New Products link Displaying on Log In

[top hatt]

When a customer with an account logs in from the main page (index page) a message comes up and says "Hello (name) ! Would you like to see our newest additions ? The newest additions is a hyperlink.

When you click on the link it takes you to a New Products listing page.

This page is the default Zen Cart layout with rows. I have my site set up as columns.

Where does this come from and how do I stop it.

I would like to welcome a returning customer but not send them to another page. Especially one that doesn't look like my site.

I am using 1.3.9f.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave

[schoolboy]

You need to spend more time in your admin area, trying out the controls available to you. I see you signed up to the forum in 2010, so you have had ZC for 2 or so years now...

Your questions relate to fairly "basic" admin settings... so don't you think it's now time to learn how the admin panel works?

BTW... there are many posts and tutorials to answer what you ask.

[top hatt]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be a pain in the ___.

I thought it was pretty basic also but I couldn't seem to find anything that worked in the admin.

As for the tutorials, I guess I didn't think to look there. I didn't know how to describe really what was happening for a search or even what section it should go under.

I will try out the tutorial section.

Dave

[rstevenson]

Hah! I've been using ZC since Nov '06 and I've never seen such a message pop up when someone logs in -- maybe because my product line is static. So if it suddenly happened on my site, I'd be asking too. In fact I will ask, just in case. Is it a mod or a stock admin setting that controls this?

As for different listings looking different, that is an unfortunate aspect of the stock ZC. You need to add a mod to get all your listings looking the same. I use the Single Listing Template mod, which not only gives you the exact same appearance for all listings if you want it but then allows you to customize the listings in various ways. And it includes the Column Layout Grid mod so you can control the columnar nature of your listings. It's a Good Thing.

Rob

[schoolboy]

When a customer with an account logs in from the main page (index page) a message comes up and says "Hello (name) ! Would you like to see our newest additions ? The newest additions is a hyperlink.

When you click on the link it takes you to a New Products listing page.

ADMIN >>> CONFIGURATION >>> LAYOUT SETTINGS >>> Customer Greeting - Show on Index Page (Yours is set to " 1 "... to disable, set it to " 0 " .)

[top hatt]

Thank You SchoolBoy.

I knew how to disable the Welcome message, what I wanted to do was to keep the Welcome message but not have it point to the New Products.

Google Webmaster tools says that I have all these pages with duplicate content and when I traced it back it was all these New Products pages that I didn't know I had.

What I did was to go into the includes/languages/english/custom template/index.php file and change the Welcome script and eliminate the hyperlink.

I also went into the Admin/Categories/New Listing and put everything there to "0".

My question now is - Will this eliminate the duplicate content from Google Webmaster tools or is there some other solution I should be looking at?

Dave

[DrByte]

So this is *really* about allegations from Google about duplicate content? It's always smart to say the *real* issue up-front.

What's your URL?

Why are you still using v1.3.9f? You should AT LEAST update to v1.3.9h to benefit from fixes to the canonical-url support. Better yet, upgrade to v1.5.0 for numerous security improvements as well.

[top hatt]

Dr. Byte:

The Google thing started it and made me find these other 'mystery pages' that I didn't know existed and it really got me confused.

Anyway, the url is http://poolcuesexpress.com

When I started this adventure 1.3.9f was cutting edge and while I have tried to always use the template override system I know I have not been as diligent as I should have been in documenting every change that I have made. To try to upgrade is just too big a mountain for me to climb right now.

You say 1.3.9h is better because it has canonical url support?

1.3.9f does not have this feature?

Dave

[DrByte]

Upgrading from v1.3.9f is a simple matter of replacing the files that changed between 1.3.9f and 1.3.g and also the files that changed between 1.3.9g and 1.3.9h. No database changes. Very unlikely that any of the changed files conflict with anything you've altered yourself.
And quite likely that doing this small update will fix some of the symptoms you're reporting, because there were some bugs fixed in later releases, dealing with canonical stuff.

Also, you'll save a lot of trouble regarding problems in your New Products page if you simply tell it only to use "recent" products as "new". See https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=3

[top hatt]

Dr. Byte:

Thanks for your input. I will check out upgrading to 1.3.9h.

I had looked at the Admin/Configuration/Maximum Values/Recent Products set to 7 days but I wanted a more permanent solution for those New Products pages appearing after logging in.

By eliminating the hyperlink in the welcome message those pages will not show up at all correct?

Dave