Removing shopping cart and placing What's New instead?

[♥jailaxmi]

HI,

 

I don't want to start messing up with code and screwing up my live store, so I want to make sure I do it right with the advice of the code experts here... ;-)

 

I want to remove the shopping cart box from the top right column and place the "What's New?" box instead, so that it shows up right away as people enter the site. They can always click on the "Cart Contents" if they want to see the products the're purchasing.

 

Also, is there a way to reduce the number of "Bestsellers" so that they don't take so much space. As it is now, it sows 10 and I'd rather have 5 and then the Specials showing up right after.

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

jailaxmi

[Guest]

Hi

 

Open includes/column_right.php. Find the following line of code

 

 

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'shopping_cart.php');

 

Changing the code as suggested below by commenting it out will mean that if you wish to replace the box back into the column, you just have to remove the comment tags.

 

/*require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'shopping_cart.php');*/

 

Now go to includes/column_left.php (if you still have the default settings for the columns) and find the following line of code

 

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'whats_new.php');

 

Copy and paste this code into column_right.php, either above or below the shopping cart code that you commented out. This will in effect, place the whats new box in the position that the shopping cart box was in.

 

Now go back to column_left.php and comment out the line of code you copied.

[♥jailaxmi]

Hi

 

Open includes/column_right.php. Find the following line of code

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'shopping_cart.php');

 

Changing the code as suggested below by commenting it out will mean that if you wish to replace the box back into the column, you just have to remove the comment tags.

 

/*require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'shopping_cart.php');*/

 

Now go to includes/column_left.php (if you still have the default settings for the columns) and find the following line of code

 

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'whats_new.php');

 

Copy and paste this code into column_right.php, either above or below the shopping cart code that you commented out. This will in effect, place the whats new box in the position that the shopping cart box was in.

 

Now go back to column_left.php and comment out the line of code you copied.

 

Thanks so much!!! I knew it wouldn't be difficult, I just didn't want to take the chance of messing things up now that the store is live...

 

jailaxmi

[Guest]

:thumbsup:

[ddp]

Thanks so much!!! I knew it wouldn't be difficult, I just didn't want to take the chance of messing things up now that the store is live...

 

jailaxmi

 

If you don't want to mess up your store set up a test store in a subfolder and make your changes there first. Then once you know it works you can copy the files from your test store to you live store and you should not have any problems.

[♥jailaxmi]

If you don't want to mess up your store set up a test store in a subfolder and make your changes there first. Then once you know it works you can copy the files from your test store to you live store and you should not have any problems.

 

Thanks! That's a good idea.

 

jailaxmi