to the collection you want to appear.</li>
</ul></small>
</td>
</tr>
2. In index.liquid, replace the existing 'products' div with the following:
{% if settings.gallery == 'categories' %}
{% include 'categories' %}
{% else %}
{% if settings.gallery == 'recent' %}
{% assign collection = collections.recent %}
{% else %}
{% assign collection = collections.frontpage %}
{% endif %}
<div id="products">
{% paginate collection.products by 8 %}
{% include "gallery" %}
{% endpaginate %}
</div>
{% endif %}
3. Create a new snippet called "Categories" and paste the code from here: http://gist.github.com/537099
@Phillippe Because I was already working on your store I have updated it
This may seem like a silly question, but where exactly is the 'Frontpage' collection? Can I choose the products I want to go in there or is it automatically generated?
I couldn't find the one that was apparently created when I signed up for shopify (like it said) so I thought that I maybe had to make a collection called 'Frontpage' and add products but when I did nothing happened...
Hi,
Shopify creates the frontpage collection for you when your store is created. You may have deleted or renamed it. If you create a new one, ensure 'frontpage' is the handle - see attached.
Thanks, Gavin.
Hmmmm it is quite possible that I could have deleted the frontpage collection. I checked the handle of the Frontpage collection I created but it keeps changing to frontpage-1 so there is a frontpage handle floating around there... How do I get it back or change the frontpage collection (and thus featured products) to the handle i now have?
If it is changing it to frontpage-1 it means it already exists. Sounds like you might have renamed it.
Thanks!
So how would one then, hypothetically, change or find this thing I may have renamed so that I could find and get the Featured Product section up on my webpage?