Inchoo releases a free Magento extension called Featured Products

Dec. 29, 2009 - PRLog -- Inchoo released a completely free Magento extension called Featured Products. The extension does exactly what it's name suggests, it allows Magento store owners to list products on their online store as featured.

The extension is completely free and you can read more about it here http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/featured-products-on-magento-frontpage/ and download it for free!

Frontend features include:

   * Featured Products Interface where you can see the list of all featured products and use the options like Sort by, Show X number of products and View type choice.
   * You can view featured products page on url: www.yourstore.com/featured-products/
   * Featured Products Block gives you the ability to place the block to the interface or page of your choice. It is mostly used to display featured products o the home page.
     Example: put it in Home page content {{block type=”featuredproducts/listing” template=”inchoo/block_featured_products.phtml”}}

Backend features include:

   * Easy Management of Featured products via separate interface. You do not have to edit every single product and set it to be featured. You will get the special interface where you will be able to choose the products you want to feature from the list.
   * Go to admin menu and click on: Catalog > Featured Products
   * Configuration Options You will be able to choose layout for Featured product lising interface, use SEO features, Choose the number of products in the block and choose default sort order.

About Inchoo: Inchoo was founded in May 2008. in Osijek, Croatia as an eCommerce business unit of Surgeworks.

About Magento: Magento is an open source ecommerce platform designed to empower online merchants and remove barriers in business process and flow. With a full feature set—that now includes support for digital products—and a theme based structure, Magento looks and acts like the best of commercial solutions, yet it is free to download.

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