Am I doing this right? ("New Arrivals")

[noesac]

I created a new category called "New Arrivals". I think the purpose of this is pretty clear, however as you can imagine, as a category it requires some manual work.

Is this the right way to handle "new arrivals"? In past CMS' that I have used, there has been a "new arrivals" category which was automatically populated, based on a "time" variable (e.g. show all products uploaded within 30 days).


I think there is a block for new arrivals but my site already has too many blocks so I don't want to add more, as the left and right sides are too full already.

I just want to make sure I'm not doing this wrong? Is this the only way to do it?

[rocky]

PrestaShop already has a "New products" feature built in. Even if you don't install the "New products block", you can still link to "new-products.php". You can go to Preferences > Products to choose "Number of days during which the product is considered 'new'".

[noesac]

Is it possible to link to this page via the main Categories menu? Or would it require code modification to do this?

I think that would be a much better / easier solution than maintaining a whole separate "New Arrivals" category:)

[rocky]

You'd need to modify code to add a link to the "New products" in the category block. Add the following after the

• on line 7 of modules/blockcategories/blockcategories.tpl:
  
  

<a href="{$base_dir}new-products.php">{l s='New Products' mod='blockcategories'}