We all know that managing an online store is not an easy task. Especially when your store site includes CMS (content management system) features like blog, forums and news etc; maintaining the site is a big undertaking.
If your store site is getting a lot of online traffic there is always a possibility that you will have to deal with "spam". For example: There will be times when you will see spam comments in your blog post. What can you do about it? Well, you can certainly go to administration section and delete those comments. But, what if you are getting thousands of spam comments? Is it really feasible to go to administration section and delete those spam comments one by one?
As of now, nopCommerce does not offer any option to perform a mass delete on blog comment. Today, we will discuss, how to delete blog comments "in mass" directly from the database.
The "Default Clean" theme in nopCommerce only support 3 products per row out of the box. There are times when store owners would like to increase this number and display more than 3 products per row. What's the benefit in doing this? Well, if you have a lot of products in the categories, it means less scrolling for your customers as you will be displaying as much products on the screen.
So, if you are one of those who would like to display more than 3 products per row in nopCommerce categories then this tutorial is for you.
These days, many authors or websites prefer to post an image along with the blog post so that readers can get an idea right away what the blog post is about. From the design prospective also, posting an image makes your blog post looks interesting and it catches more attention.
Recently in 3.60 version, nopCommerce added a feature in the blog section where store admin (or authors) can post a blog overview so that whole blog post is not visible on the initial blog page. But, there is no additional feature out of the box to add (or upload) an image for your blog post.
Today, we will go over the process of adding an image to blog post as a workaround.
There are times when web developers or designers do not wish use all the default layout or colors that comes out of the box with any open source project. nopCommerce comes with a great modern theme that should fit most of the store sites need (irrespective of the industry). But, sometimes, making some minor changes to the default colors gives store site an edge and that is what makes the design different from other online stores using the same default theme.
Today, we will go over the process of changing the color of top search button in nopCommerce.
There are many online store sites that basically manage their inventory specifically by SKUs which makes SKU (id or number) a very important aspect of their eCommerce business. Many times, online retailers like to include "search by sku" option in search on the store site that gives the ability to customers to find products by sku.
nopCommerce does allow adding "SKU" to the product catalog and when "advanced search" is enabled along with "search in product description" then only online shoppers can look for a product by SKU.
But, there is a big possibility that many of the new online customers won't know that the search feature on the site does support "search by sku" by enabling these advanced search options. Now, this makes it very important for many store owners to add "search by sku" feature by default in the basic search itself.
Today, we will go over the process of adding search by SKU to basic search in nopCommerce (as a default feature).
In the latest version of nopCommerce 3.60, the topics section have been improved quite a lot and now it offers a lot more functionality opposed to the previous versions of topics. The new topics are more flexible now and because of that a lot of users can make use of topics instead of hard-coded (or manually added) pages. This would be very helpful to store admins (or retailers) who are not tech savvy and they can easily add new pages to the store site from the administration section.
We will be focusing on 3 main improvements today:
1) Allow store owners to add topics to the footer 2) Allow store owners to chose template for topics 3) Allow store owners to make topic pages accessible while public store is closed
Recently a new feature was added in nopCommerce 3.60 that allows a store owner to add a subject field in the contact us form. The option is quite important for many store admins who receives a number of emails from customers. A subject field can easily help in filtering out unnecessary emails and paying more attention to emails with important subject line (that may require immediate assistant or response).
By default, this option in "disabled" in nopCommerce and today we will go over the process of enabling it.
On June 15, 2015, nopCommerce released the new 3.60 version that packs a lot of new improvements and features. It is great to see the growing nopCommerce community and how fast this eCommerce solution is becoming mature. Today, we will go over some of the latest features and improvements that nopCommerce 3.60 version has to offer.
Many nopCommerce users posts questions regarding how to move the news section to the side column. In some ways, it does makes sense as many store owners prefer to use the middle body of the homepage to showcase their products / services. Side columns is a great location to display news about your industry or store site.
Today, we will go over the process of moving the news section to the side column.
nopCommerce default theme (out of the box) support responsive design / layout that is optimized for all the screen sizes including desktop, tablets and smartphones. This allows the store site layout to adjust automatically depending on the screen size by keeping the same overall design.
A lot of users post questions about why their images are not responsive when posted on topic pages even when the theme is responsive. Today. we will discuss the solution that can fix this problem.
