Shop Settings> Presentation
The presentation settings let you manage the look and feel of your shop.
Select Theme: Choose between iTheme, Marketplace, and Default. Each theme displays your shopping cart to users differently – while we’re working on screen shots for these we suggest trying each of these and then choosing the one that looks the closest to what you want your site to look like. If you want to edit the CSS for a theme, look in the /wp-shopping-cart/themes folder.
Note: To replace the “add to cart” with an image: Switch to the iShop theme, upload the new image to “plugins/wp-shoppingcart/themes/iShop/images/buy_button.gif”, and then change the style for the “buy_button” in the iShop.css to reflect the correct size of the new image you uploaded.
Cart Location: This lets you decide where you shopping cart is placed on your page. Whether it is in the sidebar or in the products page. Or if you prefer you can just use the PHP tag and place the Cart anywhere on your site that you please.
We recommend starting with “Widget” — later you will add the shopping cart widget to your theme’s sidebar. Important: Your WordPress site should be set up with at least one sidebar. You will have trouble integrating the cart if your theme has no sidebars at all.
Product Display: Choose to display your products between Default View, which lists your products with a thumbnail next to description; List View, which just lists the name and price and a few other bits and pieces; or Grid View, which displays your products in a grid configuration using the thumbnail images you have uploaded.
Select what product group you want to display on the products page by default: This dictates which products are displayed on the products page. So if you sell t-shirts, cats, hats, apples, toy cars, and computers, and you want your visitors to see just toy cars by default, then you would choose the toy car group to be displayed. If people want to browse your hats for sale, then they would simply click on the hats link – remember to ensure you have either added the Product Groups widget to your sidebar or you are using the [displaycategories] shortcode in your products page, or else these links will not be visible.
If you are just getting started, you can skip this option for now — we will return to it after you have created some product groups. If you have already organized your products into groups, select the group you would like to display on your store’s main product page.
Show Product Group Description: If this is enabled, the optional description you created for your Product Group listing will be displayed at the top of the page for that product group, above the list of products.
You can leave this blank for now. When you create product groups, if you want to display the optional product group description above your product list, come back and set this to “Yes”.
Show Postage and Packaging: If you select this option it will display the shipping cost on your products page. It is currently displayed as PnP under the product price but you can change this by editing the language file.
Set this to “no”, unless you want your individual product pages to display the postage and packaging (AKA shipping and handling) costs next to the price.
Show Breadcrumbs: Check this if you want your store to have breadcrumb navigation, e.g.: Clothing > Womens > Tops
Show Product Ratings: This option allows you to add a star rating system on your products page under the Add to Cart button. If you want to change the stars’ look in the /wp-shopping-cart/images/ folder. You’ll see the files 24bit-star.gif, blue-star.gif, gold-star.gif, grey-star.gif — those will be the images you want to replace. If you change the image filenames, be sure to change the URL for the stars in /wp-shopping-cart/product-rater.css.
Show Sliding Cart: Check this if you want a little +/- button to display next to the shopping cart widget, so users can collapse or expand it.
Show Product Count per Group: This adds a product count in brackets next to each Product Group link.
Categories/Products Display: (2do) being written
Categories Only (All products displayed)
Sliding Categories (1 product per page)
Show Search: If you select this option it will add a product search to your site – this will of course only be available if you have activated the gold cart.
Show Advanced Search: This option adds the ability for your users to switch between grid view and default view. It also allows your users to sort there page either by Ascending or Descending al the number of products they are displayed on the products page, and it also lets the user
Display Fancy Purchase Notifications: Fancy Notifications gives users instant feedback when they add an item to the shopping cart. It pops up a little window indicating that their cart has been updated, and then lets the user choose between “Go to Checkout” and “Continue Shopping”. This feature is particularly useful on sites with long product pages, in which the user might not see that the shopping cart widget has been updated.
We suggest you set this to “Yes”, and then if you don’t like it just turn it off.
Display “+tax”: This shows the tax next to the product price.
There are currently problems with this feature, so we suggest you keep the default “no” setting.
Thumbnail Settings:
First, you need to decide whether your products are better suited to vertical, horizontal, or square photographs. All of the product photos should have the same orientation. You can override the defaults for thumbnail photos, but there is no way to override the defaults for the single product image (i.e., when you click on a product from a list to see the details).
If you enter new dimensions, make sure that the thumbnails and the single product image size have the same proportions.
Show thumbnails: If this is enabled, your store will display thumbnail images next to the product descriptions on the main products page or on a product group listing.
Show product group thumbnails: This setting will display a thumbnail image for the product group.
Pagination Settings:
If you have many products within a single product group, you may want to use this feature, which divides the product group list into multiple pages.
To make it work, set “Use Pagination” to “yes”, and then fill in the number of items to display on each page. If the number is more than two or three, you should probably set “Page Number Position” to “both”, so your user won’t have to scroll back to the top of the screen to go to the next page.
Related Files:
- wp-e-commerce/product_display_functions.php
- wp-e-commerce/wp-shopping-cart.php
- wp-e-commerce/install_and_update.php
- wp-e-commerce/homepage_products_functions.php
- wp-e-commerce/products_page.php
- wp-e-commerce/display-items.php
- wp-e-commerce/display-items-functions.php
- wp-e-commerce/image_processing.php
- wp-e-commerce/image_resize.php
- wp-e-commerce/processing_functions.php
- wp-e-commerce/products_page.php
- wp-e-commerce/themes/*