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    Default Make specific categories not appear on main page?

    Is there a way to make it so that specific categories do no appear on my homepage? I currently have 1 product and I want to add a new one. But I do not want the new product to appear on the homepage.

    Thanks
    Corey
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    Default Re: How to make specific categories not appear on main page

    You could set the field:
    products_date_added

    in the table:
    products

    to be older than the dates you have set to be considered New Products in the Configuration ... Maxium Values for:
    New Product Listing - Limited to ...
    Limit the New Product Listing to
    0= All Products
    1= Current Month
    7= 7 Days
    14= 14 Days
    30= 30 Days
    60= 60 Days
    90= 90 Days
    120= 120 Days
    This could be done either via phpMyAdmin or via your Zen Cart Admin in the Tools ... Install SQL Patches ... with the SQL statement such as:
    Code:
    UPDATE products SET products_date_added = '2012-10-01 00:00:00' WHERE master_categories_id = XX;
    where XX is the master_categories_id of the Products that you do not want to show and the date for the products_date_added is in the format of:
    YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

    that would be older than your setting on what is a New Product ...

    Or, if you do want the real products_date_added to be maintained on each Product but block these Products from displaying, you could customize the code for the SQL statements to ignore Products from that categories_id based on the master_categories_id ...
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    Default Re: How to make specific categories not appear on main page

    Maybe I can accomplish this differently if I tell you what I am doing. I am trying to have a place to buy gift certificates. I would like to just have an EZ page created that links directly to the page that you can buy them. Rather than having a category displayed. Is there something that can be done for this?

    Thanks for the response.

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    Default Re: How to make specific categories not appear on main page

    I figured something out. I was able to do this in the admin setting by turning off the category but still having the products turned on. I didnt know this could be done. So now this category does not have a page, but I can still link to the product page.

 

 

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