Quote Originally Posted by confused View Post
This multiple image thing seems to be problem for many people I still haven't seen a single helpful answer.
Surely one of you gurus can explain this in PLAIN ENGLISH!

Please read further.


I'm sorry I can't help you but all I am trying to do is post a help thread.
This entire ZEN forum is the most frustrating experience I have ever encountered.
When I first went to support I get directed to FAQs which are totally inadequate, don't post a solution or get you to install a plug or something which is so complicated that you get into more problems than help.
Every FAQ I read is geared to web programmers.
Anyway I tried to post a help and got a box which asked me to state my problem.
I did so and then got told I could Not because I was not registered.
Everything I wrote down was gone.
So I registered.

Twice. (Could not find help before)

Now they seem to think I am a resident genius like them and don't need help, since I can't find any place where I can post a help request.

This is the only way I could communicate with someone, by replying to another request fro help.

Who are these ZEN people that they would ask for donations when they can't even provide SIMPLE solutions to all the complications they themselves have created.

There are all kinds of articles on multiple product images but I can't get them to show.
The other people who have asked the same things I have never seem to get a satisfactory answer either.
I followed one thread where they forced me to jump to 5 other ones since they could not be bothered to repeat what someone else had supposedly done. They obviously did not follow up since each thread fizzled out.
So I am going to post this in other help requests and maybe someone will simplify this entire forum.
HELP! Means allowing someone to ask for help in a simple way. ie: Somewhere there should be a "Post your help requests here."
If you are not useing the image handler mod, here are your simple directions: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=58

If you are useing the image handler mod, go to your admin site. Click on Tools, then on Image handler. Select the category of the item you want to add extra pictures to, then select the item itself, ad click display.
Click the new file button. Click the first browse button. Find the extra image you want to use on your hard drive, and click open. Click save. Thats it.

I would highly suggest you buy the manual for ZenCart from here: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=16

It will walk you through setting up your store from the first steps. Go through it cover to cover over a few weeks, and make sure you understand it. If you have a question, search these forums, the wiki (http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php), and the FAQ's (https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php). If you don't find an asnwer, then post a question.

ZenCart is not for everyone. If you have no interest in learning any scripting (basicaly programing, but there is a semantic difference) and you want to do more then ZenCart does out of the box, you will probably never like it. When and if ZenCart gets to the point that absolutly anyone can make it do anything they want, simply by clicking checkboxes the developers will be very very rich. As it stands, they let anyone who wants to use their product for free. They would like you to contribute, but they don't push. Your only other option is going to be hireing a developer to do everything for you. They won't ask nicely for a donation of whatever you feel like, they will sent you a bill; probably before they do any work at that.

People who read through the forums daily can get very tired of answering the same questions over and over again. Especialy when the answers are clearly documented. It also makes the forum a mess. The post you read linked to several other threads, and this bothered you. But if all the people asking repeaded questions had searched for theselves instead of asking again, you would have found your answers at the top of your own search, instead of reading 5 different pages. There are people on tis forum who will bend over backwards to help you, but you have to try to help yourself first.