Can I NOT display some new products as "new product"?

[CaroleAs]

I would like to add some products in the store, but they are kind of "old" ones. They are not even for sale, but free for all to download. It is a series of products that were recovered from a defunct site (with author's permission) but i would like to simply add them to that category of "extras", without having them appear in the list of "New products for January" for example.

Is there a way to exclude SOME products from appearing there, while others would?

[balihr]

Since this appears to be a one-off occasion, you can just use phpMyAdmin and change the products_date_added to something like a year ago.
As an alternative, if you hate phpMyAdmin, you could try running this query in the admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches:

UPDATE products SET products_date_added = '2005-11-03 12:32:17' WHERE products_id = '25';

Of course, make sure you use YOUR products_id (here in red) based on products you're updating.

[CaroleAs]

Thanks for the code. I'll try that.

[DrByte]

You could also consider shortening the window of what is considered "new".

https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/admin/what_is_new/